| In Brief: Suspected AWD kills eight on Kenyan district of Lamu |
 LAMU, 12 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Eight people have died on the Kenyan district of Lamu and others have been hospitalized following a suspected outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD), an official said.
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EGYPT: Black cloud with a silver lining |  CAIRO, 9 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - 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.
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YEMEN: Clambering up mountains to find water |  SANAA, 3 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - 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.
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GLOBAL: Feeding the world without harming it |  CAPE TOWN, 3 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Countries with growing populations can boost food production without punishing the environment if they are willing to experiment with less harmful farming practices, experts at a recent conference on biodiversity suggested.
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IRAQ: Northern drought-displaced farmers look to return home |  BAGHDAD, 2 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - 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.
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ISRAEL-OPT: Dry water holes versus green gardens |  SOUTH MOUNT HEBRON/TEL AVIV, 27 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - 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.
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GAZA: Farmers struggle with damaged agricultural land |  GAZA CITY, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - 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.
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IRAQ: War remnants, pollution behind rise in cancer deaths? |  BAGHDAD, 14 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - In the late 1990s 22-year-old Manal Sabir Abdullah from Basra was diagnosed with lung cancer, from which she eventually died in 2004.
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EGYPT: Disaster looms for Delta region |  CAIRO, 7 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - 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.
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GLOBAL: Cholera, climate change and El Niño |  JOHANNESBURG, 7 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Cholera is not only linked to climate change, it also has an El Niño angle. For instance, Papua New Guinea, an island state in the Pacific Ocean, recorded its first cholera cases in 50 years in 2009, which also happens to be an El Niño year.
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