Prison or poverty: Impossible choice for Israel deportees
16 April 2015 Migration
For Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers facing deportation from Israel’s Holot detention centre, the future is bleak...
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Thousands of Burundians flee as election tensions rise
14 April 2015 Conflict
Thousands of Burundians have fled their country, fearing it might descend into violence ahead of a presidential election scheduled for June...
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Killing us softly
27 March 2015 Health
A recent public outcry in China, sparked by a damning documentary about air pollution, was based on well-founded fear:...
![[Liberia] Fighters loyal to former Liberian president Charles Taylor line up to surrender their weapons to UN peacekeepers at a disarmament camp in Ganta, Nimba county, September 2004.]()
Working to keep the peace: The impact of job schemes on ex-rebels
27 February 2015 Conflict
Job-creation schemes are the traditional way to tackle the post-conflict problem of unemployed ex-fighters and to reduce the threat they can pose t...
![A member of the FARDC's 601 regiment, also known as the Chinois commandos, in the North Kivu province village of Tongo cleans ammunition as part of preparations for operations against the FDLR armed group]()
Why was the UN sidelined in "joint" DRC operation against rebels?
26 February 2015 Conflict
This week, a long-awaited military offensive began against a Rwandan rebel group based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...
![WHO's new regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti (right), meets with Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone's Port Loko district.]()
Three words of advice for WHO Africa's new chief
24 February 2015 Health
The World Health Organization says the number of new Ebola cases per week rose twice this month for the first time since December...
![UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie at the annual meeting of the refugee agency's governing body]()
Who celebrity advocates are really targeting. And it’s not you.
13 February 2015 Aid and Policy
This week was a fanfare for celebrity humanitarians: Forest Whitaker ...
![Small arms originating from the armed militia group in the eastern DRC, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), catalogued in Goma before being sent for destruction]()
In the UN’s gun sights: one of DRC’s most infamous rebel groups
23 January 2015 Human Rights
In the coming days a specialist offensive unit of the UN’s military mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to launch operations, t...
![Dry earth in the desert plains of the Danakil depression in northern Ethiopia. For generic use, keywords: drought, famine, dry]()
Nice and dirty – the importance of soil
16 January 2015 Food
Be it laterite, loam, peat or clay, soil is life...
PRESS RELEASE: IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN
20 November 2014 Migration
A NEW START FOR CRISIS REPORTING ...
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