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GOMA Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - While medical and psychological care are being provided to survivors of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 7,000 women and girls have been raped this year alone, UN and aid workers on the ground say the funding response has been too narrow, leaving key issues inadequately addressed. (IRIN)

NAIROBI Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Encouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference www.mimalaria.org/pamc in Nairobi. Many poor communities, especially in rural settings, cannot afford modern malarial drugs and many people die due to inaccessibility of treatment. (IRIN)

BUJUMBURA Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Civilians across Burundi have handed in thousands of guns, grenades and rounds of ammunition during a 10-day voluntary disarmament campaign. (IRIN)

KAMPALA Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa is a comprehensive document that will, if ratified, fill a void in international humanitarian law, say experts. (IRIN)

NAIROBI Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Replacing manual data with electronic health records would significantly improve the quality of care and enable African HIV treatment programmes to be scaled up more efficiently, say the authors of a new article on the subject. (IRIN)

MIDRAND Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Disaster risk reduction as a tool for climate change adaptation is a "technical mouthful" said Rachel Shebesh, chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction. (IRIN)

KAMPALA Monday, October 26, 2009 (IRIN) - Seventeen countries signed the African Union convention on internally displaced persons (IDPs) after years of preparation culminated in a week of meetings in the Ugandan capital but a lot more hard work remains before it becomes effective, according to observers. (IRIN)

KITGUM Wednesday, October 21, 2009 (IRIN) - Military contingents from five East African countries have begun field training in disaster and emergency response as well as anti-terrorism in the northern Ugandan district of Kitgum. (IRIN)

Freed mercenary Simon Mann has expressed his gratitude for being able to return to Britain. (Iol)

Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years, he later served as President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Great Lakes region. (AllAfrica)

At least 16,000 civilians have fled deadly clashes in western Democratic Republic of Congo and are now languishing, many without food or shelter, in neighbouring Republic of Congo, according to the UN and local officials. (AllAfrica)

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced today that the trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, a former senior official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who has been charged with war crimes, will begin in April 2010. (AllAfrica)

The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a United Nations tribunal over his role in the African country's 1994 genocide. (AllAfrica)

Clashes between two tribes in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have caused more than 16,000 civilians to flee their homes since last week, crossing into neighbouring Republic of Congo to find safety, the United Nations refugee agency reported today. (AllAfrica)

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has challenged countries in the Great Lakes Region to tackle corruption, poverty, human rights violations and diseases that have dogged the African continent. (AllAfrica)

As part of its proactive approach to solve the outstanding backlog of unsolved land disputes in the districts under its jurisdiction, Kigali City Council (KCC) on Wednesday publicly quizzed authorities of Kicukiro District on several cases it had failed to solve. (AllAfrica)

In a bid to enforce high tax compliance levels and crack down on tax evasion, Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) has vowed to expose the names of companies and individuals who have failed to honour their obligation to pay taxes. (AllAfrica)

President Paul Kagame yesterday met and held talks with his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak as part of his ongoing visit to the northern African country. (AllAfrica)

As she announced the quarterly results yesterday, the Commissioner General of Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) said that while the body had surpassed its targets, it had equally unearthed tendencies by some individuals and companies that knowingly default on their tax obligations. (AllAfrica)

Thirty five employees of the Rwanda Private Sector Federation (PSF) yesterday lost their jobs in a move the body has attributed to financial constraints. (AllAfrica)

Some elements in the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) are allegedly conniving and facilitating the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels, The New Times has reliably learnt. (AllAfrica)

UGANDA'S U-20 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier against Rwanda in Kigali tomorrow has been shifted to a yet undisclosed venue sparking off a protest from the coach Majidah Nantanda. (AllAfrica)

Jean Paul Fouda, member of an Association of Cameroon Engineers and Computer Scientists based in Germany. (AllAfrica)

David Mola, CEO, Mola Solaire Internationale, Germany, Guest of Honour at JERSIC 2009. (AllAfrica)

The calibre of foreign-based Cameroon researchers makes their involvement in upgrading scientific research in the country imperative. (AllAfrica)

For the past 27 years, President Biya has made good governance a priority for fighting poverty. (AllAfrica)

Another anniversary moment for the New Deal government of President Paul Biya has arrived with November 6 manifestations marking a transition to the second Republic in Cameroon in 1982. (AllAfrica)

Getting energy to every home and satisfying industrial needs remain capital to the New Deal regime. (AllAfrica)

The outlook of our major urban agglomerations has changed radically within the New Deal period. Douala and Yaounde are good examples (AllAfrica)

Bakweri indigenes in Yaounde have been told to maintain peace, uplift the culture of the Bakweri people and be the ambassadors of the Fako people. (AllAfrica)

Christians of the SS Peter and Paul Anglophone sociological Parish, Simbock in Yaounde have started mobilisation ahead of a grand harvest set for December 6, 2009. (AllAfrica)