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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, 4 October 2009 (IRIN) - Dozens of families from the Kaldar and Shortepa districts of Balkh Province, in northern Afghanistan, have been displaced from their homes after the Amu River burst its banks, provincial officials said.
PADANG, 4 October 2009 (IRIN) - Four days after a devastating earthquake hit West Sumatra province in Indonesia, survivors say little or no humanitarian assistance has reached them, leaving some to beg for money.
BANGKOK, 5 October 2009 (IRIN) - Most migrants do not move from developing to developed countries, and when they do, rather than hurting host economies, they benefit them, according to a new report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
KABUL, 5 October 2009 (IRIN) - Despite billions of dollars of aid over the past eight years Afghanistan has slipped down the latest UN human development index, which ranks it 181 out of 182 countries, with only Niger lower.
ISLAMABAD, 5 October 2009 (IRIN) - A bomb blast at the offices of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Islamabad which killed four people on 5 October, has led to a call for UN offices to be located in a more secure area.
PADANG, 5 October 2009 (IRIN) - Health officials said they were trying to keep disease at bay in the aftermath of the powerful quake that hit Indonesia's West Sumatra Province, as search and rescue efforts ground to a halt.
MANILA, 5 October 2009 (IRIN) - Seen from above, vast swathes of farms in the central Philippines have turned into large pools of stagnant brown water, and officials say the flooding is slowly killing rice harvests and placing the country at risk of a rice shortage.
COTABATO, 6 October 2009 (IRIN) - The large number of people still displaced in Mindanao is pushing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conditions to the brink, health experts warn.
KABUL, 6 October 2009 (IRIN) - In the first nine months of 2009, 18 Afghan NGO employees have been killed and six wounded in security incidents, according to a report by the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office (ANSO). Eight were killed in 42 incidents from July to September.
PADANG, 6 October 2009 (IRIN) - Daniel Himawan, 11, stood silently on the front porch as his mother swept the floor of their house, which was damaged in the earthquake that devastated Indonesia's West Sumatra province.
TOJIKSOY, 7 October 2009 (IRIN) - Aziza Alinazarova, aged 13, walks past her old school every day on her three-hour round trip to a new school in Pianj District, southern Tajikistan.
DHAKA, 7 October 2009 (IRIN) - As an unusually late and prolonged monsoon season continues to drench Bangladesh, a sudden rise in dengue patients is prompting fears of an outbreak of the viral disease in the country's capital, Dhaka, according to health officials.
KABUL, 7 October 2009 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed cash vouchers to 10,000 vulnerable households in Kabul.
BANGKOK , 7 October 2009 (IRIN) - The UN launched a flash appeal on 7 October for over US$74 million for the Philippines after deadly storms brought extensive flooding and dealt a blow to the country's agricultural sector.
PADANG, 7 October 2009 (IRIN) - The damage caused to Indonesia's West Sumatra province by the earthquake last month has exposed what experts say are poor construction standards in the seismically vulnerable region.
ISLAMABAD, 8 October 2009 (IRIN) - Exactly four years after the devastating earthquake of 8 October 2005 in northern Pakistan, almost all the 3.5 million people made homeless have been re-housed, officials say.
MANILA, 9 October 2009 (IRIN) - The Philippines was plunged deeper into crisis on 9 October after heavy rain brought on by tropical storm Parma resulted in widespread flooding in the northern provinces and forced authorities to release water from near-bursting dams.
JAKARTA, 9 October 2009 (IRIN) - As relief efforts are ramped up following the West Sumatra earthquake on 30 September, aid groups have warned that thousands of survivors of an earlier quake on the Indonesian island of Java are facing health risks unless they receive adequate shelter.
KATHMANDU, 9 October 2009 (IRIN) - Continued political instability in Nepal is hampering development initiatives and could worsen humanitarian challenges in the already impoverished Himalayan nation, humanitarian workers and analysts warn.