Dozens of families have been leaving villages near the Iraq-Turkey border since 21 October, joining the hundreds who have already fled the area as tension rises between Turkish-Kurdish rebels and the Turkish army, local officials say.

Quoted: NAIROBI, 17 October 2007 (IRIN) - Dozens of heavily armed government security officials detained the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) office in Mogadishu, ...

Quoted: IRIN interviewed President Isaias Afewerki in Asmara, on 1 October. Eritrea and the Horn of Africa in general remain chronically vulnerable in humanitarian terms due ...

Quoted: Lebanon is a sliver of Mediterranean coast with a population of just four million, but international interest in the election is intense. The USA and Saudi Arabia lead most of the international community in backing Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

"The USA is interested in Lebanon for several reasons, including keeping Lebanon as a democratic success story and putting pressure on Syria," said Oussama Safa, head of the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies. "And the US does not want the opposition to get any mileage out of this election, especially Hezbollah."

A film by Azeri journalist Madina Nik-Najat, titled "The Bug-gobblers", unravels how conflicts begin, and the role of seemingly irrelevant differences in behaviour.

The lives of thousands of young Azeris and Armenians have been scarred by the bitter conflict over a mountainous region whose name means "Black Garden".

Quoted: Young journalists from Nagorno-Karabakh shed light on a still unresolved conflict that has shaped their lives.

If any war is justifiable sure enough this is not one of them!! I wonder how Bush sleeps at night >>>

Quoted: “My mum told me that my brother is going to tell God that we need peace and he will hear him - I’m sure he will. And when that happens I will be outside again, playing football with my friends, who will come back from abroad.”

“Now it is only the government who can prevent further displacement and inter-ethnic tensions between people of the hills and the Terai,” said Pradeep Jha, protection officer from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

Quoted: “The situation is very serious. The new displacement is not being publicised and could have serious humanitarian consequences,” Vincent Omuga, humanitarian affairs officer with the ...

Nour, who was recently made WFO president after the previous president, Senar Muhammad, was killed by religious zealots on 17 May, said the WFO’s effectiveness was being restricted by the day.

Quoted: Haifaa Nour, 33-year-old president of the Women’s Freedom Organisation (WFO), one of the few women’s rights organisations in Iraq, said the threatening letters she had ...

A great video illustrating how cluster bombs not only have put lives at risk, but the livelyhood of Lebanese. For many Lebanese in southern Lebanon a normal life remains a distant reality.

Quoted: In July 2006, war reared its ugly head once more in Lebanon when Hezbollah fighters stole across the border and kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.

Israel’s response was immediate and furious. Huge amounts of ordnance were dropped on southern Lebanon leaving village after village in ruins. Hezbollah responded by firing hundreds of rockets into civilian areas of northern Israel. But the cruelest legacy of the conflict was the widespread use of cluster bombs by Israel – an estimated one million of which now sit unexploded on the ground, lying in wait for the unsuspecting. Ninety percent of them were dropped in the last 72 hours of the conflict when the ceasefire was imminent. Children in particular are at risk.