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WEST AFRICA: Forced mass deportations, violence against migrants on rise
06 09 2008 DAKAR, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - Participants wrapping up the two-day "Stakeholders in Migration" conference on migration in West Africa organised by non-profit Open Society Institute (OSI) said clandestine migration from sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa and Europe has prompted increased border crackdowns, abuses and killings of migrants.
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AFRICA : Can carbon trading spur growth?
05 09 2008 DAKAR, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds attending the first all-African carbon forum agreed entrepreneurs in Africa need cash to break into the expanding international carbon emissions trading market.
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GLOBAL: Governments greet new aid promises cautiously
05 09 2008 DAKAR, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - As the Accra high-level forum on aid effectiveness drew to a close on 4 September, aid agencies praised ministers from developed and developing partner' countries as they signed an agreement to make aid more effective.
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RWANDA: Soil erosion affecting farm productivity
05 09 2008 GICUMBI, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - Over the years local residents of Rebero in Gicumbi District north of the Rwandan capital of Kigali, watched as their soil was washed away by rain.
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DRC: Torrential rains leave hundreds homeless
05 09 2008 KINSHASA, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - At least 250 people have been left homeless following heavy rains on 1 September in the area of Luebo in the Democratic Republic of Congo's province of Kasai Occidental, a humanitarian official said.
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UGANDA: Landmine victims struggle to reintegrate
05 09 2008 GULU, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - The return of peace to northern Uganda has prompted many formerly displaced people to return home, but resettling into the villages has proved tough for landmine survivors.
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ANGOLA: Show me a better life and I'll vote
04 09 2008 LUANDA, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - Last-minute radio jingles have been trying to persuade people like Almerindo Malessu to vote on Friday but, like many other Angolans, the jobless father of two thinks the parliamentary elections the first in the country for 16 years are a waste of time.
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NIGER: Thousands in north sit out another school year
04 09 2008 AGADEZ, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - Banditry, mine explosions, sporadic rebel attacks, and military crackdowns in northern Niger, have led thousands of students to pull out of school this year, according to the Agadez regional government.
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UGANDA: Using mobile phones to fight HIV
04 09 2008 KAMPALA, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - Uganda's rising HIV prevalence is forcing policy makers to look for inventive ways of educating people about the virus. Their latest tool is mobile phone technology, whose rapid growth has provided an avenue that could potentially reach millions with messages.
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Mozambique: Cheap rail travel boosts cross-border trade
04 09 2008 MAPUTO, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - Angelina Sidumo is one of the hundreds of traders that throng the busy train station in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on most Wednesday afternoons to catch the once-weekly train south to Chicualacuala town in Gaza Province, an 18-hour journey covering nearly 500km.
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DRC: Civilians displaced as army and rebels clash again in Rutshuru
04 09 2008 KINSHASA, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - Fresh clashes broke out on 3 September between government troops and rebel forces in Rutshuru district in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting civilians to flee their homes.
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ZIMBABWE: Union provides free ARVs to journalists
04 09 2008 HARARE, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ), which represents journalists in the country, has launched a programme to provide life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to its HIV-positive members.
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SOMALIA: IDPs plead for help in southern town
04 09 2008 NAIROBI, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - Displaced Somalis living on the outskirts of the southern coastal town of Merka, 100km south of Mogadishu, held a demonstration on 3 September to call attention to their plight.
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ETHIOPIA: Desperate farmers eat seeds before planting
04 09 2008 SEKE, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - Martne Harja had prepared her three-quarter hectare piece of land at Galcha Seke village in Wolayita zone of Ethiopia's Southern Region for the planting season, but her seven children found themselves without food after the rains failed.
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NIGERIA: Should stopping gas flaring be a priority?
04 09 2008 ACCRA, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - Environmental experts warn gas flaring by the Nigerian oil industry in the southern Delta region causes acid rain, respiratory infections, skins diseases and land degradation in dozens of local communities, but some environmentalists defend the country's right to continue flaring.
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ZAMBIA: Dangerous divisions in the ruling party
04 09 2008 LUSAKA, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - Analysts expect the funeral of President Levy Mwanawasa to herald the onset of a divisive political campaign ahead of presidential elections that have to be held within three months of the Zambian leader's death.
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UGANDA: Drug supply chain problems trigger shortages
04 09 2008 KAMPALA, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - Uganda's health ministry has been scrambling to stave off a nationwide shortage of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) that could jeopardise the lives of tens of thousands of HIV-positive people.
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WEST AFRICA : Do high food prices warrant a cash response?
04 09 2008 DAKAR, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - Experts say many of the right conditions are in place across West Africa to make cash distributions work in the current global food price crisis.
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ETHIOPIA: Families hard hit by food crisis
04 09 2008 KARAT, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - The crowd that filled Konso Mekane Yesus primary school in Karat town, 600km south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, were not pupils, but hundreds of mothers and children forced by food shortages to queue for relief rations.
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BENIN: Half million potential flood victims : WHO
04 09 2008 COTONOU, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 500,000 people are at risk of additional flooding in Benin. WHO says expected storms, the number of people living in and near recently-flooded areas, coupled with people's unwillingness to relocate could convulse the country in more flood chaos if there is not a forced evacuation plan.
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SOMALIA: Schools close in protest over insecurity
03 09 2008 NAIROBI, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - A three-day protest against insecurity and attacks targeting educational institutions in Mogadishu has shut down most schools and left thousands of children out of class, locals said.
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KENYA: From rubbish dump to cabbage patch
03 09 2008 NAIROBI, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - Rubbish is everywhere in Kibera, Africa's largest slum, just a few kilometres from the centre of Nairobi. It lies not just between the ramshackle dwellings, but often underneath them, rendering them vulnerable to collapse in times of flood.
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DRC: Anti-MONUC protest in Rutshuru turns violent
03 09 2008 KINSHASA, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - At least one person was wounded and a UN vehicle damaged during a demonstration against peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Rutshuru on 3 September.
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RWANDA: Vulnerable children living on the margins
03 09 2008 BYUMBA, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - Jean-Lambert Rukeratabaro has turned 16, but is still only in the fourth year of primary school in Byumba, north of the capital, Kigali.
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BURUNDI: Prisoner release to help peace process
03 09 2008 BUJUMBURA, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - The release of detainees suspected to be members of the Palipehutu-Forces for National Liberation (FNL), Burundi's last rebel group, would remove a major impediment to the ceasefire between the group and the government, sources said.
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