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01 Jun 2011

World
Politique humanitaire : un nouveau mécanisme pour améliorer la sécurité alimentaire

Report

— IRIN

JOHANNESBOURG, 1 juin 2011 (IRIN) - Depuis le mois d'avril, la communauté humanitaire se prépare à lancer un nouveau mécanisme destiné à allier les savoir-faire en termes d'aide alimentaire et d'aide agricole en vue de renforcer la sécurité alimentaire et d'améliorer la résistance des communautés touchées par l'insécurité alimentaire à la suite d'une catastrophe.

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01 Jun 2011

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Analysis: Warnings and ructions over DRC polls

Report

— IRIN

KINSHASA, 1 June 2011 (IRIN) - The second democratic presidential election in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), scheduled for 28 November, runs the risk of further destabilizing the country because of preparation delays and potential constitutional contradictions, say analysts and observers.

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01 Jun 2011

Sri Lanka
Dengue eradication campaign chalks up some successes

Report

— IRIN

COLOMBO, 1 June 2011 (IRIN) - Last year's drive to raise awareness of dengue fever in Sri Lanka and reduce the number of places where the mosquito that causes the disease breeds has had some positive impacts but urban areas are still at risk, health experts say.

"In an urban area there are many more places, and number of containers where this particular mosquito can breed compared to less populated rural areas of the country," Kumari Navaratne, a public health specialist at the World Bank, told IRIN.

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01 Jun 2011

World
Health: Predicting cholera outbreaks

Report

— IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 1 June 2011 (IRIN) - A new study into the linkages between rain, temperature and cholera shows scientists may be able to predict epidemics in time to save people from the life-threatening disease.

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31 May 2011

World
Disaster conference opens in Beijing

Report

— IRIN

BANGKOK, 31 May 2011 (IRIN) - More than 2,000 participants gathered in Beijing, China, for the 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WCDEM on 31 May.

The four-day event, organized by the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine and the Chinese Medical Association, aims to share groundbreaking scientific findings for improved disaster response, with more than 500 presenters from 60 different countries.

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31 May 2011

Yemen
Civilians flee violence in the south

Report

— IRIN

SANA'A, 31 May 2011 (IRIN) - Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in the coastal town of Zinjibar, capital of Yemen's Abyan Governorate, some 500km southeast of Sana'a, following three days of intensified army ground attacks and air strikes against militants who stormed the city on 28 May, local media report.

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31 May 2011

Kenya
Food crisis lands government in the dock

Report

— IRIN

NAIROBI, 31 May 2011 (IRIN) - Just as it declares a national disaster over drought, the Kenyan government is being sued over its alleged failure to respect a new constitutional right to food.

High prices and poor rains have left some 2.4 million Kenyans at risk of severe food insecurity, according to a report [ http://bit.ly/m6jOT3 ] by the Famine Early Warning Systems network (FEWS Net) covering the period between April and September 2011.

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31 May 2011

Somalia
Under-fives make up almost half of Mogadishu casualties

Report

— IRIN

NAIROBI, 31 May 2011 (IRIN) - Hundreds of children younger than five have been wounded in the latest round of fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, accounting for almost half of all trauma cases in May, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).

In a press statement issued on 31 May, WHO said recent data showed that the main causes of death among under-fives were burns, chest injuries and internal haemorrhaging caused by blast injuries, shrapnel and bullets.

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31 May 2011

World
Aid Policy: What the aid numbers don't tell you

Report

— IRIN

DAKAR, 31 May 2011 (IRIN) - Poor-performing donors were lambasted by UK Prime Minister David Cameron at this year's G8 leaders' meeting for failing to move towards meeting 0.7 percent [of gross national income] aid targets; but most major donors are to blame for tying aid to donor-based contractors, say aid watchdogs, and for reporting money spent at home as aid.

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31 May 2011

World
In Brief: How donors performed in 2010

Report

— IRIN

DAKAR, 31 May 2011 (IRIN) - Below is a summary of aid successes and shortfalls among major donors in 2010.

European Union (EU) member states made pledges to provide 0.56 percent of gross national income (GNI) as official development aid by 2010, with a view to increasing to 0.7 percent by 2015. Together, they missed this target by US$21 billion; delivering just under four fifths of the commitment.

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31 May 2011

occupied Palestinian territory
Freedom of movement in Gaza gets a boost

Report

— IRIN

RAFAH, 31 May 2011 (IRIN) - The opening of Rafah on 28 May, the only official border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, has created a lifeline for Palestinians living in Gaza, but some, mostly refugees, will still be restricted to their localities because they lack identification papers.

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31 May 2011

Afghanistan + 1 other
Pakistan: Backgrounder on Khyber Agency militancy

Report

— IRIN

KARACHI, 30 May 2011 (IRIN) - The Khyber Agency in Pakistan has emerged in recent times as a centre of sectarian conflict - partially as a result of the spillover of deep-rooted differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the nearby Kurram Agency and partially as a reaction to efforts by hardline Sunni groups to establish their writ in the area.

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31 May 2011

Chad + 1 other
Libye-Tchad : Les agences se préparent à davantage de rapatriés

Report

— IRIN

DAKAR, 30 mai 2011 (IRIN) - Alors que des centaines de rapatriés tchadiens continuent à franchir la frontière de la Libye vers le Tchad - via le Niger - les villages qui se trouvent près des points d'arrivée font face à un « double fardeau », avec des transferts d'argent qui s'amenuisent et de maigres ressources arrivées à leurs limites, selon Craig Murphy, chargé d'opérations à l'Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM).

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30 May 2011

World
Aid policy: New mechanism to boost food security

Report

— IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 30 May 2011 (IRIN) - Since April the humanitarian community has been gearing up to deploy a new mechanism aimed at combining expertise on food aid and agricultural assistance to boost food security and make food insecure communities hit by a disaster more resilient.

A 2010 evaluation of the "cluster approach" conducted by the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and Groupe Urgence, Réhabilitation, Développement (URD) recommended the setting up of a new global food security mechanism or "cluster", to support disaster-affected food insecure communities.

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30 May 2011

occupied Palestinian territory
OPT: Educated, unemployed youth - a recipe for trouble

Report

— IRIN

JERUSALEM, 30 May 2011 (IRIN) - The lack of job opportunities for young people in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has created an unemployment crisis that could further destabilize the Arab region, experts warn.

"The largest generation, which was born in the 1980s, has reached working age... young adults are now perceived as the most problematic age group," notes sociologist and demographer Philippe Fargues, also director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence.

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27 May 2011

Sri Lanka
Women "key" to water projects

Report

— IRIN

POLONNARUWA, 27 May 2011 (IRIN) - Women could prove key to the success of Sri Lanka's rural water and sanitation projects, experts and villagers say.

As a five-year project to reduce time spent collecting water and to ensure safe drinking water jointly launched by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Sri Lankan government comes to a close, its leaders are reflecting on the lasting benefits of their decision to incorporate women in an unprecedented way.

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27 May 2011

Sudan
Rains aggravate plight of displaced

Report

— IRIN

NAIROBI, 27 May 2011 (IRIN) - Seasonal rains are among several factors to have exacerbated the crisis sparked by the sudden flight of tens of thousands of civilians from the disputed Sudanese region of Abyei, say aid workers, who point to both short- and long-term repercussions.

"Most of the roads in Southern Sudan are not passable during the rains and so that will make the movement of food difficult," World Food Programme (WFP) spokeswoman Amor Almagro told IRIN.

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27 May 2011

Uganda
Uganda: Anatomy of an ebola outbreak

Report

— IRIN

KAMPALA, 27 May 2011 (IRIN) - A confirmed case of the deadly Ebola virus in eastern Uganda three weeks ago has been quickly contained, leading health experts in the country to believe the virus has not spread.

"According to the present report, it seems the virus didn't pass to anybody," said Issa Makumba, head of epidemiology and surveillance in the Ministry of Health, said on 25 May.

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27 May 2011

Yemen
Fears of a humanitarian crisis as fighting intensifies

Report

— IRIN

DUBAI, 27 May 2011 (IRIN) - The death toll has risen sharply in the last few days of fighting in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a and hundreds of people have reportedly fled their homes, raising the possibility of a humanitarian crisis, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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27 May 2011

Somalia
Internet lifeline cut in Mogadishu

Report

— IRIN

NAIROBI, 27 May 2011 (IRIN) - Telecommunications companies based in Somalia's largest open-air market have been hit by stray shells in the latest round of fighting, leading to internet failure in the past four days.

"Our internet service has been down since 24 May," a senior official of an internet service provider, who requested anonymity, told IRIN on 26 May.

The official said many people's livelihoods depend on internet use; "for many businesses and journalists, the internet is their lifeline".

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