News from category: Urban Risk
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Residents of Nairobi’s crowded slums have been particularly hard hit by spikes in the price of food
NAIROBI, 10 March 2010 (PlusNews) – Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in …
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Observers in place for 4 March presidential election
LOMÉ, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – More than 3,000 local election observers, 6,000 soldiers, and representatives of international election transparency watchdog groups are scattered across …
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One of the homes constructed under the Huruma slum upgrading project
NAIROBI, 23 February 2010 (IRIN) – Four years after an innovative slum-upgrading project was launched in Huruma, to the northeast of …
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Flash blood magnifies the HIV transmission risk of sharing needles
MOMBASA, 24 February 2010 (PlusNews) – Amina* and Rajab*, in their mid-twenties, spend most of their days getting high on heroin; when broke, …
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One of the homes constructed under the Huruma slum upgrading project
NAIROBI, 23 February 2010 (IRIN) – Four years after an innovative slum-upgrading project was launched in Huruma, to the northeast of …
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ECHO/MSF 2009 meningitis campaign; 2010 outbreak weeks earlier (file photo)
DAKAR, 22 February 2010 (IRIN) – A meningitis epidemic has struck earlier than usual and is spreading across sub-Saharan Africa’s “meningitis belt” from …
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Sexually active Rwandans use, on average, just three condoms every year
KIGALI, 16 February 2010 (PlusNews) – Doreen Uwimana, in her early 20s, carries condoms in her bag even when she goes to classes …
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Oil facility in Niger Delta, where citizens suffer the effects of the “resource curse” say rights groups (file photo)
ACCRA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) – Ghana needs to do more to ensure that revenue …
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Niger Delta states
ABUJA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) – Despite abundant oil wealth in the Niger Delta region in southeast Nigeria, residents lack basic services including electricity, piped water, health clinics and schools. The …
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Women and children fleeing past outbreaks of violence in Plateau state (file photo)
KANO, 1 February 2010 (IRIN) – If the Nigerian authorities fail to punish those responsible for the latest intercommunal violence, they …
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Research shows that post-conflict transitions are periods of heightened vulnerability to HIV
JUBA, 29 January 2010 (PlusNews) – The evidence of five years of peace is everywhere in Juba, regional capital of Southern …
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Without government or community protection, Juba’s young girls are vulnerable to abuse
JUBA, 28 January 2010 (PlusNews) – In a large market in Juba, the regional capital of Southern Sudan, young women spend …
Photo: Phuong Tran/IRIN
Malnutrition prevention in Zinder (file photo)
DAKAR, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – The agro-pastoral areas of Diffa and Zinder in southern Niger are likely to see a rise in food shortages and malnutrition …
Photo: Aminu Abubakar/IRIN
Volunteers arrange dead bodies in a mass grave following inter-communal violence in Jos
KANO, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – Relief agencies are struggling to help the some 18,000 displaced people in 17 makeshift …
Photo: Allan Gichigi/IRIN
Protests against the detention of a radical cleric led to street clashes in Nairobi
NAIROBI, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – In the year since Mehmoud Hassan arrived in Nairobi from Baidoa in southern …
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More than 1,000 older women in Nairobi’s slums have received self-defence training
NAIROBI, 27 January 2010 (PlusNews) – In a community hall in Korogocho, a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, an instructor …
