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------Original message------ From: IRIN <[email protected]> To: "Elisabeth Janaina" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, December 7, 2012 5:50:50 PM GMT-0000 Subject: CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 660 7 December 2012 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. SOUTH SUDAN: Kenyi Chaplain Paul - Security guard, South Sudan 2. KENYA: Jane Njeri - Displaced person, Kenya 3. KENYA: Millicent Wanyama - Breadcrumb seller, Kenya 4. KENYA: Exclusive breastfeeding on the rise 5. SOUTH SUDAN: Grace Taban Genova - Home-brewer, South Sudan 6. KENYA: As polls loom, tensions mount in slums 7. SOUTH SUDAN: Women and children bear brunt of Jonglei violence 8. DRC: Surge in sexual violence in North Kivu* _____ SOUTH SUDAN: Kenyi Chaplain Paul - Security guard, South Sudan <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96866> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2012/201211221527510407t.jpg> JUBA, 6 December 2012 (IRIN) - Kenyi Chaplain Paul, 43, works as a security guard and occasional car-washer in Juba, the capital of the world's newest state, South Sudan. His wife, 10 children and a nephew live about 100km away, in the town of Kajo Keji, near the Ugandan border. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96866> _____ KENYA: Jane Njeri - Displaced person, Kenya <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96886> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2012/201211261241440556t.jpg> NAKURU, 6 December 2012 (IRIN) - Jane Njeri, 36, is a single mother of four living with her family in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nakuru, a town some 100km northwest of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96886> _____ KENYA: Millicent Wanyama - Breadcrumb seller, Kenya <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96908> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2012/201211221527250075t.jpg> NAIROBI, 6 December 2012 (IRIN) - After losing her husband in 2008, the responsibility of providing for seven children fell to Millicent Wanyama, now 35. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96908> _____ KENYA: Exclusive breastfeeding on the rise <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96959> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201102211254120118t.jpg> NDHIWA, 4 December 2012 (PlusNews) - Kenya has made significant strides in boosting exclusive breastfeeding, even passing a new law banning the promotion of infant formula. Nevertheless, challenges to safe infant feeding - a major part of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission - remain. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96959> _____ SOUTH SUDAN: Grace Taban Genova - Home-brewer, South Sudan <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96961> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2012/201211280901330264t.jpg> JUBA, 6 December 2012 (IRIN) - Grace Taban Genova, who thinks she is around 38, is searching for a job and land to cultivate. In the meantime, she sells home-made liquor brewed from kola-nut, sugar, yeast and water. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96961> _____ KENYA: As polls loom, tensions mount in slums <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96966> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2008/200801304t.jpg> NAIROBI, 4 December 2012 (IRIN) - After Kenya went to the polls five years ago, Victor Situma and his family were among some 600,000 people who fled their homes as, in many parts of the country, a bitter dispute over who had won the presidency degenerated into widespread inter-communal violence. His house and shop were looted and vandalized. In all, more than 1,500 people were killed. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96966> _____ SOUTH SUDAN: Women and children bear brunt of Jonglei violence <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96972> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2012/201201230959010833t.jpg> JUBA, 5 December 2012 (IRIN) - Women and children are increasingly being caught up in violent attacks related to cattle rustling and inter-communal rivalries in South Sudan's Jonglei State, say officials. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96972> _____ DRC: Surge in sexual violence in North Kivu* <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=96981> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2012/201212031244320468t.jpg> MINOVA, 6 December 2012 (IRIN) - Sexual violence is on the rise as armed groups continue to move across the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu Province, officials say. 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