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06 Oct 2011
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Uganda
New facility to concentrate on cancer

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KAMPALA, 6 October 2011 (IRIN) - Uganda has one of the highest rates of infection-related cancers in the world. Exploring the links between infections and cancer will be one of the main roles of a new research and treatment centre in Kampala, according to officials at a ground-breaking ceremony on 4 October.

The facility, a collaboration between the US-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre and the Uganda Cancer Institute, will focus on improving treatment of such cancers across East Africa as well as on providing specialist training to medical personnel.

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Tuvalu
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Tuvalu, Tokelau nearly out of drinking water

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Families in Tuvalu's capital, Funafuti, are being allowed only two buckets of water a day as the drought continues.

The government estimates the country has five days of drinking water left.

Tuvalu is bringing in more fresh water on ships.

Andrew McKie from Red Cross New Zealand said two portable desalination plants have also been brought in to help alleviate the water shortage.

"They were transported to an island right in the south of Tuvalu, Nookilaulau, which although it's a small island was one of the ones worst affected by the drought," he said.

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06 Oct 2011
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Afghanistan
10 ans après, les efforts doivent être accentués pour améliorer l’accès à la santé

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Première Urgence - Aide Médicale Internationale

Il y a dix ans exactement, les Etats-Unis et leurs alliés intervenaient militairement en Afghanistan. Aujourd’hui la situation des afghans reste très précaire. C’est pourquoi, alors que les armées occidentales ont annoncé leur retrait en 2014 et que la communauté internationale prévoit de se réunir avec les autorités afghanes à Bonn le 5 décembre prochain, Première Urgence-Aide Médicale Internationale (PU-AMI) appelle à ne pas se détourner de la population afghane et à augmenter le soutien aux citoyens afghans.

06 Oct 2011
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Afghanistan
Wartime suffering: Patters of violations in Afghanistan

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Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
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This paper accompanies the Bamiyan, Ghazni and Kabul provincial case studies from AREU’s legacies of conflict research. It must be noted that the research was not designed to systematically document wartime experiences. However, a vast number of people gave up their time to tell their stories and while this was at times painful, many respondents also described the process as cathartic and healing. It was with this in mind that it was felt that the wartime stories gathered were worth both preserving and highlighting.

06 Oct 2011
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Cinq humanitaires tués au Sud-Kivu, les acteurs humanitaires exigent plus de protection

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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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(Kinshasa/Bukavu, 6 octobre 2011): La communauté humanitaire de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) est « très choquée » par l’attaque armée qui s’est soldée, le 4 octobre dernier, par la mort de cinq fonctionnaires d’une organisation non gouvernementale humanitaire oeuvrant dans le domaine de l’éducation dans la localité de Malinde dans la Province du Sud-Kivu. Plusieurs autres personnes ont été tuées ou blessées lors de cette attaque.

06 Oct 2011
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Kenya
Why size matters in agricultural production

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MOMBASA-TANA RIVER, 6 October 2011 (IRIN) - Coastal areas in Kenya provide a vivid illustration of the factors that thwart agricultural potential across much of Africa: small plot sizes, minimal irrigation and endemic poverty, which precludes investment, and in turn, greater productivity.

"The locals open up very small pieces of land for farming," Elias Gitonga Kithaura, the Tana Delta District Commissioner, told IRIN.

What was needed, he said, was role models to buck this trend by farming plots of about 50 hectares.

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A selection of IRIN reports are posted on ReliefWeb. Find more IRIN news and analysis at http://www.irinnews.org

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South Sudan (Republic of)
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S. Sudan refugees await train ride home

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Agence France-Presse

KHARTOUM — For nine months, Carlo has lived like so many South Sudanese stranded in the north -- hungry and jobless, in a makeshift camp, never knowing when he will leave for his newly-independent homeland.

Finally, the 1,300-kilometre (810-mile) train journey looks set to begin, but it will take him through a war-zone and could last more than two weeks.

"We have stayed here a long time, and we have suffered from many things. When the train comes to collect us, we will be so happy," said the 60-year-old father of five.

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