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KOHAT, 18 April 2010 (IRIN) – Relief work has been suspended at the Kacha Pakha camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the outskirts of Kohat town in northwestern Pakistan after two bomb attacks killed […]

BANGKOK, 15 April 2010 – A serious outbreak of cholera in Papua New Guinea (PNG) which has killed nearly 60 people shows signs of subsiding, government health officials say. “The situation has improved in recent […]

JAKARTA, 16 April 2010 (IRIN) – In Jakarta’s northern Muara Angke coastal area, a lack of access to piped water has forced people to bathe and wash clothes using murky grey water from fish ponds. […]

KABUL, 8 April 2010 – Family size and composition have strong economic and social consequences in Afghanistan, experts say. “The larger a family is the greater its vulnerability to poverty, illiteracy, food insecurity and other […]

A year ago, the world was shocked by images of boatloads of ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar being pushed out to open sea off the Thailand coast to fend for themselves with little food or […]

Kabul/Nairobi, 12 February, 2010— Continents apart, the civilian populations of Marjah, a key town in Helmand province, Afghanistan, and Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, are steeling themselves for intense urban warfare. Major offensives are being […]

Kabul, 8 February, 2010— Hundreds of civilian families are fleeing parts of Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, ahead of a major military operation by foreign and Afghan forces. The offensive is expected to drive Taliban insurgents […]

Kabul, 19 January, 2010 Thousands of fresh foreign troops arrive in Afghanistan this year, but some prominent aid agencies are voicing concerns that this could lead to the intensification of the conflict, with dire humanitarian […]