Africa, World

DAKAR Friday, October 31, 2008 (IRIN) - As Ivorians wonder how much longer they will have to wait for a long-overdue presidential election, human...

ABIDJAN Friday, October 24, 2008 (IRIN) - Côte d’Ivoire’s electoral commission on 23 October suspended for two days the long-delayed voter...

ABUJA Thursday, September 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Up to 100,000 Nigerians displaced from Bakassi in southern Nigeria are sheltering in makeshift camps 10...

DOUALA Friday, August 29, 2008 (IRIN) - In 2001 the Cameroonian government created a special rapid intervention battalion (BIR) to quell...

GOZ BEIDA Monday, November 17, 2008 (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for a doubling of international troops deployed to eastern...

NDJAMENA Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Rampant armed attacks have forced aid agencies to suspend critical humanitarian assistance to thousands...

OUAGADOUGOU Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (IRIN) - High food prices and cuts in food aid to HIV-positive people are forcing relief organisations in...

YAOUNDÉ Wednesday, November 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Marie Gisèle Tientcheu, 30, an AIDS activist, has developed resistance to second-line antiretroviral...

COTONOU Friday, October 17, 2008 (IRIN) - Up to 1,000 people die or are wounded every year in accidents caused by low-quality, high-lead smuggled...

COTONOU Wednesday, October 08, 2008 (IRIN) - Fear, a lack of blood donation supplies and ill-trained health staff have led to a dangerous blood...