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IRIN Radio gives a voice to vulnerable communities and provides them with information to make better-informed decisions about their own lives. IRIN Radio produces high-quality programming in local languages on humanitarian issues, ready for broadcast by local stations. The service also provides hands-on training to journalists, developing their production and reporting skills, allowing local radio to serve communities more effectively.
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UGANDA: Hard times for women in displacement camps
The women in IDP camps like Bobi, in Gulu district, shoulder more burdens than anyone should have to bear. Some of the women talk to IRIN Radio about their problems, especially the threats of domestic and gender-based violence. | Duration: 08:20 |
AFGHANISTAN: Food insecurity prompts hundreds to leave their homes
 More than 1,000 families have been displaced due to growing food-insecurity in northeastern Badakhshan province, provincial officials reported. The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) says some people have also started eating grass because of lack of access to food and/or shortage. IRIN’s Masooma Mohammadi reports… | Duration: 04:31 |
AFGHANISTAN: Locusts Swarm in and dostroy crops
 Farmers in several provinces of Afghanistan say locusts have swarmed into their agriculture fields and have destroyed crops. They warn that if the government does not take urgent preventive actions, all their fields will be spoiled leaving them in hunger and dependency on aid. IRIN’s Adela Kabiri visited a district of Herat province and prepared this report… | Duration: 04:37 |
AFGHANISTAN: IDPs reluctant to return home
 It's been more than a month since Sher Mohammad Etebari, the Minister of Refugees and Repatriation began a new campaign to get longterm IDPs to return to their home provinces. At least 150,000 IDPs are currently living in Zherai, Mukhtar, Maslakh and Shaidaye camps, in the provinces of Helmand, Kandahar and Herat. The ministry offered additional assistance if they agreed to return within 2 months. But so far only 130 families or about 850 people have decided to go home. The IDPs say insecurity and poor economic conditions inhibit their return. More in IRIN's Noorullah Stanikzai's report… | Duration: 04:12 |
AFGHANISTAN: Civilians flee as US marines fight insurgents in Helmand
 Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and seek temporary refuge in different parts of Helmand Province, in southern Afghanistan. The people were displaced amid ongoing military operation by US marines in Garmsir district and surrounding areas, according to provincial officials. The Afghan Red Crescent Society provincial office in Helmand says that some of the displaced families need shelter and food assistance. More in the report from IRIN's Noorullah Stanikzai… | Duration: 02:22 |
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