| PAKISTAN: Reaching flood victims by truck, mule and chopper |
 ISLAMABAD, 27 August 2010 (IRIN Asia) - Getting food and other aid to eight million or more people in urgent need is a logistical challenge. Based on World Food Programme (WFP) costs and times, IRIN takes a look at the main options for transporting 100 tons of food 100km.
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SRI LANKA: IDP returns nearing completion |  JAFFNA, 27 August 2010 (IRIN Asia) - Almost 90 percent of the internally displaced in Sri Lanka have returned to their homes or are staying with host families, the government says.
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NIGER: Almost 200,000 displaced by floods |  DAKAR, 27 August 2010 (IRIN Africa) - Further heavy rains in Niger have caused the number of people displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 last week to 198,740 this week, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which is calling on donors and aid agencies to urgently send shelter materials, blankets and mosquito nets.
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In Brief: Chad under water |  DAKAR, 27 August 2010 (IRIN Global) - Flooding across Chad has destroyed homes, crops, livestock, wells and latrines in communities already pummelled by food shortages and high malnutrition, according to the UN.
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SUDAN: Fear of LRA causes thousands to flee in Western Equatoria |  NZARA, 23 August 2010 (IRIN Africa) - Armed attacks blamed on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Southern Sudan’s Western Equatoria State have displaced thousands of civilians and undermined food security, say local and UN officials.
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SUDAN: Referendum will "increase humanitarian needs" |  JUBA, 19 August 2010 (IRIN Africa) - Humanitarian needs in Southern Sudan, where some 4.3m people already need food assistance and fewer than one in 10 earns more than US$1 a day, are likely to escalate after next year’s referendum on secession, says a government minister.
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YEMEN: Food aid delays hit IDPs in Amran Governorate |  AMRAN, 17 August 2010 (IRIN Middle East) - Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the northern Yemeni governorate of Amran, including 1,800 in the governorate’s only IDP camp, Khaiwan, have been hit by food aid delivery delays, according to aid workers.
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PAKISTAN: Aid scrums hard on weakest |  MULTAN, 17 August 2010 (IRIN Asia) - At a relief camp near the southern Punjab city of Multan, two boys, not yet in their teens, share a small plate of rice. “This is the first time we have eaten in over a day,” Shahid Muhammad, 12, told IRIN. He has been looking after his younger brother, Inamullah, 10, since the two were separated from their parents and two sisters three days ago.
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SUDAN: Aid agencies granted access to Kalma amid expulsions |  NAIROBI, 17 August 2010 (IRIN Africa) - Fourteen days after Sudanese authorities cut off aid to Kalma, the largest internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in South Darfur, three international NGOs and UN agencies (the UN Children’s Fund, World Food Programme and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA) have been allowed to re-enter the settlement.
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SUDAN: Thousands struggle to survive as Kalma aid cut off |  NAIROBI, 12 August 2010 (IRIN Africa) - Aid agencies are still barred from Kalma, the largest settlement for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sudan’s Southern Darfur State, 10 days after the government blocked the UN and NGOs from distributing food and medical aid to an estimated 82,000 IDPs.
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