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Subject: CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 710
22 November 2013
To: Elisabeth Janaina <[email protected]>
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Table of contents
1. Save the oceans from warming <#1428069668950438_1>
2. Obstacles to return in eastern DRC <#1428069668950438_2>
3. Getting regional crisis centres on the same page <#1428069668950438_3>
4. Tanzania likely to fall short on its family planning
targets<#1428069668950438_4>
5. What is at stake in Warsaw so far <#1428069668950438_5>
6. Extreme weather claims more lives in poor countries <#1428069668950438_6>
7. Finding the urban crisis tipping point <#1428069668950438_7>
8. Migration myths debunked <#1428069668950438_8>
9. CAR - a failed state gets worse <#1428069668950438_9>
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*Save the oceans from warming
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99143>*
[image: lead photo]WARSAW, 18 November 2013 (IRIN) - The Earth's oceans are
being forced to absorb more and more planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions, causing them to acidify at rates not seen in the last 300
million years, says a new report released for policymakers today at the UN
climate talks in Warsaw.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99143>
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*Obstacles to return in eastern DRC
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99146>*
[image: lead photo]NYAKABANDE (UGANDA), 18 November 2013 (IRIN) - Tens of
thousands of refugees and displaced people are starting to return to their
homes in the two territories of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
previously occupied by the M23 rebels.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99146>
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*Getting regional crisis centres on the same page
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99158>*
[image: lead photo]BRUSSELS, 19 November 2013 (IRIN) - Over the last 10
years, mega-disasters such as the 2003 heat wave in Europe and the 2004
Indian Ocean tsunami have focused the world's attention on hazards that
span whole regions. Such situations require better coordination from - and
among - regional disaster authorities.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99158>
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*Tanzania likely to fall short on its family planning targets
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99159>*
[image: lead photo]DAR ES SALAAM, 19 November 2013 (IRIN) - Tanzania will
likely fall short of its 2015 reproductive health targets, which aim to
reduce the estimated one million abortions, 2.9 million unintended births,
18,000 maternal deaths and 500,000 child deaths that occur every year
because of poor of access to family planning services, say experts in the
field.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99159>
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*What is at stake in Warsaw so far
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99161>*
[image: lead photo]WARSAW, 19 November 2013 (IRIN) - Poor countries have
thrown down the gauntlet as the UN climate talks under the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered their final week, when
government ministers take over the negotiations in Poland.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99161>
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*Extreme weather claims more lives in poor countries
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99165>*
[image: lead photo]WARSAW, 20 November 2013 (IRIN) - In the last four
decades, more than a million people in the world's poorest countries have
died in climate-related disasters - more than five times the global average
- yet funding for their adaptation plans eludes them, says a new paper
released during the UN talks on climate change in Warsaw.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99165>
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*Finding the urban crisis tipping point
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99168>*
[image: lead photo]DAKAR, 21 November 2013 (IRIN) - By 2015, three billion
people will be living in urban slums according to UN Habitat. As the number
of vulnerable people living in urban slums rises, aid agencies are
struggling to identify the tipping point at which chronic urban
vulnerability turns into a humanitarian crisis. IRIN spoke to aid staff to
find out what they are doing about it.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99168>
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*Migration myths debunked
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99177>*
[image: lead photo]JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2013 (IRIN) - Widespread
negative public opinion about migration and migrants is often driven less
by facts, such as the actual number of migrants arriving in a particular
country, than by a raft of misperceptions: migrants are stealing jobs from
locals, driving up crime rates and burdening public services.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99177>
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*CAR - a failed state gets worse
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99180>*
[image: lead photo]BOSSANGOA, 22 November 2013 (IRIN) - The teeming
hospital grounds in Bossangoa, a northwestern town in the Central African
Republic (CAR), offers a glimpse into the worsening crisis the country has
faced since a rebel alliance known as Seleka took power by force in March
2013.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99180>
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