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In Agbogbloshie, a slum in Accra, the capital of Ghana, adults and children tear away at computers from abroad to get at the precious metals inside. Left, David Akore, 18, and other foragers. At the dump, the machines are dismantled and often burned to extract metals for resale. The equipment in this digital cemetery come mainly from Europe and the United States, sometimes as secondhand donations meant to reduce the "digital divide'' — the disparity in computer access between poor nations and rich. Photo: Pieter Hugo/New York Times
A global graveyard for dead computers in Ghana (Photo slideshow) New York Times August 15, 2010
The Kimberley Process suspended the diamond exports in November in response to allegations of atrocities committed by security forces at Marange. Zimbabwe's army denies allegations of abuse at the Marange fields. There have been weeks of deadlock over the negotiations and the deal came only after a Zimbabwean human rights activist was released on bail shortly before the decision. Photo: BBC
Military junta rules Zimbabwe for its own gain, with Mugabe little more than a front man, says MDC's Bennett BBC News July 28, 2010 International body overseeing trade in 'blood diamonds' agrees to limited exports from new diamond fields in Zimbabwe BBC News July 16, 2010 See Hunger Notes special report Harmful economic systems
Their lawyer, Seranne Junner, says the ruling was disappointment for the San community. "They usually have to travel approximately 40km (25 miles) to fetch water from the nearest available source, and unfortunately it's too far to go with livestock," she told the BBC. "They don't have motor vehicles at their disposal - and when they can get vehicles it's a very rough track, and that's what's leading to the suffering." The ruling means the San bushmen in the reserve will have to depend on erratic rains and melons for water. Photo: AFP
Bushmen lose right to reopen vital waterhole in the center of the Kalahari desert BBC News July 21, 2010
Therapeutic feeding centre in Niger in 2005. Photo: IRIN
Progress has been made in treating malnutrition in Sahelian children, including ready-to-eat foods and big shift to outpatient treatment IRIN News July 21, 2010 Call for more aid as 10 million face hunger in the Sahel--most are in Niger IRIN News June 24, 2010 More nutrition and health stories
Market-led development aid for Africa: good for business, bad for farmers Richard Jonasse Food First July 20, 2010
Violence in South Africa against immigrants is caused by very poor South Africans facing great competition from very poor immigrants, not xenophobia Glenn Ashton Pambazuka News July 10, 2010
Hannah Baage walked through polluted Gio Creek in Kegbara Dere. She said recently, “There is Shell oil on my body.” Photo:Jane Hahn/New York Times More Photos
Half a world from the Gulf, giant oil spills have occurred every year for the past 50 years in the Niger Delta Adam Nossiter New York Times June 16, 2010 See Hunger Notes special report: Harmful economic systems See Hunger Notes special report Environment and hunger
Joaquina Chitala Jarvisio, 40, a small-scale farmer in Huambo, in the central highlands of Angola, is running out of options. Despite careful management and clever innovation, the high cost of fertilizer and the acidity of the soil may defeat her efforts to get a good crop in the next planting season. The need is for chemical fertilizer, but it is very expensive - it costs about US$70 for a 50kg bag, and I need four bags of fertilizer for one hectare each season. Without fertilizer, plants grow - but they don't grow well." The government has claimed that it provides free seeds and fertilizer benefiting three million people; but a food analyst, who declined to be named, told IRIN the figure was difficult to authenticate because inputs risked being diverted to the commercial market, and there was no assistance for the large majority of subsistence cultivators like Jarviso.
Sonangol (the Angolan oil company), its director-general, and his looting of Angola's oil revenue Rafael Marques de Morais Pambazuka News June 15, 2010 Angola: Oil wealth no benefit to farmers IRIN News May 28, 2010
At least 6.8 million people were displaced last year, mainly by long-running conflicts, pushing the number of those forced to live away from home to 27 million - the highest since the mid-1990s IRIN News May 28, 2010 Access full report
Searching for Liberia's missing millions. How much money did Charles Taylor, Liberia's deposed president, take from his country and where is it? Doreen Carvajal New York Times May 30, 2010 See video See Hunger Notes special report: Harmful economic systems
Loggers at Masoala National Park. In the past year, the illicit trade in a scarce species of rosewoods has increased at least 25-fold. Photo: Toby Smith/Reportage by Getty Images
Shaky rule in Madagascar threatens trees Barry Bearak New York Times May 25, 2010 See Hunger Notes special report: Harmful economic systems
NaTchuto gains power in Guinea-Bissau--US government considers him a major figure in the international drug trade Adam Nossiter New York Times May 25, 2010
Wilbroda Wandera. Photo: Jane Some/IRIN
A recipe for extreme hunger: How a Kenyan woman feeds her family of ten when she has 40 shillings (50 cents) IRIN News May 14, 2010 See other stories about people living in hunger and poverty.
Dinavance Kamukama, 28, front right, with her cousins in Kampala, Uganda. She is on a waiting list for AIDS medication. Uganda is the first country where major clinics routinely turn people away, but it will not be the last. In Kenya next door, grants to keep 200,000 on drugs will expire soon. An American-run program in Mozambique has been told to stop opening clinics. There have been drug shortages in Nigeria and Swaziland. Tanzania and Botswana are trimming treatment slots, according to a report by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders.
In Uganda, AIDS war is falling apart--prevention is failing and there is no new money for anti-retroviral drugs Donald G. McNeil Jr. New York Times May 9, 2010 The wavering war on AIDS (opinion) New York Times May 13, 2010 More nutrition and health stories
Most women in sub-Saharan Africa give birth with no skilled health worker present. Photo: Anne-Isabelle Leclercq/IRIN
Global: The worst places to be a mother IRIN News May 7, 2010 More nutrition and health stories
HALO Trust Mozambique: An instructor teaches new recruits about landmines. The instructor is holding a small mine, known as a "toepopper", designed to blow a foot off. Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN
Waking from the nightmare: towards a mine-free Mozambique BBC News Also see White House is being pressed to reverse course and join landmine ban Mark Landler New York Times May 7, 2010 See also the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the US Campaign to Ban Landmines
A woman and her baby at the government hospital in Makeni, Sierra Leone. In Sierra Leone one in five children die before age five and one in eight women die from pregnancy-related complications, according to the UN Children’s Fund. Photo: Nancy Palus/IRIN
Sierra Leone inaugurates free health care for women and children, but major gaps in health care services remain IRIN News April 27, 2010
Hugh Masekela, 70, performing his “Songs of Migration,” a revival of, and tribute to, the music made by migrants who moved to Johannesburg to dig for gold in the early and middle years of the last century. Mr. Masekela is still haunted by the music that was everywhere during his childhood — wafting into his home as a musical group rehearsed nearby, rising in churches and school halls, and echoing across townships. When he returned to South Africa in 1990 after 30 years in exile, he said, “It wasn’t there anymore.” Hear a song "Coal Train."
Music, infused with sorrow and joy, in honor of migrants to South Africa Celia W. Dugger New York Times March 18, 2010
Campaign to eradicate polio makes real progress in countries most affected, Nigeria and India Celia W. Dugger New York Times April 6, 2010 More nutrition and health stories
Hundreds of migrants from southern Niger are camped out in Agadez, Photo: Anne Isabelle Leclercq/IRIN
Hunger spreads to north Niger as poor migrant laborers from south Niger now bring their families that this year face starvation in the south IRIN News March 3, 2010 Military coup overthrows Niger president Tandja, who was planning to stay in power indefinitely Adam Nossiter New York Times February 19, 2010 Malnutrition and high food insecurity predicted in Niger IRIN News January 27, 2010
Mariama Adao and her last-born child. Photo: Anne Isabelle Leclercq/IRIN
Miriam Adou, who each year makes the trek from south to north Niger to work as a migrant laborer, and this year for the first time, brought 6 of 8 children, says "We help each other... but it is hard" IRIN News March 3, 2010
South African president Zuma 'deeply regrets pain' over love-child fathered with a woman who was not one of his wives BBC News February 6, 2010 President Zuma gives exactly the wrong lesson on HIV prevention (multiple sexual partners and no condoms--the principal way HIV is spread) to a nation where HIV is the biggest killer Kerry Cullinan Health-e (Zambia) February 2, 2010