The death toll has risen sharply in the last few days of fighting in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a and hundreds of people have reportedly fled their homes, raising the possibility of a humanitarian crisis, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “There has been continued shelling in the northwest of
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In September 2007, IRIN released its award-winning film Slum Survivors, a 45-minute documentary about five people living in the Kenyan slum of Kibera. Slum Survivors
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Did 22-year-old Saima Bibi scream out as she was electrocuted at her parents’ home in their village near the southern Punjab city of Bahawalpur in Pakistan? Did she plead with her family for her life? Did she seek mercy? The answers to these questions will never be known. In one of the most harrowing “honour”
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High poverty levels and the skewed distribution of resources in Zambia’s poorest province is stirring secession talk – with an ethnic dimension. “The tensions in Western Province are a consequence of the neglect that the place has suffered in terms of socio-economic and infrastructure development,” Thomas Mabwe, head of Development Studies at the Zambia Open
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