http://www.IRINnews.org/Iraqfp.asp Updated every day en-gb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:27:07 GMT United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks, http://www.IRINnews.org/Iraqfp.asp SANAA, 17 March 2010 (IRIN) - What mechanisms are in place to ensure that international aid reaches its intended recipients in Yemen rather than corrupt officials? How effective has aid delivery been hitherto? http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88451 GAZA CITY, 16 March 2010 (IRIN) - Nahla*, aged 30, from Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, said she was physically and mentally abused for more than 10 years by her husband before being granted a divorce three months ago. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88446 GAZA CITY, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - A half-finished two-story building in central Gaza City is one of the few places providing support to amputees, most of them civilian victims of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, as they try and come to terms with their injuries. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88378 BAGHDAD, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - The security situation in Iraq's northeastern province of Diyala is slowly improving and thousands of displaced families have returned to their homes, according to officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88363 SANAA, 8 March 2010 (IRIN) - A mine risk education campaign aimed at targeting a sizeable portion of the roughly 238,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in three Yemeni governorates - Saada, Hajja and Amran - started on 7 March. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88353 CAIRO, 8 March 2010 (IRIN) - “It is a day I don't want to remember. Whenever it comes to my mind, it sends shivers down my spine,” said Aya Abdel Aati, aged 17, recalling the painful experience of her circumcision at the age of 12. She says she bled for several days. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88352 BAGHDAD, 7 March 2010 (IRIN) - Amid tight security and strict limits on vehicle movement, millions of Iraqis hoping for change went to the polls on 7 March in what is the country's second parliamentary election since the US-led invasion of the country toppled former president Saddam Hussein in 2003. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88339 SANAA, 4 March 2010 (IRIN) - Saada Governor Taha Abdullah Hajer has urged aid agencies to help develop an information database on the tens of thousands of people displaced by intermittent fighting between the Yemeni army and Houthi-led Shia rebels in northern Yemen since 2004. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88309 DAMASCUS, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) - Thousands of people have fled drought-affected eastern Syria and those that remain are struggling to survive on limited food stocks, according to a UN report released at the end of February. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88294 GAZA CITY, 2 March 2010 (IRIN) - More than 4,036 houses in the Gaza Strip were totally destroyed or beyond repair in the aftermath of Israel's 23-day conflict with Hamas from 27 December 2008 to 17 January 2009, according to an April 2009 UNRWA and UN Development Programme assessment. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88284 DAMASCUS, 1 March 2010 (IRIN) - Only a tiny fraction of the estimated two million Iraqi refugees and asylum-seekers in the Middle East end up being resettled in a third country. Why is this, and how does the system work? http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88271 SANAA, 28 February 2010 (IRIN) - Hundreds of schools in the northern Yemeni province of Saada have reopened after five months of closure following an 11 February ceasefire between Yemen's army and Houthi-led Shia rebels, according to local officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88255 SANAA, 25 February 2010 (IRIN) - Cereal production in Yemen has declined for the second consecutive year due mainly to a lack of rainfall, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Abdulmalik al-Thawr. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88235 GAZA CITY, 24 February 2010 (IRIN) - Sami al-Qouqa, a 30-year-old former fisherman from al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, lost his left hand when his fishing boat came under fire from an Israeli gunboat on 12 March 2007, in an incident documented by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88222 SANAA, 23 February 2010 (IRIN) - Hundreds of children have either been killed or used as child soldiers in fighting between Yemeni government forces and Houthi-led Shia rebels in the north of the country since August 2009, according to a new report by Seyaj Organization for Child Protection (SOCP), a local child rights NGO. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88208 CAIRO, 23 February 2010 (IRIN) - A new report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Egyptian government says the number of children living in income-poor households is increasing, causing poorer living conditions and a greater deprivation of their rights as children. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88203 SANAA, 21 February 2010 (IRIN) - It was every little girl's dream - she was to get a new dress, jewellery, sweets and a party for all her friends. What 10-year-old Aisha* did not know was that after the wedding party she would have to leave school, move to a village far from her parents' home, cook and clean all day, and have sex with her older husband. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88138 CAIRO, 18 February 2010 (IRIN) - The number of H1N1 influenza patients has fallen sharply in Egypt since the start of 2010, but health officials say they are bracing for a second wave of infections. The Health Ministry said it is recording 500 infections a week, as against 2,500 a week in December. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88149 BAGHDAD, 18 February 2010 (IRIN) - Iraqi NGOs working in the field of landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance have welcomed the ratification of an international convention banning the use of cluster bombs. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88146 DEIR EZ ZOUR, 17 February 2010 (IRIN) - Drought in eastern and northeastern Syria has driven some 300,000 families to urban settlements such as Aleppo, Damascus and Deir ez Zour in search of work in one of the largest internal displacements in the Middle East in recent years. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88139 BAGHDAD, 17 February 2010 (IRIN) - A small number of local NGO officials are running in the 7 March parliamentary elections, prompting accusations by some analysts that they could jeopardize the neutrality of NGOs. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88131 SANAA, 16 February 2010 (IRIN) - Government officials and aid workers are gearing up to carry out humanitarian needs' assessments in previously inaccessible areas, thanks to an 11 February truce between Yemen's army and Houthi rebels in the northern province of Saada which appears to be holding. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88119 CAIRO, 15 February 2010 (IRIN) - Hesham Gohary says he has been coming to the Health Ministry in central Cairo for weeks in the hope of getting free kidney dialysis treatment, but always leaves empty-handed. The 54-year-old farmer is one of 35,000 low-income kidney failure patients whose collective US$118 million health bill used to be footed by the government, until it recently declared its coffers empty. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88097 SANAA, 14 February 2010 (IRIN) - The government has started imposing tough new restrictions on arms dealers in local markets, but this is merely pushing the trade underground, say local NGO activists and military officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88094 BAGHDAD, 11 February 2010 (IRIN) - The authorities in Wasit Province, central Iraq, are introducing financial and other incentives to attract specialist doctors to return to local health facilities, according to officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88072