| LIBERIA: Disease rife as more people squeeze into fewer toilets |
 MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services. On 19 November, World Toilet Day, NGOs are calling on the government to up its allocation, and on international donors to reprioritize funding to stamp out cholera and cut child mortality.
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LIBERIA: “The new war is rape” |  MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served.
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EGYPT: Out of the slum and into joblessness |  CAIRO, 17 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - When government workmen came in a truck to take Ahmed Mohamed’s furniture to his new home just outside Cairo, the 32-year-old fisherman was overjoyed: His dream of quitting the slum where he had lived for years seemed to be coming true.
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ETHIOPIA: Bright lights, big city is high risk for students |  ADDIS ABABA, 2 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - Being a university freshman is an exciting time for any young person, but many students get carried away, partying too hard and taking sexual risks.
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ZIMBABWE: Homeless put their hope in handmade bricks |  BULAWAYO, 28 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - The use of handmade bricks is revolutionizing housing in Chinhoyi, 120km north of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, where housing estates built by poor people have mushroomed in a development that has caught the attention of the housing ministry.
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Timeline of key political events |  BISSAU, 27 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Below is a timeline of key political events to take place since the formation of the PAIGC political party in 1956.
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ETHIOPIA: Increased condom use among sex workers but more education needed |  ADDIS ABABA, 23 October 2009 (PlusNews Global) - With non-skilled jobs in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, paying as little as US$16 per month, the financial incentives to engage in commercial sex work are overwhelming - earning 30 times a domestic worker’s salary.
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EGYPT: Swine flu risk for Cairo’s overcrowded schools |  CAIRO, 22 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - The Egyptian ministries of health and education have ordered all schools in Cairo to halve the number of children in each class to mitigate the possible spread of H1N1 influenza - no small challenge in this overcrowded city of 20 million.
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YEMEN: Dengue cases on the rise in Taiz city |  SANAA, 16 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Hundreds of people in Taiz city, 250km south of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, have dengue fever and local hospitals are taking in new cases on a daily basis, according to health officials.
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Fighting crime without police or prisons |  BISSAU, 16 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Loosening organized crime’s grip on Guinea-Bissau is a priority, top government officials say. But the country has no prisons and the Bijagos islands, a drug-trafficking hub off the coast of the capital Bissau, has no judiciary police officers and no communications or surveillance equipment.
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