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PHILIPPINES: Food security warnings over El Niño

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:23:02 +0000

MANILA Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) – Warnings have been raised over food security in the Philippines as the El Niño phenomenon wreaks havoc across vast agricultural areas, leaving staple crops such as rice dying in parched earth, officials say.

AFGHANISTAN: Women’s rights trampled despite new law

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:23:02 +0000

KABUL Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) – As the world marks International Women’s Day, ambivalence, impunity, weak law enforcement and corruption continue to undermine women’s rights in Afghanistan, despite a July 2009 law banning violence against women, rights activists say.

European shopping sprees for North Korean dictators

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:22:56 +0000

A North Korean colonel tells how he shopped in Europe for his country’s dictators’ lavish lifestyles, in a new book.

Scots set ‘world record’ for number of skiers wearing kilts

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:22:56 +0000

A ski centre sets the record for the largest number of kilted skiers and snowboarders on a slope at the same time.

SOMALIA: Poverty pushes Bosasso children on to streets

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:22:54 +0000

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.

IRIN: Today’s most popular IRIN articles

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:22:54 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:22:54 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:22:54 +0000

NIGERIA: More mass graves dug in Jos

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:22:53 +0000

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.

Eurotunnel net profit slumps in 2009 (AP)

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:13:59 +0000

AP – Eurotunnel SA, the operator of the English Channel tunnel, on Tuesday blamed a fire last year in the undersea route between France and Britain for nearly wiping out its profit in 2009.