MIDDLE EAST: IRIN-ME Weekly round-up 115 for 23 Feb - 1 Mar 2007
11 Mar 2007 12:25:21 GMT Source: IRIN
DUBAI, 11 March (IRIN) - CONTENTS: IRAQ: Arabs leave Kirkuk ahead of referendum
IRAQ: Number of displaced increases in Arbil IRAQ: New security plan makes slow progress
IRAQ: Sectarian violence shows no mercy to children
IRAQ-JORDAN: New rules a 'death sentence' for Iraqis
IRAQ: Youth involved in anti-US attacks and
kidnappings
ETHIOPIA-ISRAEL: Waiting Falash Mura languish in squalor
LEBANON: Born in the line of fire, Shia youth politicised early
HORN OF AFRICA-YEMEN: Country put on alert to combat locust
outbreak IRAQ: Arabs leave Kirkuk ahead of referendum Sheikh Muhssin al-Zaidi, 45, is sad to be leaving Kirkuk, the northern city he has lived in since the early 1980s. He disagrees with the
'Arabisation' policy of former president Saddam Hussein's government that brought him there but now he has agreed to comply with the current government's decision that he and tens of thousands of
other Arabs move back. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70402 IRAQ: Number of displaced increases in Arbil Every day more and more people are abandoning their homes in central
Iraq and moving to the country's northern areas, according to officials. Many are settling in the less violent northern city of Arbil, the one million-strong capital of Kurdistan. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70411 IRAQ: New security plan makes slow progress More imagination needs to be injected into Iraq's newly implemented security plan to put an end
to the bloodletting in Baghdad if it is to succeed, a former Iraqi army officer told IRIN. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70443 IRAQ: Sectarian violence shows no mercy to
children The United Nations and NGOs have strongly condemned
the continued apparent targeting of children in Iraq's bloody sectarian violence. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70471 IRAQ-JORDAN: New rules a 'death sentence' for Iraqis Iraqis fleeing their country's sectarian violence are finding it much harder to get into
Jordan and Syria, after the authorities in these countries recently began implementing much stricter border controls. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70470 IRAQ: Youth involved in
anti-US attacks and kidnappings Since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Ali Hamza, 14, has been a militiaman with the Shia Mahdi Army, commanded by the Shia preacher Moqtada al-Sadr. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70004 ETHIOPIA-ISRAEL: Waiting Falash Mura languish in squalor Thousands of Ethiopian former Jews have been waiting more than 10 years in
disease-ridden camps in Ethiopia for the Israeli government to take them to Israel, NGOs say. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70425 LEBANON: Born in the line of fire, Shia youth
politicised early Sixteen-year-old Ahmed could be any teenager, anywhere in the world. But, with his hands firmly in his pockets, the hood on his sweatshirt up, and the monosyllabic speech typical
of youth everywhere, Ahmed (who refused to give his last name) leads a different life to most teenagers. Already considered a man in his native Lebanon, Ahmed is at work, standing guard on the
sidelines of a fortnight-old sit-in in downtown Beirut http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70011 HORN OF AFRICA-YEMEN: Country put on alert to combat locust outbreak
Yemen has put in
place an emergency plan to combat a potential locust outbreak following reports of a spate in nearby Eritrea in December 2006, officials at the Yemeni Ministry of Agriculture have said. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70429
