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DRC: Agencies unable to reach thousands displaced in North Kivu
Mon, 10/27/2008 - 22:28KINSHASA Wednesday, October 08, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of people who fled renewed fighting in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, between government forces and the rebel Congrès National pour la defense du people, have yet to be located by aid agencies, a medical charity said.
BURUNDI: Fighting for land
Mon, 10/27/2008 - 22:28BUJUMBURA Monday, October 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of Burundians have returned home after years of refugee life in Tanzania, but finding shelter and enough land to farm remains a challenge.
RWANDA: Rains wreak havoc
Mon, 10/27/2008 - 22:28KIGALI Monday, October 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Torrential rains have caused extensive flooding, destroying homes and crops in Rwanda's western and northern regions, according to officials.
DRC: Diarrhoea outbreak kills IDPs in North Kivu
Mon, 10/27/2008 - 22:28KINSHASA Monday, October 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Scores of people have died while hundreds have been affected by an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in internally displaced people’s camps in North Kivu Province.
DRC: "Save eastern peace process from collapse"
Mon, 10/27/2008 - 22:28NAIROBI Friday, October 03, 2008 (IRIN) - The international community must exert pressure on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government and ensure a "more impartial" UN peacekeeping mission to avoid a total collapse of the peace process in the east, a think-tank has warned.
DRC: Army sends reinforcements after militia attacks
Mon, 10/27/2008 - 22:28BUNIA Friday, October 03, 2008 (IRIN) - The Congolese army has sent reinforcements to Ituri in the northeast after several attacks by suspected militia from the rebel Front de Résistance Patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), sources said.
CONGO: "Irresponsible officials" put patients at risk
Mon, 10/27/2008 - 22:28BRAZZAVILLE Wednesday, October 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Health officials in some hospitals in Congo are putting patients' lives at risk by engaging in unethical practices, local human rights groups have warned.
RWANDA: Turning ex-child soldiers into able citizens
Mon, 10/27/2008 - 22:28KIGALI Tuesday, September 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Evariste Nzamurambaho, recruited into the Forces démocratiques pour la libération du Rwanda militia at the age of 12, is still haunted by the experience.
GLOBAL: "Hot topic" - special journal issue on climate and migration reviewed
Sun, 10/26/2008 - 00:15JOHANNESBURG Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - The October issue of the Forced Migration Review (FMR), a journal published three times a year by Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, is a 38-article buffet on climate change and displacement, a “hot topic” according to Jean-Francois Durieux, a lecturer at the centre.
DRC: Thousands flee LRA attacks on northeastern villages
Sun, 10/26/2008 - 00:15BUNIA Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 17,000 civilians have been displaced after attacks by the Ugandan rebel Lord Resistance Army (LRA) militia in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and cannot access humanitarian aid, according to a UN official.
MALI: When the world’s deserts flood
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:45DAKAR Friday, October 10, 2008 (IRIN) - In August floods loosened the dry caked Sahelian earth in Gao, northern Mali, affecting more than 1,000 people, many of whom temporarily took refuge in area schools. While displaced families have since vacated schools in time for the beginning of the school year on 6 October, many families remain homeless, according to the Mali Red Cross.
AFRICA: Call to ban cluster bombs
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:45KAMPALA Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called cluster munitions "an abomination whose manufacture and use should not be tolerated by any government", amid calls for African countries to do more to ensure the weapons are banned.
GLOBAL: Charity coffers face credit crunch
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:45GENEVA Friday, September 26, 2008 (IRIN) - With the US going through the most significant financial restructuring since the great depression, international aid agencies and NGOs have reason to be wary, observers said.
BURUNDI: Learning to live together in one village
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:45BUJUMBURA Friday, September 26, 2008 (IRIN) - Years ago, Mammert Buregeya, a 54-year-old displaced Burundian Tutsi, would probably have refused to live in Muriza “peace village” because that would bring him close to Hutu returnees.
GLOBAL: Leadership determines AIDS performance
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:45JOHANNESBURG Thursday, September 25, 2008 (IRIN) - As South Africa prepared to swear in a new president on 25 September after the dramatic ousting of Thabo Mbeki four days before, attempts by commentators to summarise the former president's mixed legacy have not failed to mention his controversial stance on AIDS.
CONGO: Orders to demolish makeshift fuel stations
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:45BRAZZAVILLE Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (IRIN) - The government of the Republic of Congo has ordered the demolition of all unauthorised makeshift petrol stations located in residential areas in a move to prevent risks posed by the unsafe storage of fuel.
BURUNDI: Denise Nzohabonayo: "We are here because we have no land to go to"
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:45BUJUMBURA Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (IRIN) - Denise Nzohabonayo, a mother of four, was repatriated from Nduta refugee camp in Tanzania in July 2008 to the Nyabitare transit site near Ruyigi in eastern Burundi. After a month, stranded and with no home to return to, Nzohabonayo left Nyabitare for Muriza Butaganzwa commune, also in Ruyigi, in the hope that she would finally get some permanent shelter for her family. Being a landless returnee is not easy, as Nzohabonayo told IRIN.
GLOBAL: Govts urged to recognise the right to affordable food
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:45JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (IRIN) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has called on governments to draw up national laws obliging them to take action when there is a threat of famine or food insecurity.
AFRICA: Humanitarian Air
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:45JOHANNESBURG Friday, September 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Often the forgotten heroes of humanitarian assistance, pilots play a critical role in making sure that aid gets to where it is needed most around the world - and sometimes they pay the ultimate price.
RWANDA: Carbon offset firm to help reverse deforestation
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:45KIGALI Wednesday, September 17, 2008 (IRIN) - A Canadian carbon offset development company plans to invest US$17m on reforestation projects in Rwanda over the next 20 years, one of its senior officials said.
