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In Haiti, testing a new and improved “flying toilet 

DAKAR - “Flying toilets” are common in slums worldwide: Residents unable to reach a latrine due to crowding, distance or insecurity, defecate in a plastic bag and then sling it over the rooftops. But in Haiti, aid teams are testing a specially treated bag designed to turn human faeces into compost within weeks. full report

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GLOBAL: Cheap ways to adapt to less water, or more

Flash floods wreak havoc

COTE D'IVOIRE: Yellow fever, dengue kill at least three


Yellow fever strikes in north
MYANMAR: NGOs cut programmes as government takes on recovery oversight

A fragile trust between junta and aid workers
KENYA: Divided by the colours of a new constitution

Land issues that just won’t go away
PAKISTAN: Timeline on human displacement since September 2009

Timeline on human displacement since 2004
BANGLADESH: Spreading the floating farms’ tradition

video FILM: The Gathering Storm - floating gardens (Sep 2009)
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BURKINA FASO: Boost for garden drip irrigation
AFRICA: Political will can solve malnutrition
GHANA: Ignorance on abortion law means death
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PAKISTAN: Life tough for an IDP, tougher still for a disabled IDP
KYRGYZSTAN: Polio drive may not be reaching some IDPs - WHO official
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EGYPT: Growing protests over water shortages
YEMEN: Dengue fever spreading in south
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AFRICA: Addressing the role of religion in HIV response
ZIMBABWE: Low breastfeeding rates threaten PMTCT efforts
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GLOBAL: Straight Talk with Eric Goosby, head of PEPFAR
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HOW TO: Source and deliver the right food to 300,000 IDPs in northern Yemen
SANAA, 29 July 2010 (IRIN) - Feeding over 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Yemen involves complex logistics and coordination.
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GUINEA: Climbing out of the donor funding gap
DAKAR, 28 July 2010 (IRIN) - More than two million Guineans do not have enough to eat, basic health services are a shambles and the country is in a fragile transition from decades of military rule, yet most aid donors do not see Guinea as an "emergency".
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OPT: West Bank Bedouins worse off than Gazans
AL HADIDIYA, WEST BANK, 28 July 2010 (IRIN) - The road to al-Hadidiya village in the northeastern West Bank district of Tubas is dotted with boulders etched with a warning in Hebrew, Arabic and English: “Danger - Open Fire Area”.
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AFGHANISTAN: Mass grave cover-ups undermine justice
KABUL, 27 July 2010 (IRIN) - Three years after President Hamid Karzai appointed a commission to investigate a mass grave site in the Chimtala plains, north of Kabul city, the site, the commission and the truth are missing.
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BANGLADESH: Unemployment, food prices spur growing hunger
DHAKA, 22 July 2010 (IRIN) - Rising unemployment and food prices and a sluggish economy are taking their toll on Bangladesh, where a growing number of people are struggling to survive.
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