INTERVIEW-Is Somalia safe from another famine?
Somalia needs assistance even in a bumper harvest year, according to official from FAO's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit
INTERVIEW-Politics of famine: is the f-word being overused?
"It's not right to just declare a famine without the evidence" - chief technical officer at FAO's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit
Rwanda aims to turn a threat into a power supply
Tapping trapped methane in the bottom of Lake Kivu could vastly expand access to power, and reduce the country's disaster risk
New Somalia violence puts 400,000 civilians at risk - Oxfam
Military offensive in densely populated region forces thousands to flee and hampers famine recovery efforts, says Oxfam
Nepal ex-police chiefs, Briton convicted for graft in UN deal
A court in Nepal has convicted three former police chiefs of embezzling millions of dollars of public funds while procuring military hardware
S.Asia doing worst on UN development goals - ADB official
South Asian nations are making the least progress in the Asia-Pacific region on meeting MDGs, an Asian Development Bank official says
INTERVIEW - Shocking numbers of S. Asian children go to bed hungry
"It isn't right, in this day and age, for children to be going to bed hungry. It doesn't have to be that way," says Save the Children head
Durable solutions to long-term displaced
Finally people who fled up to 20 years ago can have a safe place to stay. In northern Somalia, NRC assists displaced people to build their own permanent homes through a unique project with local authorities.
Biogas expansion protecting incomes, forests in rural Bangladesh
With plenty of livestock and microcredit access, a $19 million biogas push is moving ahead
Study shows ties between sanitation and child, maternal mortality
A new study shows a relationship between unsafe water and sanitation and child death rates and maternal mortality, researchers say