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Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:39 PM
Subject: CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN Weekly humanitarian round-up 574,
8 April 2011
To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
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1. TANZANIA: Authorities urge caution on popular "cure-all"
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2. DRC: Moved on to a minefield <#12f355860a800a4b_2>
3. BURUNDI: Former child soldiers "languishing in poverty"
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4. KENYA: Livestock dying as drought deepens <#12f355860a800a4b_4>
5. KENYA: Risking TB in Nyanza's gold mines <#12f355860a800a4b_5>
6. DRC: Heavy rains could worsen cholera outbreak <#12f355860a800a4b_6>
7. KENYA: Patients on ARVs hard hit by drought, high food
prices<#12f355860a800a4b_7>
8. AFRICA: Opposition building to Great Green Wall <#12f355860a800a4b_8>
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***TANZANIA: Authorities urge caution on popular "cure-all"
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[image: lead photo]DAR ES SALAAM, 4 April 2011 (PlusNews) - As thousands of
people flock to the north of Tanzania in search of a popular herbal
"miracle" cure, authorities are urging HIV-positive people to continue
taking their antiretroviral medication.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92360>
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***DRC: Moved on to a minefield
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92370>*
[image: lead photo]KISANGANI, 4 April 2011 (IRIN) - More than 1,000 people
in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been forced to move to a
suspected minefield because the authorities want to build shops and
restaurants on the site of their old homes.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92370>
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***BURUNDI: Former child soldiers "languishing in poverty"
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92371>*
[image: lead photo]BUJUMBURA, 5 April 2011 (IRIN) - The lucky ones among
Burundi's 3,421 former child soldiers who went through a demobilization,
disarmament and reintegration process returned to school but most languish
in poverty, with little to do, officials told IRIN.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92371>
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***KENYA: Livestock dying as drought deepens
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92393>*
[image: lead photo]ISIOLO/MANDERA, 6 April 2011 (IRIN) - Thousands more
heads of livestock have died in Kenya's arid Northeastern province as La
Niña drought conditions worsen and water shortages become more acute.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92393>
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***KENYA: Risking TB in Nyanza's gold
mines<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92395>
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[image: lead photo]NYATIKE, 6 April 2011 (PlusNews) - Timothy Omuya spends
most days chipping away at stones in search of gold and inhaling fine
particles of dust without protective gear in western Kenya's mines. It was
not a huge surprise, therefore, when he tested positive for tuberculosis.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92395>
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***DRC: Heavy rains could worsen cholera outbreak
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92402>*
[image: lead photo]KISANGANI , 7 April 2011 (IRIN) - An outbreak of cholera
that has claimed 51 lives in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city
of Kisangani since late February could worsen as heavy rains threaten to
undermine an emergency chlorination programme, warned health experts.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92402>
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***KENYA: Patients on ARVs hard hit by drought, high food
prices<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92406>
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[image: lead photo]NAKURU/ISIOLO, 7 April 2011 (PlusNews) - When
IRIN/PlusNews recently visited Nuna Kahiro, 75, in Kenya's Rift Valley town
of Nakuru, she asked the same question she asks everyone who visits: "Did
you bring me anything to eat?"
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92406>
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***AFRICA: Opposition building to Great Green Wall
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92422>*
[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 8 April 2011 (IRIN) - What's green,
controversial, 15km wide, 7,775km long, cuts across 11 African countries and
is designed to reduce livestock deaths and boost food security for millions
of people? Nothing yet, but the Great Green Wall project, a pipe-dream for
decades, was recently endorsed by a swathe of African states stretching from
Senegal to Djibouti.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92422>
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