Saturday 26 April 2008

News Stories (26/04/08)

Zimbabwe opposition retains gains (BBC News) - [text online]

Angola allows arms ship to dock (BBC News) - [text online]

New fighting stops DR Congo aid (BBC News) - [text online]

UN condemns Turkey border deaths (BBC News) - [text online]

Beijing 'to talk to Dalai aides' (BBC News) - [text online]

Militias 'recruit child bombers' (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenyan leaders in call for peace (BBC News) - [text online]

Port immigration offences surge (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe forces arrest hundreds in MDC raids - (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Freezing assets of terror suspects ruled unlawful by High Court (The Times) - [text online]

Gaza fuel crisis forces UN to stop food aid deliveries (The Independent) - [text online]

Ministers offer concessions to rebels over 42-day limit (The Independent) - [text online]

Aid workers teach Sierra Leone's poor to shun witch doctors' malaria remedies (The Independent) - [text online]

15 Years After Black Hawk Down: Somalia's Chance? (Enough Project) - [text online]

DR Congo: End the Horrific Suffering in Eastern Congo (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Algeria criticises UK's human rights record (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update, 05 - 20 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 11/12, 5-21 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Regional Humanitarian Update Mar 2008: Vol 2, Issue 3 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Hundreds flee violence in North Kivu (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Uganda: Uncertain future for IDPs (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Lebanon: Tribulations of those displaced from Beirut's southern suburbs (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kurdish father-to-be set for deportation to Iraq (The Guardian) - [text online]

Face scans for air passengers to begin in UK this summer (The Guardian) - [text online]

Q&A: Ambush in Somalia fails to deter Austrian aid worker (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Iraqi refugees in Syria hit by increased food and fuel prices (UNHCR News) - [text online]

More than 8,000 flee fresh fighting in Somalia capital (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Somalia: Renewed fighting in Mogadishu sparks fresh exodus (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

DRC: UNHCR suspends aid distribution amid fresh violence in North Kivu (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

UNHCR deplores refugee expulsion by Turkey which resulted in four deaths (UNHCR Press Release) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Surge in State-Sponsored Violence (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Burma: Humanitarianism on the rocks? (Refugees International) - [text online]

More needs to be done to help Iraq overcome divisions, says Secretary-General (UN News) - [text online]

UN refugee agency deplores deaths of four refugees after expulsion by Turkey (UN News) - [text online]

Bosnian Croat commander convicted by UN tribunal to serve jail term in Italy (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Police swoop on injured MDC supporters (IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: IDPs remain cautious as leaders preach peace (IRIN News) - [text online]

Renewed violence drives thousands out of Somali capital – UN (UN 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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