ARIN News – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com Breaking News, Nigeria News and Top Stories Thu, 18 Jun 2015 02:20:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cropped-The-InfoStride-Favicon-150x150.png ARIN News – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com 32 32 Turn on the taps to defeat the next Ebola https://www.theinfostride.com/turn-on-the-taps-to-defeat-the-next-ebola/ Thu, 18 Jun 2015 02:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/06/turn-on-the-taps-to-defeat-the-next-ebola/ By Jennifer Lazuta Many families in Guinea still rely on streams and lakes for their water needs. DAKAR, 15 June 2015 (IRIN) – It is a cruel irony that many of the top doctors and nurses in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will not be around to help rebuild their health systems in the wake [...]

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]]> Ghana hard hit by flooding, once again https://www.theinfostride.com/ghana-hard-hit-by-flooding-once-again/ Mon, 15 Jun 2015 02:20:31 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/06/ghana-hard-hit-by-flooding-once-again/ A family sits outside destroyed homes in Accra’s Nima neighbourhood, a few days after heavy rains flooded the city on 3 June. ACCRA, 12 June 2015 (IRIN) – Years of delays and repeated failures to implement and improve sewage and drainage systems in Ghana’s capital, Accra, has led to increasingly damaging and deadly flooding during [...]

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]]> Photo feature: Mali refugees find common ground in a foreign market https://www.theinfostride.com/photo-feature-mali-refugees-find-common-ground-in-a-foreign-market/ Thu, 11 Jun 2015 02:20:33 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/06/photo-feature-mali-refugees-find-common-ground-in-a-foreign-market/ By Mamoudou Lamine Kane Khalifa Ould Mohamed Lemine, who fled to Mauritania from his home in northern Mali, sells candy and cookies each week at the local Mberra market, not far from the refugee camp. NOUAKCHOTT, 10 June 2015 (IRIN) – More than 50,000 Malians have taken refuge across the border at the M’berra camp [...]

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]]> Beyond Boko Haram: Nigeria’s hidden crisis https://www.theinfostride.com/beyond-boko-haram-nigerias-hidden-crisis/ Mon, 08 Jun 2015 02:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/06/beyond-boko-haram-nigerias-hidden-crisis/ Security and humanitarian priorities – out of kilter? NAIROBI, 5 June 2015 (IRIN) – The Nigerian government’s focus on its war against the Boko Haram insurgency is obscuring a growing humanitarian emergency. The violence has driven at least 1.5 million people from their homes in the three conflict-affected northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. [...]

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]]> The pain of the new normal: Guinea after Ebola https://www.theinfostride.com/the-pain-of-the-new-normal-guinea-after-ebola/ Thu, 14 May 2015 02:20:11 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/05/the-pain-of-the-new-normal-guinea-after-ebola/ By Jennifer Lazuta Children wash their hands before entering a classroom in Gueckedou GUECKEDOU, 13 May 2015 (IRIN) – “Life is back to normal, but everything has changed,” said 30-year-old Yawa Keterine Camara as she slowly stirred a boiling cauldron of sauce outside her mud-brick home in southeastern Guinea. “I live again like before, but [...]

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]]> Ebola’s silver lining: Guineans learn to have faith in hospitals https://www.theinfostride.com/ebolas-silver-lining-guineans-learn-to-have-faith-in-hospitals/ Mon, 11 May 2015 02:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/05/ebolas-silver-lining-guineans-learn-to-have-faith-in-hospitals/ By Jennifer Lazuta Patients receive treatment at Gueckedou’s busy hospital GUECKEDOU, 8 May 2015 (IRIN) – Until Ebola, the main hospital in Gueckedou was often deserted. Now, on a Saturday afternoon, the place is bustling. Doctors and nurses move efficiently from patient to patient. Families sit on straw mats beside the beds of their loved [...]

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]]> Schools reopen, but Ebola keeps pupils on the streets https://www.theinfostride.com/schools-reopen-but-ebola-keeps-pupils-on-the-streets/ Thu, 07 May 2015 14:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/05/schools-reopen-but-ebola-keeps-pupils-on-the-streets/ Many children in Freetown who should be in school are not FREETOWN, 6 May 2015 (IRIN) – Fear and poverty are keeping many children in Sierra Leone out of classrooms and on the streets hawking or labouring– another effect of the Ebola outbreak that kept schools closed for nine months.  Four weeks into a new [...]

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]]> How serious are Guinea protests? https://www.theinfostride.com/how-serious-are-guinea-protests/ Thu, 07 May 2015 02:20:08 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/05/how-serious-are-guinea-protests/ By Karim Camara and Jennifer Lazuta Guineans vote in the capital Conakry in the 2010 presidential election CONAKRY, 5 May 2015 (IRIN) – There appears to be little appetite for the Guinean opposition’s promised campaign of civil disobedience. However, deep-rooted ethnic tensions, suspicions over Ebola and simmering resentment for the security forces could still see [...]

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]]> Guinea Ebola diary: In the land of lost handshakes https://www.theinfostride.com/guinea-ebola-diary-in-the-land-of-lost-handshakes/ Mon, 04 May 2015 14:20:13 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/05/guinea-ebola-diary-in-the-land-of-lost-handshakes/ IRIN’s West Africa editor Jennifer Lazuta recently spent eight days in Guinea, travelling in and around the town of Gueckedou in the heart of the country’s Forest Region, where the Ebola outbreak is believed to have begun in December 2013. She shares some impressions from the field. By Jennifer Lazuta A billboard exhorts citizens to [...]

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]]> Briefing: Is Mali’s peace process in peril? https://www.theinfostride.com/briefing-is-malis-peace-process-in-peril/ Mon, 04 May 2015 02:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/05/briefing-is-malis-peace-process-in-peril/ Tuareg rebels BAMAKO, 30 April 2015 (IRIN) – The last few years in Mali have been busy: an independence declaration, a coup, a mutiny, a northern takeover by Islamist groups, a French military intervention, a hostage crisis, a guerrilla campaign, a preliminary peace deal, and finally, in February, a ceasefire. Given all the turmoil, it [...]

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]]> Vaccination teams defeat 'Ebola effect' in Guinea https://www.theinfostride.com/vaccination-teams-defeat-ebola-effect-in-guinea/ Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:20:25 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/04/vaccination-teams-defeat-ebola-effect-in-guinea/ By Jennifer Lazuta A child receives a shot of measles vaccine GUECKEDOU, 29 April 2015 (IRIN) – The odds were stacked against Guinea’s vaccination teams. The initial side effects of the measles vaccine can easily be mistaken for the first symptoms of hemorraghic fever and a false rumour had spread blaming the distribution of deworming pills [...]

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]]> IRIN’s Top Picks: White elephants, corruption and IEDs https://www.theinfostride.com/irins-top-picks-white-elephants-corruption-and-ieds/ Mon, 27 Apr 2015 02:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/04/irins-top-picks-white-elephants-corruption-and-ieds/ Follow @{0} More than 100 aid workers were killed or injured by improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2014. DUBAI, 17 April 2015 (IRIN) – Welcome to IRIN’s weekly assortment of journalism and research about the humanitarian world that piqued our interest. Five to read: There can never be a humanitarian component to military [...]

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]]> Why are humanitarians so WEIRD? https://www.theinfostride.com/why-are-humanitarians-so-weird/ Thu, 16 Apr 2015 02:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/04/why-are-humanitarians-so-weird/ WEIRD whichever way you look at it BELGRADE, 15 April 2015 (IRIN) – I’m WEIRD. I’m not sure whether I became an aid worker because I’m weird, but I was definitely a WEIRD aid worker. I realised this after reading a 2010 academic article which pointed out that an overwhelming proportion of psychology experiments were carried [...]

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]]> Oil-rich Delta poses first big test for Nigeria's new leader https://www.theinfostride.com/oil-rich-delta-poses-first-big-test-for-nigerias-new-leader/ Thu, 09 Apr 2015 14:20:07 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/04/oil-rich-delta-poses-first-big-test-for-nigerias-new-leader/ The resource curse – pollution and instability in the Delta PORT HARCOURT, 9 April 2015 (IRIN) – An early test for Nigerian president-elect Muhammadu Buhari is how his incoming administration will handle the volatile oil revenue-generating Delta, where former militia commanders pledged their support to Goodluck Jonathan, their clansman, who was emphatically beaten in the [...]

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]]> Hear it from the people: What's wrong in the Central African Republic? https://www.theinfostride.com/hear-it-from-the-people-whats-wrong-in-the-central-african-republic/ Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/04/hear-it-from-the-people-whats-wrong-in-the-central-african-republic/ By Crispin Dembassa-Kette Seleka rebel fighters, many are now engaging in reconciliation efforts BAORO, 8 April 2015 (IRIN) – The room was packed. Everyone wanted to speak: unsurprising after years of conflict that has claimed thousands of lives and seen the Central African Republic riven by ethnic and religious cleansing. After a lifetime of being [...]

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]]> Nigerians the winners in tense election https://www.theinfostride.com/nigerians-the-winners-in-tense-election/ Thu, 02 Apr 2015 02:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/04/nigerians-the-winners-in-tense-election/ Celebrations for Nigeria’s election winner, Muhammadu Buhari KADUNA, 31 March 2015 (IRIN) – Nigeria’s presidential election has been won by Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler who becomes the first opposition leader ever to unseat an incumbent. There have been some allegations of fraud, but the fact that Goodluck Jonathan accepted defeat and called his [...]

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]]> Killing us softly https://www.theinfostride.com/killing-us-softly/ Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/killing-us-softly/ By Gabrielle Babbington Air pollution causes thousands of deaths a year in the Afghan capital Kabul, health officials say (archive photo). HONG KONG, 27 March 2015 (IRIN) – A recent public outcry in China, sparked by a damning documentary about air pollution, was based on well-founded fear: Of the 100 million people who viewed the [...]

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]]> One year on: why Ebola is not yet over in Guinea https://www.theinfostride.com/one-year-on-why-ebola-is-not-yet-over-in-guinea/ Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:20:06 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/one-year-on-why-ebola-is-not-yet-over-in-guinea/ By Zakaria Camara and Jennifer Lazuta An Ebola treatment center run by Doctors Without Borders in Guinea CONAKRY/DAKAR, 23 March 2015 (IRIN) – The Ebola outbreak, which was first declared by Guinea’s Ministry of Health on the evening of 22 March 2014, continues to ravage the country, in large part because information campaigns have failed [...]

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]]> Ebola and HIV: how to change behaviour for the long term https://www.theinfostride.com/ebola-and-hiv-how-to-change-behaviour-for-the-long-term/ Mon, 23 Mar 2015 03:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/ebola-and-hiv-how-to-change-behaviour-for-the-long-term/ Noah, 14, on the day he was discharged from an Ebola treatment centre NAIROBI, 20 March 2015 (IRIN) – There have been no new Ebola infections in Liberia in the past three weeks, but it’s still far too early to say the virus has been defeated – Liberia’s borders are porous and its neighbours have [...]

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]]> A long wait for home – how Ebola kept refugees stuck in Liberia https://www.theinfostride.com/a-long-wait-for-home-how-ebola-kept-refugees-stuck-in-liberia/ Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:20:14 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/a-long-wait-for-home-how-ebola-kept-refugees-stuck-in-liberia/ By Alexis Adele More than 150,000 Ivorian refugees who fled to Liberia during post-election violence have returned home, but closed borders due to the Ebola outbreak has left the remaining 38,000 unable to go back. ABIDJAN, 18 March 2015 (IRIN) – Nearly 38,000 Ivorian refugees living in Liberia have been unable to return home since [...]

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]]> IRIN’s Top Picks: Aid worker anxiety, conflict pollution and DRR https://www.theinfostride.com/irins-top-picks-aid-worker-anxiety-conflict-pollution-and-drr/ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:20:11 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/irins-top-picks-aid-worker-anxiety-conflict-pollution-and-drr/ Follow @{0} 7.6 million people are displaced internally and 3.8 million others are living as refugees as the war in Syria enters is fifth year. LONDON , 13 March 2015 (IRIN) – Welcome to IRIN’s reading list. Every week our global network of specialist correspondents share some of their top picks of recent must-read research, [...]

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]]> Nigerian police neglect widows of cops slain by Boko Haram – study https://www.theinfostride.com/nigerian-police-neglect-widows-of-cops-slain-by-boko-haram-study/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/nigerian-police-neglect-widows-of-cops-slain-by-boko-haram-study/ Your views are important to us. Are the police taking care of their own? NAIROBI, 12 March 2015 (IRIN) – The Nigerian Police Force is not only failing to pay all the financial  benefits owed to the families of their officers killed in action against Boko Haram militants, but in some cases sexual favours and [...]

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]]> Selective justice fears revived in Côte d'Ivoire https://www.theinfostride.com/selective-justice-fears-revived-in-cte-divoire/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 03:20:13 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/selective-justice-fears-revived-in-cte-divoire/ By Alexis Adele Pro-Ouattara demonstrators in the northern Ivoirian city of Odienné hold signs that read ‘Enough is enough’ and ‘Gbagbo, get out. We don’t want to keep counting the dead’. March 2011. (Koffi Samuel/IRIN) ABIDJAN, 11 March 2015 (IRIN) – The sentencing this week of Côte d’Ivoire’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, to 20 [...]

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]]> No shortage of recruits for Boko Haram in Cameroon’s Far North https://www.theinfostride.com/no-shortage-of-recruits-for-boko-haram-in-cameroons-far-north/ Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/no-shortage-of-recruits-for-boko-haram-in-cameroons-far-north/ Cameroon military on the lookout for Boko Haram militants in the Far North’s Kolofata community, along the border with Nigeria. FAR NORTH, CAMEROON, 5 March 2015 (IRIN) – Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young people in northern Cameroon, who lack access to school and employment, are increasingly fighting alongside Boko Haram, local authorities say. “We know [...]

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]]> Ebola: Liberia's road to recovery will be long https://www.theinfostride.com/ebola-liberias-road-to-recovery-will-be-long/ Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:20:12 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/ebola-liberias-road-to-recovery-will-be-long/ By Prince Collins and Jennifer Lazuta Following the reopening of the land border with neighboring Sierra Leone, Krubo Kollie returns to Bo-Waterside Market, in Liberia, to sell fruit for the first time since the Ebola outbreak began. BO-WATERSIDE, LIBERIA, 4 March 2015 (IRIN) – Liberia has lifted nationwide curfews and reopened its land borders with [...]

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]]> Taming Sierra Leone’s Ebola spread https://www.theinfostride.com/taming-sierra-leones-ebola-spread/ Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:21:31 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/12/taming-sierra-leones-ebola-spread/ Follow @{0} Half of Sierra Leone’s current Ebola cases are from one region FREETOWN, 19 December 2014 (IRIN) – Sierra Leone is scrambling more health personnel and deploy more equipment to curb the rampant spread of Ebola in Western Area region which currently accounts for half the infections in the country. Authorities blame dangerous funeral [...]

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]]> Boko Haram fuels displacement crisis in Niger’s Diffa Region https://www.theinfostride.com/boko-haram-fuels-displacement-crisis-in-nigers-diffa-region/ Mon, 15 Dec 2014 03:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/12/boko-haram-fuels-displacement-crisis-in-nigers-diffa-region/ Follow @{0} Refugee influx into Diffa has sparked humanitarian crisis warnings DAKAR, 12 December 2014 (IRIN) – Nigerian Islamist Boko Haram militias have driven nearly 90,000 people into neighbouring Niger’s impoverished Diffa Region this year, sparking food security and protection worries. The September-November harvest season has been favourable across Niger except in Diffa, where food [...]

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]]> Sierra Leone’s worrying Ebola trend https://www.theinfostride.com/sierra-leones-worrying-ebola-trend/ Thu, 11 Dec 2014 03:20:23 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/12/sierra-leones-worrying-ebola-trend/ Follow @{0} Sierra Leone is seeing higher infection rates than its neighbours FREETOWN, 8 December 2014 (IRIN) – In the week ending 30 November, Sierra Leone reported 537 confirmed Ebola cases, 152 more than the previous week and over four times the combined number of cases in Guinea and Liberia during the same period, according [...]

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]]> IRIN's top reads this week https://www.theinfostride.com/irins-top-reads-this-week/ Mon, 08 Dec 2014 03:20:13 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/12/irins-top-reads-this-week/ Follow @{0} Some of the issues IRIN has reported on this week: HIV, Ebola in prisons, Ethiopian M-farming, Cash Transfers, Afghanistan corruption. DUBAI, 4 December 2014 (IRIN) – Want to stay on top of the current debate around humanitarian and development issues without having to spend hours surfing the web? Welcome to IRIN’s reading list. [...]

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]]> Northeast Nigeria: "Hundreds of thousands have fled" https://www.theinfostride.com/northeast-nigeria-hundreds-of-thousands-have-fled/ Mon, 01 Dec 2014 03:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/12/northeast-nigeria-hundreds-of-thousands-have-fled/ Follow @{0} IDPs from Damboa village in Borno State take refuge at the home of a relative DAKAR, 28 November 2014 (IRIN) – More than 400,000 people in northeastern Nigeria, who have been forced to flee their homes due to ongoing violence by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, are in “urgent need” of assistance, humanitarian [...]

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]]> Mauritania cracks down on land reform activists https://www.theinfostride.com/mauritania-cracks-down-on-land-reform-activists/ Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/11/mauritania-cracks-down-on-land-reform-activists/ Follow @{0} Biram Dah Abeid, the Mauritanian anti-slavery activist, a few days before his arrest NOUAKCHOTT, 21 November 2014 (IRIN) – The latest arrest of a group of prominent anti-slavery activists in Mauritania has once again brought to the fore the country’s struggle with slavery and discrimination based on colour. The Global Slavery Index classifies [...]

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]]> Inside the Ebola hot zone https://www.theinfostride.com/inside-the-ebola-hot-zone/ Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:21:02 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/11/inside-the-ebola-hot-zone/ Your views are important to us. IRIN is currently reviewing its work and we need to understand your views and priorities. Follow @{0} NAIROBI, 13 November 2014 (IRIN) – IRIN has been covering the West African Ebola outbreak since March 2014, producing dozens of articles on many aspects of the crisis, including frontline reportage, critical [...]

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]]> Aid agencies adapt to Ebola challenge https://www.theinfostride.com/aid-agencies-adapt-to-ebola-challenge/ Thu, 06 Nov 2014 03:20:12 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/11/aid-agencies-adapt-to-ebola-challenge/ Follow @{0} Aid agencies say they are being forced to think outside the box when it comes to Ebola prevention and containment DAKAR/FREETOWN, 4 November 2014 (IRIN) – From using Bitcoins to fundraise, to adopting new strategies to prevent malaria victims appearing to be Ebola cases, to working with new partners – aid agencies in [...]

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]]> Ebola workers urge safety, solidarity https://www.theinfostride.com/ebola-workers-urge-safety-solidarity/ Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:20:11 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/10/ebola-workers-urge-safety-solidarity/ Follow @{0} IFRC health worker in a PPE near Kenema, Sierra Leone NAIROBI, 14 October 2014 (IRIN) – Hanna Majanen summed it up best: “It is the things you do automatically that are difficult. People will touch their face, rub their eyes and bite their fingernails. These are the things you forget.” As medical focal [...]

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]]> Close-up to Ebola: Sierra Leone blog https://www.theinfostride.com/close-up-to-ebola-sierra-leone-blog/ Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:20:14 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/10/close-up-to-ebola-sierra-leone-blog/ Follow @{0} Life appears normal on the streets of Kenema. Kenema/Freetown, 10 October 2014 (IRIN) – We set off by jeep from the capital Freetown for Kenema, 240km away. While there are Stop Ebola posters all over the capital, we see very few en route. Every 15 minutes or so we’re stopped at an Ebola [...]

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]]> Ebola effect reverses gains in maternal, child mortality https://www.theinfostride.com/ebola-effect-reverses-gains-in-maternal-child-mortality/ Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:20:14 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/10/ebola-effect-reverses-gains-in-maternal-child-mortality/ Follow @{0} Hawa Natou and her newborn at Kenema Government Hospital MONROVIA/FREETOWN/KENEMA, 8 October 2014 (IRIN) – Maternal and infant deaths in Liberia and Sierra Leone are set to rise above their current alarming rates as fear of Ebola keeps pregnant women away from hospitals and makes already-scarce health workers reluctant to deliver babies. “At [...]

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]]> Dire conditions for Nigerian refugees in Cameroon https://www.theinfostride.com/dire-conditions-for-nigerian-refugees-in-cameroon/ Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/10/dire-conditions-for-nigerian-refugees-in-cameroon/ Follow @{0} Refugees get treatment against diarrhoea and malaria MAROUA, 6 October 2014 (IRIN) – Thousands of Nigerians who have fled attacks by Islamist militant group Boko Haram are crowded into Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon’s Far North Region, living in increasingly squalid conditions and at risk of contracting measles and other diseases, according to [...]

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]]> Ebola and the media – Nigeria’s good news story https://www.theinfostride.com/ebola-and-the-media-nigerias-good-news-story/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 05:15:12 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/10/ebola-and-the-media-nigerias-good-news-story/ A market in Lagos – Ebola could have been so much worse LAGOS, 30 September 2014 (IRIN) – When an Internet message announcing a salt water solution for Ebola went viral in July, many Nigerians were quick to take heed. Twenty people were hospitalized and two died, reportedly from an excessive intake of salt.  Madam [...]

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]]> West Africa gears up to contain Ebola spread https://www.theinfostride.com/west-africa-gears-up-to-contain-ebola-spread/ Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/09/west-africa-gears-up-to-contain-ebola-spread/ Follow @{0} Ebola doctor wearing protective gear (file photo) DAKAR/OUGADOUGOU, 22 September 2014 (IRIN) – As the Ebola caseload rises to over 5,350, aid agencies and governments in countries not yet affected by the deadly virus are gearing up for its potential spread across new borders by pre-positioning supplies, training health workers, identifying isolation centres, [...]

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]]> Ebola's economic impact hits Sierra Leone citizens https://www.theinfostride.com/ebolas-economic-impact-hits-sierra-leone-citizens/ Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:20:11 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/09/ebolas-economic-impact-hits-sierra-leone-citizens/ Follow @{0} A woman waits for customers at a Freetown market FREETOWN, 18 September 2014 (IRIN) – As the World Bank predicts billions of dollars could be drained from Ebola-affected countries by the end of next year, IRIN spoke to Freetown residents to gauge how the crisis was affecting their lives. All sectors of the [...]

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]]> Cameroon border towns no safe haven for Nigerian refugees https://www.theinfostride.com/cameroon-border-towns-no-safe-haven-for-nigerian-refugees/ Thu, 18 Sep 2014 02:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/09/cameroon-border-towns-no-safe-haven-for-nigerian-refugees/ Follow @{0} New arrivals at the Minawao camp MAROUA (CAMEROON), 17 September 2014 (IRIN) – Nigerians fleeing Boko Haram violence at home and seeking refuge in Cameroon border towns are still not safe. Since June over 1,500 Nigerian families have crossed into Cameroon where they are mainly sheltering with host families or in local mosques, [...]

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]]> Liberian Ebola burial teams stressed, traumatized https://www.theinfostride.com/liberian-ebola-burial-teams-stressed-traumatized/ Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/09/liberian-ebola-burial-teams-stressed-traumatized/ Follow @{0} A team trained to bury Ebola victims at work in Liberia (file photo) MONROVIA, 12 September 2014 (IRIN) – As the Ebola death toll mounts in Liberia, burial teams are having to contend with physical risk and trauma as they take charge of safely burying the dead, often in the face of local [...]

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]]> Northern Nigeria: ruined lives https://www.theinfostride.com/northern-nigeria-ruined-lives/ Thu, 11 Sep 2014 02:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2014/09/northern-nigeria-ruined-lives/ Anti-Boko Haram vigilantes now patrol the streets of Maiduguri MAIDUGURI, 4 September 2014 (IRIN) – Thousands have died in the violence in Nigeria’s northeast between Boko Haram insurgents and the security forces, with no end in sight to the bloodletting.  Bombings and shootings by the Salafist group have been countered by extra-judicial murder by the [...]

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]]> Mistrust of government spurs Ebola spread https://www.theinfostride.com/mistrust-of-government-spurs-ebola-spread/ Thu, 04 Sep 2014 02:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2014/09/mistrust-of-government-spurs-ebola-spread/ Lack of trust is fuelling Ebola fear in Liberia NAIROBI, 3 September 2014 (IRIN) – Decades of corruption, deep-rooted mistrust of government and weak public services in Liberia have hastened the spread of the Ebola virus, and much more needs to be done to bridge a communication gap between government and citizens, say civil society [...]

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]]> Silver lining in Ebola gloom https://www.theinfostride.com/silver-lining-in-ebola-gloom/ Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2014/08/silver-lining-in-ebola-gloom/ Follow @{0} Testing for Ebola. A few have overcome the deadly virus DAKAR, 27 August 2014 (IRIN) – Amid the horror of Ebola in West Africa, where more than 1,400 people have died of the disease, a few have found reason to celebrate after recovering from the virulent infection which has no known cure. Current [...]

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]]> Ebola horror hastens use of test drugs https://www.theinfostride.com/ebola-horror-hastens-use-of-test-drugs/ Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:20:08 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2014/08/ebola-horror-hastens-use-of-test-drugs/ Follow @{0} In need of a cure. Ebola test vaccines raise hopes and worries DAKAR, 21 August 2014 (IRIN) – Ebola’s devastation in West Africa has catapulted experimental drugs from labs to patients and shaken up vaccine development, which was hitherto patchy as outbreaks of the virus have tended to be spasmodic and geographically limited. [...]

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]]> A tribute to two Ebola heroes https://www.theinfostride.com/a-tribute-to-two-ebola-heroes/ Thu, 21 Aug 2014 02:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2014/08/a-tribute-to-two-ebola-heroes/ Follow @{0} Ebola has killed dozens of physicians across West Africa DAKAR, 19 August 2014 (IRIN) – Today is World Humanitarian Day when the UN sets out to recognize those who face danger and adversity in order to help others. This year the UN and aid agencies are highlighting humanitarian heroes who have made huge [...]

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]]> Warning over rampaging youth gangs in Abidjan https://www.theinfostride.com/warning-over-rampaging-youth-gangs-in-abidjan/ Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:20:08 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2014/08/warning-over-rampaging-youth-gangs-in-abidjan/ Follow @{0} Restraining protests against insecurity caused by the “microbes” ABIDJAN, 18 August 2014 (IRIN) – Children and teenagers who were drawn into Côte d’Ivoire’s 2010-2011 post-election conflict are joining armed gangs in the commercial capital Abidjan after being abandoned by politicians and others who exploited them at the time, according to local officials who [...]

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]]> Ebola response up but huge gaps remain https://www.theinfostride.com/ebola-response-up-but-huge-gaps-remain/ Thu, 14 Aug 2014 02:20:26 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2014/08/ebola-response-up-but-huge-gaps-remain/ Follow @{0} A health worker extracting blood to test a patient for Ebola DAKAR/MONROVIA, 12 August 2014 (IRIN) – While Ebola treatment and containment efforts are gradually gaining pace in Sierra Leone and Liberia, there are still far too few health workers, contact tracers and community monitors on the ground to keep up with the [...]

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]]> Burkina Faso – heading for a showdown? https://www.theinfostride.com/burkina-faso-heading-for-a-showdown/ Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:20:16 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2014/08/burkina-faso-heading-for-a-showdown/ Follow @{0} Calling for peace. Opposition is growing against plans to abolish presidential term limits OUAGADOUGOU, 11 August 2014 (IRIN) – Burkina Faso’s next elections are not due until November 2015, but political tensions have risen in the past year owing to suspicions that President Blaise Compaoré is looking to prolong his 27-year rule by [...]

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