In Depth Reports

  • Maize after drought

    Climate change and food security

    24 February 2017

    During the last two decades, 200 million people have been lifted out of hunger. But climate change threatens those gains, and Africa will be the hardest hit region.

     

    Agriculture is Africa's biggest employer. But mean temperatures are expected to rise faster than the global average...

  • Camp for displaced Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state

    The denied oppression of Myanmar’s Rohingya people

    30 December 2016

    It’s hard to think of a people more oppressed at the moment than the Rohingya. But you wouldn’t know that from Myanmar government statements.
     

    The official line is that security forces have not committed abuses against the Rohingya. Yet, credible allegations of soldiers raping,...

  • Fish for sale in an Indonesian market

    On the verge of collapse

    22 September 2016

    Fish stocks in our oceans are already depleted and could be in terminal decline due to the twin effects of climate change and overfishing. Scientists are warning of an emerging health crisis in poor countries in the vulnerable tropical zone. This multi-part investigation explores where we are...

  • A Boko Haram bombing rocked the Emab Plaza shopping complex in the Wuse district of the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Scores of shoppers were killed in the attack.

    Boko Haram

    1 September 2016

    Six years of Boko Haram violence has killed more than 25,000 people and forced 2.5 million from their homes. But the war is not yet won and the humanitarian impact will be felt for many years to come.

  • Asylum seekers walking across Croatia

    The year the world woke up to refugees

    17 June 2016

    This year, World Refugee Day comes in the midst of a growing crisis of displacement. IRIN has been covering events closely, not just in the Middle East and Europe but around the world. Here’s a collection of our best stories.

  • two women walk carrying water

    Forgotten Conflicts

    28 April 2016

    As you read this, there are more than 40 conflicts unfolding in countries around the world. 

  • NASA climate change map

    COP21

    31 December 2015

    The science is clear. It’s the deal, as ever, that’s complicated.

  • A girl prepares to wash clothes at the MSF Holland hospital laundry in Galcayo South in Puntland, Somalia. Women and children are particularly hard hit with one in twelve women dying during childbirth and one in seven children dying before their first bir

    FGM

    26 November 2015

    Razor's Edge - The Controversy of Female Genital Mutilation

  • Color-enhanced electron micrograph of Ebola virus

    Ebola

    22 November 2015

    Highlights and multimedia on the West Africa Ebola outbreak.

  • A young girl raped in Bamenda, in the Katanga province, says: "before getting raped, I was betrothed. But the marriage was of course canceled. Now my father has to repay the dowry. The family of the rapist has promised to pay for it, but since then, they

    Sexual Violence

    20 November 2015

    Some years ago global attention was focused on the spontaneous protests led by ordinary people in the Indian capital, New Delhi, after the gruesome gang-rape and murder of a physiotherapy student. But while the case seemed to spark global outrage, what has come of that shock and anger? What has really changed? IRIN explores how people are fighting back against the normalization of sexual violence.

  • Member of the newly trained Emergency Response Unit of the Liberian National Police, after identifying a suspect, conducts a search of his body for drugs and illegal weapons, during patrol downtown.

    War on Drugs

    1 October 2015

    After billions of dollars spent and countless lives lost, the war on drugs has been at best a misguided endeavor. IRIN explores the collateral damage wrought by global drug policy in developing countries.

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