| PAKISTAN: No firewood, no hot food |
 MINGORA, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - A few kilometres outside Mingora, Swat Valley’s principal city in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa Province, a group of village women discuss the various problems they have been facing in the wake of the recent devastating floods - including the lack of firewood, without which they cannot cook.
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| EGYPT: Wheat subsidy system under strain |
 CAIRO, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - Milad Nadim, 49, from Helwan city near the southern outskirts of greater Cairo, needs to be on the street by 6am daily to stand in a long queue for subsidized bread, or his children will go hungry. He says he often waits 3-4 hours to get the bread, but insists he has no option.
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| DRC: Displacement and discrimination – the lot of the Bambuti Pygmies |
 GOMA, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) - Conditions in Mugunga camp for displaced people on the outskirts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma are tough, but tougher still are those endured by hundreds of people from the Bambuti Pygmy community living just outside the camp.
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| SOMALIA: A day in the life of a Mogadishu paramedic |
 NAIROBI, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) - The LifelineAfrica ambulance service was launched in December 2008 by two men who realized the injured often died of blood loss before reaching hospital. Almost 18 months after IRIN first spoke to the founders, we asked Ismail Mohamed how he and his colleagues were coping as fighting enters its ninth day in Mogadishu. NationLink, a telecommunications company, funds the service.
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| SRI LANKA: Addressing needs of stressed children |
 MULLAITIVU, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) - Few studies of children in Sri Lanka have examined the daily stress they continue to face since the tsunami and civil war, focusing instead on the direct impact of both, according to two studies in the latest Child Development journal.
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