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NAIROBI - Internally displaced people (IDPs) are still being abducted by armed groups for forced labour in several territories in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) even as authorities beef up security in IDP camps, officials said. full report





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GUINEA: Medical supplies, humanitarian flight blocked after clashes

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KENYA: Poverty hinders the fight against Nyanza's fishy sex trade

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AFRICA: Making the case against counterfeit drugs
NIGERIA: Timeline of recent unrest in Niger Delta region
SUDAN: Mixed success on malaria control in the south
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SOUTH AFRICA: Arms export controls in meltdown
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BURUNDI: Female ex-combatants picking up the pieces
BUJUMBURA, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - By age 15, Annonciata Nduwimana was an accomplished fighter for Burundi's opposition Forces nationales de liberation and knew how to kill in battle.
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DRC-CONGO: Of fish wars and displacement
KINSHASA, 2 February 2010 (IRIN) - Rival ethnic communities in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have clashed many times over the years, but most recently over fish, observers say.
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SOMALIA: My farm "is full of mines"
ABUDA, 2 February 2010 (IRIN) - Mohamed Olhaye Nour, 60, last cultivated his farm in Abuda, 24km southwest of Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, more than two decades ago.
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MAURITANIA: Fatwa alone will not stop FGM/C
NOUAKCHOTT, 29 January 2010 (IRIN) - A recent fatwa banning female genital mutilation/cutting in Mauritania will help reduce the practice only if religious leaders take the message to the people, scholars and anti-FGM/C activists say.
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DRC-CONGO: Concern for refugees rises as river runs low
DONGOU, 20 January 2010 (IRIN) - John Kanilamba sits under the porch of a half-finished house on the outskirts of Dongou - his home, despite its lack of doors and windows - since early November. His four children play idly at his feet, all refugees from inter-communal clashes in Equateur province in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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