---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IRIN <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:59:03 -0000 Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 597 16 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. DEVELOPMENT: When dealing with the devil pays 2. KENYA: What's new on the drought 3. KENYA-SOMALIA: Breaking with tradition on reproductive health 4. BURUNDI: A dozen killed in cholera outbreak 5. AID POLICY: Towards more diversity in aid agencies 6. KENYA: Martha Lebasale, "Hunger made me switch from pastoralism to hawking" 7. CONGO: A cut too far? C-sections increase after policy change 8. DRC-RWANDA: Militia members return home to another country 9. DRC-RWANDA: Augustin Habyaremye: "I don't want this life anymore" 10. KENYA-SOMALIA: Hidden sex work, HIV risk in Dadaab 11. CONGO-GABON: Former refugees unwilling to return home _____ DEVELOPMENT: When dealing with the devil pays <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93710> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109131255220090t.jpg> LONDON, 13 September 2011 (IRIN) - The development community has traditionally held the corporate world at arm's length, either ignoring it or treating it with deep suspicion, but there are benefits to cooperation, specialists say. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93710> _____ KENYA: What's new on the drought <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93712> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109011211370022t.jpg> ISIOLO/MARSABIT, 13 September 2011 (IRIN) - Pastoralists in the drought-hit northern and eastern part of Kenya are often caught up in conflict over resources as well as movements of livestock in search of water and pasture. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93712> _____ KENYA-SOMALIA: Breaking with tradition on reproductive health <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93720> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109141214070481t.jpg> DADAAB, 14 September 2011 (IRIN) - Most Somali women fleeing to northeastern Kenya's Dadaab in northeastern Kenya have never visited an antenatal clinic, let alone given birth in a hospital. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93720> _____ BURUNDI: A dozen killed in cholera outbreak <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93721> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2009/200903057t.jpg> BUJUMBURA, 14 September 2011 (IRIN) - Burundian health officials are battling to control a cholera outbreak that has killed 12 people and infected 600 others since August. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93721> _____ AID POLICY: Towards more diversity in aid agencies <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93722> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2010/201012010729100592t.jpg> DAKAR, 15 September 2011 (IRIN) - When long-time humanitarian Margie Buchanan-Smith was interviewed for one of her first field posts - in Sudan in the 1980s - she was asked: "Will you burst out crying when you arrive?" "No," she replied - and got the job. But when she arrived she was one of few women on the ground, and was always questioned if she was up to it. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93722> _____ KENYA: Martha Lebasale, "Hunger made me switch from pastoralism to hawking" <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93725> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109141050300527t.jpg> MARSABIT, 15 September 2011 (IRIN) - A severe drought and high food prices have forced many pastoralist families in northern Kenya to re-examine traditional roles. Women are now not only engaging in commercial activities, such as hawking and basket-weaving, but are also working nights to put food on the table. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93725> _____ CONGO: A cut too far? C-sections increase after policy change <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93734> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2010/201003181303040384t.jpg> BRAZZAVILLE, 15 September 2011 (IRIN) - A health policy shift that saw the introduction in May of free Caesarean section operations in 35 hospitals across the Republic of Congo - to curb the growing rate of maternal and infant mortality - seems to have prompted a proliferation of such operations, according to health officials. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93734> _____ DRC-RWANDA: Militia members return home to another country <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93736> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109151310440872t.jpg> MUTOBO, 15 September 2011 (IRIN) - Mutobo is a half-way house between war and peace, where about 9,000 ex-combatants have been processed since 2001 as part of the reintegration of armed militia members from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into Rwandan society. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93736> _____ DRC-RWANDA: Augustin Habyaremye: "I don't want this life anymore" <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93737> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109120928500231t.jpg> GOMA, 16 September 2011 (IRIN) - At 15, Augustin Habyaremye was forcibly recruited into one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) armed groups, the Mai-Mai PARECO, but thanks to his aptitude for languages, he soon rose through the ranks to become a sub-lieutenant in the militia's intelligence section. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93737> _____ KENYA-SOMALIA: Hidden sex work, HIV risk in Dadaab <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93741> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2009/20090330t.jpg> DADAAB, 16 September 2011 (PlusNews) - At Ifo trading centre, a short distance from northeastern Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex, Hawa*, a teenage girl, sits in a dark room on an old jerry can holding a small bunch of fresh khat, a mild stimulant, ostensibly for sale. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93741> _____ CONGO-GABON: Former refugees unwilling to return home <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93742> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2008/2008103119t.jpg> BRAZZAVILLE, 16 September 2011 (IRIN) - The refugee status of 9,500 people from the Republic of Congo, who have been in neighbouring Gabon since the late 1990s, expired on 31 July, but many are still reluctant to return home. 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