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Updates on conflicts and news from throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

June 28

Somalia: Doubts Arise Over Repatriating Refugees

As plans to facilitate the return of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees from neighbouring Kenya gather steam, serious doubts persist about whether conditions in Somalia are... Read more »
Africa: Setting Standards for the Aid Industry

The humanitarian community has gone through a period of soul searching in recent years, following the failure to protect victims of genocide in Rwanda, the chaotic lack of... Read more »
Kenya: Inter-Clan Clashes Disrupt Aid Delivery

The northeastern Kenya county of Mandera is experiencing a spike in inter-clan clashes, with several deaths recorded in the past week. Episodes of insecurity, since March 2012,... Read more »

Nigeria: School Attacks Spur Vigilante Groups

Youths in northern Nigeria's Borno State, where many members of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram (BH) have been arrested in recent weeks, are increasingly joining vigilante... Read more »
Ethiopia: Deprivation, Despair At a Migrant Dead-End in Yemen [analysis]

In temperatures in the high forties around 1,000 Ethiopian migrants, sweating profusely, turn their backs to Saudi Arabia and start the walk south - away from the Yemeni border... Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Bridging the Gap Between Relief and Development in DRC

Every year, for nearly two decades, the humanitarian community has responded to large-scale and complex crises in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This year, on the... Read more »
West Africa: Analysis - Emergency Cash Versus Social Protection in West Africa

Aid agency cash and voucher transfers in emergencies have increased significantly in recent years. The World Food Programme (WFP), for example, has tripled its distributions over... Read more »

Africa: What to Expect in the Warsaw Climate Change Talks

The floods in India's Uttarakhand State, which may have claimed as many as 5,000 lives, were prompted by an unusually high amount of rainfall. The disaster, possibly the largest so... Read more »
Africa: New Malaria Tool to Help Track Insecticide Resistance

A new interactive online mapping tool will help track insecticide resistance (IR) in malaria-causing mosquitoes, experts say. Read more »
Liberia: Ivoirian Refugees Put Down Roots

Though Côte d'Ivoire has officially been at peace for over two years, many of the nearly 60,000 refugees who remain in Liberia are settling in for the long haul, citing... Read more »

Uganda: Uganda's Nodding Syndrome Centres Low On Drugs, Food

As scientists continue to search for the cause of and cure for nodding syndrome - a debilitating condition that causes seizures and stunting in children - health centres say they... Read more »

Mali: New IRIN film series: Trouble in Timbuktu

Almost five months after French troops liberated Timbuktu from Islamist fighters, the ancient desert town, like much of northern Mali, is struggling to recover from the effects of... Read more »
Africa: Space-Age Technology to Reduce Maternal Deaths

Space-age technology, neoprene (the same material used for wet suits) and Velcro have gone into an experimental garment health experts hope can treat postpartum haemorrhage, the... Read more »
Zimbabwe: Stateless Residents Gain Citizenship

Standing in a winding queue in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, Judith Kapito, 38, cannot hide her excitement: she is waiting to receive a new identity document, one that will... Read more »
Mali: Trouble in Timbuktu - Northern Mali After the Islamist Occupation

Almost five months after French troops liberated Timbuktu from Islamist fighters, the ancient desert town, like much of northern Mali, is struggling to recover from the effects of... Read more »

Uganda: The High Cost of Hunger in Uganda

Malnutrition costs Uganda an estimated US$899 million annually - as much as 5.6 percent of its GDP - according to findings of a new report. Read more »
Uganda: M23 Kampala Talks Set to Resume

Delegates representing the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the rebel M23 are back in Kampala, Uganda, for a fresh round of peace talks, but analysts say... Read more »

Nigeria: Bandit Attacks Displace Northern Nigeria Herders

Incessant deadly attacks on Fulani settlements and villages in northern Nigeria by armed bandits - made up partly of disgruntled Fulani who themselves have lost cattle - are... Read more »

Central African Republic: Insecurity in Bangui Increases Food Prices, Lay-Offs

A security crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) - which began on 10 December 2012, when the rebel Seleka Alliance attacked the capital, Bangui, and continued after Seleka... Read more »
West Africa: Linking Early Warning to Early Action in the Sahel

While aid agencies agree that early warning systems offer the chance to mitigate humanitarian crises, difficulty in funding pre-emptive measures and government sensitivities in... Read more »
Tanzania: Tanzanian High-Risk Groups Denied HIV Services

Sexual minorities, sex workers and people who use drugs who are at a higher risk of HIV than the general population, but in Tanzania, they face widespread police abuse and... Read more »
Africa: Maternal and Paediatric Tuberculosis Still Overlooked

The global target of a 50 percent reduction in tuberculosis (TB) by 2015 may already have been achieved, but TB remains a neglected disease among women and young children, say... Read more »

South Africa: Making a Dent in South Africa's Drug Culture [analysis]

In pink tracksuit and big sunglasses, Nomvula Mokanyane, premier of South Africa's Gauteng Province, delivered a combative warning to the drug dealers of Eldorado Park that had the... Read more »
South Sudan: Lack of Access, Rains Hinder Aid to Jonglei IDPs [analysis]

Tens of thousands of people have been cut off from water, food and medical care in South Sudan's Jonglei State, after fleeing violence between rebels and the government in Pibor... Read more »
Libya: Libya's "Growing" Drugs/HIV Problem

Doctors in Libya say they are seeing a "growing" number of patients with drug problems and a corresponding risk of HIV infection, in a post-Gaddafi era marked by limited law... Read more »

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