| DRC-RWANDA: Fighting flares as civilians run in eastern Congo |
 BUNIA/KIGALI, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - 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.
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| AFRICA: ‘Sexually-transmitted grades’ kills quality education |
 DAKAR, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with their teachers. From ‘Sexually Transmitted Grades’ to ‘BF’, or bordel fatigue, which refers to exhaustion from multiple sexual activities with teachers, this slang hints at the prevalence of exploitation in Africa’s learning environments.
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| DRC: Agencies unable to reach thousands displaced in North Kivu |
 KINSHASA, 8 October 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of people who fled renewed fighting in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, between government forces and the rebel Congrès National pour la defense du people, have yet to be located by aid agencies, a medical charity said.
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| DRC: Government forces, rebels clash in Ituri |
 BUNIA, 8 October 2008 (IRIN) - Thirteen fighters have died in clashes between the Democratic Republic of Congo army and rebel Front Populaire pour la Justice au Congo militia in the north-eastern Ituri region, an army spokesman said.
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| DRC: Diarrhoea outbreak kills IDPs in North Kivu |
 KINSHASA, 6 October 2008 (IRIN) - Scores of people have died while hundreds have been affected by an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in internally displaced people’s camps in North Kivu Province.
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| DRC: Army sends reinforcements after militia attacks |
 BUNIA, 3 October 2008 (IRIN) - The Congolese army has sent reinforcements to Ituri in the northeast after several attacks by suspected militia from the rebel Front de Résistance Patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), sources said.
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| DRC: "Save eastern peace process from collapse" |
 NAIROBI, 3 October 2008 (IRIN) - The international community must exert pressure on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government and ensure a "more impartial" UN peacekeeping mission to avoid a total collapse of the peace process in the east, a think-tank has warned.
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| AFRICA: Call to ban cluster bombs |
 KAMPALA, 29 September 2008 (IRIN) - Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called cluster munitions "an abomination whose manufacture and use should not be tolerated by any government", amid calls for African countries to do more to ensure the weapons are banned.
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| DRC: Thousands flee LRA attacks on northeastern villages |
 BUNIA, 29 September 2008 (IRIN) - At least 17,000 civilians have been displaced after attacks by the Ugandan rebel Lord Resistance Army (LRA) militia in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and cannot access humanitarian aid, according to a UN official.
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| GLOBAL: "Hot topic" - special journal issue on climate and migration reviewed |
 JOHANNESBURG, 29 September 2008 (IRIN) - The October issue of the Forced Migration Review (FMR), a journal published three times a year by Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, is a 38-article buffet on climate change and displacement, a “hot topic” according to Jean-Francois Durieux, a lecturer at the centre.
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