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 TEL AVIV - The Israeli Interior Ministry is taking over the process of Refugee Status Determination (RSD) from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on 2 July. Some 15,000 mainly African asylum-seekers in Israel have put the regulatory, security and welfare response under strain, according to the Interior Ministry and UNHCR. full report
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| PHILIPPINES: Creative solutions to funding crunch |  MANILA, 1 July 2009 (IRIN) - Amid warnings from donor countries of cuts in development assistance because of the global financial crisis, recipients on the ground are coming under greater pressure to produce results, officials say.
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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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| | BANGLADESH: Some 1,000 Rohingyas evicted from makeshift huts |  DHAKA, 29 June 2009 (IRIN) - Over the past two months the local authorities in Cox’s Bazaar District, southeastern Bangladesh, have torn down scores of makeshift huts belonging to an estimated 1,000 Rohingya refugees.
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| | PAKISTAN: IDP hosts under pressure |  LAHORE, 29 June 2009 (IRIN) - “I and my family of seven are living with strangers… They are kind people, from the NWFP [North West Frontier Province] who speak our language and know our ways - but they are poor themselves and cannot afford to feed seven more mouths,” said Mansur Khan, 50, from a village near Kalam in Pakistan’s troubled Swat District.
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