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In Swaziland, child marriage still a grey area
29 January 2013
(IRIN
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The relief felt by health officials and activists several months ago at the apparent outlawing of child marriages now appears to have been premature, with Swaziland’s traditional leadership recently declaring that such unions are acceptable under customary law.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97360/In-Swaziland-child-marriage-still-a-grey-area
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Difficult recovery after Chad floods
29 January 2013
(IRIN
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A scattering of utensils, a pile of clothes and a small bag of millet flour lay on the floor of Amne Abakar’s roofless cloth-and-sticks shelter in Toukra camp on the outskirts of Chad’s capital N’Djamena. The camp hosts more than 6,000 people who lost their homes to floods in 2012.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97364/Difficult-recovery-after-Chad-floods
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Flash flooding strikes Zimbabwe’s dry areas
29 January 2013
(IRIN
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Flash flooding across Zimbabwe’s Masvingo and Matabeleland provinces, normally dry areas, has caused substantial damage to infrastructure. While more than 4,000 people across the country are in need of humanitarian assistance following heavy rains.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97366/Flash-flooding-strikes-Zimbabwe-s-dry-areas
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Mozambique flooding creates displacement crisis
28 January 2013
(IRIN
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The Mozambican government and aid organizations are struggling to respond to the needs of 150,000 people displaced by recent flooding in the country’s southern Gaza Province.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97350/Mozambique-flooding-creates-displacement-crisis
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Relief as Mali towns recaptured
28 January 2013
(IRIN
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Residents of Gao and Timbuktu in northern Mali expressed relief after French and Malian forces re-took the towns from Islamist militia, but said they faced an enormous task in rebuilding the cities.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97353/Relief-as-Mali-towns-recaptured
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Education disrupted by teachers’ strike in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp
25 January 2013
(IRIN
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Close to 40,000 primary school children in Kenya's northeastern Dadaab refugee complex have had their educations interrupted by a two-week-long teachers' strike over unpaid salaries.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97333/Education-disrupted-by-teachers-strike-in-Kenya-s-Dadaab-refugee-camp
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More ethanol could lighten Malawi's fuel bill
25 January 2013
(IRIN
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As fuel prices climb in Malawi, amid fuel shortages and a soaring inflation rate - prompted by a 50 percent devaluation of the currency - a new paper suggests a way to decrease the country's reliance on imported fuel: biofuels.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97337/More-ethanol-could-lighten-Malawi-s-fuel-bill
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Is Zimbabwe's education sector on the road to recovery?
24 January 2013
(IRIN
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Zimbabwe's education system, once regarded as the finest on the continent, was a casualty of the country's economic meltdown in the 2000s, when it nearly collapsed - but lately there have been signs of recovery.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97324/Is-Zimbabwe-s-education-sector-on-the-road-to-recovery
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Death sentence and detentions raise profile of rape in Somalia
24 January 2013
(IRIN
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The recent execution in Somalia of a soldier convicted of rape and the detention of a journalist investigating sexual assault have given the traditionally taboo issue of gender-based violence an usual degree of prominence.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97325/Death-sentence-and-detentions-raise-profile-of-rape-in-Somalia
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Chad’s health system struggles to combat malnutrition
24 January 2013
(IRIN
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As darkness fell in the central-southern Chadian town of Bokoro, the very last patient, a listless girl, left a makeshift clinic run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) which had treated more than 4,000 children for severe malnutrition in the area since July 2012.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97327/Chad-s-health-system-struggles-to-combat-malnutrition
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