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Mobile support to treat fistula 30 Sep 2011 | 07:40 pm
Africa's burgeoning mobile phone banking system is being pressed into service to help with treatment for the debilitating condition obstetric fistula, caused by difficult childbirths A debilitating c...
A dilemma for Burundi’s war veterans: peace and poverty or return to arms? 30 Sep 2011 | 07:38 pm
Former child soldiers sidelined and impoverished by the political process are being drawn back to conflict In a dusty field in the Burundian town of Maramvya a young man named Claude watches over the...
East Africa must prepare to survive 30 Sep 2011 | 06:00 pm
The east Africa crisis throws the importance of disaster risk reduction measures into sharp relief When it comes to natural disasters, and their very unnatural impact on poor people, prevention is be...
Aid agency withdrew Pakistan staff after CIA fake vaccination scheme 29 Sep 2011 | 11:52 pm
Save the Children, which was not linked to the scheme, flew workers out of the country after US warnings about their safety Fears that a fake CIA vaccination scheme created to hunt Osama bin Laden ha...
Tales From the Hood 29 Sep 2011 | 11:18 pm
An anonymous aid blogger reflects on 'life inside the aid industry from some of the worst neighbourhoods in the global village' Tales from the Hood shares observation and views from a humanitarian ai...
South Sudan facing severe food shortages, UN agencies warn 29 Sep 2011 | 11:18 pm
Security issues, lack of rainfall and influx of northern returnees combine to cause shortages and push up prices UN agencies are warning that newly independent South Sudan will face chronic food shor...
A Robin Hood tax could turn the banks from villains to heroes | Bill Nighy 29 Sep 2011 | 11:05 pm
An EU-wide Robin Hood tax is close to becoming reality. Cameron must now tell the City to get on board It's a script that even Hollywood might have balked at. In the midst of the worst economic crisi...
Gavi steps up child vaccine funding programme 29 Sep 2011 | 11:05 pm
Rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines to be rolled out to more developing countries as funding initiative receives $1bn boost The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) said on Tuesday it...
Pakistan: mission impossible | Editorial 29 Sep 2011 | 10:43 pm
Caught between the Taliban and the CIA, international aid agencies in Pakistan are being asked to do an impossible job Our story that Save the Children flew eight expatriate aid workers out of Pakist...
Haiti: Rebuilding lives 29 Sep 2011 | 09:38 pm
Photographer Richard Hanson charts Haiti's recovery following the devastating 2010 earthquake. In October, an exhibition of his work, Haiti: beyond the rubble, opens in Sheffield, England
