East Africa

Akec Tut, “We are depending on the leaves of the trees”

NYINTAR, 4 April 2012 (IRIN) - Akec Tut is among 110,000 civilians who fled Abyei when the contested region on the border between Sudan and South Sudan was occupied by Khartoum’s troops in May 2011. full report

SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Time running out for “forgotten” refugees

 JAMAM, 3 April 2012 (IRIN) - Under the sweltering sun, women at Jamam refugee camp, in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, dig through the clay of a dried up waterhole in their search for water. full report

CLIMATE CHANGE: Farmers and forecasts

 BINGERVILLE/DAKAR, 2 April 2012 (IRIN) - Unpredictable rainfall in parts of Côte d’Ivoire cost some farmers over half of their harvest in 2011 producers told IRIN, but, armed with more knowledge about how to get weather reports and interpret them, they might still have been able to boost their output, say agricultural specialists. full report

KENYA: Several thousand displaced after fresh clashes in Isiolo

 ISIOLO, 2 April 2012 (IRIN) - Hundreds of families in the central county of Isiolo have been displaced as deadly clashes pitting the Borana, Somali and Turkana communities escalate. full report

KENYA: Abdi Adan," Right now, I am a beggar with no home"

 ISOLO, 2 April 2012 (IRIN) - Abdi Adan, an ethnic Somali living in Kenya’s central region of Isiolo, which has recently seen clashes between the Borana, Somali and Turkana communities and the displacement of thousands of people, tells IRIN about his experience of the violence. full report

Briefing: Sudans' border clashes

 JAU, 29 March 2012 (IRIN) - Borderland fighting between Sudan and South Sudan broke out on 25 March, raising fears that the fragile peace that has more or less held since a 2005 accord (CPA) ended decades of civil war, could break down entirely. full report

KENYA: Fertilizer shortage could exacerbate food insecurity

 NAIROBI, 29 March 2012 (IRIN) - Those Kenyan farmers who normally use fertilizer to boost yields could be forced to go without this season (March-May) unless the government moves quickly to boost supplies. full report

ISRAEL: Deportation looms for South Sudan migrants

 TEL AVIV, 27 March 2012 (IRIN) - Asylum-seekers from South Sudan living in Israel have until 31 March to return “home” or face deportation, but some have asked to stay, saying conditions are not yet conducive for their safe return. full report

SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Hamid Yussef Bashir, “People end up fighting at the water point”

 JAMAM, 27 March 2012 (IRIN) - Hamid Yussef Bashir, 30, is one of around 37,000 refugees in Jamam camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, a place beleaguered by chronic water shortages, a diet of sorghum that refugees say is not enough, and where most residents are camped on a floodplain weeks ahead of the rainy season. full report

SUDAN: Feeling the pinch

 KHARTOUM, 27 March 2012 (IRIN) - Hamed, 19, has a captive market for his goods, but only for frenetic 90-second bursts: once the traffic lights change on Khartoum’s Nile Avenue, potential customers for his packs of tissues drive on, sending Hamed and the rest of a small army of vendors of everything from socks to soft drinks scurrying for safety until the signal turns red again. full report
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