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CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA
IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-Up 440
19 - 25 July 2008


CONTENTS:

BURUNDI: Human rights record "shows no improvement"
DRC: Prisoners dying of hunger in Kasai Oriental
UGANDA: Appeal for help for LRA victims, ex-rebels
KENYA: Hundreds still displaced in Nairobi
KENYA: Livestock disease, high prices fuelling food insecurity

ALSO SEE:

CONGO: More children on the streets
[Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79423]

GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part two) - "the crisis of humanitarianism"
[Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79437]

GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part one) - "exponential complexity"
[Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79426]


BURUNDI: Human rights record "shows no improvement"

At least 400 people were killed in the first quarter of 2008, which
indicates that Burundi's human rights record has failed to improve this
year, according to Iteka, a rights group.

All the country's provinces were affected by violence, particularly
Bujumbura Rural, Bubanza and Cibitoke, where the rebel Forces nationales
de liberation have been active, Iteka stated in its report for 2007 and
the first quarter of 2008.

Iteka Chairman David Nahimana said the "killing is mainly blamed on the
armed banditry, which claimed 223 victims".

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79402]


DRC: Prisoners dying of hunger in Kasai Oriental

Twenty-six detainees have starved to death in a Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) prison since the start of 2008, according to the UN Mission
in the country (MONUC).

"Four prisoners died on Sunday 13 [in Mbuji Mayi's central prison, in
Kasai Oriental province] due to severe malnutrition," said MONUC
spokeswoman Sylvie van Wildenberg.

The situation in Mbuji-Mayi is similar to other detention facilities
across the country, according to human rights activists and MONUC
officials.

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79375]


UGANDA: Appeal for help for LRA victims, ex-rebels

Impoverished victims of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and former
rebels being reintegrated into the community in northern Uganda need
urgent support as the region recovers from more than two decades of
conflict, according to the head of the European Union delegation to
Uganda, Vincent de Visscher.

De Visscher said the reintegration of former LRA combatants was being
hindered by the high level of poverty and called for more donor support.

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79401]


KENYA: Hundreds still displaced in Nairobi

Hundreds of Kenyans displaced during post-election violence in early
2008 in the capital, Nairobi, are still in camps more than two months
after the government launched a countrywide resettlement programme.

"Many of the displaced were tenants whose houses were destroyed or have
since been occupied by other people; dozens were landlords, mostly in
the Mathare slums, and these are the ones whose resettlement is
difficult," Abdi Galgalo, the chief of Mathare, told IRIN on 21 July.

Galgalo said disputes over land in the slums, especially for those who
owned houses, had complicated and slowed the IDPs' return to their
homes.

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79373]


KENYA: Livestock disease, high prices fuelling food insecurity

Recurrent outbreaks of the viral livestock disease peste des petits
ruminants (PPR), which affects goats and sheep, are exacerbating poor
food security in the mainly pastoralist Turkana region of northwestern
Kenya.

Pastoralists have also had to grapple with rising food prices due to
lowered livestock productivity and the failed rains, according to the
district crop officer, Vincent Morara.

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79374]

[Also see: Fears of food shortages in the west
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79429]


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