---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IRIN <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:39 PM Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 568 24 February 2011 To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
[image: IRINnews logo] <http://www.irinnews.org/> humanitarian news and analysis a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Table of contents 1. CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Education against the odds<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=nMV9SDQdWfY.en.&am=!062G0DnwSUP7BeVhIf8yIkbzJFePxVeqAeV8SUf5RaBOyZKWu-YzuKtjXQ&fri#12e5cd60a79a6bbe_1> 2. DRC: Rights activists decry threats<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=nMV9SDQdWfY.en.&am=!062G0DnwSUP7BeVhIf8yIkbzJFePxVeqAeV8SUf5RaBOyZKWu-YzuKtjXQ&fri#12e5cd60a79a6bbe_2> 3. KENYA: Bondo grapples with shortages of water and health services<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=nMV9SDQdWfY.en.&am=!062G0DnwSUP7BeVhIf8yIkbzJFePxVeqAeV8SUf5RaBOyZKWu-YzuKtjXQ&fri#12e5cd60a79a6bbe_3> 4. BURUNDI: Aid workers worry about food insecurity<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=nMV9SDQdWfY.en.&am=!062G0DnwSUP7BeVhIf8yIkbzJFePxVeqAeV8SUf5RaBOyZKWu-YzuKtjXQ&fri#12e5cd60a79a6bbe_4> 5. BURUNDI: Helping returnee students overcome language barrier<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=nMV9SDQdWfY.en.&am=!062G0DnwSUP7BeVhIf8yIkbzJFePxVeqAeV8SUf5RaBOyZKWu-YzuKtjXQ&fri#12e5cd60a79a6bbe_5> ------------------------------ *CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Education against the odds<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Reportid=91993> * [image: lead photo]LINGUIRI, 21 February 2011 (IRIN) - Decades of political violence in northern Central African Republic have caused widespread destruction and displacement. The educational sector has been badly affected by a dire shortage of teachers and adequate physical infrastructure. For thousands of children, classes take place not in solid buildings of brick, but in rudimentary "bush schools". Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91993> ------------------------------ *DRC: Rights activists decry threats<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Reportid=91994> * [image: lead photo]KINSHASA, 21 February 2011 (IRIN) - Direct threats, anonymous telephone calls and intimidating mobile-phone text messages are among the tactics human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say are being used to undermine their work amid a deteriorating security climate. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91994> ------------------------------ *KENYA: Bondo grapples with shortages of water and health services<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Reportid=92004> * [image: lead photo]BONDO, 22 February 2011 (IRIN) - Bondo constituency in Nyanza Province, western Kenya, has the least amount of rainfall annually in the region, even though it is not classified as arid or even semi-arid, forcing residents to walk long distances in search of water. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=92004> ------------------------------ *BURUNDI: Aid workers worry about food insecurity<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Reportid=92007> * [image: lead photo]BUJUMBURA, 23 February 2011 (IRIN) - High food prices, increasing malnutrition and the impact of La Niña are Burundi's major humanitarian concerns as the country moves from post-conflict to a development phase, say aid workers. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=92007> ------------------------------ *BURUNDI: Helping returnee students overcome language barrier<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Reportid=92023> * [image: lead photo]MAKAMBA, 24 February 2011 (IRIN) - Unversed in Burundi's official languages of French and Kirundu, children of refugees returning after decades spent in Anglophone countries, such as neighbouring Tanzania, often find it difficult to continue their studies and some drop out. 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