By Jennifer Lazuta Many families in Guinea still rely on streams and lakes for their water needs.DAKAR, 15 June 2015…
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A family sits outside destroyed homes in Accra’s Nima neighbourhood, a few days after heavy rains flooded the city on…
By Mamoudou Lamine Kane Khalifa Ould Mohamed Lemine, who fled to Mauritania from his home in northern Mali, sells candy…
Security and humanitarian priorities – out of kilter?NAIROBI, 5 June 2015 (IRIN) – The Nigerian government’s focus on its war…
By Jennifer Lazuta Children wash their hands before entering a classroom in GueckedouGUECKEDOU, 13 May 2015 (IRIN) – “Life is…
By Jennifer Lazuta Patients receive treatment at Gueckedou’s busy hospitalGUECKEDOU, 8 May 2015 (IRIN) – Until Ebola, the main hospital…
Many children in Freetown who should be in school are notFREETOWN, 6 May 2015 (IRIN) – Fear and poverty are…
By Karim Camara and Jennifer Lazuta Guineans vote in the capital Conakry in the 2010 presidential electionCONAKRY, 5 May 2015…
IRIN’s West Africa editor Jennifer Lazuta recently spent eight days in Guinea, travelling in and around the town of Gueckedou…
Tuareg rebelsBAMAKO, 30 April 2015 (IRIN) – The last few years in Mali have been busy: an independence declaration, a…
By Jennifer Lazuta A child receives a shot of measles vaccineGUECKEDOU, 29 April 2015 (IRIN) – The odds were stacked…
Follow @{0}More than 100 aid workers were killed or injured by improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2014.DUBAI,…
WEIRD whichever way you look at itBELGRADE, 15 April 2015 (IRIN) – I’m WEIRD. I’m not sure whether I became…
The resource curse – pollution and instability in the DeltaPORT HARCOURT, 9 April 2015 (IRIN) – An early test for…
By Crispin Dembassa-Kette Seleka rebel fighters, many are now engaging in reconciliation effortsBAORO, 8 April 2015 (IRIN) – The room…
Celebrations for Nigeria’s election winner, Muhammadu BuhariKADUNA, 31 March 2015 (IRIN) – Nigeria’s presidential election has been won by Muhammadu…
By Gabrielle Babbington Air pollution causes thousands of deaths a year in the Afghan capital Kabul, health officials say (archive…
By Zakaria Camara and Jennifer Lazuta An Ebola treatment center run by Doctors Without Borders in Guinea CONAKRY/DAKAR, 23 March…
Noah, 14, on the day he was discharged from an Ebola treatment centre NAIROBI, 20 March 2015 (IRIN) – There…
By Alexis Adele More than 150,000 Ivorian refugees who fled to Liberia during post-election violence have returned home, but closed…