Displaced CAR youths in Chad desperate for school

A volunteer teacher holds a class under the trees in Doyaba transit camp in Sarh, southern Chad, May 2014. Some 3,200 primary and pre-primary school age children are enrolled in the school, set up by displaced teachers from CAR.

photo: gnata salomon yngamaye/UNICEF©

 
(IRIN) DOYABA/SIDDHO/N’DJAMENA, May 27, 2014 - Some 40,900 children and thousands more youths displaced by the violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) are stuck in transit camps in southern Chad with no formal school to attend, few to no training opportunities, and no jobs, leaving them with no sense of what the future will bring.

IU, Paradigm team up to test genomic sequencing for women with aggressive form of breast cancer

(PRN) INDIANAPOLIS, May 20, 2014 - Indiana University cancer researchers are testing whether therapy incorporating advanced genomic technology will provide better outcomes than current treatments for those with an aggressive form of breast cancer.

Chasing bullets in the DRC

An investigator with the NGO, Conflict Armaments Research, sifts through bullets left behind at an armed group's base, after the DRC national army over ran the position in the Virunga National Park. photo: guy oliver/IRIN©
 
(IRIN) VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, May 13, 2014 - Her job is to track and trace small arms and ammunition in Africa’s conflict zones.

Global sugar demand leaves Cambodian farmers landless

A farmer cuts sugar cane at a plantation of Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia. Thousands of people have been forced off their land to make room for sugar production, activists say.
photo: thomas cristofoletti/IRIN©

 
(IRIN) PHNOM PENH, May 12, 2013 - Song Kong, a 56-year-old farmer in Cambodia's southern Koh Kong Province, vividly recalls the day in 2006 when a bulldozer arrived and began clearing his paddy field to make room for a sugar plantation. Since then, life has become much worse for him and 456 other families who also lost their land in Sre Ambel District.

Blacks in U.S. more likely to receive unnecessary and dangerous surgical blood transfusions, UAlbany study finds

Overuse of blood transfusions, a study concluded, may pose serious health risks, specifically in black patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery and total hip replacement surgical procedures. photo: abhi ahmadadeen/BMLTV©

(PRN/USN) ALBANY, N.Y., May 9, 2014 - Black patients in the United States are more likely to receive perioperative red blood cell (RBC) transfusions for two of three frequently performed surgical procedures, posing a risk for favorable outcomes, a study by University at Albany School of Public Health researcher Feng Qian finds.

Drug policy shift no panacea for victims of the war

Mexican woman points gun in light of showing no fear in order to protect herself in the midst of the drug war in her region.  photo: nacho betancourt©
 
(IRIN) NEW YORK, May 9, 2014 - Easing up on drug prohibition will not solve the plight of the thousands of people displaced by the drug wars in Colombia, Mexico and other countries.