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28 August 2015 Human Rights
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![Students attend classes inside school buildings damaged by the earthquake on 10 August 2015 in Sipa Pokhari, Nepal. This school in Sipa Pokhari VDC was badly damaged during the earthquake, but with only one tent provided by NGOs, the rest of the students]()
![MNLA fighters patrolling in Djebok area, 50 km east of Mali's northern region of Gao which they seized following fighting with government forces in May 2014]()
What peace deal? No end to Mali conflict
19 August 2015 Human Rights
More than eight weeks after a landmark peace accord between Mali’s Bamako government and a Tuareg-led rebel coalition brought hope of an end to yea...
![Malian refugees have started setting up boutiques selling basics - food, soap, condiments, even clothes - around Mbera camp in eastern Mauritania. October 2013]()
Food aid cut to Malian refugees in Mauritania*
9 July 2015 Food
Nearly 50,000 Malian refugees are at risk following the suspension of food aid to their camp in southeastern Mauritania, with NGOs warning of a sig...
![Aliou Moussa So, head of a refugee community of 73 families in PK 6 village, 6km from Rosso, shows IRIN paperwork of returnees who have still not attained their ID cards after 4 years of trying]()
Stateless in the Sahel
18 June 2015 Human Rights
Thousands of refugee children in western Mali are at risk of being stuck in the legal limbo of statelessness, which could mean little or no access ...
![nternally displaced women who fled to the town of Tonka in Mali's Timbuktu region earlier this week set up makeshift shelters.]()
Thousands flee violent upsurge in northern Mali
29 May 2015 Conflict
A spike in violence in northern Mali has driven the number of people displaced in the country above 100,000, many of them urgently needing food, wa...
![Tuareg rebels who want a separate secular state in northern Mali]()
Briefing: Is Mali’s peace process in peril?
30 April 2015 Conflict
The last few years in Mali have been busy: an independence declaration, a coup, a mutiny, a northern takeover by Islamist groups, a French military...
![Air pollution causes over 3,000 deaths in Kabul, health officials say]()
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...
![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 ...
![[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.](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/200492214.jpg?itok=8rVLzX0W)
