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CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA
IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-Up 451
4 - 10 October 2008


CONTENTS:

DRC-RWANDA: Fighting flares as civilians run in eastern Congo
DRC: Agencies unable to reach thousands displaced in North Kivu
UGANDA: Calls for Kony arrest "counter-productive"
BURUNDI: Fighting for land
DRC: Diarrhoea outbreak kills IDPs in North Kivu
RWANDA: Rains wreak havoc
KENYA: Government launches anti-malaria campaign


ALSO SEE:

AFRICA: Wiping out hunger- one fruit fly at a time
[Full Report:  http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80799]

UGANDA: Shrubs and leaves on the menu as Karamoja food shortages increase
[Full Report:  http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80762]

AFRICA: 'Sexually-transmitted grades' kills quality education
[Full Report:  http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80851]

UGANDA: Children eke out a living on the streets
[Full Report:  http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80845]


DRC-RWANDA: Fighting flares as civilians run in eastern Congo

Serious fighting has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo's
North Kivu province and in the neighbouring district of Ituri, with
thousands of civilians displaced, and others cut off, amid claims that
foreign troops had deployed in parts of the east.

The district of Ituri had largely been calm for most of 2007 and early
2008 but has of late seen an upsurge in militia activity while sporadic
clashes between the Congolese army and armed groups in North Kivu have
been ongoing for more than a year.

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80857]


DRC: Agencies unable to reach thousands displaced in North Kivu

Thousands of people who fled renewed fighting in Goma, Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), between government forces and the rebel Congres
National pour la defense du people (CNDP), have yet to be located by aid
agencies, a medical charity said.

"Twenty-five thousand people fled to Kayina and Kanyabayonga [120km
north of Goma, capital of North Kivu]," Colette Godenne, head of
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), told IRIN. MSF was helping at least
100,000 people in Nyanzale and Kabizo, remote areas near Goma. "Where
are the rest? We are really worried about their fate," Godenne said.

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80813]

Also see:  Government forces, rebels clash in Ituri
[http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80811]


UGANDA: Calls for Kony arrest "counter-productive"

Renewed calls for the arrest of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony will
create more animosity and hamper any efforts to conclude the ongoing
peace process, a senior church leader said.

John Baptist Odama, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Gulu in northern
Uganda, said after this week's demand for Kony's arrest by the
International Criminal Court (ICC) leader: "If [the ICC] had not kept on
hammering away about Kony, a final peace agreement would have been
signed already."

Thousands of people in northern Uganda have died in more than two
decades of war between the Sudan/DRC-based LRA and the Ugandan
government

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80791]


BURUNDI: Fighting for land

Thousands of Burundians have returned home after years of refugee life
in Tanzania, but finding shelter and enough land to farm remains a
challenge.

"Fifteen percent of long-term returnees repatriated this year are
landless," said Leon Ndikunkiko, spokesman for the Ministry of National
Solidarity, National Reconstruction, Human Rights and Gender.  [Full
Report:  http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80754]


DRC: Diarrhoea outbreak kills IDPs in North Kivu

Scores of people have died while hundreds have been affected by an
outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in IDP camps in North Kivu.

"So far more than 300 people have been infected and 37 deaths have been
reported in the past two weeks in the camps," Dominique Bahago, the
provincial medical inspector, said.

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80766]


RWANDA: Rains wreak havoc

Torrential rains have caused extensive flooding, destroying homes and
crops in Rwanda's western and northern regions, according to officials.

The rains submerged more than 500 homes, destroyed about 2,000 hectares
of crops and washed away bridges, roads and pylons, as well as schools.

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80755]


KENYA: Government launches anti-malaria campaign

Kenya's Ministry of Health has launched a four-day nationwide campaign
to retreat at least 1.8 million bed nets with long-lasting insecticide
to control the spread of malaria as the rainy season sets in, a senior
health official said.

"The nets will be retreated in all the eight provinces in the country,"
Shahnaz Sharif, the senior deputy director of medical services in
Kenya's health ministry said. "400,000 torn and worn out nets will be
replaced with long-lasting nets."

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80844]


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