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Date: Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:02 PM
Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 590 29
July 2011
To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
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Table of contents
1. KENYA: Illiteracy hampers treatment programmes <#13175caf4da9514e_1>
2. KENYA-SOMALIA: Red tape adds to refugee woes in Dadaab<#13175caf4da9514e_2>
3. Analysis: Horn of Africa aid must also build long-term
resilience<#13175caf4da9514e_3>
4. UGANDA: Risk of starvation in Karamoja region <#13175caf4da9514e_4>
5. KENYA: Expand drought response, UN agencies urge <#13175caf4da9514e_5>
6. KENYA-SOMALIA: Fourth Dadaab camp yet to open despite government
pledge<#13175caf4da9514e_6>
7. KENYA: When a cow is part of the family <#13175caf4da9514e_7>
8. KENYA: Drought exacerbates conflict in Turkana <#13175caf4da9514e_8>
9. KENYA: Farmers reap rewards of switching to maize <#13175caf4da9514e_9>
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***KENYA: Illiteracy hampers treatment
programmes<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93324>
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[image: lead photo]TURKANA/NAIROBI, 25 July 2011 (PlusNews) - Isaac Nanok
religiously collects his antiretrovirals (ARVs) from his local health centre
every month, but the information on the packaging is meaningless as he is
illiterate.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93324>
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***KENYA-SOMALIA: Red tape adds to refugee woes in
Dadaab<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93332>
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[image: lead photo]DADAAB, 26 July 2011 (IRIN) - After walking for days to
escape drought and insecurity, often barefoot and with almost no food or
water, Somali refugees who arrive at Dadaab camps in northern Kenya are met
with delays and red tape.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93332>
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***Analysis: Horn of Africa aid must also build long-term
resilience<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93337>
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[image: lead photo]GENEVA, 27 July 2011 (IRIN) - The images of starving
children bear grim witness to the extent of the crisis affecting millions of
people in the Horn of Africa, but they also symbolize a failure to act in
time, say aid experts.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93337>
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***UGANDA: Risk of starvation in Karamoja
region<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93338>
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[image: lead photo]ABIM, 27 July 2011 (IRIN) - Several districts in Uganda
will need urgent relief aid to mitigate the risk of starvation following
poor rains that have affected this year's harvest, the Minister for Disaster
Preparedness warned.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93338>
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***KENYA: Expand drought response, UN agencies
urge<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93345>
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 27 July 2011 (IRIN) - UN agencies in Kenya have
called for the scaling-up of the drought response and mitigation
interventions as more people will likely become food insecure amid funding
gaps.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93345>
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***KENYA-SOMALIA: Fourth Dadaab camp yet to open despite government
pledge<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93347>
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[image: lead photo]DADAAB/NAIROBI, 28 July 2011 (IRIN) - A fourth camp for
refugees in Dadaab, northeastern Kenya, lies empty, despite an announcement
of its imminent opening by Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga on 14 July.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93347>
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***KENYA: When a cow is part of the
family<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93353>
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[image: lead photo]MANDERA/WAJIR, 28 July 2011 (IRIN) - In his village,
Kiliwehiri in northeastern Kenya, Abdullah Mohamed is known as "that
mentally disturbed man".
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93353>
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***KENYA: Drought exacerbates conflict in
Turkana<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93363>
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[image: lead photo]LOKICHOGGIO, 29 July 2011 (IRIN) - Cross-border armed
conflict over resources among Turkana pastoralists in northeastern Kenya has
increased following the severe drought ravaging parts of the Horn of Africa.
Besides rampant malnutrition, the desperate competition has led to increased
livestock theft, shootings and forced migration.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93363>
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***KENYA: Farmers reap rewards of switching to
maize<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93367>
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[image: lead photo]AHERO, 29 July 2011 (IRIN) - The Kano plains, in Kenya's
western Nyanza Province, are well known for rice production, but after years
of poor prices and competition from imports, farmers are gradually switching
to more profitable crops such as maize.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93367>
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