---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IRIN <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:46:01 -0000 Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 601 14 October 2011 To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
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. GLOBAL: Standing up for teenage girls 2. SUDAN: Blue Nile hospital struggles to treat shrapnel wounds 3. SUDAN: Blue Nile subsistence farmers forced to flee 4. HEALTH: Rape as a "weapon of war" against men 5. KENYA: Two new wheat varieties offer hope against stem rust 6. SUDAN: Zouhal Iead, "I go to Ethiopia to sleep then come back to Kurmuk" 7. Analysis: Rocky start for Uganda's burgeoning oil sector _____ GLOBAL: Standing up for teenage girls <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93924> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2008/20080203t.jpg> LONDON, 10 October 2011 (IRIN) - Catherine Bertini, the former head of the World Food Programme is beating a drum for teenage girls, especially those girls who live in rural areas of developing countries. "These girls have incredible potential, she says, "to spur agricultural growth and economic growth, if only they are part of policy, if only they are part of decision-making, if only they are part of the priorities that governments and donors set in their work." Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93924> _____ SUDAN: Blue Nile hospital struggles to treat shrapnel wounds <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93942> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201110120921460203t.jpg> KURMUK, 12 October 2011 (IRIN) - Kurmuk hospital in Sudan's southern crisis-hit Blue Nile State is struggling to cope with an influx of war wounded, according to hospital doctor Evan Atar. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93942> _____ SUDAN: Blue Nile subsistence farmers forced to flee <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93959> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201110120934380281t.jpg> KURMUK, 13 October 2011 (IRIN) - Huwa Gundi, 21, sits on a sheet outside two makeshift tents near her home village of Sali, where her extended family of eight now live off one meal a day. Cradling her four-month-old baby, Fatma, she says her three other children have died since the start of the conflict in Sudan's Blue Nile State in early September. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93959> _____ HEALTH: Rape as a "weapon of war" against men <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93960> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201110141059460329t.jpg> CAPE TOWN, 13 October 2011 (IRIN) - Sexual violence against men, including rape, is under-reported, poorly addressed and has a severe impact on both men and their families, according to a presentation at the annual Sexual Violence and Research Initiative (SVRI), held in Cape Town, South Africa. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93960> _____ KENYA: Two new wheat varieties offer hope against stem rust <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93963> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2010/201010281129340750t.jpg> NJORO, 13 October 2011 (IRIN) - There is renewed hope for wheat farming in Kenya following the release of two wheat varieties that are more resistant to wheat stem rust Ug99. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93963> _____ SUDAN: Zouhal Iead, "I go to Ethiopia to sleep then come back to Kurmuk" <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93964> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201110140645180189t.jpg> KURMUK, 14 October 2011 (IRIN) - Zouhal Iead, 17, fled an aerial bombardment of her village of Bouk in Sudan's Blue Nile State, after war broke out there in early September between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North. IRIN caught up with Iead at Kurmuk hospital, where she was recently treated for shrapnel wounds. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93964> _____ Analysis: Rocky start for Uganda's burgeoning oil sector <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93966> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201110141051340580t.jpg> KAMPALA, 14 October 2011 (IRIN) - Uganda has yet to produce a single barrel of oil, but with three senior ministers accused of accepting bribes from oil companies and the government seemingly ill-prepared for imminent large-scale oil production, the phrase "resource curse" is already being bandied about. 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