| IN-DEPTH: Food and nutrition crisis in Niger and the Western Sahel |
 DAKAR, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) - The West African Sahel is facing one of the worst food and nutrition crises in recent years.
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| SAHEL: Peanut pastes and milk powders to save children |
 DAKAR, 20 August 2010 (IRIN) - Aid agencies in Niger and Chad have begun giving tens of thousands of malnourished children a product called Plumpy’doz to save them from sliding into often-fatal severe malnutrition.
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| WEST AFRICA: Hail storms, record rains |
 DAKAR, 2 August 2010 (IRIN) - The 2010 rainy season in West Africa has opened with hail storms in Guinea and the heaviest rain in 50 years in northern Chad. Floods have killed at least 80 people and destroyed bridges, homes, septic tanks, livestock, crops and food stocks; dams have broken, and wells and latrines have been submerged.
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| Analysis: Unconditional money |
 JOHANNESBURG, 2 August 2010 (IRIN) - A World Bank study that put money in the hands of girls and their parents in Malawi's poor southern region has caused ripples across the debate on cash transfers in academic and aid communities.
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| BURKINA FASO: Boost for garden drip irrigation |
 OUAGADOUGOU, 26 July 2010 (IRIN) - It is raining in Burkina Faso - flooding in some areas - but aid workers and rural families are preparing for the dry season, when water shortages tend to kill off home gardens.
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| How To: Protect your livelihood from wild animals |
 JOHANNESBURG, 22 July 2010 (IRIN) - People and wildlife have never been in greater competition for limited resources as human populations invade shrinking natural habitats in a fight for living space, food and water. In this vignette of a planet-wide battle, IRIN looks at how to keep elephants away from your crops and raiding monkeys out of your food stores.
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| WEST AFRICA: The Sahel's nutrition revolution |
 DAKAR, 21 July 2010 (IRIN) - Food shortages and high rates of malnutrition have long been a reality in the Sahel, but the understanding of malnutrition has drastically changed since the prolonged drought in the early 1970s.
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| Analysis: NGOs' to-do list for incoming UN relief coordinator |
 DAKAR, 20 July 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN consulted the heads of some of the largest NGO networks on what they thought should be the top priorities of the incoming UN Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) and Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, who is expected to take up her role within two or three months.
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| IRIN: Today's most popular IRIN articles |
NAIROBI, 13 July 2010 (IRIN) - Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly.
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| BURKINA FASO: Vital role for local food |
 OUAGADOUGOU, 6 July 2010 (IRIN) - Local food – like sesame, tamarind and certain leaves - is a vital tool in the fight against malnutrition, say aid workers training families in northern Burkina Faso.
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