UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi)

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

August 02, 2011

Kenya: Running on Empty

Several hundred thousand people in northeastern Kenya are just a step away from famine and the next rains expected in September/October will not be sufficient to replenish the... Read more »
East Africa: Southern Africa Pushes Back Against As Migrants Flee Drought

Increasing numbers of Ethiopians and Somalis fleeing war, drought and poverty in their home countries face arrest, deportation and detention as they try to make their way to the... Read more »
Africa: Does Aid Give Value for Money?

When the fourth high-level forum on aid effectiveness holds its next session in the South Korean port town of Busan in November, the issue of how successfully development aid can,... Read more »
South Africa: Still No Clarity on Zimbabwean Deportations

South Africa's Department of Home Affairs announced yesterday that it had met its 1 August deadline for processing 275,000 applications from undocumented Zimbabweans, but that... Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Controversy Over "Conflict Minerals" Law

Major industries are seeking to alter the proposed US reporting rules on "conflict minerals" mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Dozos - 'Savvy Political Actors' [interview]

As Côte d'Ivoire looks to move past the unprecedented violence that followed presidential elections, attention has focused on the traditional hunters known as dozos, with... Read more »
Cote d'Ivoire: Brotherhood of Protectors or Assailants?

On the 76km stretch of road between Man and Duékoué in western Côte d'Ivoire are several makeshift stalls where men in traditional hand-woven clothes, carrying... Read more »

Burkina Faso: The Power of Local Foods

In remote villages of northeastern Burkina Faso families are using and selling vegetables and dairy products well past gardening and milk-production seasons thanks to some simple... Read more »

Lesotho: Cross-Border Health Crisis Hits Mineworkers

Two years ago Mopeli Mofoka, 39, left his wife and child in Maseru, Lesotho's capital, and joined the more than 50,000 men pushed by poverty and unemployment in their home country... Read more »

Africa: Rasna Warah, Editor of UN-Habitat's State of the World's Cities Report 2006/7 [interview]

Nairobi-based Rasna Warah, writer, analyst and editor of numerous reports on urban risk, as well as UN-HABITAT's "State of the World's Cities 2006/7", spoke to IRIN about some of... Read more »

Africa: The Growth of Cities - a Thousand Monsters Stir [analysis]

Tragedy stuck Nairobi three times in just a few days in June. A police crackdown on the Mungiki gang led to more than 30 deaths in Mathare, one of the oldest and most deprived... Read more »

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