Swaziland

Southern Africa’s food crisis in numbers

28 January 2016

Southern Africa is facing the threat of extensive crop failures this year as a result of record low rainfall in a region in which 29 million people already don't have reliable access to enough affordable and nutritious food. “With little...

Analysis

Unwanted: El Niño and Africa in 2016
23 December 2015
El Niño is the largely unwanted Christmas gift – a warming of the tropical Pacific causing drought and floods that will peak at the end...
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...

Killing us softly
27 March 2015 Analysis
Three words of advice for WHO Africa's new chief
24 February 2015 Analysis
Who celebrity advocates are really targeting. And it’s not you.
13 February 2015 Analysis

Feature

Nice and dirty – the importance of soil
16 January 2015
Be it laterite, loam, peat or clay, soil is life. It's the foundation of food security, and so the UN has declared 2015 as the...
Feature

PRESS RELEASE: IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN
20 November 2014
A NEW START FOR CRISIS REPORTING IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN. Jynwel Foundation invests $25 million to create global non-profit...
Analysis

An ambitious plan to end statelessness
7 November 2014
It is now 60 years since stateless people received recognition in international law, and the UN has two conventions (1954 and 1961) dedicated to their...
Feature

Boosting Africa’s food production
15 September 2014
Smallholder farmers, who hold over 80 percent of all farms in sub-Saharan Africa, are struggling to adapt to rapidly rising temperature and erratic rains, according...
News

Swazi diarrhoea outbreak kills 36
1 August 2014
A nationwide outbreak of diarrhoea attributed to rotavirus has claimed the lives of nearly 40 young children in Swaziland during the past month and highlighted...
Analysis

New thinking needed on aid for refugees
7 July 2014
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched an urgent appeal to address a funding shortfall that has already resulted...

Madagascar back in the US trade fold
27 June 2014 News
Swaziland braces itself for AGOA exit
17 June 2014 News
Genome breakthrough could help fight against sleeping sickness
28 May 2014 News
Melding science and tradition to tackle climate change
23 May 2014 Analysis
Remittance rip-offs
22 April 2014 Feature
Mourning versus survival in Swaziland
21 April 2014 News

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Southern Africa’s food crisis in numbers

Analysis

Unwanted: El Niño and Africa in 2016

Feature

Southern Africa's food crisis

Killing us softly

Three words of advice for WHO Africa's new chief

Who celebrity advocates are really targeting. And it’s not you.

Feature

Nice and dirty – the importance of soil

Feature

PRESS RELEASE: IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN

Analysis

An ambitious plan to end statelessness

Feature

Boosting Africa’s food production

News

Swazi diarrhoea outbreak kills 36

Analysis

New thinking needed on aid for refugees

Madagascar back in the US trade fold

Swaziland braces itself for AGOA exit

Genome breakthrough could help fight against sleeping sickness

Melding science and tradition to tackle climate change

Remittance rip-offs

Mourning versus survival in Swaziland

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