| 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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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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How To: Rescue people trapped in a collapsed building |  NAIROBI, 8 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - When an earthquake strikes a town, or a building is levelled by an explosion, news footage invariably shows search and rescue teams trawling through the rubble looking for survivors. But what does it take to rescue people trapped under tons of concrete?
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IRAQ: Welcome move to upgrade Baghdad slums |  BAGHDAD, 30 July 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Slum dwellers and local NGOs have welcomed the partnership between the government and the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) to improve service delivery, reduce poverty and create employment in slums.
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AFRICA: Military munitions storage increasingly unstable |  JOHANNESBURG, 14 July 2009 (IRIN Global) - The growing number of accidental explosions in military arms and ammunition storage facilities across Africa has highlighted the need for minimum standards in stockpile management in the continent, says a South Africa-based think-tank.
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GLOBAL: Urban poor and hungry burgeoning unnoticed |  JOHANNESBURG, 13 July 2009 (IRIN Global) - The number of poor and food-insecure people in developing countries is increasing more quickly in urban areas than in rural areas, and could be dropping off the policy radar, says new research by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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GLOBAL: UK donor policy stokes concern of overpromising |  DAKAR, 8 July 2009 (IRIN Global) - Aid analysts applaud the “courage” of the UK government’s just-released development policy paper (link), which detailed plans to allocate at least half of all new bilateral funding to fragile states, but question how the government can do the job well without shrinking other aid commitments.
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AFRICA: Urbanisation, poverty reduction take centre-stage in ACP conference |  NAIROBI, 8 June 2009 (IRIN Global) - More than 200 delegates have arrived in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, for the first joint conference of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Group of Countries (ACP) focusing on the challenges of urbanisation and poverty reduction for millions of slum dwellers.
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In Brief: World Water Forum kicks off in Istanbul | ISTANBUL, 16 March 2009 (IRIN Global) - Over 23,000 participants from some 180 countries have gathered in the Turkish commercial capital of Istanbul to attend the world’s largest water-related event, the 5th World Water Forum, 16-22 March.
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