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IRIN Radio gives a voice to vulnerable communities and provides them with information to make better-informed decisions about their own lives. IRIN Radio produces high-quality programming in local languages on humanitarian issues, ready for broadcast by local stations. The service also provides hands-on training to journalists, developing their production and reporting skills, allowing local radio to serve communities more effectively.
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SOMALIA: IRIN Radio - Thursday 24th July 2008
In today's programme - Dhegayso barnaamijka maanta
· Hargeisa: Residents give aid to mental hospital
· Mogadishu: Food and fuel price rises bite
· Marka: Children affected by diarrhoea
· Nairobi: Hiran Governor calls on communities to support aid activities
· Sanag: Traditional elders fail to secure release of German hostages
· Feature: Life of street children in Mogadishu
| Duration: 30:00 |
AFGHANISTAN: Insurgency, insecurity threaten health progress
 Up to 100,000 Afghans have been deprived of access to basic health services due to attacks on health workers and health clinics in different parts of the country during last four months, according to the Ministry of Pulic Health. The new figure is in addition to the over 300,000 people who last year lost access to primary health facilities, mostly in the volatile south and southeast. IRIN's Ahmad Zia Entezar reports… | Duration: 03:31 |
AFGHANISTAN: Nine new polio cases in south
 Nine new cases of polio have been reported in Afghanistan's volatile southern provinces where insecurity has deprived thousands of people of basic health services, according to the Ministry of Public Health. Health officials said their efforts to eradicate poliovirus in the country have been affected by rampant insecurity, lack of public awareness and gaps in immunisation efforts. IRIN's Noorullah Stanikzai reports… | Duration: 05:16 |
SOMALIA: IRIN Radio - Wednesday 23rd July 2008
In today's programme - Dhegayso barnaamijka maanta:
· Kismayo: 25 people killed in clan clashes
· Mogadishu: Millions suffer insecurity, drought, and poverty
· Mogadishu: Conflict increases cases of mental disorder
· Marka: Education problems of IDPs
· Beletwein: Hostilities affect women and livelihoods
· Bosaso: Pirates seize a Japanese vessel
· Feature: Life for displaced people in Mogadishu camps
| Duration: 30:00 |
AFGHANISTAN: Wheat for locusts plan turns sour
 Hundreds of people in northwestern Afghanistan are annoyed with the authorities for allegedly failing to give them promised wheat aid in return for dead locusts. After locusts swarmed into Badghis Province in early April damaging crops, people were told that for each kilogram of dead locusts they delivered to a specified government department they would receive 7kg of wheat. According to provincial government officials, within 15 days of the launch of the programme - announced by the Afghanistan National Disasters Management Authority (ANDMA) -people had handed over thousands of kilos of dead locusts. IRIN's Ahmad Zia Entezar reports… | Duration: 03:45 |
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