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GLOBAL: Economic slowdown to push 100m into poverty
Mon, 10/13/2008 - 22:36NAIROBI Friday, September 12, 2008 (IRIN) - Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, warns in a new report that the gains made in reducing extreme poverty are under threat from the rise in global food and fuel prices and global economic slowdown.
DRC: Many thousands on the move again amid Kivu clashes
Wed, 10/08/2008 - 21:00KINSHASA Thursday, September 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Many thousands of civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, many of them repeatedly displaced, have been forced to flee again amid heavy clashes between government forces and troops loyal to renegade Gen Laurent Nkunda.
DRC: LRA accused of abuses in northeast as army moves in
Wed, 10/08/2008 - 21:00KINSHASA Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (IRIN) - As the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mounted a military operation against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northeastern DRC, human rights activists released a list of abuses allegedly committed by the Ugandan rebels there over the last year.
CONGO: Government urged to curb domestic petrol storage
Wed, 10/08/2008 - 21:00BRAZZAVILLE Tuesday, September 09, 2008 (IRIN) - Although there are plenty of petrol stations in the capital of the Republic of Congo, a growing number of Brazzaville residents are selling fuel from stocks kept at home. “This is an increasing problem and should be forcefully denounced because it frequently causes damage and human casualties,” said Dieudonné Moussala, the head of the Congolese Consumers’ Association (ACC).
RWANDA: Soil erosion affecting farm productivity
Wed, 10/08/2008 - 21:00GICUMBI Friday, September 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Over the years local residents of Rebero in Gicumbi District north of the Rwandan capital of Kigali, watched as their soil was washed away by rain.
