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BISSAU, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - After more than six months of battling cholera in Guinea-Bissau the epidemic is now under control health officials say, though they admit they have not identified its root causes or put in place measures to prevent future outbreaks.
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JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has crossed into South Africa, with four confirmed diagnoses in a total of 68 suspected cases in the border town of Musina, according to aid workers.
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BRAZZAVILLE, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - The torrential rains experienced in Brazzaville every year at this time spread sewage in the streets and sometimes bury houses in sand carried along by the ensuing floods.
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OYAM, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - There has been an upsurge in the number of malaria cases reported in the sub-region of Lango in northern Uganda due to poor mosquito control, according to health officials.
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NAIROBI, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - Soaring insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has raised fears of a new wave of sexual violence in a region termed "the worst place in the world to be a woman" by aid workers.
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NEW YORK , 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - As the global recession bites, analysts are asking if emergencies such as natural disasters will continue to receive funding while development aid, which could save many more lives long-term,
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NAIROBI, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - Eritreans should use the current harvest efficiently and share crop resources equitably because most parts of the country had received inadequate rains this year, the information ministry said.
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MONROVIA, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - With just one in 25 Liberians having access to a toilet, most use the nearest bush or beach, unwittingly committing what the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) calls "the riskiest sanitation practice".
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NAIROBI, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - At least 8,000 hectares of farmland in southern Somalia's Lower Shabelle region have been destroyed after the Shabelle river burst its banks, displacing thousands of people,
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MAE SOT , 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - Min Min U, 24, from the village of Betut in Labutta Township, deep in the heart of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta, recalls the day Cyclone Nargis struck, prompting him and his wife to migrate to the Thai border town of Mae Sot:
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JOHANNESBURG, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - All eyes are glued to the radar screen in anticipation of the cyclone season in Madagascar, and this year the authorities and their humanitarian partners hope not be caught off guard.
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et quelque 150 000 enfants ne vont plus en classe, selon le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance (UNICEF).
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JOHANNESBOURG, 18 novembre 2008 (IRIN) - Cette année, tous yeux rivés sur l'écran du radar, en prévision de la saison des cyclones à Madagascar, les autorités et leurs partenaires humanitaires espèrent bien ne pas être pris au dépourvu.
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GOZ BEIDA, 18 novembre 2008 (IRIN) - Ban Ki-moon, secrétaire général des Nations Unies, appelle à doubler le nombre des soldats internationaux déployés dans l'est du Tchad.
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COLOMBO, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - A consignment of relief supplies from the government of India destined for tens of thousands of displaced persons in areas under the control of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the island's north arrived in Sri Lanka on 15 November,
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ADDIS ABABA, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - At least 52,000 people have abandoned their homes in Ethiopia's Somali region after the Wade Shabelle and Genale rivers burst their banks following heavy rains.
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NAIROBI, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - At least 100 people have died in the past four weeks after an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in and around the town of Abudwaaq, in Galgadud region of central Somalia,
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KAMPALA, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - Heavy rains have displaced thousands and damaged crops in eastern and northern Uganda, but officials are optimistic an emergency will be avoided as better weather is predicted.
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KABUL, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - Early snow has blocked roads to several districts where people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
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DUBAI/SANAA, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - Lack of coordination among aid agencies led to mistakes in the distribution of relief aid to the southern flood-hit governorates of Hadramaut and al-Mahra, humanitarian workers say.
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LAHORE, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - The chief minister of Punjab has stepped in to try to halt the spread of a dengue virus epidemic which has seen 799 confirmed cases and two deaths in the province.
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KATHMANDU, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - "When can we go home?" is Furma Lama's constant refrain. The 10-year-old has spent the last eight years displaced since her family fled Ramechhap District,
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GOZ BEIDA, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for a doubling of international troops deployed to eastern Chad.
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LILONGWE, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - The state of preparedness for a natural disaster in Malawi's flood-prone areas as well as other locales is coming under intense scrutiny ahead of the expected annual rise in the rivers during the rainy season.
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BOR, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - Women marched through the Southern Sudanese town of Bor recently to highlight an important message: "Treat women with respect".
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NAIROBI, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - An influx of asylum-seekers fleeing violence in Somalia to the refugee camps in Dadaab in north-eastern Kenya is causing overcrowding that could lead to a humanitarian crisis,
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HARGEISA, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - Authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have embarked on efforts to reduce charcoal use in urban areas to curb deforestation, officials said.
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NAIROBI, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - The widening split between Somalia's leaders could lead to the total collapse of the transitional federal government (TFG), a Nairobi-based regional analyst, who requested anonymity,
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KABUL, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - Food and fuel prices have declined slightly over the past month, prompting some to say this could bode well for the country's eight million chronically food-insecure people.
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BAGHDAD, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - Local NGOs are concerned about the rights of detainees in US military custody due to be transferred to the Iraqi authorities in 2009 in line with a draft US-Iraqi security pact.
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MAILA, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - When Richard Ragan, the World Food Programme (WFP) country representative, calls Nepal a "forgotten humanitarian emergency", some of the places he has in mind are the remote mountainous regions in the far and mid-west of the country.
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DAMASCUS, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has said it is "hopeful" of resolving a Syrian ban on imported rice that has left 30,000 Iraqi refugees facing much reduced food rations.
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One such is Alice*, abducted in 2005 when she was only 12. She told IRIN about her escape from rebel captivity in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo:
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BAGHDAD, 16 November 2008 (IRIN) - Fears are growing in the northern province of Ninevah, about 400km north of Baghdad, of a possible radiation leak and contamination from a former nuclear plant.
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BISSAU, 15 November 2008 (IRIN) - UN and other international observers say they are cautiously optimistic ahead of Guinea-Bissau's parliamentary elections set for 16 November, while some citizens fear violence in the country long plagued by unrest.
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ULAWAYO, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - Impatience among the hungry and food relief operations put on the back foot by a three-month ban are complicating an already desperate situation as Zimbabwe barrels towards its peak food crisis,
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LUSAKA, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - The Zambian government has warned that a looming food crisis in the country's refugee camps could cause unrest among the thousands of asylum-seekers from across the region.
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ACCRA, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - Ten people have been confirmed dead and two are hospitalised following an outbreak of meningitis in north-central Ghana.
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NAIROBI, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - At least 300,000 people will require humanitarian aid in the next three months due to flash flooding and landslides, as well as continuing conflict, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) warned.
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SOUTHKHALI, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - One year after a devastating cyclone hit south-western Bangladesh, huge challenges remain.
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GULU, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - Charles Opira was 10 years old when the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) abducted him as he walked to school in Gulu, northern Uganda, in 2000. He recalls fleeing rebel captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in June:
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NAIROBI, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has forced most schools in Rutshuru territory to close, leaving an estimated 150,000 children out of class, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said.
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GOMA, 13 novembre 2008 (IRIN) - Des dizaines de milliers de civils, contraints à fuir par de récents affrontements dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo, sont encore hors de portée de l'aide internationale,
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YANGON, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - A shortage of seedlings is undermining the restoration of mangrove forests along the southern coast, six months after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, environmentalists told IRIN in Yangon.
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BUJUMBURA, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - Poverty, selfish political interests and inadequate economic development are the underlying causes of the political crisis gripping Burundi, according to political analysts.
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BRAZZAVILLE, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - Cassava is the staple food for most people in the Republic of Congo, but this main source of nourishment is being threatened by a disease that has spread to most areas of the country.
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POL-E-KHOMRI, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - Masto Khan's two children died and another was seriously injured in an explosion at a returnees' settlement in Afghanistan in October. He and his family had come there,
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HARARE, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government is launching another wave of attacks against the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), a spokesman for the opposition party told IRIN,
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some agencies told IRIN they were reviewing possible cutbacks and some have started tightening their belts.
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KHARTOUM, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - The Sudanese government's announcement of a ceasefire in Darfur would not alone solve a crisis that has lasted nearly six years and left hundreds of thousands of people dead - but it offered a glimmer of hope,
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DAKAR, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - Humanitarian policy-makers have endorsed internationally-agreed standards on rebuilding education sectors shattered by crises, in a move experts say shows that education is increasingly being regarded as life-saving.
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JAKARTA, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - The 11 November launch in Jakarta of the Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System (InaTEWS) was welcome news throughout the archipelago, but perhaps most of all in Aceh.
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JOHANNESBURG , 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is moving into top gear this month to feed four million Zimbabweans, but severe funding shortages mean the organisation's coffers are beginning to run on empty,
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KILIFI, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - Under normal circumstances, 14-year-old Paul Katana would be in school, but not today. Katana is instead flagging down vehicles along the Mombasa-Malindi highway, hoping to sell sacks of charcoal he is hawking.
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GOMA, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of civilians forced from their homes by fresh fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are still beyond the reach of international aid, two weeks after the launch of a rebel offensive.
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HARARE, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - Derrick Jimu, 56, has still not come to terms with the death of his son from cholera in the low-income suburb of Budiriro, in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. So far more than 20 lives have been lost in this area,
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SEYOUN, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - About 180 schools were damaged by the floods that hit Hadramaut Governorate, southeastern Yemen, in October, leaving thousands of students idle, according to Nasim-Ur-Rehman,
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