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DRC: Rwandan operation "not welcomed"
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23KINSHASA Wednesday, January 21, 2009 (IRIN) - The arrival of some 2,000 Rwandan soldiers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help the Army disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels of the Forces démocratique pour la libération du Rwanda (FDLR) has prompted fears of a new wave of civilian suffering.
DRC: Hundreds of Rwandan troops to help disarm Hutu rebels
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23KINSHASA Tuesday, January 20, 2009 (IRIN) - Hundreds of Rwandan troops entered eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on 20 January to back a DRC operation against Rwandan Hutu rebels in the east of the country, officials said.
DRC: Civilians suffer as Uganda takes on LRA
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23BUNIA Tuesday, January 20, 2009 (IRIN) - About half the 100,000 people displaced amid a wave of atrocities in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the Ugandan army is leading an operation against Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, have no access to humanitarian assistance, according to the UN.
BURUNDI: Thousands flee food crisis in north
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23BUJUMBURA Thursday, January 15, 2009 (IRIN) - The food crisis looming in the northern province of Kirundo has prompted more than 1,000 families to flee their homes in search of food in neighbouring countries, officials say.
CONGO: Backstreet remedies hinder anti-malaria fight
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23BRAZZAVILLE Wednesday, January 14, 2009 (IRIN) - As poor people in Congo shun costly malaria remedies, deaths are being caused by erroneous self-medication and poor diagnosis by unauthorised medical practitioners.
DRC: Tables turn as rebel faction declares support for army
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23KINSHASA Wednesday, January 14, 2009 (IRIN) - A rebel splinter group in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has said it is ready to back joint operations planned by the governments of DRC and Rwanda against Rwandan Hutu insurgents based in the Kivu provinces.
BURUNDI: Name change to help legalise rebel party
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23BUJUMBURA Tuesday, January 13, 2009 (IRIN) - The decision by Burundi's last active rebel group to remove the word “Hutu” from its name should ease its registration as a political party, a senior government official said.
AFRICA: Soil scientists join efforts to boost food security
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23NAIROBI Tuesday, January 13, 2009 (IRIN) - A digital soil-health surveillance system, launched on 13 January in Nairobi, will enable soil scientists to map areas at risk of soil degradation and facilitate appropriate interventions that could help to curb food insecurity across the continent.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Alone in the fight against AIDS
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23SAM OUANDJA Tuesday, January 13, 2009 (IRIN) - The inhabitants of Sam Ouandja, an isolated diamond mining town in the northeast of the Central African Republic (CAR), were exposed to their first ever HIV awareness campaign in 2007. The focus was on HIV testing, but more than a year later, those who tested positive are still waiting for the arrival of HIV/AIDS services.
DRC: Thousands displaced by latest LRA attack
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23BUNIA Friday, January 09, 2009 (IRIN) - Thousands of civilians have been displaced by another deadly attack by suspected Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to local sources.
CONGO: Where water is bad for your health
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23BRAZZAVILLE Thursday, January 08, 2009 (IRIN) - Insufficient water of an adequate hygienic standard means people in the Congo, even those in the capital, run a constant risk of diarrhoea. For the residents of many Brazzaville neighbourhoods, the water is simply unfit to drink, which makes the provision of water, a task usually undertaken by women, a time-consuming chore.
RWANDA-UGANDA: Joash Runga, "I sleep with my wife and my girlfriend, that's all"
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23KATUNA Wednesday, January 07, 2009 (IRIN) - Joash Runga, 44, a long-distance trucker, is spending the night at the Rwanda-Uganda border town of Katuna. At the end of a hard day's drive, he likes nothing better than to kick back in one of the local bars and have a cold beer. He talked to IRIN/PlusNews about the dangers of the road and his belief that having one girlfriend instead of many reduced his chances of contracting HIV.
DRC-SUDAN: Fifty feared dead in rebel attack
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23JUBA Wednesday, January 07, 2009 (IRIN) - Fifty people were feared to have been killed and at least nine abducted in attacks on villages in southwest Sudan, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo (in DRC), locals said.
BURUNDI: FNL Prisoner release under way
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23BUJUMBURA Monday, January 05, 2009 (IRIN) - The release of the first 80 prisoners detained over their affiliation with a rebel group, the Parti pour la Liberation du Peuple Hutu-Forces Nationales de Libération (Palipehutu-FNL), has begun, following a decree issued by Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza on 30 December 2008.
DRC-UGANDA: Deadly LRA attacks prompt exodus in northeastern DRC
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23KINSHASA Tuesday, December 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of civilians have fled their villages in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo after 189 people were killed in attacks blamed on the Lord’s Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
DRC: Ebola suspected as 11 die in Kasai Occidental (corrected version)
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23KINSHASA Tuesday, December 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Eleven people have died in a remote area of central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where the presence of the Ebola virus has been confirmed, according to health officials.
AFRICA: New hope for malaria vaccine
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23DAKAR Monday, December 22, 2008 (IRIN) - The world’s most clinically advanced malaria vaccine trials have given new hope in the fight against the disease, which in sub-Saharan Africa kills a child every 30 seconds.
RWANDA: Make justice a reality for genocide survivors, urges rights group
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23NAIROBI Friday, December 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Justice, more than reconciliation, plays a fundamental role for the survivors of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and much more needs to be done to make justice a reality for them, a report by African Rights, a human rights think-tank, recommends.
BURUNDI: Striking health staff resume work
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23BUJUMBURA Wednesday, December 17, 2008 (IRIN) - Burundian health workers who have been on strike since 24 November have resumed work after an agreement between their trade unions and the government.
In Brief: IRIN writer wins award for DRC report
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 15:23NAIROBI Tuesday, December 16, 2008 (IRIN) - Congolese journalist and IRIN contributor Eddy Isango has won an award for a report about the sexual abuse of Congolese women deported from Angola. Isango, based in Kinshasa, won the prize for the best piece of reportage on a health issue in the inaugural Journalism for Development awards, organised by the Democratic Republic of Congo office of the UN's Development Programme (UNDP).
