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Italiano KINSHASA – Tens of thousands of people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have fled their homes amid an army offensive against Ugandan rebels, presenting fresh impetus to humanitarian agencies’ efforts to adapt their response mechanisms to sudden displacement.
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 IRIN  15/07/2010KAMPALA – Uganda has begun “forcibly” deporting hundreds of Rwandans from two southwestern refugee camps, at gunpoint according to one witness, prompting the UN Refugee Agency to call for a suspension of the operation. IRIN 15/07/2010CAIRO – Hanging around a hospital lobby has become a daily pastime for 50-year-old labourer Ahmed Ismail. Every morning for the past few weeks the liver cancer sufferer has been going to al-Demerdash Hospital in Cairo in the hope of having his malignant hepatic tumour surgically removed. IRIN 14/07/2010MOGADISHU – Conditions for thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in and around Mogadishu continue to worsen daily, with hunger, disease and lack of shelter taking their toll on an already vulnerable population, according to local sources. Continue reading Conditions worsen for IDPs in and around Mogadishu AfricaVision Online 12/07/201074 World Cup fans were injured in the explosions at a Kampala rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant. Police are investigating whether the blasts were suicide bombings, and blamed Somalia’s al-Shabab militants. Al-Shabab has threatened to hit Kampala in the past. IRIN 09/07/2010A new study has challenged widely held assumptions about income level in relation to HIV, finding that neither wealth nor poverty are reliable predictors of HIV infection in Africa. IRIN 09/07/2010Until just over a year ago, people living in Dukwi, a remote refugee camp about 200km from Francistown, Botswana’s second city, were burying other residents who had died from AIDS-related illnesses at the rate of about five a month. Continue reading HIV treatment for refugees, but for how long? IRIN 09/07/2010An initiative by the Tanzanian government hopes to reduce HIV transmission along the country’s expanding road network by targeting construction crews and the communities that surround them. IRIN 09/07/2010When Macklean Kyomya came to the Ugandan capital, Kampala, at 19, she found work as a lap-dancer in a nightclub and was soon accepting money from clients in exchange for sex. IRIN 09/07/2010Lay counsellors in South Africa can now legally perform HIV tests, but delays in paying them and shortages of test kits are threatening a national campaign to scale up voluntary HIV testing and counselling (VCT). |
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