---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IRIN <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:51 PM Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 584 17 June 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. SUDAN: Road closures, bombings, landmines hit Southern food supplies<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=vu4YjK4XPp8.en.&am=!vahPEcIhP_O7Qv3hQtMmghsq3NIPRdeO1YViFew_KFLluMr_9XsypbZbl2E&fri#1309dab0fcb75d7a_1> 2. HEALTH: Saving lives for the price of a cup of coffee<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=vu4YjK4XPp8.en.&am=!vahPEcIhP_O7Qv3hQtMmghsq3NIPRdeO1YViFew_KFLluMr_9XsypbZbl2E&fri#1309dab0fcb75d7a_2> 3. SUDAN: Civilians bear brunt of Southern Kordofan clashes<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=vu4YjK4XPp8.en.&am=!vahPEcIhP_O7Qv3hQtMmghsq3NIPRdeO1YViFew_KFLluMr_9XsypbZbl2E&fri#1309dab0fcb75d7a_3> 4. CONGO: Outbreak of dengue-like viral disease<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=vu4YjK4XPp8.en.&am=!vahPEcIhP_O7Qv3hQtMmghsq3NIPRdeO1YViFew_KFLluMr_9XsypbZbl2E&fri#1309dab0fcb75d7a_4> 5. DRC: Ragi Ngenderezi Abulengu, "We are like birds: today we are here, but tomorrow we will move again"<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=vu4YjK4XPp8.en.&am=!vahPEcIhP_O7Qv3hQtMmghsq3NIPRdeO1YViFew_KFLluMr_9XsypbZbl2E&fri#1309dab0fcb75d7a_5> 6. KENYA: Severe drought, high food prices hit pastoralists<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=vu4YjK4XPp8.en.&am=!vahPEcIhP_O7Qv3hQtMmghsq3NIPRdeO1YViFew_KFLluMr_9XsypbZbl2E&fri#1309dab0fcb75d7a_6> 7. RIGHTS: ILO milestone for domestic workers<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=vu4YjK4XPp8.en.&am=!vahPEcIhP_O7Qv3hQtMmghsq3NIPRdeO1YViFew_KFLluMr_9XsypbZbl2E&fri#1309dab0fcb75d7a_7> 8. DRC: Angola's `sans papiers' violently deported in latest wave of expulsions<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&ver=vu4YjK4XPp8.en.&am=!vahPEcIhP_O7Qv3hQtMmghsq3NIPRdeO1YViFew_KFLluMr_9XsypbZbl2E&fri#1309dab0fcb75d7a_8> ------------------------------ *SUDAN: Road closures, bombings, landmines hit Southern food supplies<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92968> * [image: lead photo]BENTIU, UNITY STATE, 13 June 2011 (IRIN) - The closure for nearly two months of a road between Northern and Southern Sudan has led to serious food shortages in Southern Sudan's Unity State, with government officials and aid workers expressing concern over the food security of thousands of displaced people, returnees and others. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92968> ------------------------------ *HEALTH: Saving lives for the price of a cup of coffee<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92979> * [image: lead photo]LONDON, 14 June 2011 (IRIN) - The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, (GAVI) has succeeded in raising more than enough money to fund its programme for the next five years. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92979> ------------------------------ *SUDAN: Civilians bear brunt of Southern Kordofan clashes<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92981> * [image: lead photo]JUBA, 14 June 2011 (IRIN) - Aerial bombardments, killings of civilians and house-to-house searches are escalating in the Northern Sudanese state of Southern Kordofan, aid workers and residents report. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92981> ------------------------------ *CONGO: Outbreak of dengue-like viral disease<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92989> * [image: lead photo]BRAZZAVILLE, 15 June 2011 (IRIN) - Almost 1,000 suspected cases of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease that causes fever and severe joint pain, have been recorded in the Republic of Congo's capital over the past two weeks. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92989> ------------------------------ *DRC: Ragi Ngenderezi Abulengu, "We are like birds: today we are here, but tomorrow we will move again"<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92990> * [image: lead photo]MUGUNGA, 15 June 2011 (IRIN) - In Mugunga, about 12km from Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), communities of Bambuti have been eking out a living at the edge of the city. The Bambuti are believed to be among Central Africa's oldest inhabitants, surviving from hunting and gathering. Among those living in Mugunga, some fled the war in eastern DRC in 2005 and others were evicted from their ancestral homes in Virunga National Park, home to DRC's mountain gorillas. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92990> ------------------------------ *KENYA: Severe drought, high food prices hit pastoralists<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92997> * [image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 16 June 2011 (IRIN) - Successive poor rains coupled with rising food and fuel prices are leading to a worsening food security situation with alarming levels of acute malnutrition being recorded in drought affected parts of Kenya, mainly in the north of the country, say experts. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92997> ------------------------------ *RIGHTS: ILO milestone for domestic workers<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93003> * [image: lead photo]BANGKOK, 17 June 2011 (IRIN) - Activists campaigning for the rights of domestic workers are celebrating the passing of the International Labour Organization's (ILO) convention recognizing domestic work as work. The convention is a long time coming and has brought the often invisible and abused to the forefront of protection, says a leading human rights agency. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93003> ------------------------------ *DRC: Angola's `sans papiers' violently deported in latest wave of expulsions <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93004>* [image: lead photo]KANANGA, KASAI OCCIDENTAL PROVINCE,, 17 June 2011 (IRIN) - "I have been left without anything - I don't even have anywhere to go now." Thirty-year-old Mwamba Kashane, one of the thousands of Congolese to be expelled from Angola in the past month, recounts his ordeal from Kamako, a town close to the Angolan border in the province of Kasai Occidental. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93004> ------------------------------ [This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] Feedback <http://www.irinnews.org/websitefeedback.aspx> | Terms & Conditions <http://www.irinnews.org/copyright.aspx> | [image: RSS feeds] News Feeds <http://www.irinnews.org/RSS.aspx> | About IRIN<http://www.irinnews.org/about.aspx> | Jobs <http://www.irinnews.org/jobs.aspx> | Donors<http://www.irinnews.org/donors.aspx> Copyright © IRIN 2011. All rights reserved. This material comes to you via IRIN, the humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 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