| DRC: After two key deals, what progress towards peace in North Kivu? |
 KINSHASA, 14 May 2008 (IRIN) - Two agreements signed since the end of 2007 offer some hope for an end to more than a decade of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), even if fighting has continued and a lasting solution has yet to be found to the presence in the region of Rwandan Hutu rebels, according to analysts.
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| GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours |
 JOHANNESBURG, 14 May 2008 (IRIN) - Government attempts to control food supplies to ensure that their people have enough to eat are hampering efforts by the World Food Programme (WFP) to source cheap food for the hungry.
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| GLOBAL: Canada to provide cash, not commodities in switch of food aid policy |
 JOHANNESBURG, 5 May 2008 (IRIN) - Canada is the latest major donor country to break the link between overseas food aid and supporting its own farmers.
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| DRC: Malaria still biggest killer |
 KINSHASA, 28 April 2008 (IRIN) - Exaucée Makembi, aged three, has been very weak for three days and sleeps in the arms of her mother, Tina Nzongola, who has taken her to a health centre on the outskirts of Kinshasa.
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| GLOBAL: Costly food opportunity to review aid responses |
 JOHANNESBURG, 16 April 2008 (IRIN) - High food prices have brought social unrest but they have also provided a "window of opportunity" to review global policies on the response to food insecurity, said a leading food aid analyst as experts and aid agencies began an unprecedented strategic re-think at a three-day meeting in Rome on 16 April.
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| DRC: Hidden killers on the loose |
 KINSHASA, 16 April 2008 (IRIN) - The full extent of the threat posed by landmines and other unexploded ordnance in the Democratic Republic of Congo is unknown but the deadly weapons are a daily concern for tens of thousands of displaced people in the east.
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| GLOBAL: Eat local produce, help farmers, says FAO |
 JOHANNESBURG, 11 April 2008 (IRIN) - Rely more on local produce to cut food import bills and provide subsidised inputs to boost production, advised the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as it announced measures to help poor countries, many of which will now have to pay 74 percent more for food - up by US$6 billion from February 2008.
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| DRC: Mass graves found in Bas-Congo, rights group claims |
 KINSHASA, 11 April 2008 (IRIN) - A Democratic Republic of Congo human rights group has said mass graves with human remains have been found in the southwestern Bas-Congo Province where security forces recently clashed with followers of a religious sect.
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| AFRICA: Climate change linked to spread of disease |
 BRAZZAVILE, 9 April 2008 (IRIN) - Climate change is emerging as a major threat to health and adding pressure on public health systems, especially in Africa, a senior UN official has said.
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| AFRICA: Welcome mat worn thin in SA |
 JOHANNESBURG, 8 April 2008 (IRIN) - Recent attacks on Somali, Zimbabwean and Mozambican migrants in South Africa have been labeled xenophobic: but could the violence point to a much bigger problem than fear of the foreign, a problem much closer to home?
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