CEA: IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 385 for 2-8 June 2007
08 Jun 2007 12:15:00 GMT Source: IRIN
NAIROBI, 8 June 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-CEA
Weekly Round-up 385 for 2-8 June 2007 CONTENTS:
DRC: Ituri demobilisation wins UNDP support
KENYA: Flood-hit coastal families need aid
KENYA: Sect violence enters third day in capital See Also: IRIN In-Depth on the northern Ugandan conflict:
http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth.aspx BURUNDI: Shrinking lakes and denuded forests
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72543 KENYA:
Security crisis in slum as sect and police clash
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72607 TANZANIA: Concern over school drop-out rate
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72628 CONGO: Traditional medicine to improve healthcare
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72605 DRC: Ituri demobilisation wins UNDP support The demobilisation of former members of various
armed groups in Ituri district in the northwest Democratic Republic of Congo is being supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) after a deal with the government. The UN resident
coordinator in the DRC, Ross Mountain, said the demobilisation exercise would lead to better security and improved provision of humanitarian assistance in Ituri, which has been ravaged by bloody
ethnic conflict since 1999.
Full report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72564 KENYA: Flood-hit coastal families need aid Hundreds of families affected by flash floods caused by
heavy rainfall along Kenya's Indian Ocean coastal region in the past month need food aid and other humanitarian assistance, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) said. "We require at least 10
metric tonnes of food aid," said Elina Mapenzi, the KRCS branch coordinator for Kilifi district. Kilifi, along with neighbouring Mombasa, Malindi and Kwale districts, as well as Lamu farther
north, has been hit by torrential rainfall since mid-May. At least 500 households in Kilifi alone have been affected by the flooding, with many homes submerged and houses collapsing under water.
Full
report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72562 KENYA: Sect violence enters third day in capital Violent clashes between the police and suspected members of a secretive sect in the
Kenyan capital, Nairobi, entered a third day on 7 June, resulting in several deaths and dozens more injured. A reporter at the scene of the violence at Mathare, an informal settlement in the north
of the city, filed this first-hand account of events:
Full report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72612 jn
