CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: CENTRAL AND IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 451 for 4 October - 10 October 2008 NAIROBI, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - CONTENTS: DRC-RWANDA: Fighting flares as civilians run in eastern Congo DRC: Agencies unable to reach thousands displaced in North Kivu UGANDA: Calls for Kony arrest "counter-productive" BURUNDI: Fighting for land DRC: Diarrhoea outbreak kills IDPs in North Kivu RWANDA: Rains wreak havoc KENYA: Government launches anti-malaria campaign ALSO SEE: AFRICA: Wiping out hunger- one fruit fly at a time [Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80799] UGANDA: Shrubs and leaves on the menu as Karamoja food shortages increase [Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80762] AFRICA: 'Sexually-transmitted grades' kills quality education [Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80851] UGANDA: Children eke out a living on the streets [Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80845 ] DRC-RWANDA: Fighting flares as civilians run in eastern Congo Serious fighting has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province and in the neighbouring district of Ituri, with thousands of civilians displaced, and others cut off, amid claims that foreign troops had deployed in parts of the east. The district of Ituri had largely been calm for most of 2007 and early 2008 but has of late seen an upsurge in militia activity while sporadic clashes between the Congolese army and armed groups in North Kivu have been ongoing for more than a year. [ Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80857 ] DRC: Agencies unable to reach thousands displaced in North Kivu Thousands of people who fled renewed fighting in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), between government forces and the rebel Congrès National pour la defense du people (CNDP), have yet to be located by aid agencies, a medical charity said. "Twenty-five thousand people fled to Kayina and Kanyabayonga [120km north of Goma, capital of North Kivu]," Colette Godenne, head of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), told IRIN. MSF was helping at least 100,000 people in Nyanzale and Kabizo, remote areas near Goma. "Where are the rest? We are really worried about their fate," Godenne said. [Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80813 Also see: Government forces, rebels clash in Ituri [ http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80811 ] UGANDA: Calls for Kony arrest "counter-productive" Renewed calls for the arrest of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony will create more animosity and hamper any efforts to conclude the ongoing peace process, a senior church leader said. John Baptist Odama, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Gulu in northern Uganda, said after this week's demand for Kony's arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC) leader: "If [the ICC] had not kept on hammering away about Kony, a final peace agreement would have been signed already." Thousands of people in northern Uganda have died in more than two decades of war between the Sudan/DRC-based LRA and the Ugandan government [Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80791] BURUNDI: Fighting for land Thousands of Burundians have returned home after years of refugee life in Tanzania, but finding shelter and enough land to farm remains a challenge. "Fifteen percent of long-term returnees repatriated this year are landless," said Léon Ndikunkiko, spokesman for the Ministry of National Solidarity, National Reconstruction, Human Rights and Gender. [Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80754] DRC: Diarrhoea outbreak kills IDPs in North Kivu Scores of people have died while hundreds have been affected by an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in IDP camps in North Kivu. "So far more than 300 people have been infected and 37 deaths have been reported in the past two weeks in the camps," Dominique Bahago, the provincial medical inspector, said. [Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80766] RWANDA: Rains wreak havoc Torrential rains have caused extensive flooding, destroying homes and crops in Rwanda's western and northern regions, according to officials. The rains submerged more than 500 homes, destroyed about 2,000 hectares of crops and washed away bridges, roads and pylons, as well as schools. [Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80755 ] KENYA: Government launches anti-malaria campaign Kenya's Ministry of Health has launched a four-day nationwide campaign to retreat at least 1.8 million bed nets with long-lasting insecticide to control the spread of malaria as the rainy season sets in, a senior health official said. "The nets will be retreated in all the eight provinces in the country," Shahnaz Sharif, the senior deputy director of medical services in Kenya's health ministry said. "400,000 torn and worn out nets will be replaced with long-lasting nets." [Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80844] bn[END] © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org [This item comes to you via IRIN, the humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations or its Member States. Reposting or reproduction, with attribution, for non-commercial purposes is permitted. Terms and conditions: http://www.irinnews.org/copyright.aspx Principal IRIN donors: Australia, Canada, Denmark, EC, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA. 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