Humanitarian Analysis
Plugging the health worker brain drain
JOHANNESBURG, 10 June 2011 (IRIN Africa) - The global shortage of health workers is estimated at 4.2 million by the World Health Organization (WHO), but the migration of doctors, nurses, midwives and pharmacists from poor to rich countries means the shortfall is not evenly distributed - of the 57 nations identified as having reached a crisis point, 36 are in sub-Saharan Africa. full report
Analysis: New laws have little impact on sexual violence in DRC
BUKAVU, 7 June 2011 (IRIN Africa) - Five years after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) revised its laws against sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), these crimes continue to go unpunished because of judicial inaction and a legal culture at odds with the changes. The laws, ignored and misinterpreted, have left escalating numbers of sexual violence survivors unprotected, and perpetrators free to violate again. full report
Analysis: Warnings and ructions over DRC polls
KINSHASA, 1 June 2011 (IRIN Africa) - The second democratic presidential election in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), scheduled for 28 November, runs the risk of further destabilizing the country because of preparation delays and potential constitutional contradictions, say analysts and observers. full report
Analysis: Sex abuse in Kenyan schools
MIGORI/NAIROBI, 30 May 2011 (IRIN Africa) - Since discovering that her 13-year-old daughter was pregnant about a month ago, Juanita* has paid several visits to the local chief in her village in western Kenya, seeking justice for her daughter and punishment for the man who abused her. full report
Analysis: IDPs as political pawns in Kenya
NAIROBI/NAKURU, 26 May 2011 (IRIN Africa) - Belonging to the “wrong” ethnic group in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province cost Milka Wanjiru her home, her farm and her shop. After elections in 1992, the mother of 11 lost it all to looters and arsonists. full report
Analysis: 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
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