Aggregated RSS feed on African issues from international organizations compiled by the Africa Section (DPI) at the United Nations. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ee51ccc8c05686fc9f5ac4056d0b50d8 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:41:20 +0000 http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=98082 <img src="http://irinnews.org/images/2011/201108160838010687t.jpg"/>NAIROBI, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - Over one million people in Somalia are currently food insecure, according to a May report by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET). This number is a significant drop from the 3.7 million considered food insecure in mid-2011. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=98082 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:05:05 +0000 NAIROBI, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - Over one million people in Somalia are currently food insecure, according to a May report by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET). This number is a significant drop from the 3.7 million considered food insecure in mid-2011.]]> http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=98078 <img src="http://irinnews.org/images/2012/201203130651570194t.jpg"/>NIAMEY, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - Cholera has struck 248 people in Ayorou in the Tillabéry Region of northwestern Niger, killing six, two of them Malian refugees. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=98078 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:05:05 +0000 NIAMEY, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - Cholera has struck 248 people in Ayorou in the Tillabéry Region of northwestern Niger, killing six, two of them Malian refugees.]]> http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=98077 <img src="http://irinnews.org/images/2013/201305221408030773t.jpg"/>NIASSA, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - A multi-million dollar “ethical” plantation development in northwestern Mozambique - the initiative of a clutch of Scandinavian faith-based organizations - has faced alleged acts of sabotage by the very people it was designed to assist, illustrating the divisions between foreign benefactors and local communities. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=98077 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:05:05 +0000 NIASSA, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - A multi-million dollar “ethical” plantation development in northwestern Mozambique - the initiative of a clutch of Scandinavian faith-based organizations - has faced alleged acts of sabotage by the very people it was designed to assist, illustrating the divisions between foreign benefactors and local communities.]]> http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=98076 <img src="http://irinnews.org/images/2010/201005241211400801t.jpg"/>KANO, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of residents of northeastern Nigeria's Borno State have fled their homes - thousands of them into neighbouring Niger and Cameroon - following airstrikes by Nigerian fighter jets on Boko Haram (BH) camps from 15 May. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=98076 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:05:05 +0000 KANO, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of residents of northeastern Nigeria's Borno State have fled their homes - thousands of them into neighbouring Niger and Cameroon - following airstrikes by Nigerian fighter jets on Boko Haram (BH) camps from 15 May.]]> http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44968&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo In the first visit of its kind, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to support a recent peace deal and promote economic development in the long-troubled region. Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 +0000