Poverty alleviation scheme targets kids

(IRIN) – Orphans and vulnerable children from more than 80,000 households in Zimbabwe are set to benefit from a three-year government and donor-funded programme to cushion them from the worst effects of poverty.

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Hunger spreading in south

(IRIN) – Tedius Bere, 31, from Chivi District in Zimbabwe’s southeastern Masvingo Province, recently travelled to the capital Harare to ask for his brother’s help to buy food for his family, whom he had left in Chivi with only enough maize meal for two days.

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Horn migrants heading south “pushed backwards”

(IRIN) – 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 south of the continent.

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Hundreds displaced by Iranian shelling

(IRIN) – Nearly 200 families have been displaced in Iraq’s self-ruled northern Kurdish region due to Iranian shelling since mid-July of Iranian Kurdish rebels based inside Iraq, say officials.

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Afghan children injured by UK Apache helicopter attack

Five Afghan children were injured in a strike carried out by a British Apache attack helicopter, the Ministry of Defence has said.

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Thousands trapped between conflict and drought in Galgadud

(IRIN) – Thousands of families in Somalia’s central town of Dusamareb, the regional capital of Galgadud, are caught between an unending conflict and severe drought.

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Thousands flee fighting in Darfur

(IRIN) – Tens of thousands of people continue to flee their homes in Sudan’s western region of Darfur for the safety of internally displaced people’s camps after recent fighting between government forces and armed militias.

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Thousands displaced by Abyei violence “at risk”

(IRIN) – Up to 25,000 people have fled the contested town of Abyei since an estimated 100 people died in violence last week. With fears still high that the unresolved status of this border region could lead to more fighting, UN agencies and aid groups are worried that the precarious humanitarian situation could quickly deteriorate, leaving those displaced even more vulnerable.

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A crisis in numbers

(IRIN) – One in three people in Somalia needs humanitarian assistance as a severe water crisis, linked to the La Niña weather phenomenon, takes hold across much of the country after failed seasonal Deyr rains and amid continuing armed conflict. Prices of cereals and water in many areas have soared.

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Access to food key challenge as IDP numbers in Afgoye rise

(IRIN) – With aid groups having pulled out of camps for internally displaced people and more people fleeing violence in Mogadishu, the plight of IDPs is at its most extreme, say civil society sources and local aid workers in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

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