---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IRIN <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 14:45:59 -0000 Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 596 9 September 2011 To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
IRINnews logo <http://www.irinnews.org/> humanitarian news and analysis a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Table of contents 1. BURUNDI: Deaths reported as ARV shortage continues 2. DISASTERS: New risk index helps identify vulnerability 3. SUDAN: 20,000 flee Blue Nile clashes 4. TECHNOLOGY: Making the most of mobiles 5. UGANDA: Simmering tension over forest give-away 6. KENYA: Dry data 7. KENYA-SOMALIA: Refugees at risk of sexual violence 8. FOOD: Pressure on maize price grows 9. KENYA: Flood waters add to IDPs' misery _____ BURUNDI: Deaths reported as ARV shortage continues <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93657> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2007/200707262t.jpg> BUJUMBURA, 5 September 2011 (PlusNews) - Burundian NGOs say at least 20 people have died as a national shortage of antiretroviral continues. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93657> _____ DISASTERS: New risk index helps identify vulnerability <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93658> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201106190631010812t.jpg> JOHANNESBURG, 5 September 2011 (IRIN) - A new disaster risk index launched by the UN University Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn could help donors and aid organizations better understand why some countries are more at risk of calamity than others, and shape their responses when disaster strikes. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93658> _____ SUDAN: 20,000 flee Blue Nile clashes <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93660> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109051414480928t.jpg> KHARTOUM, 5 September 2011 (IRIN) - Armed conflict and air raids, blocked humanitarian aid and potential food shortages: conditions for civilians in two states on the border with South Sudan are giving increasing cause for concern. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93660> _____ TECHNOLOGY: Making the most of mobiles <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93675> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109071142220093t.jpg> LONDON, 7 September 2011 (IRIN) - It is not often a technology guru will say, "Forget the internet!" but Ken Banks, founder of Kiwanja.net, advocates going back to basics - using mobile phones rather than the internet, and pretty basic phones at that. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93675> _____ UGANDA: Simmering tension over forest give-away <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93678> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109071305180312t.jpg> KAMPALA, 7 September 2011 (IRIN) - A plan to replace a large swathe of protected rainforest in Uganda with sugarcane could lead to further civil unrest in a year when nine people have been killed during strikes and protests against the rising cost of living. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93678> _____ KENYA: Dry data <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93681> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2009/200907151039470235t.jpg> NAIROBI, 8 September 2011 (IRIN) - East African leaders, donors and NGOs began a two-meeting in the Kenyan capital on 8 September to once again discuss how to prevent the region's frequent droughts from triggering severe food crises or even famine. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93681> _____ KENYA-SOMALIA: Refugees at risk of sexual violence <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93682> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109081420010559t.jpg> DADAAB, 8 September 2011 (PlusNews) - Amina*, 27, left her home town of Kismayo in south-central Somalia at the end of May for northern Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. The journey took her and her four children 14 days and nearly broke them, but between the famine and the conflict, she was afraid that staying in Somalia could mean death. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93682> _____ FOOD: Pressure on maize price grows <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93683> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2007/2007031410t.jpg> JOHANNESBURG, 8 September 2011 (IRIN) - The cost of maize meal, a staple in many African countries, is set to go up, and wheat prices are heading in the same direction, according to the latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) global price update. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93683> _____ KENYA: Flood waters add to IDPs' misery <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93684> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109091144560168t.jpg> GILGIL, 9 September 2011 (IRIN) - More than three years after being chased from their homes into squalid camps, hundreds of families at several sites in Kenya's Rift Valley Province, the worst affected in the 2008 post-election violence, now have to contend with a new assault on their wellbeing: dirty flood water. 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