UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi)
Updates on conflicts and news from throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Website: http://www.irinnews.org/
September 9, 2012
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Southern Africa: Locals Target Chinese Traders
In the last decade, Asian migrants have fanned out through southern Africa, opening shops in small towns and rural backwaters. While consumers in countries facing increasing... Read more »
August 28, 2012
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Madagascar: Sex for Survival
About one in seven residents of Madagascar's main port city of Toamasina are sex workers. Read more »
August 16, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: Children, Young Men Flee M23 Recruitment
Thousands of children and young men are fleeing rebel-held areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern North Kivu Province to escape forced recruitment by the insurgents,... Read more »
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Kenya: Kenya-Somalia - Repatriating Dadaab Refugees 'Unrealistic'
Repeated calls in recent months by Kenyan government officials to repatriate half a million Somali refugees currently living in the Dadaab refugee complex to so-called safe areas... Read more »
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Somalia: Next Stop Kismayo*
Even before it kicks off in earnest, the assault on Somalia's port city of Kismayo is causing jitters. Read more »
August 13, 2012
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Somalia: New Constitution Bans Mutilating Girls
Activists have welcomed a ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the new constitution of Somalia - a country where 96 percent of women undergo one of the more extreme... Read more »
August 10, 2012
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Zambia: Dreaming of a Minimum Wage
"This is like a prayer answered for me. Our government has really done well to remember us, to think about us," Priscilla Mwemba, a domestic worker in the Zambian capital Lusaka,... Read more »
August 7, 2012
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Egypt: Deputies Race to Write New Constitution [analysis]
The drafting of Egypt's new constitution - like the rest of the country's politics since former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power last year - has been a hotbed of... Read more »
August 2, 2012
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Africa: Marie, 'It's Been a Long Journey and a Painful One' [opinion]
Marie*, her husband and their three children, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), are about to relocate from South Africa, where they have lived for the past... Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Resettlement Still a Last Resort
After five years of hoping and waiting, Marie*, her husband Simeon* and their three children, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, finally received a phone call telling... Read more »
July 30, 2012
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Africa: New Hague Prosecutor to Focus on Victims
That a war crimes court should focus on the victims of war crimes sounds like a simple concept. Read more »
July 26, 2012
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Sudan: Who's Who in the Opposition
Recent weeks have seen demonstrators, for the most part students, take to the streets of Khartoum - and to a lesser extent other Sudanese cities - to protest against the rising... Read more »
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South Africa: Court Orders Cape Town to Process Asylum Applications
Refugee rights organizations in Cape Town are breathing a sigh of relief following a high court judgement that will force the Department of Home Affairs to reverse a policy of not... Read more »
July 18, 2012
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Madagascar: Madagascar's Unforgiving Bandit Lands [analysis]
"At 9am I checked them [the zebu] and they were still there, and two hours later they were gone," he told IRIN. "I need them to do the work in the field, to pull the cart and to... Read more »
July 13, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: Top Officials Warn Against Witch-Hunts, Hate Speech
Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have assured leaders of the Tutsi community they are working to protect Tutsis across the country amid rising resentment sparked... Read more »
July 11, 2012
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Africa: Human Smugglers Profit As Tragedies Multiply
When Abdo Giro*, a 55-year-old evangelist minister and political dissident from southern Ethiopia, paid smugglers 55,000 birr (US$3,095) to take him from the Kenyan border town of... Read more »
July 9, 2012
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Africa: 'Sexual Refugees' Struggle to Access Asylum
As a gay man living in Tanzania, Cassim Mustapha could have faced imprisonment, but prosecutions under the country's Sexual Offences Act are rare, and the bigger threat came from... Read more »
July 5, 2012
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Africa: Older People Face Greater Burdens
When violence broke out in Kenya in 2008 after a disputed presidential poll, 71-year-old Magdalene Njeri's hometown of Kericho in Rift Valley Province was one of the areas most... Read more »
July 3, 2012
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West Africa: Husbands Worse Threat to Women Than Gunmen
In conflict-hit West African countries, husbands often pose a greater threat to women's lives than an armed assailant, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a recent... Read more »
June 28, 2012
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Uganda: Human Trafficking Drive Needs Rescuing
Uganda set up a national human trafficking task force in April, but a national action plan to combat trafficking - originally due in June - could be delayed for months as officials... Read more »
June 27, 2012
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Cote d'Ivoire: Stuck Between Refuge and Risk
Intermittent violence and widespread insecurity have left thousands of villagers in western Côte d'Ivoire stuck between fleeing their villages for the greater safety of... Read more »
June 25, 2012
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Egypt: The Revolution Undone? [analysis]
Mohamad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has been declared the official winner of the first free Egyptian presidential elections. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Understanding Armed Group M23 [analysis]
To the layman the emergence of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) armed group M23 might be seen as of little significance - just another band of gunmen controlling a... Read more »
June 22, 2012
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Mali: Students Flee Sharia in Northern Schools
Strict Sharia, or Islamic religious laws, imposed by the Islamist rebels controlling vast swathes of northern Mali are driving thousands of students out of schools. Dress codes... Read more »
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Kenya: New Bill Seeks to Protect Internally Displaced Persons
Election-related violence and the displacement of people are regular occurrences in Kenya, and thousands of families are affected by it every five years. But a bill tabled in... Read more »
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