Thursday 10 April 2008

News Stories (10/04/08)

Burma migrants suffocate in lorry (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe emergency talks called (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenya opposition urges restraint (BBC News) - [text online]

Kosovo adopts a new constitution (BBC News) - [text online]

What George Clooney told Gordon Brown about China and Darfur (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Osama bin Laden's 'right-hand man' Abu Qatada wins deportation fight (The Times) - [text online]

Terror suspects win battle against deportation (The Independent) - [text online]

Calls grow for immigrant amnesty (The Independent) - [text online]

Protesters clash with police as Kenya's power-sharing dispute rumbles on (The Independent) - [text online]

United Kingdom: Appeals Court Blocks National Security Deportations (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Somalia Humanitarian Overview Vol. 1 Issue 3 - Mar 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Uprooted Kenyans long to return home (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Revised appeal seeks $189m for humanitarian action in 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: DDR an "unprecedented and unique challenge" (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Colombia: UNHCR and Gov't sign accord to protect land rights of displaced (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Appeal court blocks deportation of terror suspects (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR and Colombia sign accord to protect land rights of displaced (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Abu Qatada wins deportation fight (Daily Express) - [text online]

Sudan: Militia Attacks Threaten Crucial Census (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

KENYA: Talks deadlock could slow IDP returns - officials (IRIN News) - [text online]

Plight of displaced in Chad, Central African Republic worries Security Council (UN News) - [text online]

UN and African Union envoys for Darfur crisis hold talks in southern Sudan (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: SADC steps into the fray (IRIN News) - [text online]

GHANA: Postponed deportations of Liberians over refugee status (IRIN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

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