UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi)

Updates on conflicts and news from throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Website: http://www.irinnews.org/


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May 01

  • Madagascar: Food Insecurity Opens Door to TB

    Health experts fear the interruption of food assistance in Madagascar is increasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Toliara, the capital city of Madagascar's southern... Read more »



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December 21, 2012

  • Madagascar: Relief for Fistula Sufferers

    It took three days for Nisehotsara, a farmer's wife from Betraka, a village on Madagascar's east coast, to deliver her 10th child. After the difficult birth, she woke up to find... Read more »



December 12, 2012

  • Madagascar: Midwives Saving Mothers

    Madagascar's traditional midwives, or 'matronnes', are often thought to undermine safe childbirth practices, delivering babies in unsanitary environments and without provisions to... Read more »



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November 23, 2012

  • Madagascar: Cyclone Preparations Threatened

    A US$6.1 million funding shortfall is jeopardizing the World Food Programme's (WFP) practice of pre-positioning relief supplies in many areas vulnerable to cyclones. The practice... Read more »



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September 28, 2012

  • Madagascar: Bandits Thrive in Rural South

    In 2010, scores of bandits attacked Bevilany, a charcoal-producing settlement in Madagascar's southern Anosy Region. By the time the fight was over, 11 outlaws and one 'zamasi' - a... Read more »



September 24, 2012

  • Madagascar: The Hunt for Remenabila [opinion]

    Yvan Razafimandimby, 22, was working at the family store in the Taolagnaro neighbourhood of Anbounato, Madagascar, when two soldiers arrived to inform him that his 50-year-old... Read more »



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