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¤ How My Father Looked
 Piecing together fragments from the Eritrean-Ethiopian border. | ¤ To Some, Winner Is Not American Enough
 An online dispute erupted over the heritage of Meb Keflezighi, the first American to win the New York City Marathon in 27 years. | ¤ Court Hears Asylum Case of Ex-Guard From Eritrea
The Supreme Court considered the fate of an asylum applicant who worked as a guard in an Eritrean prison where inmates were tortured and killed. | ¤ Refugee Center Attacked in Norway
Norwegian police and immigration authorities have raised security at a refugee center following an attack by dozens of men armed with steel rods, knives and other weapons. | ¤ Location Gives Tiny State Prime Access to Big Riches
 If there was ever an example of location, location, location, it’s Djibouti. But tensions with neighboring Eritrea are threatening the tiny nation’s big economic dreams. | ¤ A Conflict’s Buffer Zone: Rocks, and Inches
 Soldiers from two of Africa’s tiniest nations are squaring off over uninhabited sand near some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. | ¤ Desperation Gathers and Makes a Nightly Dash for Britain
 Despite efforts by the police to close their makeshift camps, thousands of migrants flock to Calais and other northern French ports each year trying to make the dangerous crossing. | ¤ Ethiopians Said to Push Civilians Into Rebel War
 The Ethiopian government, a top U.S. ally, is said to be forcing teachers, doctors and aid workers to fight rebels. | ¤ Don’t Turn on Ethiopia
 Congress should use creative diplomacy to deal with the combined threat of insurgency and war in Ethiopia. | ¤ Resentment and Rations as Eritrea Nears a Crisis
 Facing rising prospects of war with Ethiopia and increasing tensions with the West, Eritrea has hit its most difficult point since winning its hard-fought independence 14 years ago. |
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¤ ERITREA-SUDAN: Samuel, "They told me, ‘We'll put you in custody if you don't bring your son’”
KASSALA Monday, December 14, 2009 (IRIN) - Samuel, a 65-year-old Eritrean, father of two sons, escaped to Sudan in August when the government threatened to detain him unless he brought back his 37-year-old son, who fled forced conscription to the army. | ¤ AFRICA: Vaccination key to stemming rotavirus, say experts
DAKAR Tuesday, December 08, 2009 (IRIN) - African health experts are calling on governments to vaccinate all children against rotavirus, to end an “unacceptable” yet preventable situation in which the virus kills some 1,400 children in developing countries daily. | ¤ ERITREA-SUDAN: A forgotten refugee problem
KASSALA Thursday, December 03, 2009 (IRIN) - Eastern Sudan hosts more than 66,000 registered Eritrean refugees, the first of whom arrived in 1968 during the early years of Eritrea’s war of independence against Ethiopia. These days, Eritrea’s policy of indefinite military conscription, coupled with drought and poor economic opportunities, prompt some 1,800 people to cross into Sudan every month, according to the UN Refugee Agency. | ¤ In Brief: All I want for Xmas ...is a bag of manure
NAIROBI Thursday, November 26, 2009 (IRIN) - From the first goat sales about five years ago, creative NGO fundraisers have expanded a range of animal and farm-related "gifts" for sale online to benefit developing countries. | ¤ In Brief: World hunger increases despite growth in food production
DUSHANBE Thursday, November 12, 2009 (IRIN) - Even as world food production grows, hunger is on the rise in many poor countries, according to the Global Crop Prospects and Food Situation report for November, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 12 November. | ¤ In Brief: Cash does not always mean quality food aid
JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, November 11, 2009 (IRIN) - A move by donor countries to provide aid agencies with cash, allowing them the flexibility to source cheaper or more appropriate food in the region or beneficiary country and save on transport and warehousing costs, is not addressing nutritional needs, according to a new report. | ¤ AFRICA: Turning to traditional medicines in fight against malaria
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. | ¤ AFRICA: AU pushes the envelope on "climate migrants"
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change. | ¤ AFRICA: Electronic records can streamline health care
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. | ¤ AFRICA: Digesting a "mouthful" of climate change
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. |
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