Sent back by Australia to debt in Sri Lanka ...

Today's humanitarian news and analysis  Online version Sent back by Australia to debt in Sri Lanka     Vaithilingam Lingarajan spent the war years plying the seas off the northern coast of Sri Lanka in his small fishing boat. It was only once the conflict ended that he decided to flee the country, making a failed bid for Australia that has left him destitute and facing possible criminal charges. Read on   Malawi's hunger season     It's mid-morning on a dusty road to Lisungwi market in Neno, southern Malawi, and Bertha Cham'bwinja is sitting under the shade of an acacia tree resting from the scorching sun, a 20-kg bag of maize by her side. "It has been extremely hot this January," she says. The rains should have begun around December, but this is an El Niño year and the skies have been alarmingly clear. Read on   The Aegean's nameless dead     Migrants who reach the Greek island of Ikaria rarely arrive there alive. Read on   How the LRA still haunts northern Uganda     In 2006, northern Uganda was nearing the end of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army insurgency. Some 1.8 million people had been displaced and tens of thousands kidnapped, mutilated or killed. Ten years later, the region appears rejuvenated: a bustling trade and business centre with buildings shooting up and a renewed sense of optimism. However, scratch beneath the surface and you find an unequal recovery and plenty of hidden scars. Read on   More news and analysis Copyright © 2016 IRIN, All rights reserved.     Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list delivered to:  giftforfamily.giftforyou3@blogger.com