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Date: Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:40 PM
Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 586 1
July 2011
To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
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Table of contents
1. DRC: Urban farming takes root <#130e58d5b159d844_1>
2. EASTERN AFRICA: Severe food crisis hits region <#130e58d5b159d844_2>
3. DRC: Children still in prison despite law <#130e58d5b159d844_3>
4. KENYA: Tackling aflatoxin - if the price is right <#130e58d5b159d844_4>
5. CONGO: Chikungunya spreads to Pool region <#130e58d5b159d844_5>
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***DRC: Urban farming takes root
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93089>*
[image: lead photo]KINSHASA, 28 June 2011 (IRIN) - Urban farming in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is providing a livelihood for thousands
of city dwellers, with vegetables bringing in good money for small growers
and helping to alleviate high levels of malnutrition nationally,
agricultural officials say.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93089>
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***EASTERN AFRICA: Severe food crisis hits
region<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93092>
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 28 June 2011 (IRIN) - Eastern Africa is
experiencing what has been described as the "most severe food crisis in the
world today", with at least 10 million people affected in Djibouti,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda, according to the UN Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93092>
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***DRC: Children still in prison despite
law<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93100>
*
[image: lead photo]KINSHASA, 29 June 2011 (IRIN) - Two years after the
Democratic Republic of Congo promulgated the Law on Child Protection, an
estimated 3,000 children remain in prisons across the country.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93100>
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***KENYA: Tackling aflatoxin - if the price is
right<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93105>
*
[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 30 June 2011 (IRIN) - A treatment that could
control a deadly fungus, aflatoxin, from infecting maize is being tested in
Kenya in a project donors hope will result in a commercially viable product
with regional application, officials say.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93105>
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***CONGO: Chikungunya spreads to Pool
region<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93112>
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[image: lead photo]BRAZZAVILLE, 1 July 2011 (IRIN) - An epidemic of
Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease, which began in early June in
Congo's capital Brazzaville, has spread to the neighbouring Pool region,
according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93112>
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