Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN |
| Youths in Kibera slums carry crude weapons ready to fight youths from the rival side, Nairobi |
NAIROBI, 25 February 2008 (IRIN) - Kenya is at risk of plunging into a new wave of violence, despite progress in negotiations to end a political crisis, because several armed groups are mobilising on all sides of the country’s ethno-political divisions, according to the International Crisis Group (ICG) think-tank.
Firearms are much less widely available in Kenya than in neighbouring countries. In the context of this article, “armed groups” include those using machetes, spears, poison arrows and clubs. |
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| President Robert Mugabe lashes out |
HARARE, 22 February 2008 (IRIN) - Who is behind the presidential bid of Simba Makoni remains a mystery, but the campaign of Zimbabwe's former finance minister says it has been able to field candidates in most constituencies for the general elections next month.
Although the overstretched Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is still computing the final list of candidates in the four separate polls to be run on 29 March, the Makoni camp claims it has managed to field candidates or strike alliances in all the 210 parliamentary constituencies and for 60 senatorial seats. |
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Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN |
| The daughter of a former LRA abductee stands in front of a mural at the World Vision rehabilitation centre in Gulu District, northern Uganda. Many of the LRA's alleged victims would prefer internal justice to prevail |
KAMPALA, 21 February 2008 (IRIN) - An agreement to prosecute alleged war criminals in Uganda rather than in the International Criminal Court (ICC) has fuelled hopes for an imminent end to the long-running civil war, even if one leading rights group has condemned the deal.
Delegates from the Ugandan government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) agreed on 19 February that a special division of the country’s high court be set up to try war crimes committed during the 21-year-old conflict. |
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Photo: David Swanson/IRIN |
| Do you give discounts? |
ROME, 19 February 2008 (IRIN) - As global food prices continue to soar to new highs despite a record world harvest last season, governments in poor countries have begun exploring export bans, subsidies and price controls, among other measures to help the poor cope.
High food prices have been triggered by a host of factors, including dwindling stocks and a continuing strong demand for cereals, according to the latest Crop Prospects and Food Situation report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). News of a possible global recession and adverse weather in parts of Africa and Asia has also affected prices. |
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Photo: UNICEF Madagascar |
| With wind speeds of up to 210 km per hour, Ivan tears across Madagascar |
JOHANNESBURG, 18 February 2008 (IRIN) - Tropical cyclone "Ivan" made its way across the Indian Ocean and slammed into Madagascar's northeastern coast on Sunday, 18 February. The exact extent of the destruction is not yet known, but government and aid agencies fear the worst as the storm makes its way through some of the island's most heavily populated areas.
According to Dia Styvanley Soa, spokeswoman for the National Office for Natural Disasters Preparedness (BNGRC), "Nine people were crushed under the rubble of a hotel," and have been presumed dead, at least two other people were reported dead and thousands more have been affected. |
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Photo: James Hall/IRIN |
| Once fertile land turned barren - climate change the culprit say experts |
JOHANNESBURG, 16 February 2008 (IRIN) - Swaziland's increasing vulnerability to a seemingly endless string of manmade and natural disasters has prompted a new approach to improving the speed and effectiveness of the response.
"We are really suffering. We are trying everything we can but we need help - it [disaster] seems permanent," Dr Ben Nsibandze, Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, told IRIN.
After a devastating drought hit all four of the country's regions last year, withering up to 80 percent of crops in some areas, 2008 started with extremely heavy rains, hailstorms and wildfires.
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