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DRC-UGANDA: Anti-LRA offensive could backfire - activists
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23KAMPALA Monday, December 15, 2008 (IRIN) - Peace activists in northern Uganda have criticised a weekend air and ground assault by the armed forces of Uganda, Southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) against several Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) camps in north-eastern DRC.
DRC: Guns into greenbacks
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23KINSHASA Monday, December 15, 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds of people in Kinshasa have handed over illegal weapons for cash and cloth in a no-questions-asked campaign to reduce crime in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
CONGO: Red Cross sets sights on cholera
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23BRAZZAVILLE Friday, December 12, 2008 (IRIN) - The lack of clean drinking water and proper hygiene fuelled the spread of cholera in the south and southwest of the Republic of Congo, says the Congolese Red Cross, which has just completed a campaign to teach people how to recognise and stem the spread of the disease.
BURUNDI: Not yet out of the woods
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23BUJUMBURA Thursday, December 11, 2008 (IRIN) - The agreement by Burundi’s last rebel group to change an unconstitutional ethnic reference in its name and move its forces into assembly sites takes the country significantly closer to peace but still leaves much to be done, according to analysts.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Mabelle Kpawilina, "AIDS in Sam Ouandja is worse than in Bangui"
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23SAM OUANDJA Thursday, December 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Mabelle Kpawilina, 22, is the only HIV-positive patient known to be taking antiretroviral (ARV) medication in Sam Ouandja, a mining town in the northeast of the Central African Republic, where the prevalence rate is 7.4 percent. She told her story to IRIN/PlusNews.
AFRICA: Tell us more – Children call for sex education
Tue, 01/20/2009 - 02:53DAKAR Thursday, December 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Children in sub-Saharan Africa want to know more about sex and how to protect themselves from HIV, but taboos surrounding children's sexuality can mean life-saving information is kept from them, according to an international NGO.
CAR: Think-tank warns of heightened risk of violence as key talks open
Tue, 01/20/2009 - 02:53NAIROBI Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (IRIN) - The Central African Republic (CAR) could return to widespread armed conflict if important talks that began this week stray from the theme of democratisation and transitional justice, the International Crisis Group has warned.
BURUNDI: Mixed response to new penal code
Tue, 01/20/2009 - 02:53BUJUMBURA Tuesday, December 09, 2008 (IRIN) - Legislators in Burundi have won praise for approving a penal code that would abolish capital punishment, outlaw torture and domesticate crimes against humanity such as genocide.
DRC: Sexual abuse of minors doubles in Kasai Occidental town
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13KINSHASA Friday, December 05, 2008 (IRIN) - A sharp increase in the sexual abuse of children – some as young as four months old - has been recorded this year in Kananga, the main town in Kasai Occidental, according to child rights activists, who attribute the increase to local superstitions.
CONGO: Majority of cancer patients die within a year of diagnosis
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13BRAZZAVILLE Thursday, December 04, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 70 percent of patients diagnosed with cancer in the Republic of Congo die within 12 months of screening because treatment facilities are expensive and inadequate, health specialists said.
BURUNDI: Government, health officials seek to resolve strike
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13BUJUMBURA Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (IRIN) - The government and senior health officials have started discussions to end a strike by staff that has crippled health services across the country, sources said.
CONGO: Government moves to curb food inflation "taking time"
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13BRAZZAVILLE Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (IRIN) - Government measures aimed at reducing the cost of staple commodities in the Republic of Congo, where salaries have remained unchanged for years, have failed to stem food inflation. Many people have been forced to change their diets, which has had an adverse impact on health.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Living in fear after rebel attack
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13SAM OUANDJA Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - The residents of this town near the Sudanese border are on edge, fearful that rebel fighters will repeat a recent assault that caused three-quarters of the population to flee in panic.
BURUNDI: Patients suffer as health workers' strike continues
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13BUJUMBURA Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - A weeklong strike by health workers in Burundi has cut services in key hospitals to a bare minimum, with patients complaining of neglect.
In Brief: Grim outlook for Central African Republic's children
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13NAIROBI Thursday, November 27, 2008 (IRIN) - Untreated trauma from seeing the killing of relatives, kidnapping by bandits or forced recruitment into armed groups, hunger and disease: these are among the problems experienced by thousands of internally displaced children in the Central African Republic, according to a new report.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Mahamat Oumar Ismael, "Go back to Darfur? Not even in my dreams"
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13SAM OUANDJA Wednesday, November 26, 2008 (IRIN) - Mahamat Oumar Ismael is one of 3,000 Sudanese refugees who fled the conflict in Darfur and have lived since 2007 in camps near Sam Ouandja, in the northeast Central African Republic. Security, he told IRIN, is the absolute priority for his family and the other refugees in the camp.
BURUNDI: Cholera outbreak affects 42 in northwest
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13BUJUMBURA Wednesday, November 26, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 42 people have been afflicted in an outbreak of cholera in the northwestern province of Cibitoke, according to health officials.
DRC-ZAMBIA: Kivu fighting slows refugee repatriation
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13LUSAKA Wednesday, November 26, 2008 (IRIN) - Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is jeopardising a voluntary repatriation programme for Congolese refugees in neighbouring Zambia, a senior UN refugee agency (UNHCR) official has said.
CONGO: Financial crisis threatens timber jobs
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13BRAZZAVILLE Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Guy-Blaise Bakala, a timber worker in Pointe-Noire in the south of the Republic of Congo, has been sleeping badly since his bosses first announced they would have to let some workers go because the financial crisis is hitting the key timber sector.
DRC: Fears for IDP safety following camp attack
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 03:13KINSHASA Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Fears for the safety of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have escalated after the weekend shooting of a civilian in Kibati camp, North Kivu province, in the east.
