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TECHNOLOGY: Message your way out of a crisis
14 June 2010
(IRIN
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Help for people facing humanitarian catastrophe could be a text message or mouse click away, thanks to software that has proved vital in humanitarian disasters such as the Haiti earthquake.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89473/TECHNOLOGY-Message-your-way-out-of-a-crisis
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SOMALIA: IRIN Radio - Sunday 13 June 2010
13 June 2010
(IRIN
),
In today's programme - Dhegeyso barnaamijka maanta
· Somalia: UN Weekly Report
· IRIN Radio: Entertainment
· Dadaab: Refugee family link-ups
· Interview: Somali-Kenyan artist’s passion for literature
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89475/SOMALIA-IRIN-Radio-Sunday-13-June-2010
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SOMALIA: IRIN Radio - Saturday 12 June 2010
12 June 2010
(IRIN
),
In today's programme - Dhegeyso barnaamijka maanta
· Somaliland: Public reaction to security climate
· Yemen: No let up in harsh life for Somali refugees
· South Africa: Somalis’ new hero: K'Naan
· Debate: Developing and promoting youth skills
· Weather Forecast: Rainfall update across Somalia
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89474/SOMALIA-IRIN-Radio-Saturday-12-June-2010
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SRI LANKA: Returning IDPs face lack of clean water, landmine threat
11 June 2010
(IRIN
),
Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) returning home from camps in northern Sri Lanka are concerned about access to potable water and slow progress in clearing landmines.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89443/SRI-LANKA-Returning-IDPs-face-lack-of-clean-water-landmine-threat
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NIGER: Thirsty as well as hungry
10 June 2010
(IRIN
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A bad harvest season has punished the rural and urban poor across Niger, but food insecurity has been compounded by a critical lack of water in the worst-hit southern province of Zinder.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89432/NIGER-Thirsty-as-well-as-hungry
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SRI LANKA: Colombo braces for dengue outbreak
8 June 2010
(IRIN
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Health officials are stepping up their efforts to avert a dengue outbreak in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89404/SRI-LANKA-Colombo-braces-for-dengue-outbreak
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CHAD: What's happening in the north?
8 June 2010
(IRIN
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BET, the acronym for the three northern regions of Chad – Borkou, Ennedi and Tibesti – comes up regularly in meetings of international aid agencies frustrated by the lack of information and difficulty of access to the remote territory. Drought in 2009 triggered the government’s call for international assistance, but no one really knows the full extent of the problem, according to a local NGO.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89412/CHAD-What-s-happening-in-the-north
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NIGER: Children struggle to reach feeding programmes
7 June 2010
(IRIN
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A lack of transport, pastoralist lifestyles and pressure on women to prepare fields for harvest mean severely malnourished children are being taken out of therapeutic feeding programmes before their treatment is complete, say aid agencies.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89393/NIGER-Children-struggle-to-reach-feeding-programmes
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ZIMBABWE: No hope yet for the homeless
3 June 2010
(IRIN
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In Hopley Farm, an informal settlement about 10km south of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, Simon Dhewa's chicken coup has been converted into a bedroom for his three daughters, the eldest of which also uses it as a venue for her commercial sex activities.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89360/ZIMBABWE-No-hope-yet-for-the-homeless
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CHAD: X-raying the desert for water
3 June 2010
(IRIN
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Geologists are using technology known as magnetic resonance sounding (MRS) to take "x-rays" of the ground to find new water sources in eastern Chad, where more than 300,000 refugees from neighbouring countries have arrived in recent years.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89359/CHAD-X-raying-the-desert-for-water
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