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------Original message------ From: IRIN <[email protected]> To: "Jean-Francois Darcq" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 7, 2011 1:41:59 PM GMT-0000 Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 600 7 October 2011 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. HOW TO: Measure an earthquake 2. GENDER EQUALITY: Why involving men is crucial 3. SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: What the analysts are saying post-secession* 4. SOUTH SUDAN: Livestock critical to survival 5. Analysis: Should child soldiers be prosecuted for their crimes? 6. KENYA: Why size matters in agricultural production 7. UGANDA: New facility to concentrate on cancer 8. KENYA-SOMALIA: A day in the life of a refugee 9. DRC: Cholera deaths and cases soar _____ HOW TO: Measure an earthquake <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93862> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2010/201001291656430349t.jpg> BANGKOK, 3 October 2011 (IRIN) - While the Richter scale is the most easily recognized measure of an earthquake's magnitude, seismologists say several more dynamic measurement methods have eclipsed it since it was developed more than 70 years ago. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93862> _____ GENDER EQUALITY: Why involving men is crucial <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93870> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201109221335220889t.jpg> NAIROBI/KAMPALA, 3 October 2011 (IRIN) - The involvement of men is key to the success of the gender-equality movement, but changing long-held social structures and convincing men of the importance of equal opportunities for women will not happen overnight, experts say. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93870> _____ SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: What the analysts are saying post-secession* <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93874> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201107110844230335t.jpg> JUBA, 3 October 2011 (IRIN) - Clashes in areas along the border between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan have displaced tens of thousands of people and prompted warnings of a widening cycle of violence and regional instability. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93874> _____ SOUTH SUDAN: Livestock critical to survival <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93894> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201110041328080130t.jpg> TEREKEKA, 5 October 2011 (IRIN) - "There were so many, and now there are so few. It makes me sad when the animals die," said Sezerina Sake, a young Mundari woman, as she looked on to the community's cattle camp in Terekeka, 80km north of South Sudan's capital, Juba, where she has spent her entire life. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93894> _____ Analysis: Should child soldiers be prosecuted for their crimes? <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93900> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2010/201011041101360847t.jpg> JOHANNESBURG, 6 October 2011 (IRIN) - International human rights law meanders between the vague and the hazy when it comes to its stance on the age of criminal responsibility and what, if any, punishments should be imposed on child soldiers guilty of war crimes. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93900> _____ KENYA: Why size matters in agricultural production <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93904> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2007/2007052517t.jpg> MOMBASA-TANA RIVER, 6 October 2011 (IRIN) - Coastal areas in Kenya provide a vivid illustration of the factors that thwart agricultural potential across much of Africa: small plot sizes, minimal irrigation and endemic poverty, which precludes investment, and in turn, greater productivity. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93904> _____ UGANDA: New facility to concentrate on cancer <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93905> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2010/201004220943340513t.jpg> KAMPALA, 6 October 2011 (IRIN) - Uganda has one of the highest rates of infection-related cancers in the world. Exploring the links between infections and cancer will be one of the main roles of a new research and treatment centre in Kampala, according to officials at a ground-breaking ceremony. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93905> _____ KENYA-SOMALIA: A day in the life of a refugee <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93906> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201107270945540996t.jpg> DADAAB, 7 October 2011 (IRIN) - Moulid Iftin Hujale has spent 14 of his 24 years in the world's largest refugee complex, Dadaab, in eastern Kenya, close to his home country, Somalia. As well as working with an NGO in the complex's Ifo camp, Hujale is a writer and freelance journalist. In this second instalment of his account of life in Dadaab, he reflects further on the quotidian reality of camp life and the tantalizing opportunity of escape offered by a scholarship: Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93906> _____ DRC: Cholera deaths and cases soar <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93910> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2008/200812193t.jpg> KINSHASA, 7 October 2011 (IRIN) - There has been an increase in the number of cholera cases and deaths in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo where an outbreak has been ongoing since March, say humanitarian agencies. 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