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Questions over failure to contain protests that left at least 12 dead.
Senior Basra official says IWPR stories on social, economic and cultural issues in region will concentrate minds of authorities.
Radio stations, newspapers reproducing more IWPR articles.
Residents now even warned against holding banquets to mark Prophet Mohammed’s birthday.
High turnout expected as Sunni Arabs seek to wrest control of Kurdish-dominated provincial council.
Ethnic tensions may exist, but local leaders say they won’t let extremists divide the population.
Unarmed and exposed, female officers face uphill struggle in dangerous profession.
Residents of Mazar-e-Sharif suffer ill effects of polluted environment caused by urban expansion on land seized by warlords.
Series of probing reports expose problems facing development work in northern Uganda.