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NAIROBI, 12 October 2009 (PlusNews) - Kenya is facing a nationwide shortage of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs as a court case continues to hold up the purchase of the life-prolonging medication.
BUJUMBURA, 12 October 2009 (IRIN) - More than 2,000 Congolese Banyamulenge refugees in Burundi have dropped their refusal to move to another camp in Burundi after the intervention of a senior government official.
DAR ES SALAAM, 12 October 2009 (IRIN) - At least 50 people have been quarantined in Tanzania's northern district of Mbulu to curb the spread of influenza H1N1, a highly contagious viral disease that killed one person last week, say health officials.
GULU, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - Ugandan authorities have started closing down internally displaced people’s camps in the north, but residents say they are being sent back to villages without basic services.
NAIROBI, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) - Forty years after the rights of Africa’s refugees were enshrined in a landmark convention, the continent’s leaders are due to make legal history again by adopting a new instrument to assist people displaced within the borders of their own country.
AWER, 16 October 2009 (IRIN) - Ambrose Obiya, 70, and his family returned home in March after spending 13 years in a nearby camp, or protected village, because the war between the army and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army had subsided. Although life improved with the move, it was something of a hard homecoming, explains Obiya, who lost his sight in a car accident in 1978.
JOHANNESBURG, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) - The number of Angolan refugees deported from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] has now topped 28,000, raising fears that a newly announced agreement between the two governments might not necessarily bring a halt to expulsions.