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Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 577 29
April 2011
To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
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1. KENYA: Plea to ICC over forced male circumcision <#12fa11149b120380_1>
2. CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Supporting women's rights in remote
areas<#12fa11149b120380_2>
3. KENYA: Steady progress in infant AIDS vaccine trial <#12fa11149b120380_3>
4. BURUNDI: Thousands need food aid after poor crop season<#12fa11149b120380_4>
5. KENYA: Fight against child sex tourism needs a boost<#12fa11149b120380_5>
6. UGANDA: Chaotic "walk-to-work" protests put Kampala in spotlight
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***KENYA: Plea to ICC over forced male
circumcision<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92564>
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 25 April 2011 (IRIN) - A global advocacy group
for gender-based violence survivors has called on the International Criminal
Court to reconsider its refusal to recognize forced male circumcision as a
form of sexual violence in a case against alleged organizers of Kenya's
2007-2008 post-election crisis.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92564>
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***CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Supporting women's rights in remote
areas<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92565>
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 25 April 2011 (IRIN) - Violations of human
rights are on the increase in northeastern Central African Republic (CAR),
with aid workers expressing concern for protection of civilians amid renewed
clashes between government troops and the Convention of Patriots for Justice
and Peace (CPJP) rebels - one of the few groups that has not signed a peace
agreement with the government.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92565>
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***KENYA: Steady progress in infant AIDS vaccine
trial<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92591>
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 27 April 2011 (PlusNews) - Infants enrolled in
October 2010 in an HIV vaccine trial are doing well, say researchers in
Kenya.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92591>
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***BURUNDI: Thousands need food aid after poor crop
season<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92602>
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[image: lead photo]BUJUMBURA, 28 April 2011 (IRIN) - Heavy rains in March in
Burundi's eastern province of Ruyigi destroyed beans, banana and cassava
crops, leaving thousands of people desperate for food aid, agricultural
officials said.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92602>
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***KENYA: Fight against child sex tourism needs a
boost<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92603>
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[image: lead photo]MOMBASA, 28 April 2011 (PlusNews) - When police in
Kenya's coastal tourist city of Mombasa conduct night raids, it is not
unusual for a large number of sex workers arrested to be under 18.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92603>
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***UGANDA: Chaotic "walk-to-work" protests put Kampala in spotlight
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92615>*
[image: lead photo]KAMPALA, 29 April 2011 (IRIN) - After weeks of
demonstrations against the rising cost of living in Uganda, the situation in
the capital, Kampala, deteriorated on 29 April, with riots breaking out in
the city centre in protest at the brutal arrest of an opposition leader a
day earlier.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92615>
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