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Subject: CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 729
28 March 2014
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Table of contents
1. Do we care enough about sexual violence? <#145093079879d8e7_1>
2. Tug of war over Muslim community in western CAR <#145093079879d8e7_2>
3. Ethiopia struggling to cope with South Sudanese refugee
influx<#145093079879d8e7_3>
4. Cattle-rustling and the politics of business in Kenya<#145093079879d8e7_4>
5. Women: Victims of conflict or agents of change? <#145093079879d8e7_5>
6. "Get a grip," UN chief tells CAR leaders <#145093079879d8e7_6>
7. Calls for a ceasefire in the war on drugs <#145093079879d8e7_7>
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*Do we care enough about sexual violence?
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99307>*
[image: lead photo]JOHANNESBURG, 25 March 2014 (IRIN) - Two years ago
global attention was focused on the spontaneous protests led by ordinary
people in the Indian capital, New Delhi, after the gruesome gang-rape and
murder of a physiotherapy student.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99307>
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*Tug of war over Muslim community in western CAR
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99831>*
[image: lead photo]BODA (WESTERN CAR), 24 March 2014 (IRIN) - Anti-balaka
militia fighters at the diamond mining town of Boda in the Central African
Republic (CAR) have rejected a government-sponsored attempt to allow a
Muslim community of about 12,000 people to stay there.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99831>
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*Ethiopia struggling to cope with South Sudanese refugee influx
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99839>*
[image: lead photo]GAMBELA REGION, 25 March 2014 (IRIN) - With around 1,000
South Sudanese refugees streaming into the Gambela Region of western
Ethiopia every week, relief workers and agencies warn of an imminent
humanitarian crisis as camps reach capacity and assistance is increasingly
stretched.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99839>
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*Cattle-rustling and the politics of business in Kenya
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99846>*
[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 27 March 2014 (IRIN) - Cattle raiding in Kenya
is often viewed in the legitimizing context of tradition, climate change
and resource conflict, but increasingly it has much more to do with
organized crime meeting a rising demand for meat, and political violence
resulting from a new devolutionary constitution.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99846>
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*Women: Victims of conflict or agents of change?
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99847>*
[image: lead photo]DUBAI, 27 March 2014 (IRIN) - Women are the biggest
victims in natural disasters and conflicts, yet they are also the most
resourceful, experts told an aid conference in Dubai. Thus, aid agencies
should do more to develop women as agents for change and development.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99847>
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*"Get a grip," UN chief tells CAR leaders
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99850>*
[image: lead photo]BANGUI, 27 March 2014 (IRIN) - Amid an upsurge in
attacks on African Union (AU) peacekeepers, the UN special representative
in the Central African Republic (CAR) has called on the population and
leaders to "get a grip" and not allow blind hatred to destroy the country.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99850>
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*Calls for a ceasefire in the war on drugs
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99851>*
[image: lead photo]NEW YORK, 28 March 2014 (IRIN) - Despite growing
acknowledgement that the war on drugs has failed, global consensus on the
way forward remains elusive. Nevertheless, some detect a "paradigm shift"
among many players at the forefront of the debate.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99851>
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