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Malian refugees face abject conditions, long displacement
17 April 2013
(IRIN
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Some 70,000 Malian refugees in Mauritania are facing enormous hardships and, as political and ethnic tensions persist back home, the prospect of a prolonged displacement.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97867/Malian-refugees-face-abject-conditions-long-displacement
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For women, urbanization is a mixed bag
17 April 2013
(IRIN
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Countries across Africa are experiencing unprecedented urban growth, presenting women with greater economic and social opportunities as well as greater risks to their safety and welfare.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97868/For-women-urbanization-is-a-mixed-bag
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Uneven progress on child stunting in East and Central Africa
16 April 2013
(IRIN
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Improvements in nutrition and stronger government policies have led to a decline in childhood stunting, according to a new report on child nutrition. However, the condition continues to affect some 165 million children under the age of five globally.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97853/Uneven-progress-on-child-stunting-in-East-and-Central-Africa
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Côte d’Ivoire awash in weapons
16 April 2013
(IRIN
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Côte d’Ivoire’s recent turbulence - including the ouster of president Henri Konan Bédié in 1999, a long-running insurgency and deadly poll unrest in 2011 - has left the country awash in arms, which have contributed to human rights abuses, widespread crime and persistent insecurity.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97854/Côte-d-Ivoire-awash-in-weapons
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Briefing: Somalia, federalism and Jubaland
16 April 2013
(IRIN
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Moves to bring three regions in the deep south of Somalia together into the state of Jubaland have turned into a tussle with the central government, with regional powerhouses Kenya and Ethiopia playing important roles.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97860/Briefing-Somalia-federalism-and-Jubaland
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Moussa Ibrahim, detained in Mali: “They accused me of supporting the Islamists”
15 April 2013
(IRIN
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Moussa Ibrahim is a 40-year-old ethnic Songhai restaurant owner in the Malian town of Timbuktu. He was arrested in February of this year on suspicion of supporting Islamist group Ansar Dine, which had taken over much of the region in 2012.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/97844/Moussa-Ibrahim-detained-in-Mali-They-accused-me-of-supporting-the-Islamists
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Torture, beatings and death for detained Malians
15 April 2013
(IRIN
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Hundreds of northern Malians - many of them ethnic Tuaregs - have been detained by the Malian army since the French military intervention to oust Islamist groups from northern Mali began in January 2013. Many of the detainees have complained they had no idea why they were captured and were not given access to lawyers; others alleged torture.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97845/Torture-beatings-and-death-for-detained-Malians
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Hunger at crisis levels in northern Mali
12 April 2013
(IRIN
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Hunger in Mali has reached crisis levels in the northern Kidal Region and has reached critical levels in Gao and Timbuktu regions, according to food security agencies and the government’s early warning body.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97834/Hunger-at-crisis-levels-in-northern-Mali
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Regional insecurity adding to Chad's humanitarian needs
12 April 2013
(IRIN
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Chad is grappling with an influx of refugees and returnees into its south-eastern regions, mainly from neighbouring Sudan, and others from the Central African Republic (CAR) following a series of inter-ethnic clashes in Darfur and a recent coup in the CAR, respectively.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97840/Regional-insecurity-adding-to-Chad-s-humanitarian-needs
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Unwelcome side effects of mining in Mozambique
11 April 2013
(IRIN
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It is 15.45 in the afternoon and two young women are already sitting outside the Night Clinic in Moatize, a small town in Mozambique's northern Tete Province, near one of the largest coal mines in the southern hemisphere, owned by Brazilian mining giant, Vale. The national 123 road cuts through the town, and the clinic lies just off it, intentionally located to bring its services as close as possible to its target patients: miners, truck drivers and sex workers.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97822/Unwelcome-side-effects-of-mining-in-Mozambique
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