Braving harsh terrain, kidnapping threats and a months’ long journey Over the past three years, around 200,000 Yemenis have fled their country, displaced by a continuing conflict that has led to...
Djibouti + 3 more
Djibouti + 3 more
Braving harsh terrain, kidnapping threats and a months’ long journey Over the past three years, around 200,000 Yemenis have fled their country, displaced by a continuing conflict that has led to...
Somalia + 17 more
By Obi Anyadike, Editor-at-Large and Africa Editor Farmers, traders and consumers across East and Southern Africa are feeling the impact of consecutive seasons of drought that have scorched harvests...
Djibouti + 1 more
How the Port of Djibouti keeps Ethiopia fed during Ramadan By James Jeffery DJIBOUTI CITY, 27 June 2016 In the middle of a blistering June afternoon on the busy docks of the Port of Djibouti, Aouleed...
Yemen + 4 more
Ethiopians head into Yemen while refugees flee the other way By Rachel Savage and Mohammed Ali Kalfood OBOCK/RABOO MATWALA, 10 May 2016 Newcomers don’t want to stay long in Obock. In the summer, 50°C...
Yemen + 3 more
LONDON, 8 April 2015 (IRIN) - As the Saudi-led aerial bombardment of Yemen intensifies and a full-scale civil war appears increasingly inevitable, there are few immediate escape routes for well over...
NAIROBI, 12 July 2013 (IRIN) - Poor rains and lack of expertise to boost local food production are some of the challenges facing Djibouti’s population, says a senior UN official. “The major gap in...
Ethiopia + 3 more
ADDIS ABABA-DJIBOUTI, 21 December 2012 (IRIN) - More people from the Horn of Africa region, especially Ethiopia and Somalia, are crossing international borders as irregular migrants - lacking...
BALBALA, 27 November 2012 (IRIN) - Successive years of poor rains have eroded the coping mechanisms of pastoralists in Djibouti's rural regions, even as high food prices and unemployment rates...
World + 10 more
JOHANNESBURG, 29 October 2012 (IRIN) - A new study set in East Africa, one of the most detailed yet to examine the links between conflict and climate change, calls for a more balanced view on the...
World + 10 more
JOHANNESBURG, 13 June 2012 (IRIN) - The long-running spat between the African Union (AU) and International Criminal Court (ICC) over perceived bias has prompted the AU to push ahead with plans to...
Somalia + 3 more
KIGALI, 29 February 2012 (IRIN) - Drought is likely to return to Somalia and other parts of the Horn of Africa over the next three months, say regional climate scientists meeting in the Rwandan...
NAIROBI, 3 janvier 2012 (IRIN) - En 2011, une grave sécheresse, exacerbée par la pauvreté et les conflits, a frappé au moins quatre pays - le Djibouti, l'Éthiopie, le Kenya et la Somalie - et...
Somalia + 5 more
NAIROB I, 30 December 2011 (IRIN) - Severe drought, [ http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=93426 ] exacerbated by poverty and conflict, hit at least four countries in 2011 - Djibouti,...
World + 19 more
Dear friends and colleagues, IRIN is ending the year on a high. Our climate change expert, Jaspreet Kindra, was invited to chair two separate panel discussions at COP 17 in Durban, and our PlusNews...
Senegal + 10 more
MBAR TOUBAB, 1 décembre 2011 (IRIN) - L'ancien chevrier Samba Ba montre fièrement du doigt un rang d'acacias d'un mètre de hauteur émergeant des herbes fines qui sont la seule autre plante qui pousse...
Djibouti + 3 more
OBOCK, 16 novembre 2011 (IRIN) - Des centaines de migrants suivent la route qui relie la capitale de Djibouti, Djibouti-Ville, à la ville côtière d'Obock : ils n'emportent guère plus qu'une bouteille...
Djibouti + 3 more
OBOCK, 15 November 2011 (IRIN) - Thousands of migrants traverse the road between Djibouti’s capital, Djiboutiville, and the coastal town of Obock carrying little more than a bottle of water and the...
Somalia + 3 more
DAKAR, 20 October 2011 (IRIN) - Move away from “food-first” responses and lay more stress on water and livelihoods; intervene early - it saves money and lives: These are a couple of the lessons...
Thailand + 4 more
BANGKOK, 6 October 2011 (IRIN) - A new paddy-pledging programme in Thailand that has already pushed up the cost of rice globally will go into effect on 7 October, amid uncertainty and scepticism. The...
Somalia + 3 more
NAIROBI, 5 septembre 2011 (IRIN) - Les organisations humanitaires ont multiplié les appels de fonds afin de venir en aide à plus de 12 millions de personnes qui sont confrontées à de graves pénuries...