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CHAD : Threatens to expel new Darfur refugees
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NEWS - 11 Feb 2008 Source: Reuters By Alistair Thomson
N'DJAMENA, Feb 11- Chad threatened on Monday to expel any more refugees arriving from Sudan's Darfur region, saying their presence was triggering insecurity and calling on the international community to take them elsewhere. Prime Minister Nouradine Delwa Kassire Coumakoye said the influx of refugees into eastern Chad risked becoming a "bone of contention" between the two countries and said that if the international community did not relocate them, it would do so. Tensions are already high between N'Djamena and Khartoum after an assault by Chadian rebels based in Darfur on the Chadian capital just over a week ago. Chad accuses Sudan's government of backing the rebels, a charge it denies
CENTRAL ASIA : Bracing for a humanitarian emergency
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NEWS – 11 Feb 2008 Source: IRIN
DUSHANBE, 11 February 2008 - Tajikistan is bracing for a compound humanitarian emergency due to prolonged power outages, an unusually long period of extremely cold weather, and resultant emerging food insecurity, according to officials. "We've had the harshest winter for three decades. It has frozen inlet streams going into reservoirs which generate electricity. At the same time there has been an increase in the consumption of power as a result of the cold weather," Michael Jones, UN resident coordinator in Tajikistan, said. "It is a compound emergency, it is multifaceted," Jones told IRIN on 11 February. For most of January temperatures in the capital, Dushanbe, have averaged minus 15 degrees during the day and dropped to as low as minus 25 at night, according to the UN Development Programme Disaster Risk Management Programme (UNDP DRMP) Tajikistan.
PHILIPPINES : Rights agency blames military for deaths
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NEWS - 14 Feb 2008 Source: Reuters
MANILA, Feb 14 - The Philippines' human rights body said on Thursday the military was responsible for the death of eight civilians, including a 4-year-old boy, in a raid on the southern island of Jolo. A local director for the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), which conducted a probe into the incident, said the soldiers and the top military official on the island should be punished for the deaths on Feb. 4 "In the military, ground troops follow their commander," said Jose Manuel Mamauag. "So, the blame should go higher." Mamauag said a full CHR report on the deaths would be made available soon. The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission said the findings of the state rights agency reinforced its own report that eight people died when troops fired indiscriminately during operations on Jolo against Islamic militants.
BURUNDI : UNHCR operations chief upbeat about Burundian refugees
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NEWS - 05 Feb 2008 Source: UNHCR
BUJUMBURA, Burundi, February 5 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency's operations chief believes there is an end in sight to the problem of hundreds of thousands of Burundian refugees in Tanzania. "After more than three decades, there is hope to end this protracted refugee situation," Assistant High Commissioner for Operations Judy Cheng-Hopkins said in Bujumbura on Monday at the end of a 10-day mission to Tanzania and Burundi. Cheng-Hopkins was in the neighbouring African countries to assess the prospects for finding durable solutions for the almost 340,000 Burundian refugees in Tanzania. Some 118,000 of them who left their homeland in the 1990s live in three UNHCR-assisted camps, which the Tanzanian government has said it would like to consolidate this year. The rest, who fled Burundi in 1972, have been living in three self-sufficient settlements in central Tanzania.
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