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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

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Is Ivory Coast attack the new normal?
14 March 2016
Gunmen killed 16 people in a Cote d'Ivoire resort area, yesterday - the third such attack in West Arica in the last six months. Is...
Feature

Jihadist groups in the Sahel
4 February 2016
Security has been intense over the last few weeks in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, with police and soldiers on the streets, vehicle searches, and round-ups...

AQIM incident map
15 January 2016 Maps and Graphics
Africa’s meningitis A vaccine: how partnership replaced ‘Big Pharma’
17 November 2015 Analysis
Burkina Faso: ‘There must be justice’
16 October 2015 Feature

Feature

Is Burkina's elite guard still a threat?
1 October 2015
Burkina Faso’s interim government adopted a decree last week dissolving the Presidential Security Regiment, which mounted a short-lived coup two weeks ago. But despite promises...
Analysis

Rocky road to democracy in Burkina Faso
22 September 2015
A coup, a counter-coup, a stand-off, a missed ultimatum to lay down weapons: the uncertain situation in Burkina Faso is developing quickly and no one...
Analysis

Chocolate’s lost childhoods
25 August 2015
Twelve-year-old Arouna* stands shirtless in a cocoa field in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire holding a hoe, his ribs clearly visible under his dark skin. “I have...
Analysis

Avian flu threatens poultry farmers
23 June 2015
Naba Guigma, from Burkina Faso’s Boulkiemdé province, southwest of the capital Ouagadougou, watched helplessly as his chickens and guinea fowl began to die off one...
Feature

AIDS funding crisis in Burkina Faso
14 May 2015
For years you couldn’t tell if someone in Burkina Faso had HIV/AIDS just by looking at them. Now it’s getting easier again because cuts in...
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...

Working to keep the peace: The impact of job schemes on ex-rebels
27 February 2015 Analysis
Three words of advice for WHO Africa's new chief
24 February 2015 Analysis
Unloved but unyielding: Burkina’s presidential guard could derail transition
13 February 2015 Analysis
After Ebola: What next for West Africa’s health systems
26 January 2015 Feature
Nice and dirty – the importance of soil
16 January 2015 Feature
PRESS RELEASE: IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN
20 November 2014 Feature

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