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- Feature
- Human Rights
- 16 March 2011
Trace missing persons

Tsunamis, earthquakes, and violent conflicts leave in their wake chaos and unpredictability. In these and other situations, hasty evacuations, rushed hospitalizations, and sudden deaths separate...
- Feature
- Human Rights
- 25 April 2002
Focus on the virgin myth and HIV/AIDS

In a country long-sickened by the level of sexual violence, a shocking series of child rapes has stunned South Africa and left people grasping for...
- News
- 28 November 2000
Law on private broadcasters approved

Sao Tome and Principe’s national assembly has approved a bill allowing the creation of private radio and television stations, RDP Africa reported on Tuesday. The...
- News
- Environment and Disasters
- 3 April 2019
Update: Zimbabwe’s slow road to cyclone recovery

“We have mainly been using helicopters to ferry aid, but they don’t carry a lot.”
- Opinion
- Migration
- 5 March 2019
The trouble with plans to send 116,000 Burundian refugees home

To prevent a new cycle of conflict and displacement, the international community must step in to help fund and support reintegration.
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 1 March 2019
Nigerian challenges, cash aid headaches, and making mental health matter

A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 28 February 2019
Key donors freeze Uganda refugee aid after UN mismanagement scandal

“The lack of funding directly translates into more hardships for the refugees”
- Opinion
- Aid and Policy
- 24 January 2019
First Person: Returning to Dadaab

"Refugees here need freedom and dignity to earn a decent living, but most feel abandoned and forgotten"
- About Us
- 17 January 2019
Exciting news from IRIN

We will have a new name and brand in 2019!
- Special Report
- Health
- 16 January 2019
Inside efforts to prevent a regional Ebola crisis in central Africa

“We are still on high alert”
- Opinion
- Conflict
- 14 January 2019
Where there’s political will, there’s a way to protect civilians

2019 can be better for civilians in conflict. Here’s how.
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 11 September 2018
US bans aid workers in Turkey-Syria scam

Ex-GOAL staffer gets 10-year contract ban; 20 firms and individuals named
- News feature
- Conflict
- 4 September 2018
“I have lost everything”: In central Mali, rising extremism stirs inter-communal conflict

Once confined to the desert north, unrest is spreading south, taking lives and emptying villages as it goes
- Special Report
- Conflict
- 12 June 2018
Cameroon’s anglophone war, part 1: A rifle as the only way out

The line separating fighters from refugees is very thin; their journeys are nearly the same
- Special Report
- Aid and Policy
- 31 May 2018
Central African Republic, part 2: ‘We Have Become the Targets’

Aid workers are caught in a fast-fragmenting conflict
- Special Report
- Migration
- 21 November 2017
How a fingerprint can change an asylum seeker’s life

Deportations under "Dublin Regulation" soar as European attitudes harden