NEPAL: Shanta Karki, "I don't need rehabilitation" IRINnews.org SINDHULI, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - Shanta Karki was barely 13 when she volunteered to be a child soldier for the People's Liberation Army (PLA), ... |
(VOA) The United Nations Children's Fund is appealing for $1.2 billion to provide life saving emergency assistance to millions of children and women in dire need. UNICEF says earthquake-stricken Haiti is only one of 28 countries where children and women lack even the most basic means of survival.
AFRICA: Making the case against counterfeit drugs IRINnews.org LOME, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - The fight against fake medicines requires a united public-private front to overcome people's resistance to health warnings ... |
SENEGAL: Ousmane Goudiaby, “Even if one is afraid, one has no choice” IRINnews.org ZIGUINCHOR, 3 February 2010 (IRIN) - Baraf village, in Senegal's Casamance region, is empty but for a group of armed separatists – and the Goudiaby family. ... |
HAITI: Minimizing food mayhem IRINnews.org PORT-AU-PRINCE, 3 February 2010 (IRIN) - As food distributions spread to more parts of Port-au-Prince, so have kilometre-long lines of hungry, ... |
MADAGASCAR: What will you do when the trees are gone? IRINnews.org ANTANANARIVO, 3 February 2010 (IRIN) - Madagascar's transitional government is allowing the export of illegally harvested precious hardwoods as a source of ... |
EGYPT: Report details north Sinai flood damage IRINnews.org CAIRO, 1 February 2010 (IRIN) - A report on flood damage in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsular was submitted to the Egyptian Cabinet on 28 January. ... |
SRI LANKA: IDPs divided over election outcome IRINnews.org VAVUNIYA, 1 February 2010 (IRIN) - As the results of Sri Lanka's first post-war presidential election poured in, the mood at Menik Farm, ... |
PAKISTAN: 'Anti-terrorist' fertilizer ban hinders farmers IRINnews.org KHAR, 31 January 2010 (IRIN) - Along a road leading to the Bajaur tribal area on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, two men cast stealthy glances around them ... |
YEMEN: Officials warn of humanitarian crisis as IDP population doubles IRINnews.org SANAA, 31 January 2010 (IRIN) - With the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Yemen having reached 250000, more than double the number ... |
