http://www.IRINnews.org/Frontpage.asp Updated every day en-gb Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:57:00 GMT United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks, http://www.IRINnews.org/Frontpage.asp JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2009 (IRIN) - South Africans are dying younger and in greater numbers, and HIV/AIDS is to blame, according to a report released this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87144 BRAZZAVILLE, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87136 NAIROBI, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87125 DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Guineans and the international community are watching mediation efforts of Blaise Compaoré, as international investigators begin to probe the 28 September deadly military attack on civilians in the capital Conakry. The latest violence stunned even a nation with a long history of military repression of civilians – an era Guineans had hoped would pass with the death of 24-year leader Lansana Conté and arrival of Moussa Dadis Camara in December 2008. Here is a timeline of some events since independence from France in 1958. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85835 MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87122 HARARE, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - The recent "suicide" of a senior army officer in the wake of a break-in at a military armoury in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is sowing fears that the missing guns may be used to fuel instability. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87119 BUJUMBURA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Next year's elections in Burundi, billed as a milestone on the country's long road to sustainable peace, could trigger more conflict because of a combination of widespread illegal weapons and well-organized youth wings of political parties, according to analysts. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87117 HARGEISA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Aden Muhumed Hassan, 46, a divorced father of one, lost his hands 11 years ago after he accidentally picked up unexploded ordnance [UXO] planted during fighting between the Somali National Movement (SNM) and former President Siad Barre's army in Somaliland's liberation struggle between 1981 and 1991, and during the Ogaden war between Somalia and Ethiopia in the late 1970s. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87116 NAIROBI, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Residents of a coastal town in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland saved the crew of a fishing boat when they foiled an attempt by pirates, who had captured the boat, to sail away. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87113 MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services. On 19 November, World Toilet Day, NGOs are calling on the government to up its allocation, and on international donors to reprioritize funding to stamp out cholera and cut child mortality. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87110 JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - In less than seven months South Africa will host the world's biggest single sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The chance to reach millions of local and visiting football fans presents a golden opportunity, not only for the country's business and tourism sectors, but also for its efforts to combat HIV/AIDS. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87109 SIAYA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. Instead, she found herself so severely ostracized, she felt she had to move out. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87108 JOHANNESBURG, 18 November 2009 (IRIN) - The number of Zimbabweans displaced after some of their shacks in an informal settlement outside De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, were attacked and demolished by local South African residents, has risen to about 3,000, said the South African Red Cross Society. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87107 NAIROBI, 18 November 2009 (IRIN) - Escalating violence in the Somali town of Galkayo, Mudug region, is creating a climate of fear, which in turn has adversely affected livelihoods, residents say. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87098 DAKAR, 17 November 2009 (IRIN) - The recent upheaval in Guinea has delayed the disposal of toxic chemicals discovered earlier this year at several sites throughout the capital Conakry, according to UN experts. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87091 JOHANNESBURG, 17 November 2009 (IRIN) - Fearing a resurgence of xenophobic attacks, around 2,500 Zimbabwean migrants have taken refuge in government buildings in De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, after some of their shacks in an informal settlement were attacked and demolished, said a police official. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87090 JOHANNESBURG, 17 November 2009 (IRIN) - A plan by Malawi to offer prostitutes low-interest loans to start small businesses in return for abandoning sex work is generating controversy in a country where women are disproportionately affected by high rates of poverty and HIV. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87087 KAMPALA, 17 November 2009 (IRIN) - Africa will fail to achieve most UN Millennium Development Goals unless countries adopt effective family planning programmes and control rapid population growth, experts warn. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87081 KISUMU, 17 November 2009 (IRIN) - The Kenyan government is expanding services to meet the growing demand for voluntary medical male circumcision after the launch of a national campaign a year ago. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87074 DAKAR, 16 November 2009 (IRIN) - Health officials have confirmed three cases of yellow fever in Côte d'Ivoire's northwest Denguélé region, of 10 suspected cases. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87068 LUANDA, 16 November 2009 (IRIN) - Esperança Mutamba (not her real name), who has been living with the virus for 10 years and works as HIV/AIDS counsellor in the Angolan capital, Luanda, is still not ready to publicly disclose her HIV status. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87064 GARISSA, 16 November 2009 (IRIN) - Armed with a university certificate, Hubbie Hussein Al-Haji returned to her pastoralist community in Garissa, northeastern Kenya, expecting to serve as a veterinary health assistant. But she was refused the job. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87063 CONAKRY, 16 November 2009 (IRIN) - The Diallo family in the Guinean capital, Conakry, has found no trace of Thierno Abdoulaye Diallo, 20, a student, since he set off on 28 September for a football stadium in the city. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87059 POCHALLA, 16 November 2009 (IRIN) - An increasing number of people in Southern Sudan cannot find enough to eat or adequate pasture and water for their livestock, raising fears of conflict between communities over grazing lands, local leaders warned. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87057 LUSAKA, 16 November 2009 (IRIN) - Abigail Mwanashimba has been looking after her five siblings since the age of eight, when her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses. She is now 19 years old, and without relatives to represent her at her lobola (bride price) negotiations, she was forced to hire traditional counsellors to organise the process of marriage according to the tribal customs. They did a bad job. http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87056