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17 May 2013

World
The making of the Hyogo2 disaster prevention treaty

Report

— IRIN

The new treaty will need to take on a number of emerging risks and concerns, such as the effects of the changing climate and growing urban populations.

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17 May 2013

Kenya + 1 other
Briefing: Restive northern Kenya sees shifting power, risks

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— IRIN

GARISSA-NAIROBI, 17 May 2013 (IRIN) - The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a rise in insecurity in the region, where multiple gun and grenade attacks have been reported over the past two years.

But securing northern Kenya is increasingly vital to the government, with the badlands growing in economic viability, the new constitution shifting power to the counties, and mega development projects being planned in the region.

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17 May 2013

Pakistan
Challenges to improving health care in Pakistan

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— IRIN

LAHORE/DUBAI, 17 May 2013 (IRIN) - Hamza Mazhar, a 35-year-old teacher from Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, says he never wants to see the inside of a government hospital again.

“My mother was taken to the hospital with an upper respiratory tract infection in February this year and doctors said she needed care in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU),” he told IRIN.

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17 May 2013

Burkina Faso
Making WASH work in Burkina Faso’s cities

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OUAGADOUGOU, 17 May 2013 (IRIN) - Earlier this year Denis Ouedraogo, a tailor living in the Tampouy neighbourhood just north of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, connected his mud-walled home to the water network for the first time. “Even without electricity, having enough water can make you happy,” he said.

He is among 1.9 million people to have connected to the government water grid since 2001, thanks to major changes in how the National Office for Water and Sanitation (ONEA) delivers water to urban Burkinabés.

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16 May 2013

South Africa + 1 other
Cape Town's asylum seekers struggle to get documented

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CAPE TOWN, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - When Jean Baptiste*, a medical student from Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), arrived in South Africa in September 2012, he headed straight for Cape Town, where he knew he would be able to stay with his brother. No one at the border told him that it was no longer possible to apply for asylum in Cape Town.

He has since approached the city's Refugee Reception Office (RRO) 18 times to try to secure an asylum seeker permit and become documented, but he has never made it past the security guards outside.

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16 May 2013

Kenya + 1 other
Pastoralism's economic contributions are significant but overlooked

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NAIROBI, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - Pastoralism is often regarded as an antiquated practice ill-suited to the modern economy, yet trade between pastoral communities in Africa - much of it informal and illegal - generated an estimated US$1 billion each year, according to a new book [ http://www.future-agricultures.org/pastoralism/7666-book-pastoralism-and... ] published by the Futures Agriculture Consortium,.

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16 May 2013

Madagascar
Microcredit helps small businesses buck the system in Madagascar

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TOLIARA, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - Justine Sija, 60, begins her day at 4am, when she buys catch from local fishermen to hawk on the streets of St Augustin Village, in Madagascar's southern Atsimo-Andrefana Region. The work is hard, but in the last year, access to microcredit has boosted both her business and her hope for the future.

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16 May 2013

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Briefing: Vers des solutions internes à la crise en RDC

Report

— IRIN

KAMPALA, 16 mai 2013 (IRIN) - Le déploiement imminent d'une brigade d'intervention des Nations Unies dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) vise à neutraliser les milices opérant dans cette région en proie aux troubles [ http://www.irinnews.org/fr/Report/98027/Le-renforcement-des-troupes-en-R... ].

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16 May 2013

Bangladesh + 1 other
Evacuation volunteers fan out in Bangladesh

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— IRIN

DHAKA, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - Some 50,000 volunteers in coastal communities across southern Bangladesh are out and about warning people to move to higher ground ahead of Cyclone Mahasen. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated so far.

"We've been working here for the last couple of days," Joydev Dutt, a Red Crescent volunteer from Barguna District, told IRIN. He has spent hours riding around on his bicycle in heavy rain with a megaphone hurled over his shoulder. "People are responding to our warning. Almost all people in this cyclone-prone area have been evacuated."

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16 May 2013

Libya + 3 others
Libyans in North Africa scared to return home

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CAIRO, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been determined never to leave.

But after two weeks of imprisonment and torture, the 68-year-old former contractor fled.

"They accused me of supporting [former ruler Muammar] Gaddafi during the revolution, which is not true at all," Warfella told IRIN in Cairo. "These people have turned life into hell for people, not just in Bani Walid, but everywhere in Libya."

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15 May 2013

Myanmar
Landmine casualties rising in Kachin, Myanmar

Report

— IRIN

LAIZA, 15 May 2013 (IRIN) - Former rebel fighter Lahpai Hkam has been in pain every day since a landmine destroyed his lower right leg during a battle with government soldiers 18 months ago in Myanmar's northern Kachin State.

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14 May 2013

World
Analyse: Inciter les gouvernements à financer la RRC

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— IRIN

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14 May 2013

South Africa + 1 other
Quelling xenophobia in South Africa's townships

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PHILIPPI, 14 May 2013 (IRIN) - This week marks five years since tensions between foreigners and South Africans living in impoverished communities across the country erupted in xenophobic violence, leaving more than 60 people dead and tens of thousands displaced, their homes and businesses robbed and abandoned [ http://www.irinnews.org/Report/78386/SOUTH-AFRICA-Xenophobic-attacks-spr... ].

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14 May 2013

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Briefing: Towards internal solutions to the DRC crisis

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— IRIN

KAMPALA, 14 May 2013 (IRIN) - A UN intervention brigade [ http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97999/Is-more-force-in-the-DRC-more-of-th... ] will soon be deployed to the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a bid to neutralize militia groups operating there.

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14 May 2013

Nigeria
Boko Haram attacks hit school attendance in Borno State

Report

— IRIN

Around 15,000 children have stopped attending classes since February 2013. Of the state's 175 schools, 50 have been destroyed. Students are staying at home for fear of attacks.

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14 May 2013

Uganda
Uganda grapples with paediatric vaccine shortages

Report

— IRIN

KAMPALA, 14 May 2013 (IRIN) - Ugandan children are going unimmunized as the country grapples with persistent and widespread vaccine shortages, the result of insufficient funds and inefficient procurement and supply systems, officials say.

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14 May 2013

Myanmar
Rohingya evacuation under way in Myanmar

Report

— IRIN

BANGKOK, 14 May 2013 (IRIN) - The government of Myanmar has launched a large-scale effort to relocate to higher ground tens of thousands of Rohingya internally displaced persons (IDPs) ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, says the UN.

"At this point, we are all working against the clock," Kirsten Mildren, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told IRIN on 14 May in Bangkok. "Thirteen thousand have already been moved. It's estimated another 25,000 will be moved today."

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13 May 2013

Somalia
Analysis: Somali security sector reform

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— IRIN

NAIROBI, 13 May 2013 (IRIN) - At Gashandiga barracks in Mogadishu, Somalia, Pvt Mohamed Sheikh Issak pulled back his military fatigues to show his scarred right shoulder. "I was shot by Al-Shabab when they still controlled half of Mogadishu," he told IRIN. "I was at home, but they knew I was a soldier."

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13 May 2013

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Le renforcement des troupes en RDC peut-il changer les choses ?

Report

— IRIN

JOHANNESBOURG, 13 mai 2013 (IRIN) - Le déploiement imminent d'une force internationale de 3 000 hommes mandatée par les Nations Unies pour « neutraliser et [...] désarmer » tous les groupes armés présents dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) marque le passage à une attitude internationale plus agressive envers les milices rebelles. Certains ont cependant accueilli cette annonce avec scepticisme.

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13 May 2013

Mali + 4 others
Comprendre les causes de l'extrémisme violent en Afrique de l'Ouest

Report

— IRIN

DAKAR, 13 mai 2013 (IRIN) - Des universitaires et des représentants des gouvernements, des armées et de la société civile se sont réunis la semaine dernière à Dakar, la capitale sénégalaise pour évaluer les liens entre le développement et l'extrémisme violent en Afrique de l'Ouest. Certains participants à la conférence ont suggéré que le sous-développement, la marginalisation et la faible gouvernance créaient un terreau fertile pour le militantisme.

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