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June 10

Kenya: Scholarships in Dadaab - Educating Somali Refugees Out of Poverty [press release]

Somali refugees in Dadaab live far from universities and education opportunities. Instead, they end in unemployment or are forced to take on unskilled jobs in the camps to make a... Read more »

Tanzania: Factbox - Facts and Figures On Child Marriage

Tanzania has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. On average, some two out of five girls will be married before their 18th birthday. Read more »
Tanzania: Commercial Farms, Climate Shifts Dry River Basin

In the remote Tanzanian village of Langoni, Ashura Kilinga gets up every day at 4am to join a stream of other women going to draw water from a bore hole on a dry river bed. Read more »
Tanzania: Child Marriage - Cash for Parents, Problems for Girls

Mwanaharusi Mrisho was stunned when her father abruptly removed her from school at the age of 15 and married her off to a much older man because the bride price he received would... Read more »

Cameroon: As Dry Periods Worsen, Govt Rations Water

Every day, Paulina Abena and her two grown-up daughters criss-cross the neighbourhoods of Yaounde carrying 40-litre (11 US gallon) containers. Read more »
Africa: Aid for Jonglei, but People Scared to Return Home

The United Nations is preparing to deliver emergency medical care to tens of thousands of displaced people in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state, almost a month after they fled... Read more »
South Sudan: Q&A - Aid Agencies Fear Speaking Truth - Refugees Advocate [interview]

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced due to conflict in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state and insecurity has prevented humanitarian agencies from delivering aid. Read more »
Uganda: Flash Flooding Forces Focus on Sanitation, Hygiene

'Terrible,' said Dr. Robert Tiondi to a ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) after recent flash flooding in Uganda damaged the majority of facilities and infrastructure in the western... Read more »
Uganda: In Uganda, "360-Degree Program" Ensures Communities' Resilience

Humanitarian groups talk a lot about collaboration. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Launches Overdue Plan to Assist Drought-Hit Farmers

Ticky Mletshwa, a 46-year-old small-scale farmer, has always done the same thing in his plot deep in the dry rural areas of Lupane, about 175 kilometres north of Bulawayo,... Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Children of Peace Initiative in the DRC [press release]

Upon winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the European Union allocated the prize money to children affected by conflict and launched its Children of Peace initiative which aims at... Read more »

Kenya: Community Dams Aim to Build Water Security in Arid Kenya

Before arriving at Katuthia village in lower Eastern Kenya, a visitor travels through parched countryside, with stretches of land sprouting newly sown crops that are already... Read more »
Kenya: President's Office Censored Report On Land Grabbing - Commissioners

Three foreign members of a commission looking into historical injustices in Kenya have said the president's office censored a report to exclude references to irregular land... Read more »
Africa: Pull UK Funds From 'Colonialist' Africa Food Scheme, NGOs Say

Britain should withdraw funding for a scheme that encourages big businesses to invest in African agriculture, putting profits ahead of poor farmers' interests, activists said. Read more »

Kenya: Aid Agencies to Vaccinate More Than 1 Million People After Polio Outbreak in Refugee Camp

An emergency team is working to vaccinate 424,000 people living in the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya after polio was detected, the United Nations said on Friday. Read more »
Nigeria: Lawmakers Back 14-Year Jail Term for Same-Sex Marriage

Lawmakers in Nigeria have approved a bill that would impose a 14-year prison sentence on gays and lesbians who enter into same-sex marriage contracts and a 10-year jail term for... Read more »

South Sudan: Donor Cycle No Match for the Needs [press release]

When the rainy season begins thousands of refugees in South Sudan will get sick and suffer due to inadequate shelter, leading to a humanitarian crisis that could have been... Read more »
Africa: Continent Has Lost U.S.$1.2 Trillion in Dirty Money, Nigeria Tops List

Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt top the list of African countries that have hemorrhaged billions of dollars gained from corruption, kickbacks, tax evasion and other illicit... Read more »
Kenya: Police Raped, Tortured Refugees in 'Rampage' - Rights Group

Kenyan police tortured and abused more than 1,000 refugees, asylum seekers and Somali Kenyans in Nairobi in a "10-week rampage" beginning in late 2012, Human Rights Watch (HRW)... Read more »

Africa: Tdh Will Be a Part of the Swiss Civil Society Dealing With International Migration [press release]

On the coming 30th and 31st May, Terre des hommes will be taking part in the joint deliberations on migration and development organized by the Graduate Institute of International... Read more »
Kenya: Kenyan Girls Win Landmark Rape Case Against Police

Kenyan police must properly investigate and prosecute rape cases, a court has ruled after a landmark case involving 240 child rape victims, some as young as three, which could have... Read more »

Africa: Can Rural Women Also Have It All?

In recent months, two new "third-wave feminist" writings have become the talk of the town: Anne-Marie Slaughter's Why Women Still Can't Have it All and Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In:... Read more »

Africa: Locals Need More Legal Rights in Big Land Deals - Report

Can legal reforms help affected communities have a bigger say about African land deals? Read more »

Africa: Green Pursuits Earn Innovators Forest Hero Awards

Five people named "Forest Heroes" at an awards ceremony at the U.N. Forum on Forests (UNFF) in Istanbul take very different approaches in the fight to preserve forests. Read more »

Africa: Tackling Food Insecurity in a Resource-Scarce World

Today, the world is searching for solutions to a series of global challenges unprecedented in their scale and complexity. Food insecurity, malnutrition, climate change, rural... Read more »

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