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BANGKOK, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - Women are being excluded from the debate over climate change, despite being most at risk, and governments should do more to ensure their situations and views are represented, campaigners and experts say.
HARARE, 13 October 2009 (PlusNews) - Janet Mpilime, 32, captain of the ARV Swallows, an all-woman football team based in the informal settlement of Epworth, 10km east of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, has just led her team to a 2-1 victory over Sporting ART.
MPULUNGU, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - Frederick Sinjela, a fisherman in Mpulungu district in Northern Province, Zambia, cannot imagine how his actions could affect something as big as Lake Tanganyika, but his harmful practices, multiplied by thousands like him, are a real and growing threat.
JOHANNESBURG, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - The tit-for-tat expulsion of thousands of Angolan refugees living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the repatriation of thousands of undocumented Congolese migrants working in Angola, is raising fears of a "humanitarian catastrophe" in the making.
LUSAKA, 14 October 2009 (PlusNews) - The human rights record of the Zambian military is being tested in court by two former air force officers who allege they were fired for being HIV positive.
NAIROBI, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) - Forty years after the rights of Africa’s refugees were enshrined in a landmark convention, the continent’s leaders are due to make legal history again by adopting a new instrument to assist people displaced within the borders of their own country.
NAIROBI, 19 November 2009 (IRIN Radio) - This week's edition of IRIN's new weekly audio podcast, IRIN Talks, is now available for download. In this issue, under 12 minutes long, we talk to the UN's newly appointed Africa Champion for climate risk, Kenyan MP Rachel Shebesh; and hear from IRIN reporter Phuong Tran on how the troubled central African country Chad is transitioning out of humanitarian emergency.
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).
NAIROBI, 15 October 2009 (PlusNews) - As traditional sources of financial aid dry up, new and innovative approaches to fundraising may be the best hope of generating money for HIV/AIDS efforts.
JOHANNESBURG, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) - The number of Angolan refugees deported from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] has now topped 28,000, raising fears that a newly announced agreement between the two governments might not necessarily bring a halt to expulsions.
HARARE, 16 October 2009 (IRIN) - The planting season in Zimbabwe is fast approaching, but farmers are struggling to access crucial agricultural inputs, bringing fears of yet another poor harvest.