NAIROBI, 20 January 2010 (IRIN) – At least 30 districts in central and eastern Kenya have reported cases of armyworm and bollworm infestation, raising concerns over damage to crops in affected areas after a prolonged drought.
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 IRIN  20/01/2010DONGOU, 20 January 2010 (IRIN) – John Kanilamba sits under the porch of a half-finished house on the outskirts of Dongou – his home, despite its lack of doors and windows – since early November. His four children play idly at his feet, all refugees from inter-communal clashes in Equateur province in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Continue reading Concern for refugees rises as river runs low IRIN 19/01/2010MONROVIA, 19 January 2010 (IRIN) – Farmers are turning to urban gardens as a way to boost food security in Liberia’s Montserrado County, where just one percent of residents grow their own produce today compared to 70 percent before the war. IRIN 19/01/2010NAIROBI, 19 January 2010 (IRIN) – Fridah Awour Agolla has sold vegetables in Nairobi’s Mathare slum for 20 years. In better times, her stock sold out every day. But lately market forces have begun to bite even harder for the millions in Kenya who live in such squalid, neglected settlements. IRIN 18/01/2010BUNIA, 18 January 2010 (IRIN) – Annuarite Tagenge, 17, arrived in Bunia, the main town in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) region of Ituri on 8 January after spending almost a year walking through the forest to reach the town to search for her siblings. Continue reading Annuarite Tagenge: “I spent a year fleeing the LRA” IRIN 18/01/2010MARSABIT, 18 January 2010 (IRIN) – This is the final part of our travelogue detailing the journey into the heart of northern Kenya by an IRIN reporter. IRIN 15/01/2010Unconventional health workers and new technologies will be a vital part of the ongoing effort to “virtually eliminate” mother-to-child transmission of HIV, says Michél Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS. Continue reading Task-shifting, new technology crucial to ending mother-to-child transmission IRIN 15/01/2010Stefania*, 17, who has been wheelchair-bound since being involved in a traffic accident as a child, likes to go to Celso’s, a popular bar in Matundo, a suburb of Tete city in northwestern Mozambique. Continue reading Reaching the handicapped with HIV prevention IRIN 15/01/2010A campaign by the Rwandan government aims to significantly increase the use of both male and female condoms in the country, where it is estimated that sexually active people use an average of just three condoms per year. IRIN 15/01/2010Kenya has launched an ambitious strategy to fight HIV/AIDS that aims to reduce new infections by at least 50 percent over the next four years and focus more on most at-risk populations (MARPs). Continue reading New strategy targets most at-risk populations |
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