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Italiano NAIROBI – Food security in many parts of Southern Sudan is set to improve after good rains, according to recent crop and precipitation assessments.
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 IRIN  27/08/2010DAKAR – Flooding across Chad has destroyed homes, crops, livestock, wells and latrines in communities already pummelled by food shortages and high malnutrition, according to the UN. IRIN 19/08/2010JUBA – Humanitarian needs in Southern Sudan, where some 4.3m people already need food assistance and fewer than one in 10 earns more than US$1 a day, are likely to escalate after next year’s referendum on secession, says a government minister. Continue reading Referendum will increase humanitarian needs IRIN 17/08/2010NAIROBI – Fourteen days after Sudanese authorities cut off aid to Kalma, the largest internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in South Darfur, three international NGOs and UN agencies (the UN Children’s Fund, World Food Programme and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA) have been allowed to re-enter the settlement. Continue reading Aid agencies granted access to Kalma amid expulsions IRIN 30/07/2010At a church compound in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, women and their children line up for food rations. Among them is Zipporah Mueni, an HIV-positive mother of five. Continue reading Addressing the role of religion in HIV response IRIN 16/07/2010HARARE – Tinashe, a single mother of three living in Mbare township in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, regularly misses a meal so as to stretch her US$90 a month income, and occasionally gives her children food left over from her employers’ meals at the middle-class household where she is a domestic worker. Continue reading A third of children chronically malnourished IRIN 09/07/2010NAIROBI – Millions of people in parts of the western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing a food and livelihood crisis brought on by structural causes such as the dependence on the mining sector and a poor road and livelihoods infrastructure, say officials. IRIN 28/06/2010DAKAR – Nearly 17 percent of Niger’s children younger than five suffer acute malnutrition, a 5 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a national survey released by the government. More than 15 percent acute malnutrition is classified as a critical emergency by the UN World Health Organization (WHO). The report links this increase to the poor 2008-2009 harvests. IRIN 28/06/2010JOHANNESBURG – A new global architecture to govern food security is urgently needed to reduce the number of hungry people, and predict and prevent another food price crisis like the one that took the world by surprise in 2006-08. IRIN 23/06/2010CAIRO – For seven-year-old Ahmed Yasser, it is normal to have just a crust of bread to munch on throughout the afternoon as he plays with other children in a narrow alley in the sprawling slum of Arab al-Maasarah, 20km south of Cairo. Continue reading Surviving on a crust in Cairo’s expanding slums |
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