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CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA
IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-Up 385
2 - 8 June 2007


CONTENTS:

DRC: Ituri demobilisation wins UNDP support
KENYA: Flood-hit coastal families need aid
KENYA: Sect violence enters third day in capital

See Also:
IRIN In-Depth on the northern Ugandan conflict:
http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth.aspx

BURUNDI: Shrinking lakes and denuded forests
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72543

KENYA: Security crisis in slum as sect and police clash
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72607

TANZANIA: Concern over school drop-out rate
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72628

CONGO: Traditional medicine to improve healthcare
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72605


DRC: Ituri demobilisation wins UNDP support

The demobilisation of former members of various armed groups in Ituri 
district in the northwest Democratic Republic of Congo is being 
supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) after a 
deal with the government.

The UN resident coordinator in the DRC, Ross Mountain, said the 
demobilisation exercise would lead to better security and improved 
provision of humanitarian assistance in Ituri, which has been ravaged by 
bloody ethnic conflict since 1999.

Full report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72564


KENYA: Flood-hit coastal families need aid

Hundreds of families affected by flash floods caused by heavy rainfall 
along Kenya's Indian Ocean coastal region in the past month need food 
aid and other humanitarian assistance, the Kenya Red Cross Society 
(KRCS) said.

"We require at least 10 metric tonnes of food aid," said Elina Mapenzi, 
the KRCS branch coordinator for Kilifi district.

Kilifi, along with neighbouring Mombasa, Malindi and Kwale districts, as 
well as Lamu farther north, has been hit by torrential rainfall since 
mid-May. At least 500 households in Kilifi alone have been affected by 
the flooding, with many homes submerged and houses collapsing under 
water.

Full report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72562


KENYA: Sect violence enters third day in capital

Violent clashes between the police and suspected members of a secretive 
sect in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, entered a third day on 7 June, 
resulting in several deaths and dozens more injured.

A reporter at the scene of the violence at Mathare, an informal 
settlement in the north of the city, filed this first-hand account of 
events:

Full report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72612


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