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ENVIRONMENT-BURKINA FASO: Winning People Over to Fight Deforestation By Brahima Ouédraogo OUAGADOUGOU - In the West African nation of Burkina Faso, millions of trees are planted every year to reverse desertification. However the growing socio-economic needs of local populations pose a constant threat to these efforts. MORE >>
Q&A: How Not to Resettle IDPs Interview with Prisca Kamungi, director of the Internal Displacement Policy and Advocacy Centre NAIROBI - Operation Rudi Nyumbani (Return Home, in Kiswahili), designed to help about 350,000 IDPs living in camps across the country go back to their homes and farms has achieved its primary objective, at least according to the Kenyan government. Officials claim that most of the camps are closed and only 30,000 are living in the few that remain, but these numbers are disputed by independent analysts. MORE >>
ITALY: Being a Refugee Becomes a Dream By Aldo Ciummo* ROME - Ernestine Kayindo fled Goma town in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997 amidst fighting between the regular army and rebels of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (NCDP), a Tutsi armed group that is still active. MORE >>
Q&A: Denying Antiretrovirals To Migrants Hurts Us All Interview with Joanna Vearey, Forced Migration Project, Univ. of Witswatersrand JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has become a destination for people from across the continent and beyond. But in spite of migrants having a legal right to free antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV, they are being turned away from government clinics. MORE >>
Q&A: 'With the Right Methods, You Can Be Self-Sufficient' Interview with Boubacar Amadou, volunteer manager with the UNHCR in Chad GORE - The U.N. High Commission for Refugees says that in the five years since camps were established in Southern Chad for Central African refugees, U.N.-administered agriculture programs have reduced external food assistance to a minimum. MORE >>
Q&A: Family Planning In Its Infancy in South Sudan Interview with Makur Kariom, Director of Reproductive Health for South Sudan JUBA - With few roads and almost no health and education infrastructure for the estimated 10 million people of South Sudan - an April census has yet to release any results - health care workers have an enormous task ahead of them. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH SUDAN: Welcome New Attention to Maternal Care By Skye Wheeler JUBA - A vast pregnancy has swollen the tiny woman walking South Sudan's shining new maternity ward clutching two pieces of paper stapled together. She looks no more than 16, wide-eyed with recent pain. MORE >>
AGRICULTURE-CHAD: Farmers, Herders Collide In Southern Refugee Camps By David Axe GORE - Clarisse Larlombaye was nearly ruined when a herd of cows got into her rice field one night. The tiny 900-square-meter plot, outside the U.N.-run Gondje refugee camp in lush southern Chad is the sole source of income for Larlombaye and the two other Central African refugees she shares it with. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-CHAD: Peacekeepers Try To Tread Lightly By David Axe IRIBA - Polish army Lieutenant Colonel Marc Gryga didn’t realize he was planning on building his country’s major base here in eastern Chad on top of a cemetery. "It didn’t look like any cemetery you see in the United States or Europe," he says, referring to absence of headstones. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Refugees Denied Access to Health Care By Kristin Palitza DURBAN - Refugees and migrants do not have adequate access to health care services in South Africa, aid organisations and NGOs say. This is particularly detrimental for those who are HIV-positive and in need of continuous antiretroviral (ARV) medication: interrupted treatment can mean illness, development of drug-resistance and ultimately death. MORE >>
RIGHTS-KENYA: Doubly Displaced By Najum Mushtaq NAIROBI - The Kenyan government says Operation Rudi Nyumbani - Return Home in Kiswahili - is almost complete; most of the camps for internally displaced people are closed and the remaining IDPs will be resettled within a week or two. But the hastily implemented programme is being called into question by Kenya's civil society and human rights activists. MORE >>
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