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Fatwa alone will not stop FGM/C

NOUAKCHOTT, 29 January 2010 (IRIN) – A recent fatwa banning female genital mutilation/cutting in Mauritania will help reduce the practice only if religious leaders take the message to the people, scholars and anti-FGM/C activists say.

Shocking end of immigrants dismissed from Italy

A video tells the shocking end of a group of immigrants dismissed from Italy and brought back by force in the desert from the Libyan authorities. The rotting corpses lay abandoned in the sand, these people have not had the strength to walk (without stocks of water) for 80 miles that separated them [...]

Aid agencies staggered by IDP numbers

KANO, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – Relief agencies are struggling to help the some 18,000 displaced people in 17 makeshift camps in and around the central Nigerian city of Jos.

Beyond the law on land disputes

MAN, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – In Cote d’Ivoire land disputes  fuelled by the 2002 rebellion and subsequent fighting have yet to be resolved legislatively, leaving communities to seek their own solutions.

US withhold Kenya’s education aid

The US government has suspended a five-year plan to fund Kenya’s education programs following fraud allegation in the east African state.

Displaced flood victims still waiting for aid

CAIRO, 25 January 2010 (IRIN) – Days after flash floods killed several people and forced hundreds of families out of their damaged homes in the Sinai Peninsula, government assistance is yet to arrive, survivors say.

On the Death of Arthur Kepel

Brussels/Nairobi, 25 January 2010: It is with immense shock and sadness that International Crisis Group announces the sudden death of our dear colleague Arthur Kepel, who succumbed to cardiac arrest on 24 January 2010. Arthur, an analyst with Crisis Group for the last two and a half years, dedicated [...]

Our lives will never be the same again

KANO, 22 January 2010 (IRIN) – In Kuru Karama village, 30km from Nigeria’s central city of Jos, only four of some 3,000 residents remain; the rest have fled or been killed, said village chief Umar Baza. Every home has been destroyed.

IDPs on the run again as fighting hits Beletweyne

BELETWEYNE, 19 January 2010 (IRIN) – Thousands of internally displaced in Somalia’s central town of Beletweyne are on the move again following 10 days of fighting between rival Islamist militias, amid reports of continuing heavy shelling in parts of the town.

Floods affect 28,000 in central regions

DAR ES SALAAM, 21 January 2010 (IRIN) – At least 28,000 people are dependent on emergency food and other relief supplies in the central Tanzanian regions of Dodoma and Morogoro following floods, which also damaged transport infrastructure, according to officials.

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