Photo: Laudes Martial Mbon/IRIN |
| Access to clean drinking water can keep water-borne diseases at bay |
BRAZZAVILLE, 13 March 2008 (IRIN) - A rehabilitated water supply system in the town of Kinkala in the southeast of the Republic of Congo will provide clean drinking water to an estimated 10,000 residents of the area, whose infrastructure was damaged during the civil war between 1998 and 2003.
The water project, which was inaugurated on 12 March by the energy and hydraulics minister, Bruno Itoua, is an initiative of the Congolese government and the International Committee of the Red Cross. |
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Photo: Allan Gichigi/IRIN |
| Displaced women and girls are still at risk of gender-based violence, according to a new report |
NAIROBI, 10 March 2008 (IRIN) - The risk of rape and sexual abuse remains high for thousands of young girls and women displaced by Kenya's post-election crisis in January and February, an assessment by three agencies has found.
Detailing the findings of the rapid assessment of gender-based violence (GBV) suffered in camps, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Christian Children's Fund (CCF), said the women had repeatedly expressed fears of sexual violence because of makeshift sleeping arrangements, where men and women were forced to sleep under one tent or out in the open. |
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Photo: UNICEF Madagascar |
| Cyclone Ivan pays Madagascar a visit |
JOHANNESBURG, 8 March 2008 (IRIN) - The 2008 cyclone season in the southwestern Indian Ocean has recorded the highest number of cyclones in possibly a decade because of the climate phenomenon called La Niña, according to meteorologists.
"The tropical cyclone Jokwe, which is expected to hit the northern coast of Mozambique on 8 March will be the twelfth this season," said Mussa Mustafa, head of Mozambique's Meteorological Institute (INAM). "We normally record an average of nine cyclones per season." |
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Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN |
| A patient at a clinic in Sierra Rutile area 250 km from Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone, February 2008 |
FREETOWN, 7 March 2008 (IRIN) - When people come to see Dr Dominic Weellah for anything more complicated than diarrhoea or malaria he often just gives them a placebo and sends them home.
“What else can I do?” he shrugged. “People just have to find their own way.”
Weellah’s clinic, in the remote centre of Sierra Leone, has no windows, just gaping holes in the walls and a rusty roof that has almost collapsed. There is no surgical equipment and a medical cabinet that is almost empty. He serves a community of over 10,000 people and the state-run clinic 17 km along unpaved roads is not much better. |
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Photo: IRIN |
| Police ready to crackdown |
BULAWAYO, 6 March 2008 (IRIN) - Both groups of the split main Zimbabwean opposition party have lodged complaints with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) that their candidates are being harassed by the police ahead of the general elections on 29 March.
The two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have each claimed that their members have either been arrested, abducted or beaten up by the police, and have also alleged acts of violence against their supporters by the ruling ZANU-PF party. |
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Photo: Anthony Mitchell/IRIN |
| Food aid is now more expensive and difficult to procure |
JOHANNESBURG, 5 March 2008 (IRIN) - As food prices hit record highs, analysts warn that a re-think of food aid strategies is needed - and Ethiopia, a traditionally food insecure country, could offer some answers.
Globally, the World Food Programme's (WFP) operational budget for 2008 has now risen to $3.4 billion - "an increase of $500 million to account for the increased price of food and transport alone," said WFP spokesman Robin Lodge. "This budget is just to cover our current assessed needs, and leaves nothing for unforeseen emergencies or the huge number of people who are now falling into the hunger trap as a result of the rising prices." |
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