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Subject: CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 666
18 January 2013
To: Elisabeth Janaina <[email protected]>
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Table of contents
1. The Right to Stay - Fighting slum evictions in Kenya<#13c5d3048a3e6279_1>
2. World Economic Forum report offers view of global risks<#13c5d3048a3e6279_2>
3. Kenya's IDPs fault government for delayed resettlement<#13c5d3048a3e6279_3>
4. Sudan continues crackdown on opposition groups <#13c5d3048a3e6279_4>
5. Will there be a global food crisis in 2013? <#13c5d3048a3e6279_5>
6. Women without men vulnerable in South Sudan's refugee
camps<#13c5d3048a3e6279_6>
7. Protecting water pays dividends <#13c5d3048a3e6279_7>
8. Congo prisons chief admits shortcomings in wake of damning
report<#13c5d3048a3e6279_8>
9. Fewer pregnant women with HIV in Congo <#13c5d3048a3e6279_9>
10. Rehabilitation centre for Uganda's LRA returnees to
close<#13c5d3048a3e6279_10>
11. In Brief: Staples, not export crops, key to tackling Africa's poverty -
report <#13c5d3048a3e6279_11>
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***The Right to Stay - Fighting slum evictions in
Kenya<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97235>
*
[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 12 January 2013 (IRIN) - In the Mukuru slum,
one of the biggest in Nairobi, a group of residents has decided to go to
court to demand the right to the land on which they live and an end to
forced evictions. Kenya adopted a new constitution in 2010, which protects
the right to housing and sanitation. The case may have far-reaching
implications in a city where 60 percent of the population lives in slums.
IRIN's latest Film "The Right to Stay" portrays the struggle of the Mukuru
residents and inspirational community leader Jack Evans Omondi Papa.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97235>
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***World Economic Forum report offers view of global
risks<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97241>
*
[image: lead photo]LONDON, 14 January 2013 (IRIN) - The World Economic
Forum has released its eighth annual Global Risks Report, which lists top
global threats identified by a survey of over 1,000 experts. As in last
year's report, 2013's risks were topped by economic and financial concerns,
particularly the risk of major systemic economic failure.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97241>
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***Kenya's IDPs fault government for delayed
resettlement<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97251>
*
[image: lead photo]NAKURU, 15 January 2013 (IRIN) - Of the 600,000 people
forcibly displaced in Kenya during the fierce 2007-2008 post-election
violence, hundreds have yet to be resettled, despite government pledges to
find them new homes.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97251>
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***Sudan continues crackdown on opposition
groups<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97253>
*
[image: lead photo]KHARTOUM, 15 January 2013 (IRIN) - A number of Sudanese
opposition party leaders are in custody following the signing of an accord,
dubbed the 'New Dawn Charter', under which they agreed to overthrow the
government of President Omar al-Bashir and institute a federal system of
government based on democracy, pluralism and the separation of religion and
the state.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97253>
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***Will there be a global food crisis in
2013?<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97255>
*
[image: lead photo]JOHANNESBURG, 16 January 2013 (IRIN) - Drought last year
devastated much of the maize crop in the US, the world's biggest maize
exporter, driving prices of the staple cereal to record levels.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97255>
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***Women without men vulnerable in South Sudan's refugee
camps<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97260>
*
[image: lead photo]MABAN, 16 January 2013 (IRIN) - Mahasa sits in the dust
outside the hut she built herself, holding her youngest son in her arms.
The 29-year-old mother of four knows how vulnerable she is. "I'm scared,"
she said.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97260>
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***Protecting water pays
dividends<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97265>
*
[image: lead photo]JOHANNESBURG, 17 January 2013 (IRIN) - As soaring
temperatures and rapid urbanization threaten water security, countries are
beginning to invest in the protection and preservation of their water
sources, a new report reveals.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97265>
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***Congo prisons chief admits shortcomings in wake of damning
report<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97274>
*
[image: lead photo]BRAZZAVILLE, 17 January 2013 (IRIN) - The
director-general of Congo's prison service, Paul Morossa, has admitted
serious overcrowding in prisons, but does not think imminent improvements
are possible.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97274>
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***Fewer pregnant women with HIV in
Congo<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97275>
*
[image: lead photo]BRAZZAVILLE, 18 January 2013 (PlusNews) - The HIV
infection rate has declined among pregnant women in the Republic of Congo
from 3.4 percent in 2009 to 2.8 percent in 2012, according to a study by
the Ministry of Health, which said it had taken specific action to help
this section of the population.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97275>
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***Rehabilitation centre for Uganda's LRA returnees to
close<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97276>
*
[image: lead photo]GULU, 18 January 2013 (IRIN) - One of the only two
remaining reception centres in northern Uganda helping reintegrate former
members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is threatened with closure.
This would greatly reduce psychosocial support available to those directly
involved - often as a result of abduction - in one of Africa's
longest-running conflicts.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97276>
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***In Brief: Staples, not export crops, key to tackling Africa's poverty -
report <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97278>*
[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 18 January 2013 (IRIN) - Africa could reduce
its poverty levels faster by focusing more on the production of staples
rather than export crops, according to a study by the International Food
Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=97278>
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