BAGHDAD, 26 March 2007 (IRIN) - Mohammed Hussein Shureida, 40, sets aside a huge portion of his monthly income to buy water from private tankers and protect his family from waterborne diseases that can result from drinking Iraq’s tap water.
“I nearly lost my six-year old son last summer as he ...
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As you can see we've been busy :-). Welcome to almost final version of the overhaul of Gorilla's Guides. We wanted from the start to give you a smoother running site with easier access to articles a better search easier navigation and so on. We're not finished yet - ...
IRAQ: Fae'ek Ahmed, Iraq, "Helping people can be dangerous"
BAGHDAD, 25 March 2007 (IRIN) - Fae'ek Ahmed, 30 works for a local Iraqi NGO that has been helping displaced families by providing them with essential supplies such as food, clean water, clothes and medicines in the capital, Baghdad, and in neighbouring ...
BAGHDAD, 14 March 2007 (IRIN) - Eight-year-old Ahlaam al-Hasnawi and her three brothers, aged between seven and 13, should be at school but their widowed mother recently demanded they stay at home for fear that they might be killed on the streets of Baghdad or in school. Photo: ...
Kut, March 23 (VOI) – The people in the predominantly Shiite province of Wassit said they could not remember, as occupation of their country entered its fifth year, anything but disasters and woes, the worst of which was the insoluble sectarian problem.Wassit-Occupation (Feature)Iraqis in Wassit say occupation sparked sectarian sentimentsBy ...
Iraq-Nightmare (Feature)War… a nightmare or reality for Iraq ChildrenBy Maha MuhammedBaghdad, March 22, (VOI) - On an Iraqi morning Khaled, 11 years old, went, as he used to do everyday, to the nearby school in central Baghdad. What was unusual this time was by the end of the first lesson ...
BAQOUBA, 22 March 2007 (IRIN) - Relentless violence in the Sunni-dominated province of Diyala, about 60km north-east of the capital, Baghdad, has hampered the delivery of humanitarian assistance to displaced families and has paralysed life there, local officials said.
Photo: Saeed Kudaimati/IRIN
A map of Iraq highlighting Diyala province and ...
Iraq-Structure (Feature)
Iraq’s social structure suffers a lot after four years of invasion
By Nazzar al-Radi
Missan, March 21, (VOI) - The changes that swept Iraq following the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 have affected more or less all walks of life and have seemingly started to erode the once coherent society.
The winds ...
They survived the bomb. Five of their relatives were wounded the explosion killed their father. The attack was yesterday, March 21st 2007, in Kirkuk.
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This photograph is the perfect metaphor for what America has done to our children's lives. The photograph was taken on today March 21st 2007 in al-Shula Baghdad. The British news paper "The Guardian" has published a link to one of a series of video reports that they are producing in partnership with ...
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