Africa, World

KINSHASA Tuesday, November 11, 2008 (IRIN) - As fighting continues in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), child recruitment by rebels...

LOME Thursday, September 18, 2008 (IRIN) - Togo’s government has confirmed the H5N1 bird flu virus is responsible for the 10 September outbreak that...

LOME Thursday, September 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Officials have quarantined Agbata village in southern Togo, and plan to cull all poultry within a three...

LOME Tuesday, September 02, 2008 (IRIN) - One month after floods pushed them out of their homes, more than 10,000 flood victims have left temporary...

DAKAR Wednesday, August 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Weeks of rains in Togo have forced thousands of people from their homes into temporary government-run...

DRC-UGANDA BORDER, ISHASHA Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - Jean-Claude Molumba has not worked in more a month. He is a primary school teacher but...

LOME Monday, October 06, 2008 (IRIN) - For the first time in recent years, primary school students started a new school year on 6 October in Togo...

LOME Tuesday, September 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Some 17,000 birds died or have been culled since the outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus on 9 September on...

LOME Friday, September 26, 2008 (IRIN) - Almost 23,000 people responded to a UN-funded survey that is the first step in establishing what will be the...

MALABO Monday, October 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Equatorial Guinea is one of the world’s top 30 oil producers, according to its Ministry of Mines, but...