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Residents of an IDP camp in North Kivu receive food rations distributed by WFP

The Grinch’s not-so-festive guide to food ration cuts

27 December 2016

Naughty or nice, no matter: those requiring food assistance this year, particularly in Africa, are finding things even tougher than usual

Analysis

Magic and murder: albinism in Malawi
11 May 2016
Witchcraft has become big business in Malawi. This is bad news for albinos.
Maps and Graphics

Taxpayers fund handsome delegations to the UN
25 March 2016
There's no junket like a UN junket.

Refugees pay the price of Mozambique power struggle
24 March 2016 Analysis
Malawi’s hunger season
17 February 2016 Analysis
Southern Africa’s food crisis in numbers
28 January 2016 Analysis

Feature

Southern Africa's food crisis
4 December 2015
Close to 29 million people in southern Africa are already facing food shortages as a result of this season’s poor harvest, but worse could be...
Analysis

Killing us softly
27 March 2015
A recent public outcry in China, sparked by a damning documentary about air pollution, was based on well-founded fear: Of the 100 million people who...
News

Zimbabwe on alert for cholera
25 March 2015
Children play on the dumpsite in the Budiriro suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, scrambling through the garbage and ignoring the clouds of flies and overpowering...
Analysis

3 tips for WHO's new director for Africa
24 February 2015
The World Health Organization says the number of new Ebola cases per week rose twice this month for the first time since December. This rise...
Analysis

Does celebrity advocacy actually work?
13 February 2015
This week was a fanfare for celebrity humanitarians: Forest Whitaker appealed for peace in South Sudan alongside UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos; Angelina...
Feature

Malawi flood survivors desperate
6 February 2015
For those who have lost everything in southern Malawi’s Chikwawa District, just getting the next meal is now the priority. “Life is unbearable here. We...

In pictures: Southern Africa floods
20 January 2015 News
Nice and dirty – the importance of soil
16 January 2015 Feature
Eyewitness: Malawi’s floods
16 January 2015 News
PRESS RELEASE: IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN
20 November 2014 Feature
Lake Malawi’s dwindling fish stocks threaten livelihoods
7 November 2014 News
An ambitious plan to end statelessness
7 November 2014 Analysis

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