Archive for the 'Africa' Category

IRIN: Today’s most popular IRIN articles

NAIROBI Friday, March 05, 2010 (IRIN) – Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the latest, most popular items of today.

SWAZILAND: Tackling one crisis at a time does not solve all

MBABANE Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) – The myriad crises afflicting Swaziland can only be solved with a holistic approach, not a piecemeal one, the World Food Programme (WFP) deputy executive director, Sheila Sisulu, said during a recent tour of the country.

IRIN: Today’s most popular IRIN articles

NAIROBI Friday, March 05, 2010 (IRIN) – Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the latest, most popular items of today.

SOMALIA: Poverty pushes Bosasso children on to streets

BOSASSO Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) – A long civil war, frequent droughts, unemployment and high food prices have led to an increase in the number of street children in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, with NGOs and government officials calling for urgent steps to resolve the problem.

NIGERIA: More mass graves dug in Jos

ABUJA Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) – Hundreds of people in the city of Jos, 350km northeast of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, have been buried in mass graves after machete-wielding intruders attacked residents at 3 a.m. (local time) on 7 March.