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    Chad has the highest rates of malnutrition in the Sahel and West Africa region

    Curbing Guinea’s other outbreaks

    12 June 2014
    With health authorities and medical personnel battling Guinea’s first outbreak of Ebola, there have inevitably been concerns about finding the human and physical resources to...

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    Carrying whatever possessions they can, women arrive in a steady trickle at a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) established next to a base of the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) near Jowhar.

    Somalia at “risk of relapse”

    7 May 2014
    Three years after a famine claimed 260,000 lives in Somalia, 2.9 million people there are still affected by a multifaceted but desperately underfunded humanitarian crisis,...

  • Analysis

    Mount Merapi is one of 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia

    Why Indonesians don't flee volcanoes

    1 May 2014
    Millions of Indonesians who live near the country’s more than 130 active volcanoes are constantly having to decide whether to evacuate or not. Supporting “volcano...

  • Analysis

    Men exchange money in Yemen. For generic use

    Impunity mars Yemen’s corruption fight

    29 April 2014
    The 2011 street revolts that drove Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh from office and spurred an internationally-monitored democratic political transition were considered a boon for...

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    Malnourished child with mother at the Complexe Pediatrique (children's hospital) in Bangui, CAR

    Mental health and malnutrition in CAR

    23 April 2014
    Data collected at a hospital clinic for malnourished children in the Central African Republic (CAR) suggests that many of the childrens’ parents present symptoms of...

  • Feature

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    Remittance rip-offs

    22 April 2014
    All over the world migrant workers are sending money home to their families. The money pays hospital bills and school fees, buys land, builds houses...

  • Feature

    A handful of money, UK sterling coins.

    Africa’s Top 10 Philanthropists

    11 April 2014
    An estimated US$7 billion is given away every year by Africa’s philanthrocapitalists – at least the ones we know about. These are the men (sadly...

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    More than half a million people have fled Syria for neighbouring countries, even Iraq (Domiz camp, Kurdistan region, Iraq)

    Women are not just victims

    27 March 2014
    Women are the biggest victims in natural disasters and conflicts, yet they are also the most resourceful. Thus, aid agencies should do more to develop...

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    Only 54 percent of eligible HIV patients are currently on life-prolonging ARV drugs, well below the 2015 target of at least 90 percent

    More work on HIV in Laos needed

    12 March 2014
    Health officials say more work is needed to fight HIV/AIDS in Laos, which has an over-reliance on foreign donors and lack of government support, as...

  • Feature

    A kidney disease of unknown causes continues to kill hundreds annually in Sri Lanka, mostly all from one province in the north central

    Kidney disease spreads in Sri Lanka

    6 March 2014
    Increasing incidence of a chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) is quickly turning into Sri Lanka’s latest health crisis, with hospitals in the country’s...

  • News

    An MSF doctor treating an ethnic Rakhine woman in Sittwe

    Myanmar unblinking on MSF expulsion

    3 March 2014
    Authorities in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State say they are ready to take over the health programmes Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-Holland has been implementing in the...

  • News

    A woman breastfeeds her baby under a mosquito net in Garin Badjini village, Niger

    Reducing child deaths in Niger

    27 February 2014
    Niger has made remarkable progress in cutting under-five mortality over the past decade, and it looks set to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on...

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    Displaced families from Ghor and Badghis provinces share temporary shelters on the outskirts of Herat

    Afghan IDPs have no plans to return

    20 February 2014
    Afghanistan’s new government policy on internally displaced persons (IDPs), launched last week in Kabul, was welcomed by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) as a way...

  • Analysis

    Ashraf Azzam, 33, hopes the rebuilding of his house in Eastern Gaza city, destroyed in an Israeli rocket attack in November 2012, starts soon (Jan 2013)

    Pros and cons of EU aid to OPT

    19 February 2014
    The European Union (EU) has long been one of the most reliable foreign sources of humanitarian, economic and political aid in the OPT, providing 426...

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