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FIGHTING CHOLERA IN CAMEROON

ByunniMay 5, 2011

The clock is ticking on dealing with the deadly cholera outbreak that has swept through Cameroon. Public health officials say that the outbreak this year has claimed 135 lives. Almost three-quarters of the total 4,122 cases have occurred in areas close to the capital,

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TSUNAMI’S CHILDREN

ByunniMarch 24, 2011

An aid worker’s first-hand account of how the children of Japan are coping SENDAI AND TOKYO – The name of the kindergarten is Sakuragi Hanazamo, or, translated into English, Cherry Blossom Tree. It’s in Tagajo, 20 km from Sendai. On any other day, it should

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GAZA: “THERE IS SO MUCH IN THIS LAND WORTH LIVING FOR”

ByunniFebruary 18, 2009

Gaza: At the Omar Khattab Primary School north of Gaza, you will see the devastation only in the bombed out structures, the twisted steel and rubble. There is something the Israeli F-16s screaming overhead can not stamp out. The smiles and the chatter, and the loud little

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GAZA: LIVING THROUGH A NIGHTMARE

ByunniFebruary 17, 2009

Gaza: The reality hits you fast. And it hits you hard. The moment you set foot in Gaza, you see destruction everywhere. Junk concrete material – that is all what is remaining of places where homes and schools stood till a few days ago. All are gone. It is not that

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HEALTH-AFGHANISTAN: War Trauma Continues to Take Heavy Toll

ByunniJuly 22, 2003

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Jul 21 2003 : Staring blankly out of a window in the Shafakhan Mulki Hospital here, Munira (not her real name) contemplates an uncertain future in a country torn by a quarter century of superpower meddling and civil strife. This mother of four

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CRY MY BELOVED COUNTRY

ByunniSeptember 30, 2002

Photo: Unnikrishnan Endramaya (60), a migrant casual labourer carrying on his back his wife, Lakhamma (50), her broken right leg in a plaster cast. Lakhamma is also a migrant worker, and she was injured in an accident in the outskirts of Bangalore two weeks earlier. The