http://www.IRINnews.org/Iraqfp.asp Updated every day en-gb Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:27:00 GMT United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks, http://www.IRINnews.org/Iraqfp.asp HODEIDAH, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Nearly half of children in rural areas of the western Yemeni governorate of Hodeidah, have no access to basic education, according to a new report by the Seyaj Organization for Childhood Protection (SOCP) and the Yemen News Agency. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87112 HARADH, 17 November 2009 (IRIN) - Nasser Ridhwan, 78, is a recent arrival in the al-Mazraq camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Haradh District, Hajjah Governorate, some 130km southwest of his home village of Mashnaq, near Dukhan Mountain, which has become a battleground in fighting between the Saudi army and Houthi-led Shia rebels. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87070 CAIRO, 17 November 2009 (IRIN) - When government workmen came in a truck to take Ahmed Mohamed's furniture to his new home just outside Cairo, the 32-year-old fisherman was overjoyed: His dream of quitting the slum where he had lived for years seemed to be coming true. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87069 HARADH, 16 November 2009 (IRIN) - Aid workers at al-Mazraq camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Haradh District, Hajjah Governorate, northernYemen, say more and more children are arriving at the camp in a state of moderate or severe malnourishment. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87062 BAGHDAD, 15 November 2009 (IRIN) - Iraq's minority communities in the northern province of Nineveh have appealed to local and national authorities for protection amid warnings of an increase in attacks against them in the run-up to January's national elections. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87044 HARADH-SANAA, 12 November 2009 (IRIN) - Reports from various UN agencies operating in northern Yemen indicate that many people displaced by fighting between Houthi-led insurgents and government forces would rather live with host families or in informal camps then in official camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs). http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87005 HARADH, 11 November 2009 (IRIN) - Hundreds of civilians have been fleeing their villages along the border with Saudi Arabia following clashes between Yemen's Houthi-led Shia insurgents and the Saudi armed forces, according to a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) official. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86977 SANAA, 11 November 2009 (IRIN) - Yemen's Agriculture Ministry is boosting efforts to combat the livestock disease screw worm, which is threatening the livelihoods of rural inhabitants, particularly in coastal and central regions, according to ministry officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86973 JERUSALEM, 10 November 2009 (IRIN) - Aid groups and several members of parliament (MPs) are outraged by what seems to be the toughening of Israeli policy towards asylum-seekers illegally entering the country. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86964 SANAA, 9 November 2009 (IRIN) - Nearly 100,000 people displaced over five years of fighting between government troops and Houthi-led Shia rebels have been receiving food aid in the governorates of Saada, Hajja, Amran and Al-Jawf since mid-August, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86943 CAIRO, 9 November 2009 (IRIN) - The conversion of excess rice straw into fertilizer, rather than simply burning it off could be the solution to a problem that has plagued Cairo residents for the last 10 years: the “black cloud” that decends on the city every October and November. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86933 BAGHDAD, 8 November 2009 (IRIN) - More and more people in Iraq are being affected by food insecurity, a senior official has said. Reduced domestic agricultural production, inflation, unemployment and a crumbling system of subsidized food distributions have hit poor people the hardest. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=86926 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