| LIBERIA: Disease rife as more people squeeze into fewer toilets |
 MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services. On 19 November, World Toilet Day, NGOs are calling on the government to up its allocation, and on international donors to reprioritize funding to stamp out cholera and cut child mortality.
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LIBERIA: “The new war is rape” |  MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served.
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ZIMBABWE: Homeless put their hope in handmade bricks |  BULAWAYO, 28 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - The use of handmade bricks is revolutionizing housing in Chinhoyi, 120km north of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, where housing estates built by poor people have mushroomed in a development that has caught the attention of the housing ministry.
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Timeline of key political events |  BISSAU, 27 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Below is a timeline of key political events to take place since the formation of the PAIGC political party in 1956.
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Fighting crime without police or prisons |  BISSAU, 16 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Loosening organized crime’s grip on Guinea-Bissau is a priority, top government officials say. But the country has no prisons and the Bijagos islands, a drug-trafficking hub off the coast of the capital Bissau, has no judiciary police officers and no communications or surveillance equipment.
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WEST AFRICA: Stopping cholera emergencies |  DAKAR, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts say.
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How To: Rescue people trapped in a collapsed building |  NAIROBI, 8 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - When an earthquake strikes a town, or a building is levelled by an explosion, news footage invariably shows search and rescue teams trawling through the rubble looking for survivors. But what does it take to rescue people trapped under tons of concrete?
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KENYA: From Nairobi's Kibera slums to 'Canaan' |  NAIROBI, 18 September 2009 (IRIN Africa) - At least 1,300 slum dwellers from Kibera - Nairobi’s largest informal urban settlement - have been moved to new blocks of flats under a slum-upgrading programme.
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NIGERIA: Slow progress on prison reform say lawyers |  ABUJA, 18 September 2009 (IRIN Africa) - In June 150 prisoners escaped from Enugu state prison in southeastern Nigeria, beating wardens and raping female prisoners before they fled.
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LIBERIA: Mixed reaction to UNMIL extension |  MONROVIA, 17 September 2009 (IRIN Africa) - In Liberia citizens’ reaction has been mixed to a 16 September UN Security Council decision extending the UN peacekeeping mission (UNMIL) to assist with the planned 2011 presidential and legislative elections.
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