In the last decade, aid and advocacy agencies have increasingly tried to understand Islamic law in order to use its humanitarian provisions as tools of negotiation with armed groups in the Muslim world. While the approach has seen some successes, it also raises certain ethical dilemmas.
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...
Dear reader: You may have seen some public discussion recently about IRIN’s future, arising most recently from this online petition , an independent initiative launched...
Severe food shortages in the Sahel and West Africa are often the result of droughts and poor harvests. But inefficient intra-regional trade also places significant...
Researchers at the Madrid-based humanitarian research non-profit DARA have developed a new methodology, the risk reduction index , that they say could help more countries...
Youth unemployment and underemployment are among the main barriers to development in West Africa, say experts. Not only does the exclusion of young people from...
Plans to reshape and modernize African cities, in part driven by investment, architecture and construction companies seeking new markets, could deepen existing social inequalities, according...
Poor public services in many West African countries, with already dire human development indicators, are under constant pressure from pervasive corruption. Observers say graft is...
