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Subject: CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 717
20 December 2013
To: Elisabeth Janaina <[email protected]>
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Table of contents
1. Analysis: Stopping disease swaps between humans and
animals<#14310809f4f577e8_1>
2. MULTIMEDIA: Central African Republic - A failed state implodes
<#14310809f4f577e8_2>
3. After North Kivu, UN, DRC forces set sights on Orientale<#14310809f4f577e8_3>
4. Cattle in poor countries produce more earth-warming
gases<#14310809f4f577e8_4>
5. Making sense of the DRC declarations on M23 <#14310809f4f577e8_5>
6. Food and the city <#14310809f4f577e8_6>
7. Fighting in South Sudan capital leaves dozens dead,
displaced<#14310809f4f577e8_7>
8. Alarm over Burundi's planned constitution changes <#14310809f4f577e8_8>
9. Letter from Bangui: A Thursday of horror <#14310809f4f577e8_9>
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*Analysis: Stopping disease swaps between humans and animals
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99323>*
[image: lead photo]HONG KONG, 13 December 2013 (IRIN) - With more than half
of all human infections originating in animals, experts say a
multi-sectoral, global response to zoonoses - diseases passing between
animals and humans - is urgently needed. IRIN talked to a panel of experts
to learn just how deadly humans and animals can be to one another, and
ultimately how each can save the other.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99323>
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*MULTIMEDIA: Central African Republic - A failed state implodes
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99324>*
[image: lead photo]BANGUI, 13 December 2013 (IRIN) - This In Depth features
video testimony from those caught up in the violence in the northern town
of Bossangoa, where tens of thousands of people are holed up in the grounds
of a Catholic mission and other locations.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99324>
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*After North Kivu, UN, DRC forces set sights on Orientale
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99330>*
[image: lead photo]BUNIA, 13 December 2013 (IRIN) - After the defeat of M23
rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) North Kivu Province,
government and UN forces have shifted their focus to the northeastern
Orientale Province, giving armed groups there a two-week ultimatum to
surrender their weapons and return to civilian life.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99330>
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*Cattle in poor countries produce more earth-warming gases
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99343>*
[image: lead photo]JOHANNESBURG, 16 December 2013 (IRIN) - Cattle bred for
meat and dairy in some poor countries can emit 100 times more earth-warming
carbon dioxide than those in rich countries for each kilogramme of protein
(milk, meat) produced, says a new study.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99343>
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*Making sense of the DRC declarations on M23
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99345>*
[image: lead photo]KAMPALA, 17 December 2013 (IRIN) - The government of the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the former rebel group known as the
M23 Movement signed declarations on 12 December formalizing agreements to
end hostilities in eastern DRC.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99345>
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*Food and the city <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99348>*
[image: lead photo]DAKAR, 18 December 2013 (IRIN) - With the vast majority
of population growth taking place in towns and cities, according to the UN,
aid agencies are adapting their food security responses to better fit into
urban contexts. An increasing number of tools and innovations are becoming
available to help with this effort, but humanitarians have yet to undertake
the shift required for large-scale systematic urban response, say aid
experts.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99348>
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*Fighting in South Sudan capital leaves dozens dead, displaced
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99353>*
[image: lead photo]JUBA, 18 December 2013 (IRIN) - Fighting over four days
in South Sudan's capital, Juba, following what the government has termed a
"failed coup attempt", has left dozens dead and many more injured, forcing
thousands of others to flee their homes, say officials.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99353>
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*Alarm over Burundi's planned constitution changes
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99355>*
[image: lead photo]BUJUMBURA, 18 December 2013 (IRIN) - Plans by Burundi's
government to make radical amendments to the constitution have raised the
political temperature in a country striving to overcome the effects of a
civil war fought between 1993 and 2005.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99355>
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*Letter from Bangui: A Thursday of horror
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99364>*
[image: lead photo]BANGUI, 19 December 2013 (IRIN) - For several days there
had been rumours of an imminent attack on Bangui by the anti-balaka
militia, which is what happened on 5 December: another long day, another
day of anguish, the beginning of a descent into hell.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=99364>
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