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Subject: CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 636
22 June 2012
To: Elisabeth Janaina <[email protected]>
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1. KENYA-SOMALIA: No consensus on way ahead for world's biggest
refugee camp<#138223574bcb39f7_1>
2. UGANDA: Activists to pursue maternal health case against
government<#138223574bcb39f7_2>
3. UGANDA: Lack of funding stalls ex-combatants'
reintegration<#138223574bcb39f7_3>
4. SOUTH SUDAN-ISRAEL: Returnees complain of harsh treatment in
Israel<#138223574bcb39f7_4>
5. CONGO: Community radio promotes Bantu-Pygmy
understanding<#138223574bcb39f7_5>
6. SUDAN: Austerity package sparks protests <#138223574bcb39f7_6>
7. SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Aid to refugees "race against time"<#138223574bcb39f7_7>
8. UGANDA: Government plans naturalization of refugees <#138223574bcb39f7_8>
9. KENYA: IDP law in the works <#138223574bcb39f7_9>
10. DRC: Understanding armed group M23 <#138223574bcb39f7_10>
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***KENYA-SOMALIA: No consensus on way ahead for world's biggest refugee
camp <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95657>*
[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 15 June 2012 (IRIN) - Key stakeholders meeting
on 14 June to discuss the future of Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya
acknowledge that there are tough choices ahead, but no agreed way forward.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95657>
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***UGANDA: Activists to pursue maternal health case against
government<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95659>
*
[image: lead photo]KAMPALA, 15 June 2012 (IRIN) - A petition backed by over
50 NGOs and charging Uganda's government with failing to prevent the deaths
of expectant mothers was thrown out by the constitutional court on 5 June,
but the petition's supporters plan to appeal.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95659>
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***UGANDA: Lack of funding stalls ex-combatants'
reintegration<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95672>
*
[image: lead photo]KAMPALA/GULU, 18 June 2012 (IRIN) - A Ugandan government
programme to reintegrate more than 26,000 former armed rebels has stalled
as a result of poor funding, leaving thousands of ex-combatants with few
means of earning a living.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95672>
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***SOUTH SUDAN-ISRAEL: Returnees complain of harsh treatment in
Israel<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95685>
*
[image: lead photo]JUBA, 19 June 2012 (IRIN) - The first batch of 700 South
Sudanese have returned to Juba from Israel, as part of a policy to deport
Africans and protect the state's Jewish identity.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95685>
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***CONGO: Community radio promotes Bantu-Pygmy
understanding<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95689>
*
[image: lead photo]POKOLA, 19 June 2012 (IRIN) - A community radio station
broadcasting from Pokola, 800km north of the Congolese capital Brazzville,
is helping to foster understanding between the Bantu majority and the
indigenous Pygmy minority.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95689>
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***SUDAN: Austerity package sparks
protests<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95692>
*
[image: lead photo]KHARTOUM, 20 June 2012 (IRIN) - Protests have taken
place in Khartoum, nearby Omdurman, and other Sudanese cities over the past
few days after Sudanese president Umar Al-Bashir announced a new austerity
plan.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95692>
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***SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Aid to refugees "race against
time"<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95693>
*
[image: lead photo]JAMAM/ KILOMETRE 18, UPPER NILE STATE, 20 June 2012
(IRIN) - Aid agencies working in northern South Sudan are worried about
refugees from Sudan's war-torn Blue Nile State who are reaching
under-resourced camps in increasingly poor health.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95693>
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***UGANDA: Government plans naturalization of
refugees<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95701>
*
[image: lead photo]KAMPALA, 21 June 2012 (IRIN) - The Ugandan government
says it is in discussions to legalize and grant naturalization to thousands
of refugees who fled into the country in the 1960s and 1990s, mainly from
the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95701>
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***KENYA: IDP law in the
works<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95706>
*
[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 22 June 2012 (IRIN) - Election-related violence
and the displacement of people are regular occurrences in Kenya, and
thousands of families are affected by it every five years. But a bill
tabled in parliament on 13 June seeks to compel the government to protect
internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95706>
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***DRC: Understanding armed group M23
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95715>*
[image: lead photo]JOHANNESBURG, 22 June 2012 (IRIN) - To the layman the
emergence of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) armed group M23
might be seen as of little significance - just another band of gunmen
controlling a few square kilometres of turf in a country the size of
western Europe.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=95715>
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