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ISLAMABAD, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - At 70 years old, Mohammad Issa is already struggling to survive in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, where he sought refuge from war in Afghanistan years ago. Suffering from a heart condition, he has trouble leaving the house and depends on his children, who collect cardboard for a living.... |
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NAIROBI, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - So much for “never again”. Five years after 1,300 Kenyans were killed and more than half a million displaced in the wake of a presidential election, one of the triggers of that violence, the inflammatory language of politicians, remains a serious threat to peace and stability as the country gears up for the next polls in March 2013.... |
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ABYAN, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - In June, after spending 11 months in a makeshift camp for people displaced by violence, 19-year-old Dawlah Muslih, then seven months pregnant, returned to her home in an area of Yemen where safety was supposed to have improved. It was a move her family would come to regret.... |
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BANGKOK, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - Refugee rights groups have welcomed a decision by the Australian Government to increase its annual refugee quota to 20,000, a key recommendation in a recent panel report on asylum seekers.... |
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ISLAMABAD, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - At 70 years old, Mohammad Issa is already struggling to survive in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, where he sought refuge from war in Afghanistan years ago. Suffering from a heart condition, he has trouble leaving the house and depends on his children, who collect cardboard for a living.... |
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NAIROBI, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - So much for “never again”. Five years after 1,300 Kenyans were killed and more than half a million displaced in the wake of a presidential election, one of the triggers of that violence, the inflammatory language of politicians, remains a serious threat to peace and stability as the country gears up for the next polls in March 2013.... |
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ABYAN, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - In June, after spending 11 months in a makeshift camp for people displaced by violence, 19-year-old Dawlah Muslih, then seven months pregnant, returned to her home in an area of Yemen where safety was supposed to have improved. It was a move her family would come to regret.... |
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MOMBASA, 22 August 2012 (IRIN) - At least 48 people have been killed in clashes between two communities in Tana River County in Kenya's Coast Province.... |
Read more: IRIN Africa | KENYA: Dozens killed in Tana River clashes | Kenya | Children | Conflict
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KINSHASA, 22 August 2012 (IRIN) - The Ministry of Agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo has called for more support to control an epidemic of peste des petits ruminants, a contagious viral disease that has already killed tens of thousands of goats and sheep.... |
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