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Informal employment sustains Zimbabweans
11 April 2013
(IRIN
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Five years after Zimbabwe’s political and economic crisis peaked in 2008, the economy continues to perform poorly, with the manufacturing sector still shedding jobs and unemployment estimated at 75 percent. But the real level of unemployment is almost impossible to gauge as countless Zimbabweans are making a living in the informal sector.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97825/Informal-employment-sustains-Zimbabweans
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In East Africa, heavy rains test emergency preparedness
11 April 2013
(IRIN
),
Unusually heavy rains have caused havoc across much of east Africa, displacing thousands of people and damaging important infrastructure.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97830/In-East-Africa-heavy-rains-test-emergency-preparedness
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Somali music festival takes aim at Al-Shabab
10 April 2013
(IRIN
),
Organizers of the Mogadishu Music Festival, a string of events held last week in the Somali capital, hoped to inaugurate a new era of openness and development in the war-scarred country, and to lure impressionable youths away from radicalism.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97818/Somali-music-festival-takes-aim-at-Al-Shabab
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Wild foods could improve nutrition and food security
10 April 2013
(IRIN
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Malnutrition could be greatly reduced and food security improved by ensuring improved access to nutrient-rich forest-derived foods like berries, bushmeat, roots, insects and nuts for the world’s poorest populations, experts say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97820/Wild-foods-could-improve-nutrition-and-food-security
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Mounting crisis for conflict-hit northern Mali pastoralists
8 April 2013
(IRIN
),
Ongoing fighting and the fear of reprisal killings has severely disrupted normal migration patterns for pastoralists in northern Mali, putting them and their families in danger of severe food insecurity and poverty as the lean season approaches.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97799/Mounting-crisis-for-conflict-hit-northern-Mali-pastoralists
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Consecutive catastrophes hit Madagascar's farmers
8 April 2013
(IRIN
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Farmers in Madagascar’s southwestern province of Tulear have been hit hard, first by floods and then by locusts, threatening food security in a region already among the poorest in the island country.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97805/Consecutive-catastrophes-hit-Madagascar-s-farmers
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Uganda’s midwives struggle to meet demands
8 April 2013
(IRIN
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Despite the significant role midwives play in Uganda’s maternal health programmes, they face numerous challenges, including lack of training, inadequate facilities and poor pay.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97807/Uganda-s-midwives-struggle-to-meet-demands
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Niger seeks to end cycle of hunger
5 April 2013
(IRIN
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Niger is seeking to end its chronic food shortages through an ambitious agricultural transformation plan - but the plan will have to meet the demands of a fast-growing population living in a mostly desert country that also faces threats to is security.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97790/Niger-seeks-to-end-cycle-of-hunger
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Urgent humanitarian needs in post-coup Central African Republic
4 April 2013
(IRIN
),
Less than two weeks after the overthrow of Central African Republic (CAR) President François Bozizé in a rebel coup, the humanitarian situation has deteriorated, leaving civilians in the capital, Bangui, in critical need of aid, said a senior humanitarian official.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97780/Urgent-humanitarian-needs-in-post-coup-Central-African-Republic
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Analysis: Roots of polio vaccine suspicion
4 April 2013
(IRIN
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For years, polio vaccination has faced strong resistance within conservative Islamic communities in northern Nigeria, largely due to a deep distrust of the West, persistent rumours that the vaccine is harmful, and the house-to-house approach taken by immunization campaigners, which many saw as intrusive.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97781/Analysis-Roots-of-polio-vaccine-suspicion
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