AFGHANISTAN: WFP refocusing its work in Afghanistan IRINnews.org NAIROBI, 1 July 2011 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is being forced by a funding shortfall to cut its recovery programmes in nearly half of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, a spokesperson said. “We are having to refocus our activities to ... |
SOUTH AFRICA: Still waiting for an anti-human trafficking law IRINnews.org JOHANNESBURG, 30 June 2011 (IRIN) - South Africa has been identified as a major human-trafficking destination for victims from within the country, the region and beyond, yet there is no legislation that specifically criminalises human trafficking and ... |
(Al Jazeera) International lender's 24-member executive board says the French finance minister was elected by consensus.
DRC: Children still in prison despite new law IRINnews.org KINSHASA, 29 June 2011 (IRIN) - Two years after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) promulgated the Law on Child Protection, an estimated 3000 children remain in prisons across the country. The law, which came into effect in January 2009, ... |
ZIMBABWE: Trophy hunting, crocodile farming help rural poor adapt IRINnews.org CHIREDZI, 29 June 2011 (IRIN) - The mostly dry Chiredzi district in southeastern Zimbabwe will grow drier as rainfall becomes increasingly uncertain, but trophy hunting and rearing crocodiles for their meat and skins can become major money earners to ... |
EGYPT: Taming the slum menace in Cairo IRINnews.org CAIRO, 28 June 2011 (IRIN) - Madiha Abdel-Salam lives in a small room with her six children in Manshiet Nasser, an Egyptian slum perched precariously on sandstone cliffs on the outskirts of Cairo. When the children squeeze her out, the 42-year-old ... |
PAKISTAN: More polio cases despite efforts to contain it IRINnews.org ISLAMABAD, 27 June 2011 (IRIN) - Confirmation that a two-year-old has polio in Diamer District of Gilgit-Baltistan region, northern Pakistan, has raised fears that the disease could have spread to areas previously believed to be free of it, ... |
SOUTH AFRICA: Midwife shortage impacts maternal health IRINnews.org DURBAN, 27 June 2011 (IRIN) - At Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital (PMMH) in Umlazi, the largest township outside the South African port city of Durban, using midwives to provide maternity services has positively impacted maternal care in the area, ... |
