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Subject: CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 726
7 March 2014
To: "Elisabeth Janaina" <[email protected]>
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1. Malaria fight sees decade of progress, with pitfalls
ahead<#1449e61ac9c8b133_1>
2. Worsening food crisis in South Sudan's swamplands <#1449e61ac9c8b133_2>
3. Briefing: DDR in eastern DRC - try, try again <#1449e61ac9c8b133_3>
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*Malaria fight sees decade of progress, with pitfalls ahead
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99727>*
[image: lead photo]LONDON, 3 March 2014 (IRIN) - A lot can change in a
decade. Back in 2003, many countries still relied on the increasingly
ineffective chloroquine to treat malaria. Malaria testing was a job for lab
technicians with microscopes, and treatment was left to professionals. And
public health officials were smarting from their failure to eradicate the
disease in the 1950s and 60s.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99727>
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*Worsening food crisis in South Sudan's swamplands
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99735>*
[image: lead photo]NYAL (UNITY STATE), 3 March 2014 (IRIN) - In the vast
swamplands of South Sudan's Sudd region, tens of thousands of recently
displaced people (IDPs) are living with little food and no sanitation
facilities on inaccessible islands, according to local officials. They fled
after attackers, allegedly from Rumbek (Lakes State in central South
Sudan), swarmed across the county burning houses and raiding cattle on 7
February.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99735>
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*Briefing: DDR in eastern DRC - try, try again
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99741>*
[image: lead photo]KAMPALA/NAIROBI, 4 March 2014 (IRIN) - There are 54
armed groups at large in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC), according to the government, which plans to spend the next five
years getting shot of them. But will the third, US$100 million, attempt at
disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR3) succeed where previous
bids failed?
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99741>
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