How climate change is plunging Senegal’s herders into poverty
10 October 2018 Environment and Disasters
Saidou Harouna Ba surveys what's left of his only source of income: his animal herd “If I’d stayed at home, they would all be dead,” he says...
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“If the water finishes, we will leave”: Drought is forcing hundreds of thousands of Afghans from their homes
4 October 2018 Migration
Afghanistan is besieged by decades of conflict, but more people this year have been displaced by drought than war ...
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Mali peace wreckers, messy food aid, and well-meaning celebrities: The Cheat Sheet
31 August 2018 Aid and Policy
Every Friday, IRIN’s team of specialist editors offers a curation of humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe...
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War in Idlib, peace in CAR, and Annan’s mixed legacy: The Cheat Sheet
24 August 2018 Aid and Policy
Every Friday, IRIN’s team of specialist editors offers a curation of humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe...
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Somalia’s climate change refugees
21 February 2018 Aid and Policy
Displaced by drought and conflict, rural Somalis have been heading to Mogadishu in their tens of thousands...
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Inside Kenya's Turkana region: cattle, climate change, and oil
15 January 2018 Environment and Disasters
The county of Turkana, in northwest Kenya, is among the poorest, most marginalised, and most malnourished in the country...
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New e-book released: IRIN’s reporting on climate change and food security
29 December 2017 Solutions and Innovations
Over the last two decades, 200 million people across the world have been lifted out of hunger...
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Kenya’s drought “solution” becomes a major menace once again
28 December 2017 Solutions and Innovations
In 2006 a toothless goat made legal history in Kenya – and headlines around the world – when it appeared in court as part of a bid to sue the gover...
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Films from the climate change front line
24 December 2017 Solutions and Innovations
Seven in 10 of Kenya’s rural population makes a living from agriculture, mostly on small plots...
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Bumper Zimbabwe harvest prompts bigger bet on “command agriculture”
22 December 2017 Climate change
Zimbabwe is expected to harvest 21 million metric tonnes of maize this year after good rains followed successive El Niño-induced droughts...
