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Subject: CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 655
2 November 2012
To: Elisabeth Janaina <[email protected]>
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Table of contents
1. CLIMATE CHANGE: Beyond the hype of 'climate wars' <#13acfab13a3c7130_1>
2. KENYA: Sand harvesting threatens to displace thousands<#13acfab13a3c7130_2>
3. CLIMATE CHANGE: Mapping the health connection <#13acfab13a3c7130_3>
4. CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Victims cry foul over Uganda's LRA
strategy<#13acfab13a3c7130_4>
5. UGANDA: Nodding syndrome symptoms controlled, hunt for cure
continues<#13acfab13a3c7130_5>
6. KENYA: Pastoralists, too, can be displaced <#13acfab13a3c7130_6>
7. FOOD: Nutrition getting the attention it deserves? <#13acfab13a3c7130_7>
8. Analysis: Why dead body management matters <#13acfab13a3c7130_8>
9. KENYA: Disquiet over Lamu port project <#13acfab13a3c7130_9>
10. UGANDA: Funding, health system constraints impede Marburg
control<#13acfab13a3c7130_10>
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***CLIMATE CHANGE: Beyond the hype of 'climate
wars'<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96652>
*
[image: lead photo]JOHANNESBURG, 29 October 2012 (IRIN) - A new study set
in East Africa, one of the most detailed yet to examine the links between
conflict and climate change, calls for a more balanced view on the issue -
beyond the widely hyped "climate wars" said to be erupting over dwindling
natural resources. The study's authors are among a chorus of emerging
voices warning against viewing climate change exclusively through the lens
of security.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96652>
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***KENYA: Sand harvesting threatens to displace
thousands<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96659>
*
[image: lead photo]KISUMU, 29 October 2012 (IRIN) - Every day, 180 trucks
chug their way to the banks of a river near Lake Victoria and leave laden
with sand. Their cargo fuels Kenya's construction boom and the local labour
market, but the extraction could spell disaster for the village of
Nyadorera.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96659>
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***CLIMATE CHANGE: Mapping the health
connection<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96665>
*
[image: lead photo]JOHANNESBURG, 30 October 2012 (IRIN) - Countries could
save countless lives and greatly reduce health costs if forewarned about
climate-sensitive infectious disease outbreaks months in advance: and that
is becoming a possibility, according to the Atlas of Health and Climate, a
report mapping the links between climate and diseases like cholera,
malaria, dengue fever and diarrhoea.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96665>
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***CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Victims cry foul over Uganda's LRA
strategy<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96666>
*
[image: lead photo]BANGUI, 30 October 2012 (IRIN) - Uganda's practice of
pardoning and then integrating into its military captured or surrendered
members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), getting them to hunt down
their former comrades-in-arms, has come in for criticism by civilians
affected by the rebel group in the Central African Republic (CAR).
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96666>
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***UGANDA: Nodding syndrome symptoms controlled, hunt for cure
continues<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96667>
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[image: lead photo]KAMPALA, 30 October 2012 (IRIN) - Their conditions
improving, nearly all of the children admitted to health centres for
nodding syndrome have now been released, according to Uganda's Ministry of
Health; less severely affected patients have also started treatment.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96667>
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***KENYA: Pastoralists, too, can be
displaced<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96669>
*
[image: lead photo]ISIOLO, 31 October 2012 (IRIN) - Can pastoralists, who
spend much of their lives itinerant, in search of pasture, become
displaced? They can, and up to 400,000 pastoralists in northern Kenya are
currently internally displaced persons [IDPs], according to a new report.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96669>
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***FOOD: Nutrition getting the attention it
deserves?<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96671>
*
[image: lead photo]JOHANNESBURG, 31 October 2012 (IRIN) - Two years after
the launch of a global effort to mobilize countries in the use of
scientific approaches to improve nutrition, the movement seems to be
gaining momentum. More than 30 countries have signed up with the Scaling Up
Nutrition Movement, better known by its acronym SUN.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96671>
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***Analysis: Why dead body management
matters<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96673>
*
[image: lead photo]BANGKOK, 31 October 2012 (IRIN) - Dead body management
is a key element of disaster response: How corpses are dealt with can have
a profound impact and long-lasting effect on the mental health of survivors
and communities, say experts.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96673>
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***KENYA: Disquiet over Lamu port
project<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96675>
*
[image: lead photo]LAMU, 31 October 2012 (IRIN) - A fledgling project to
build a huge new port, oil refinery and transport hub on Kenya's northern
coastline promises to deliver thousands of jobs and is a pillar of the
government's long-term development agenda. But critics fear the project
will displace tens of thousands of people in Lamu District, exacerbate
decades of marginalization, degrade marine environments essential to local
livelihoods and increase the risk of conflict as the country gears up for
elections in March 2013.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96675>
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***UGANDA: Funding, health system constraints impede Marburg
control<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96678>
*
[image: lead photo]KAMPALA, 31 October 2012 (IRIN) - Uganda's Ministry of
Health is facing serious financial and health system constraints as it
battles to contain an outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever that has
killed eight people in the country's southwest.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96678>
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