Your daily selection of IRIN Africa English reports, 3/20/2015

	humanitarian news and analysis

Table of contents 1. Women and malnutrition – the case of South Sudan 2. What you need to know about DRR 3. Beyond the outbreak: leading expert on what the Ebola crisis can teach us 4. Going cold Turkey: African migrants in Istanbul see hopes turn sour 5. Ebola and HIV: how to change behaviour for the long term Women and malnutrition – the case of South Sudan KODOK, 18 March 2015 (IRIN) - Pregnant breastfeeding women are the demographic group most at risk of malnutrition in South Sudan after children, making up some 12 percent of all those on supplementary feeding programmes. Read report online What you need to know about DRR NAIROBI, 18 March 2015 (IRIN) - A new global plan to prepare for future natural and climate-linked disasters agreed in Sendai, Japan today has been condemned by development NGOs as lacking in ambition and short-changing poorer countries that are most at risk. Read report online Beyond the outbreak: leading expert on what the Ebola crisis can teach us LONDON, 19 March 2015 (IRIN) - What lessons can be drawn from the Ebola crisis? Epidemiologist Jimmy Whitworth talks to IRIN about treatment, prevention, "research windows," and how little has changed since an 1854 cholera epidemic. Read report online Going cold Turkey: African migrants in Istanbul see hopes turn sour ISTANBUL, 20 March 2015 (IRIN) - In a nondescript cafe in one of Istanbul's more rundown neighbourhoods, migrants from Africa watch a Congolese soccer match as Afro-pop music blasts in the background. Read report online Ebola and HIV: how to change behaviour for the long term NAIROBI, 20 March 2015 (IRIN) - There have been no new Ebola infections in Liberia in the past three weeks, but it's still far too early to say the virus has been defeated – Liberia's borders are porous and its neighbours have been less successful in taming their outbreaks. Read report online

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