http://www.IRINnews.org/Iraqfp.asp Updated every day en-gb Sun, 8 Nov 2009 05:27:00 GMT United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks, http://www.IRINnews.org/Iraqfp.asp CAIRO, 5 November 2009 (IRIN) - Despite a number of positive economic indicators, Egypt has a hunger problem: Nearly a third of all children are malnourished, according to a new report compiled by the Ministry of Health and the UN Development Programme (UNDP). http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86893 DAMASCUS, 4 November 2009 (IRIN) - A new pilot project by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria has come up with a novel way of getting food aid to Iraqi refugees. WFP claims the project is a world first. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86872 CAIRO, 3 November 2009 (IRIN) - I come from the Gash Barka region of Eritrea, near the Sudanese border. I escaped from prison and left my country on 1 January 2004 to come to Sudan and then Egypt, where I was jailed again. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86855 SANAA, 3 November 2009 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of people in Milhan District, Mahwit Governorate, around 100km northwest of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, are facing acute water shortages due to lack of rainfall, according to local officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86847 BAGHDAD, 2 November 2009 (IRIN) - Rain thoughout Iraq's semi-autonomous northern Kurdistan region, which has been absent for two years, is prompting the return of farmers who had abandoned their land, according to officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86835 TEL AVIV, 30 October 2009 (IRIN) - Migrant workers in Israel's agriculture sector are among the most exploited, according to a 28 October report by Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO campaigning for the rights of disadvantaged workers in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86808 AKKAR, 29 October 2009 (IRIN) - In Lebanon's remote northeastern district of Akkar, teachers and pupils at the Rajam Issa public school are hoping this winter will be the first when the lights stay on. “Electricity is the lifeline of the school,” said head teacher Ibrahim Salame, complaining of frequent and prolonged power cuts. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86796 DAMASCUS, 28 October 2009 (IRIN) - Iraqi refugee Leila Johanna Isho is determined to make this her last year in Syria. “Most of our family is scattered across Europe and I have a cousin in Canada so we don't mind where we move, but we have to move because life is becoming too difficult here,” said Isho, sitting with her three children in their cramped single-room apartment in Masakin Berzeh, a working-class neighbourhood of Damascus. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86777 SOUTH MOUNT HEBRON/TEL AVIV, 27 October 2009 (IRIN) - It's a hot September day in the desert hills of South Mount Hebron in the West Bank, an hour's drive south of Jerusalem. A small convoy of four water tankers makes its way along an unpaved road to deliver water - purchased by a group of Israeli and Palestinian NGOs - to Bedouin Palestinians living in small communities in the hills. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86765 SANAA, 27 October 2009 (IRIN) - Poor security, lack of basic infrastructure, the increasing numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and how to accommodate livestock are among the challenges facing the government and aid agencies trying to run IDP camps in northern Yemen, according to Nasim Ur-Rehman, a spokesman for the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86755 CAIRO, 26 October 2009 (IRIN) - The Egyptian government's May 2009 decision to cull the country's entire pig population - ostensibly to stem the spread of H1N1 influenza - has hit the livelihoods of 70,000 former pig farmers and unofficial rubbish collectors and their families in the Cairo area, according to local NGO Association for the Protection of the Environment. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86742 CAIRO, 25 October 2009 (IRIN) - In the third of a series of interviews with refugees living in Cairo, IRIN spoke to Abdullah Bare Kahiya, 31, about why he left home, and the prospects he has in this host country. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86734 CAIRO, 22 October 2009 (IRIN) - The Egyptian ministries of health and education have ordered all schools in Cairo to halve the number of children in each class to mitigate the possible spread of H1N1 influenza - no small challenge in this overcrowded city of 20 million. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86695 TEL AVIV, 22 October 2009 (IRIN) - Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai has said he will not grant legal status to some 1,200 children of migrant workers, triggering an anti-deportation campaign led by several NGOs. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86694 BAGHDAD, 22 October 2009 (IRIN) - Panic over the possible spread of H1N1 influenza has prompted the closure of more than 2,000 schools in Iraq, according to officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86693 CAIRO, 21 October 2009 (IRIN) - In the second of a series of interviews with refugees living in Cairo, IRIN spoke to Noor Shamari (not her real name), a divorced Shia mother-of-two from Mansour District in Baghdad about why she left home, and the prospects she has in this host country. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86670 HARADH, 20 October 2009 (IRIN) - Fatma Abdullah's daughters Salma, aged 9, and Khadija, 11, are going to school for the first time in their lives in al-Mazraq camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Haradh District, Hajjah Governorate, northern Yemen. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86656 CAIRO, 19 October 2009 (IRIN) - In the first of a series of interviews with refugees living in Cairo, IRIN spoke to John Simon (not his real name), a 33-year-old Dinka from Southern Sudan, about why he left home, and what prospect he faces in this host country. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86639 SANAA, 16 October 2009 (IRIN) - Hundreds of people in Taiz city, 250km south of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, have dengue fever and local hospitals are taking in new cases on a daily basis, according to health officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86616 GAZA CITY, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) - Thousands of Gazan farmers may be unable to replant their crops during the region's main planting season in October due to agricultural land still damaged by the Israeli offensive at the start of the year, and a lack of agricultural materials like seeds and fertilizers, according to officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86590 BAGHDAD, 14 October 2009 (IRIN) - In the late 1990s 22-year-old Manal Sabir Abdullah from Basra was diagnosed with lung cancer, from which she eventually died in 2004. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86572 SANAA, 12 October 2009 (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has launched a cross-border aid operation through Saudi Arabia to meet the urgent needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) trapped in and around Saada city in northern Yemen, according to UN officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86536 SANAA, 12 October 2009 (IRIN) - “One of the reasons I'm here is to try to give a bit more profile to a conflict, and its humanitarian consequences, which had been fairly low on the list of the international media's priorities,” UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes told IRIN at the end of his three-day visit to Yemen. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86535 CAIRO, 7 October 2009 (IRIN) - Egypt's Delta region faces a natural disaster of massive proportions by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to better manage scarce fresh water resources and come up with solutions to mitigate the effects of rising sea levels, according to government officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86472 SANAA, 5 October 2009 (IRIN) - The government has welcomed a new campaign launched on 5 October by NGO Save the Children to help reduce child mortality in Yemen, which has the highest rate in the Middle East and one of the highest in the world outside Africa. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86442