Month: October 2010

I used to confuse him with the distinguished and erudite Ghanaian lawyer, scholar and invested traditional ruler whom I greatly admired growing up at Kwabenya-Accra. And here, of course, I am referring to Prof. S. […]

Domestic trafficking is under-reported in the Lao PDR due to lax law enforcement, stalled anti-trafficking legislation and lack of knowledge about how to define trafficking, says the UN. The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare […]

A booming trade in livestock has thrived for more than two decades between Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, despite rampant insecurity in the former and drought in the latter two, a testimony to resilience in extreme […]

Farmers and herders are being targeted with microfinance in an effort to relieve drought-related poverty in Syria. Widely used across the developing world since the 1970s, Syria has relatively few providers. “Microfinance can be an […]

The delay in forming a new Iraqi government following elections in March is adversely affecting internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees, according to a senior UN official. “This situation certainly makes it more difficult to […]

Darfur, described recently by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as still “dangerous, difficult, not stable”, is among the world’s most challenging environments for humanitarian workers. Insecurity and the often-related lack of access are major […]

Siham Moussa Abdelatti sells tea and coffee with cardamom at the market in Renk, 50km from the North-South Sudan border. Renk, in northern Upper Nile State, is a large town connected by paved road to […]

A bed sheet to stop bleeding, broken furniture as splints for fractures, Buddhist temples turned into evacuation centres and bottled water to decontaminate wounds: People are often forced to innovate when disaster hits. “In the […]