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Kenya: Conquering visual impairment 27 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
BY GODFREY WAMALWA, API,10/7/2013 When you thought that being blind defines you,then meet Mr. Chrispinus Waswa a teacher at Mbakalo Friends Secondary school in Bungoma North District who has conquer...
Kenya: Jigger increase reported in Teso Constituency 27 Aug 2013 | 03:28 am
GODFREY WAMALWA, API, KENYA Residents from Okuleu area of Teso North Constituency in Busia County have raised concern over the rampant increase of jiggers menace in the area. Several elderly persons...
Technology can help reach disaster-hit communities 27 Aug 2013 | 03:23 am
Photo: Jason Gutierrez/IRIN Technology can help reach disaster-hit communities DAKAR, - Difficulty reaching conflict- or disaster-hit communities slows down aid delivery, hampers assessment and can l...
Kenya’s First Lady calls for unity to combat the AIDS scourge during her visit to China 26 Aug 2013 | 03:56 am
She said co-operation in fighting AIDS and other infectious diseases will further reduce the HIV/AIDS pain and suffering, particularly of children infected or orphaned by AIDS. She spoke at Beijing Di...
Civilian Destruction in Jonglei: Khartoum’s Role in Arming David Yau Yau’s Militia 26 Aug 2013 | 03:52 am
Eric Reeves, 22 August 2013 There is a great deal of biased attention when it comes to international assessments of the ongoing ethnic strife in Jonglei. UN reports from the ground, primarily from th...
Additional NOK 350 million to be allocated to humanitarian crises 26 Aug 2013 | 03:13 am
The Government intends to increase the humanitarian budget by NOK 350 million. The funds will primarily be channelled to Syria, but the crisis in South Sudan and the area around the Great Lakes in Afr...
Flood victim in Sudan says his house has completely collapsed 25 Aug 2013 | 03:36 am
KHARTOUM, - More than half a million people in 16 of Sudan’s 18 states have been affected by flooding since early August. The worst affected is Khartoum State, where some 36,000 homes are thought to ...
“Difficult to live” – Goma`s displaced 25 Aug 2013 | 03:32 am
BULENGO, - If the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu capital of Goma were a hotel, there would be a sign hanging on the door with the words “sorry – no vacancies.” From the 1994 exodus f...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has also set up ideas labs to stimulate new approaches. Labs are currently at work in Denmark, Kosovo, Uganda and Zimb... 25 Aug 2013 | 03:27 am
DAKAR, - Difficulty reaching conflict- or disaster-hit communities slows down aid delivery, hampers assessment and can lead to groups in remote areas being left out of the aid equa tion altogether. B...
Norway condemns terrorist attacks in Lebanon 24 Aug 2013 | 11:25 pm
The terrorist attacks in Tripoli this week and in Beirut last week have killed dozens of people and wounded several hundred more. “Norway condemns the terrorist attacks that have taken place in Lebano...
