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| UNHCR vehicle in Bongo, western Chad. The country is among the most dangerous places for aid workers in the world |
DAKAR/ KANO/ NDJAMENA, 5 February 2008 (IRIN) - Refugees fleeing the Chadian capital N’djamena are still swamping border towns in Cameroon and thousands have started queuing at Nigerian border posts, officials and refugees told IRIN.
However, N’djamena residents say overall, the flow of refugees has reduced since 4 February when reports from the city suggested the streets were clogged with residents taking advantage of a lull after two days of street fighting between the army and anti-government rebels to flee across the river into neighbouring Cameroon.
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| Kaltouma Yaya Ato was beaten by the Janjaweed Arab militia in Sudan as she was collecting firewood. She arrived at Gaga camp in eastern Chad in Jan 2006 |
GOZ BEIDA, 4 February 2008 (IRIN) - Darfur’s refugees came to Chad seeking safety and security but as armed rebels sweep across the country, according to Chad’s government with the backing of Sudan, some refugees say they fear Sudan is reaching out to touch them there too.
“The Chadian rebels are armed by the Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir. They too want to kill all the blacks of Darfur,” said Khaltoum, a 16 year-old refugee in a refugee camp in Goz Beida, a town in southeastern Chad, who fled to Chad four years ago after she was kidnapped and gang-raped by a militia in Sudan. |
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| The main mosque in Nouakchott- Mauritania adopted Islam as the state religion in 1991 |
NOUAKCHOTT, 2 February 2008 (IRIN) - An attack on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania on 1 February and two other high-profile attacks since December have thrown into question the country’s future as a modernising, tolerant Islamic Republic.
Mauritanians say the attacks are symptoms of a steady radicalisation of society that has been evident since a succession of highly repressive governments was ended with the installation of reformers in a 2005 coup.
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| More than 800 people have been killed and 250,000 displaced in the Kenyan post-election turmoil |
NAIROBI, 1 February 2008 (IRIN) - George Kose, 30, a graduate of Moi University, Eldoret, lost his job at one of the leading firms in Nairobi just days after the election results were announced on 30 December 2007.
"I could not get to work on time from Kajiado [about 100km south of the capital] on 2 January as there was a transport problem due to the skirmishes that were being experienced in the city; my supervisor issued me with a stern warning about my lateness," Kose said.
"With the transport problem persisting for the next two days I ended up being late again. I was then fired, despite my explanations," he said. "I think my supervisor was just looking for a reason to fire me as we did not get along well. There wasn't much for me to do but leave; your employer has the final word."
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| Embattled president of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar |
JOHANNESBURG, 31 January 2008 (IRIN) - A military invasion to restore Union government control on the renegade Comoran island of Anjouan seems imminent: "a matter of days", authorities have warned.
"The government's position is to move in with the army and re-establish order - there is no alternative left," Abdoulrahime Said Bacar, the Union government Minister of Education and spokesman, told IRIN.
The archipelago's complex electoral system provides for a semi-autonomous government and president for each of the islands - Anjouan, Grand Comore and Moheli - with a rotating presidency for the over-arching Union government. |
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Photo: Boniface Mwangi/IRIN |
| President Mwai Kibaki shakes hands with opposition leader Raila Odinga in the presence of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan |
NAIROBI, 30 January 2008 (IRIN) - The "official dialogue process" began on 29 January between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), even as violence that has ravaged the country since late December continued to spread, with the latest casualty a Member of Parliament who was shot dead outside his home in Nairobi, the capital.
Pledging his commitment to the process of national healing and reconciliation, Kibaki announced that 32 fully-equipped police stations would be built in parts of the country affected by the violence. He said Ksh700 million (US$10 million) had already been committed to this project. |
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