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How To: Get medical aid kits to Aleppo, Syria

DUBAI, 24 May 2013 (IRIN Middle East) - Getting humanitarian supplies into conflict zones like Syria is no mean feat, often requiring negotiations with warring parties, braving insecurity and facing repeated delays and logistical challenges. full report

Mixed messages on home deliveries in Philippines

 MANILA, 24 May 2013 (IRIN Asia) - Varied implementation of a Department of Health (DOH) policy advocating health facility-based delivery under the care of a skilled birth attendant (SBA) has health officials and advocates worried that the policy may be doing more harm than good. full report

Briefing: Restive northern Kenya sees shifting power, risks

 GARISSA-NAIROBI, 24 May 2013 (IRIN Africa) - The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a rise in insecurity in the region, where multiple gun and grenade attacks have been reported over the past two years. full report

Helping displaced children in rebel-held parts of Kachin

 KACHIN STATE, 23 May 2013 (IRIN Asia) - Children's laughter rings out from bamboo huts along the perimeter of the Lana Zup Ja camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in a part of Myanmar’s Kachin State controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA): A group of pre-schoolers are playing in a plywood hut, seemingly oblivious to the squalid conditions surrounding them. full report

Syrians seeking refuge in Libya

 MISRATA, 23 May 2013 (IRIN Middle East) - Two years ago Syrians in the relative security of their own country watched the unfolding crisis in Libya descend into a devastating civil war. full report

Careless food storage sidelines Swaziland’s hungry

 MBABANE, 23 May 2013 (IRIN Africa) - Mounds of food aid intended for Swaziland’s food insecure were recently found rotting in the government’s main storage warehouses at the Matsapha Industrial Estate, about 25km east of the capital, Mbabane. full report

Analysis: How to avoid a fourth year of serious flooding in Pakistan

 SUKKUR, 21 May 2013 (IRIN Asia) - Since 2010, monsoon rain in Pakistan has brought with it some of the biggest seasonal flooding in living memory. Two months from this year’s rains, weather forecasters are already predicting above normal rainfall and in some areas standing water has yet to drain away from last year’s monsoon. full report

Filipino Muslim rebels take tentative steps towards governance

 MANILA, 21 May 2013 (IRIN Asia) - The oppressive summer heat bore down on this impoverished southern Philippine town on Mindanao Island as thousands gathered to hear a "proxy candidate" of the country's largest Muslim rebel force address the crowd on the eve of recently concluded mid-term elections. full report

Malaria overstretching healthcare in DRC

 KAMPALA, 20 May 2013 (IRIN Africa) - Gaps in the healthcare system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are hampering the fight against malaria, a leading killer of children, say experts. full report

The changing face of land disputes in Liberia

 MONROVIA, 20 May 2013 (IRIN Africa) - The Liberia Land Commission, which was set up in 2009 to help settle land disputes between returning refugees and their neighbours, is making significant headway, say land experts, but non-conflict related land disputes are increasing, most of them as a result of weak land laws. full report