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Nigeria, Thanks the Boko Haram Insurgency 244,000 Hungry Children

Special for IRIN Eromo Egbejule Abuja, 1st August 2016 After his father, a welder from Bama, died in a camp for internally displaced people in Nigeriaโ€™s northeastern...

Which African country is worst at fighting insurgents?

Special for IRIN Obi Anyadike Nairobi, 10 June 2016 Public approval in Nigeria and Kenya for their governmentsโ€™ handling of jihadist violence is low, and citizens have...

Once upon a time it was Kin la belle

Special for IRIN Gianluca Iazzolino Kinshasa, 8th March 2016 Sheet-metal huts spring up among the graves. Some are the ghosts of brick houses that once existed nearby....

Ugandaโ€™s Karamoja faces drought emergency

IRIN By Samuel Okiror KAMPALA, 19 January 2016 At least 640,000 people in Ugandaโ€™s northeastern Karamoja region โ€“ more than half its population โ€“ are facing food...

How to Use the World โ€œMigrantsโ€

IRIN Oxford, 27August 2015 Using the right terms when referring to Europeโ€™s migration crisis has become a minefield for journalists. For starters, itโ€™s not exactly a...

Nigerian Refugees pour into Cameroon fearing Boko Haram

Special for IRIN Sylvestre Tetchiada Minawao (Cameroon), 10th August 2015 Itโ€™s still early in the morning in Cameroonโ€™s Far North Region, but hundreds of Nigerian refugees are...

Food aid cut to Malian refugees in Mauritania

IRIN Nouakchott, 9th ย July 2015 Nearly 50,000 Malian refugees are at risk following the suspension of food aid to their camp in southeastern Mauritania, with NGOs...

South Sudan food crisis deepens amid tanking economy

IRIN Nyumanzi (Uganda), 1st ย June 2015 Through 17 months of conflict, tens of thousands of people have been killed in South Sudan and two million more...

Kenyaโ€™s anti-terror border wall sparks heated debate

IRIN Nairobi, 17 aprile 2015 Kenya this week began building a barrier along its entire border with Somalia, in a purported effort to prevent incursions by...

Hear it from the people: What’s wrong in the Central African Republic?

From IRIN Crispin Dembassa-Kette Baoro (Central African Repubblic), 8thย  April 2015 The room was packed. Everyone wanted to speak: unsurprising after years of conflict that has claimed...

What future for Geneva, the humanitarian capital of the world?

IRIN Geneva, 7th ย April 2015 Most wonโ€™t call it a cut-back, let alone a withdrawal. Instead they use words like โ€˜restructuringโ€™, โ€˜rationalisingโ€™, or even โ€˜stabilisationโ€™. But...

Looming DRC offensive prompts โ€œhumanitarian falloutโ€ fears

IRIN Kampala, 16 December 2014 Plans by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army and UN peacekeepers to again take on one of the oldest insurgencies...

Congo-K: Chaotic closure of a North Kivu IDP camp

IRIN Kinshasa, 18 December 2014 The authorities in North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hope soon to close the 60-odd camps...

Male Ebola survivors asked to abstain from sex

IRIN Monrovia/Dakar, 5 December 2014 Male Ebola survivors in Liberia are being warned by local health authorities to abstain from sex for at least three months...

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