Humanitarian Information Management

IRIN

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Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) is the United Nations News service which concentrates on sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Based in Nairobi, it has several more local offices.

Since 1995, when OCHA founded it, partly in response to the role of the media in Rwanda, the service has grown to include produce radio and film and photo archives, there is an AIDS network.

IRIN supplies about half of the news to a comparable service, Reuters Alertnet.