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JUBA, 12 October 2009 (IRIN) - Efforts to identify a haemorrhagic disease that has killed four people in a remote corner of Southern Sudan have been thwarted by bad roads made impassable by heavy rainfall, according to officials.
NAIROBI, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) - Khadijo Mahamud, a mother of five, goes to Bakara market every day to look for work, despite the constant shelling. Her youngest child is 10 months old but Mahamud knows she has no choice but to leave him with her 10-year-old and venture out to find food for the family.
DAKAR, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) - For decades diarrhoea has been a stealth killer, claiming more under-five children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, yet it remains a neglected disease, according to World Health Organization diarrhoea specialist Olivier Fontaine. "We made huge progress in the 1980s, but donor investment decreased in the 1990s as attention was diverted to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria."
HARGEISA, 16 October 2009 (IRIN) - Officials are warning renewed fighting is likely between two rival clans in breakaway Somaliland, where they are reported to have amassed a large number of weapons and positioned hundreds of militiamen near disputed farmland in Gabiley region.
MOGADISHU, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) - Halima Hassan, 42, a mother of five, fled her home in Hodan district of the Somali capital in 2007 after intense fighting between insurgents and government forces. Now, home is a makeshift shelter in a camp for the internally displaced within the Elsha biyaha area, 20km south of Mogadishu.
NAIROBI, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) - Countries where women's literacy rates and access to education are significantly worse than men's tend to have higher levels of hunger, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).