UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi)

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

November 2

Somalia: Floods Displace Thousands in Somaliland

Heavy rains have displaced thousands of people in the mid-eastern regions of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, says a senior official. Read more »
Nigeria: Farmers Must Prepare for More Flooding [opinion]

Elderly Nigerien rice-farmer Adamou Sambeye shows IRIN his rice plot on the banks of the River Niger near the capital Niamey: water lilies fill his still-flooded field. In one... Read more »
Burundi: Burundi's Bumpy Road to the 2015 Polls [analysis]

The two billion US dollars pledged by donors on 30 October to support Burundi's development sounds like a ringing endorsement of the central African country's progress from civil... Read more »

Somalia: Mogadishu IDPs Suffer Extortion, Eviction

Already struggling to access sporadic humanitarian assistance, internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Somali capital Mogadishu are also facing eviction by returning landowners... Read more »
Uganda: Funding, Health System Constraints Impede Marburg Control

Uganda's Ministry of Health is facing serious financial and health system constraints as it battles to contain an outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever that has killed eight... Read more »

Kenya: Disquiet Over Lamu Port Project

A fledgling project to build a huge new port, oil refinery and transport hub on Kenya's northern coastline promises to deliver thousands of jobs and is a pillar of the government's... Read more »
Kenya: Pastoralists Can Also Be Displaced

Can pastoralists, who spend much of their lives itinerant, in search of pasture, become displaced? They can, and up to 400,000 pastoralists in northern Kenya are currently... Read more »

Uganda: Nodding Syndrome Symptoms Controlled, Hunt for Cure Continues

Their conditions improving, nearly all of the children admitted to health centres for nodding syndrome have now been released, according to Uganda's Ministry of Health; less... Read more »
Central African Republic: Victims Cry Foul Over Uganda's LRA Strategy

Uganda's practice of pardoning and then integrating into its military captured or surrendered members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), getting them to hunt down their former... Read more »
South Africa: The Psychological Strain of Living in Tin Can Town

A recent academic study has identified a range of mental health disorders suffered by shack dwellers in South Africa's Western Cape Province, from chronic insomnia to low... Read more »
Burkina Faso: Preventing Conflict Between Farmers and Herders

As violent incidents between animal breeders and sedentary farmers soar across northern and eastern Burkina Faso, the Ministry of Animal Resources has been holding a series of... Read more »

Ethiopia: Dealing With the Ogaden Rebellion

Any hopes for an imminent end to conflict in Ethiopia’s Somali region were dashed earlier this month when talks between the government and the separatist Ogaden National... Read more »
Kenya: Sand Harvesting Threatens to Displace Thousands

Every day, 180 trucks chug their way to the banks of a river near Lake Victoria and leave laden with sand. Their cargo fuels Kenya's construction boom and the local labour market,... Read more »

Chad: Floods, Locusts Add to Humanitarian Challenges

The number of flood-affected people in Chad has risen to 700,000, up from 445,000 in September, according to humanitarian agencies, which also report the loss or damage of 255,720... Read more »

West Africa: Lessons of Sahel Crisis

The Sahel food crisis this year put an estimated 18.7 million people at risk of hunger and 1.1 million children at risk of severe malnutrition, prompting the largest humanitarian... Read more »
Africa: Locust Warning for Northwest Africa

Swarms of desert locusts are likely to migrate to Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and Morocco in the coming weeks from West Africa and the Sahel region, says the UN Food and Agriculture... Read more »
Mali: How Effective Was the Food Crisis Response?

Sahelians are used to living on the edge and doing all they can to overcome adversity. In 2011, the combined shocks of ongoing high food prices, an end to remittances from Libya,... Read more »
Kenya: Kenya's Coastal Separatists - Menace or Martyrs?

Kenyan security forces are conducting a wave of arrests of members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), who are accused of incitement and acts of violence. Below, IRIN offers... Read more »

Tanzania: Islamist Riots Threaten Zanzibar

The Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar has experienced three anti-government protests so far this year; the latest, in mid-October, saw one police officer killed, roads blocked and... Read more »
Africa: The State of African Wheat Research

Researchers in Africa are identifying ways to improve domestic wheat production in the face of sub-optimal conditions and stiff international competition. Read more »
Togo: Simmering Discontent Ahead of Polls

A recent wave of protests by Togolese opposition groups and a heavy-handed clampdown by security forces have set the scene for a tense struggle for reforms in a country that has... Read more »
Uganda: A Brief History of Haemorrhagic Fever

Uganda's Ministry of Health is calling for calm as it tries to trace members of the public who may have had contact with people who have died from or been infected by an outbreak... Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Crackdown Sparks Rights Abuse Allegations

Since a spate of attacks on Côte d'Ivoire's army and police bases in August, several civilians have been rounded up, beaten and detained for ransom, say rights groups and... Read more »

Somalia: IDPs in Luuq Seek Humanitarian Assistance

Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Luuq, in Somalia's southern Gedo Region, say their overcrowded settlements are desperately short of basic needs, from shelter to... Read more »
Guinea: Strike Threats Mar Debt Deal

Trade union leaders in Guinea are contemplating a general strike over salary demands and other grievances, after the government proposed a raise for civil servants far lower than... Read more »

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