| GLOBAL: UN launches record appeal for humanitarian aid |
 GENEVA, 20 November 2008 (IRIN Global) - The UN is asking for a record US$7 billion to help 30 million people in Africa and the Middle East.
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BANGLADESH: Children and women suffer severe malnutrition |  DHAKA, 19 November 2008 (IRIN Asia) - Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of child and maternal malnutrition in the world, say health experts.
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ERITREA: Use harvest wisely, government urges |  NAIROBI, 19 November 2008 (IRIN Africa) - Eritreans should use the current harvest efficiently and share crop resources equitably because most parts of the country had received inadequate rains this year, the information ministry said.
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BURKINA FASO: Finding new ways to feed HIV-positive people |  OUAGADOUGOU, 19 November 2008 (PlusNews Global) - High food prices and cuts in food aid to HIV-positive people are forcing relief organisations in Burkina Faso to take another look at local foods to keep people healthy.
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NEPAL: Displaced children face hardship |  KATHMANDU, 18 November 2008 (IRIN Asia) - "When can we go home?" is Furma Lama's constant refrain. The 10-year-old has spent the last eight years displaced since her family fled Ramechhap District, 100km east of the capital, in fear of former Maoists rebels.
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AFGHANISTAN: Threat to aid deliveries as early snow blocks roads |  KABUL, 18 November 2008 (IRIN Asia) - Early snow has blocked roads to several districts where people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
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NEPAL: Building a food bridge to survive the lean times |  MAILA, 17 November 2008 (IRIN Asia) - When Richard Ragan, the World Food Programme (WFP) country representative, calls Nepal a "forgotten humanitarian emergency", some of the places he has in mind are the remote mountainous regions in the far and mid-west of the country.
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SYRIA: Rice import snag leaves some Iraqi refugees short |  DAMASCUS, 17 November 2008 (IRIN Middle East) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has said it is “hopeful” of resolving a Syrian ban on imported rice that has left 30,000 Iraqi refugees facing much reduced food rations.
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AFGHANISTAN: Drop in fuel, food prices raises hope for food insecure |  KABUL, 17 November 2008 (IRIN Asia) - Food and fuel prices have declined slightly over the past month, prompting some to say this could bode well for the country's eight million chronically food-insecure people.
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LAOS: Breeding livestock to nurture livelihoods |  VIENTIANE, 14 November 2008 (IRIN Asia) - Despite being a predominantly agrarian country, the Lao PDR (Laos) has insufficient livestock to meet the increasing demand of its wealthier neighbours - Thailand, China and Vietnam - for live animals and meat, according to a recent study.*
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