CAMEROON: Anti-cholera drive targets schoolchildren
DAKAR, 7 September 2010 (IRIN) - As school resumes in Cameroon, some 1.6 million students in the north are receiving cholera-prevention messages via SMS, flyers, stickers and special textbooks, in a public-private effort to stem the country’s worst outbreak in 20 years.
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CAMEROON: Soaring child malnutrition in north
KOUSSERI, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) - Northern Cameroon, as in much of Africa’s western Sahel band, has unusually high child malnutrition this lean season between harvests - high even for an impoverished region where poor nutrition is common and most of the five million people lack access to safe water and sanitation.
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SAHEL: Peanut pastes and milk powders to save children
DAKAR, 20 August 2010 (IRIN) - Aid agencies in Niger and Chad have begun giving tens of thousands of malnourished children a product called Plumpy’doz to save them from sliding into often-fatal severe malnutrition.
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CAMEROON: Biggest cholera outbreak "in at least 10 years"
MAROUA, 3 August 2010 (IRIN) - Cholera has killed at least 94 people in northern Cameroon and is spreading, in what health officials say is the most severe outbreak in years.
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Analysis: Unconditional money
JOHANNESBURG, 2 August 2010 (IRIN) - A World Bank study that put money in the hands of girls and their parents in Malawi's poor southern region has caused ripples across the debate on cash transfers in academic and aid communities.
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How To: Protect your livelihood from wild animals
JOHANNESBURG, 22 July 2010 (IRIN) - People and wildlife have never been in greater competition for limited resources as human populations invade shrinking natural habitats in a fight for living space, food and water. In this vignette of a planet-wide battle, IRIN looks at how to keep elephants away from your crops and raiding monkeys out of your food stores.
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Analysis: NGOs' to-do list for incoming UN relief coordinator
DAKAR, 20 July 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN consulted the heads of some of the largest NGO networks on what they thought should be the top priorities of the incoming UN Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) and Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, who is expected to take up her role within two or three months.
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IRIN: Today's most popular IRIN articles
NAIROBI, 13 July 2010 (IRIN) - Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly.
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Analysis: Finding space for crowd-sourcing in humanitarian response
NAIROBI, 5 July 2010 (IRIN) - "Crowd-sourcing" is a new buzzword in the world of humanitarian information. The combined power of mobile phones, mapping technology and social networking can enable citizens in crisis to seek help, facilitate aid deliveries, bear witness to abuses and hold governments and aid agencies more accountable, advocates say.
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In Brief: Fish nets join mosquito nets against malaria
JOHANNESBURG, 2 July 2010 (IRIN) - New drugs to fight malaria may well lie at the bottom of the ocean, according to researchers studying over 2,500 samples from marine organisms collected at depths of over 900 metres. They have already found 300 that contain substances that can kill the parasite.
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