Truth and consequences in Kenya
NAIROBI, 23 May 2011 (IRIN Africa) - Almost three years after it was created as part of efforts to avert the kind of violence that rocked Kenya after elections in 2007, a landmark truth commission has only recently got off the ground. But some activists fear it is a paper tiger. full report
Analysis: Doubts over role of cash transfers in women's empowerment
BANGKOK, 6 May 2011 (IRIN Global) - Doubts are emerging over whether cash transfers, designed to strengthen local markets, also empower women and change gender roles in emergencies. full report
Analysis: Deadly policing
JOHANNESBURG, 29 April 2011 (IRIN Africa) - On 13 April millions of South Africans saw news footage showing a group of police beating an unarmed protester with batons in Meqheleng, a township outside Ficksburg in South Africa’s Free State Province. full report
Analysis: Conflict leads to Afghan displacement, but which side most to blame?
KABUL, 21 April 2011 (IRIN Asia) - One irony of the current security situation in Afghanistan is that foreign forces, whose ostensible aim is to protect civilians while fighting the Taliban, may be responsible - directly or indirectly - for the bulk of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country, whose number is rising. full report
Analysis: Subsidies not the only answer for Malawi's farmers
EKWENDENI, 19 April 2011 (IRIN Africa) - It is almost harvest time in Mzimba district, northern Malawi, but Saliet Nyasulu's maize crop looks dry and stunted and it will be hard to feed herself and her three children this year. "[The maize] won't last until next harvest," she told IRIN. "I'll have to do piece-work and grow some vegetables by the river." full report
Analysis: Afghan police - civilians or combatants?
KABUL, 7 April 2011 (IRIN Asia) - Discrepancies in the number of civilian casualties of war in Afghanistan and the varying levels of blame attributed to warring parties by the UN and human rights organizations could, in part, be due to different interpretations of the legal status of the Afghan National Police (ANP). full report
Analysis: Republic of South Sudan faces precarious start
JUBA, 1 April 2011 (IRIN Africa) - A resurgence of internal armed opposition in Southern Sudan illustrates that the birth of this new independent nation, scheduled for 9 July, will be marked not only by celebrations of long-fought liberation from the North, but also by anxiety about the government’s ability to maintain peace and stability across a vast and ethnically diverse region. full report
Analysis: Yemen, a revolution interrupted?
SANA'A, 4 March 2011 (IRIN Middle East) - Heyel Habdul’s cramped two-room apartment is at the top of a dark staircase in a scruffy district of unfinished buildings and tiny tenements in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a. full report
Analysis: Concerns over rising violence in West Bank
RAMALLAH, 28 February 2011 (IRIN Middle East) - Violence between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in the West Bank appears to be worsening, say UN agencies, NGOs, and the Israeli and Palestinian communities living there. full report
Analysis: Girls’ education in Afghanistan - a new beginning?
KABUL, 17 February 2011 (IRIN Asia) - Girls can attend separate schools provided students and teachers wear the hijab, and the curriculum and education environment are in keeping with religious and cultural values, Taliban commanders have told elders in southern Afghanistan. full report
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