| TIMOR-LESTE: Water supplies running on empty |
 LISAPAT, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - Ask anyone in rural Timor-Leste what they want most and the answer is always water.
“We don’t have any,” complained Filomena Brites, 35, who walks up to 3km four times a day to the nearest spring to fetch water from her home in Lisapat, a tiny village high in the coffee-growing hills of Ermera District.
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| SOUTHERN AFRICA: Snapshot of food security |
 JOHANNESBURG, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - Economic conditions in most southern African countries declined as a result of the global recession, pushing many more people towards greater food insecurity. According to a new food security update which focused on some southern African countries, food prices have risen and are still climbing in several countries.
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| BURUNDI: Female ex-combatants picking up the pieces |
 BUJUMBURA, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - By age 15, Annonciata Nduwimana was an accomplished fighter for Burundi's opposition Forces nationales de liberation and knew how to kill in battle.
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| DRC-CONGO: Of fish wars and displacement |
 KINSHASA, 2 February 2010 (IRIN) - Rival ethnic communities in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have clashed many times over the years, but most recently over fish, observers say.
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| SOMALIA: My farm "is full of mines" |
 ABUDA, 2 February 2010 (IRIN) - Mohamed Olhaye Nour, 60, last cultivated his farm in Abuda, 24km southwest of Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, more than two decades ago.
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