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The Information and Advocacy Section prepares humanitarian publications. The section prepares ‘Focus on Ethiopia’, a monthly publication on specific topics as appropriate and Relief Bulletin on humanitarian developments in the country on weekly bases. The section also drafts a monthly report on behalf of the humanitarian coordinator to the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator. It prepares the weekly Note to Management for its HQ in Geneva, highlighting critical issues in a brief bulleted format. The section also prepares briefing packages for visits of high level delegations and actively coordinates UN inputs into briefing documents, Special Alerts and Appeals. It provides the necessary media assistance by preparing Media Alerts and Press Releases jointly with other UN agencies or on behalf of them.
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IRIN Lead Stories
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ETHIOPIA: Bright lights, big city is high risk for students
ADDIS ABABA Monday, November 02, 2009 (IRIN) - Being a university freshman is an exciting time for any young person, but many students get carried away, partying too hard and taking sexual risks.
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.
Analysis: African IDP convention fills a void in humanitarian law
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.
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.
AFRICA: IDP convention - now the hard work begins
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.
ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA: Rising numbers of illegal immigrants enter Somaliland
HARGEISA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - Immigration officials in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have expressed concern over the increase in the number of illegal Ethiopian migrants entering the region, with claims that up to 90 people are arriving daily, against 50 in 2008.
AFRICA: Climate change could worsen displacement - UN
KAMPALA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With increasing natural disasters, including floods, storms and droughts, hitting the continent, more people in Africa are likely to be displaced, creating a challenge for governments, the UN warns.
ETHIOPIA: Increased condom use among sex workers but more education needed
ADDIS ABABA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With non-skilled jobs in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, paying as little as US$16 per month, the financial incentives to engage in commercial sex work are overwhelming - earning 30 times a domestic worker’s salary.
ETHIOPIA: Drought need not mean hunger and destitution - Oxfam
NAIROBI Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - With droughts becoming more common, donors and the Ethiopian government must look beyond the traditional "band aid" responses to disasters by using approaches that are more cost-effective, sustainable and better suited to the population, international aid agency Oxfam says in a new report.
AFRICA: Talking about forced displacement
KAMPALA Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - Civil society and government officials are gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to discuss the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa and a declaration on refugees, returnees and IDPs.
GREATER HORN OF AFRICA: Preparing to mitigate negative impact of El Niño
NAIROBI Monday, October 19, 2009 (IRIN) - As countries across East Africa and the Horn of Africa begin to receive El Niño-related enhanced rainfall, disaster risk reduction experts from 10 countries in the region are meeting in Nairobi to develop strategies for reducing the negative impact of the evolving El Niño phenomenon.
AFRICA: Shining the spotlight on the displaced
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Forty years after the rights of Africa’s refugees were enshrined in a landmark convention, the continent’s leaders are due to make legal history again by adopting a new instrument to assist people displaced within the borders of their own country.
AFRICA: Africa's IDP situation at a glance
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa hosts at least 11 million of the world's 25 million conflict-affected IDPs. Millions more are displaced annually by natural disasters.
AFRICA: Africa's IDPs in numbers
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Most IDPs in Africa have been forced out of their homes by conflict, either between government forces and armed opponents or between communities.
AFRICA: The objectives of the IDP Convention
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - The objectives of the Convention
In Brief: When health facilities become casualties
DAKAR Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (IRIN) - Designed to be safe havens in times of disaster, health facilities are vulnerable to upheaval when catastrophe strikes, according to the UN, which is focusing on hospital safety for International Day for Disaster Reduction.
AFRICA: Fighting the "double whammy" of obesity and hunger
BANGKOK Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa faces a double burden of obesity and hunger as millions take up increasingly sedentary lives in cities and the global financial crisis hits rural populations’ food security, nutritionists warn.
How To: Rescue people trapped in a collapsed building
NAIROBI Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - When an earthquake strikes a town, or a building is levelled by an explosion, news footage invariably shows search and rescue teams trawling through the rubble looking for survivors. But what does it take to rescue people trapped under tons of concrete?
In Brief: Voices of landmine survivors
DAKAR Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - A landmine survivor in Senegal’s Casamance region on 6 October used the recent report, ‘Voices from the Ground’, based on a survey of mine victims worldwide, to remind aid agencies, Senegal’s anti-mine agency and the media of victims’ needs and governments’ responsibilities.
In Brief: Pilgrims "helping to spread AWD" in Ethiopia
NAIROBI Wednesday, October 07, 2009 (IRIN) - The movement of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to and from holy sites as well as migrant labourers to private farms is contributing to the spread of acute watery diarrhoea in Ethiopia, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns.
In Brief: Migration myths dispelled in UNDP report
BANGKOK Monday, October 05, 2009 (IRIN) - Most migrants do not move from developing to developed countries, and when they do, rather than hurting host economies, they benefit them, according to a new report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
AFRICA: "Climate witnesses" don't want handouts
CAPE TOWN Monday, October 05, 2009 (IRIN) - The "climate witnesses" - all poor farmers - told a special tribunal on climate change in Cape Town, South Africa, on 5 October: "We don't want any handouts from the West." Instead, they needed strategies and policies to help them overcome the effects of climate change.
ETHIOPIA: Maids, condoms and kerosene
ADDIS ABABA Friday, October 02, 2009 (IRIN) - The life of a domestic worker in Ethiopia is rarely an easy one. Often escaping a deeply impoverished existence in the rural areas, these women find themselves in employment hundreds of miles away from their hometowns as maids – or serategnas in the national language, Amharic.
In Brief: Twenty cities most vulnerable to storm surges, sea level rises
DAKAR Thursday, October 01, 2009 (IRIN) - According to (yet another) new climate change report, this time from development think-tank CGD, these are the 20 cities where the most people will be at the greatest risk from sea level rise and storm surges in the developing world.
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Yahoo News - Africa
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Ethiopia may not reach anti-poverty goals (UPI)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The impact of the worldwide financial crisis could include preventing Ethiopia from reaching its anti-poverty goals by 2015, a United Nations official says.
TOMS Shoes Founder Works To Stamp Out Foot Disease In Ethiopia (The Huffington Post)
What's Your Reaction? CBS Evening News recently profiled a TOMS shoe drop in Southern Ethiopia, where TOMS Shoes Founder and Chief Shoe Giver Blake Mycoskie spoke about his desire to stamp out podoconiosis , a debilitating foot disease that is caused by walking barefoot in silica-heavy volcanic soil.
Ethiopia Ruling Party Denies Opposition Imprisonment Claims (Voice of America)
In Ethiopia, the ruling Ethiopia People's Revolutionary Democratic Front says it's unaware that hundreds of opposition members have allegedly been jailed ahead of next year's election.
African refugees seized off Yemen (UPI)
SANA‘A, Yemen, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A boat carrying refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea was seized in the territorial waters of Yemen, authorities said Saturday.
Into Ethiopia (The Australian)
Life among the tribes in the Omo River Basin revolves around cattle, gunplay and getting the girl, writes Stanely Stewart
Madagascar political rivals reach government deal (MalaysiaNews.net)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Madagascar's political rivals have agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections.The deal announced late Friday allows And...
Churches take on challenge in Ethiopia (Billings Gazette)
Harvest Church's African journey began two years ago at a leadership summit.
African Refugees Seized Off Yemen (OfficialWire)
A boat carrying refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea was seized in the territorial waters of Yemen, authorities said Saturday. "The smuggling boat was carrying 64 African refuge-seekers, including eight Somalis and 56 Ethiopians and Eritreans," the coast guard said in a statement.
Madagascar political rivals reach government deal (FOX 11 Tucson)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Madagascar's political rivals have agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections.
Madagascar political rivals reach government deal (AP via Yahoo! News)
Madagascar's political rivals have agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections following a power struggle that brought months of volatility to the country, an African Union statement said.
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