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CEA: IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 394 for 11 - 17 August 2007

18 Aug 2007 09:23:54 GMT
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NAIROBI, 18 August 2007 (IRIN) - CONTENTS: UGANDA-SOMALIA: Ugandan soldiers to train Somali army CONGO: Opposition protest as government wins polls by massive majority CONGO: Train hosts two-day anti malaria drive CONGO: Indigenous people "exploited" in recent elections KENYA: Poor conditions hinder mudslide recovery effort KENYA: Use of treated nets reduces child malaria deaths KENYA: Reporters lead silent protest over controversial media bill

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UGANDA-SOMALIA: Ugandan soldiers to train Somali army

Uganda will send an additional 250 soldiers to strife-torn Somalia to train the country's army as the transitional government in Mogadishu grapples with rising violence blamed on armed groups opposed to it.

"The contingent will not be part of the AU [African Union] peacekeepers because this is a bilateral arrangement that seeks to help the interim government build its own army," Ugandan army spokesman Major Felix Kulaigye said on 16 August. Full report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73767

CONGO: Opposition protest as government wins polls by massive majority

Opposition parties in Congo have protested against the outcome of general elections held on 24 June and 5 August after the government was returned to power by a landslide victory.

President Denis Sassou Nguesso's Parti Congolais du Travail and its allies won 124 of 135 seats, according to results announced on national radio by the minister of land administration and decentralisation François Ibovi.

Elections in Bouaniela and Liranga areas in the northern Likouala region will be held later because the villages could not reached in the two rounds, the minister said. Full report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73702

CONGO: Train hosts two-day anti malaria drive

Across jungles, hills and savannah, a train hired by the Congolese government and the UN Children's Fund delivered 300,000 impregnated mosquito nets as it chugged along railroads from Pointe-Noire on the Atlantic coast to the capital Brazzaville.

Reaching remote health centres in areas where medical services are limited, the train left Pointe Noir on 9 August and headed along the Congo-Océan railway towards the south-western town of Dolisie, the third city of Congo. Full report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73704

CONGO: Indigenous people "exploited" in recent elections

Paulin Mossoke, a young member of the indigenous Baka community in the Republic of Congo, had high expectations when he registered to vote during recent elections – instead he was left full of disappointment.

"The chiefs of the area asked us to vote for a specific candidate who they said was going to change our lives," he said. "We did not know these people as we have never seen them and they have never seen us." Full report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73742

KENYA: Poor conditions hinder mudslide recovery effort

Efforts to recover the bodies of the mudslide victims in a western Kenya village have been slowed down by rainfall and fast-flowing sludge, rescuers said.

"It has been slow because the ground is still very soggy and it is raining," Major Mwange wa Musau of the National Disaster Operations Centre told IRIN on 14 August. "There is the risk of rescuers being trapped in the fast-flowing mud." Full report:

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73715

KENYA: Use of treated nets reduces child malaria deaths

The number of children dying from malaria has dropped sharply in areas of Kenya where the disease is endemic as a result of a campaign to provide free insecticide-treated mosquito nets to families, the United Nations World Health Organization said.

According to the health agency, there was near ten-fold increase in the number of young children sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets between 2004 and 2006 in targeted districts, resulting in a reduction of malaria-related deaths by 44 percent. Full report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73761

KENYA: Reporters lead silent protest over controversial media bill

Kenyan reporters have been covering their mouths in a silent protest against amendments to a new media bill they say would suppress press freedom by forcing them to reveal confidential sources.

They have urged President Mwai Kibaki not to sign the bill. "Freedom is not a negotiable commodity," protest spokesman Dennis Itumbi said. "We will hold on, keep on the fight."

Marching through the streets of Nairobi on 15 August, hundreds of media workers took part in a demonstration, covering their mouths with handkerchiefs and sticky tape to symbolise the gagging of the press. Full report:

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73768

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