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 NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA/KAMPALA - Although some countries within East Africa and the Horn region have scaled up their influenza A(H1N1) contingency plans, overall pandemic preparedness remains "relatively inactive", a UN agency has said, as the first cases were reported in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. full report
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| CONGO: "Simmering discontent" ahead of elections |  BRAZZAVILLE, 30 June 2009 (IRIN) - Barely two weeks before presidential elections in the Republic of Congo, Marcel Kombo decided to send his wife and children away from Brazzaville.
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| | SOMALIA: Conflict timeline from 2000 |  NAIROBI, 29 June 2009 (IRIN) - Somalia has had no functioning government since January 1991, when former President Siad Barre was ousted. Since that time, fighting between Somali warlords, government forces and various alliances of Islamist insurgents has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Somalis and the displacement of hundreds of thousands.
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| | MAURITANIA: Force-feeding on decline, but more dangerous |  NOUAKCHOTT, 26 June 2009 (IRIN) - As perceptions of beauty change and obesity-related diseases rise, more women in Mauritania are fighting back against force-feeding, according to the government. But even as some women refuse to fatten up, up to one-third of the country’s women are still risking their lives to put on weight to conform to a longstanding aesthetic standard.
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| | COTE D'IVOIRE: Children selling sex, having babies |  ABIDJAN, 25 June 2009 (IRIN) - The baby was born and 12 days later died on a dilapidated upper floor of the Adjamé market in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital Abidjan. The mother, Aminata *, is barely 15. She does not know who the father is. Aminata exchanges sex for money – so she can eat, she said.
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| | UGANDA: Health facilities stretched to breaking point |  KAYUNGA, 25 June 2009 (IRIN) - Jennifer Nankinga fed her ailing child from a hospital bed in Kayunga, north of Kampala, despite a strong stench from dirty toilets that filled the air in the paediatric ward.
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