A Selection of News Stories (08/01/2009)

Tories accuse DFID of trying to usurp powers of Foreign Office (The Independent) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks enter substantive phase (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: 'No military solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict', say speakers at UN Security Council (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Central/Eastern Africa: Nearly 11 million IDPs and refugees - OCHA (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nepal: Small glimmer of hope for forgotten generations of Bhutanese refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.5 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 42 - 43, 20 Dec 2008 - 02 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 40 - 41, 06 - 19 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA regional update no. 2 - Cholera outbreaks in Southern Africa, 24 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Lathering up success in South Sudan for just US$1,000 (UNHCR) - [text online]

Uprooted Pakistanis find home in ex-Afghan refugee village (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: Military tactics of both sides endangering civilians, says Amnesty International (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC demands urgent access to wounded as Israeli army fails to assist wounded Palestinians (ICRC) - [text online]

SUDAN: Great expectations as numbers of Southern returnees on the rise (IRIN News) - [text online]

DRC-SUDAN: Fifty feared dead in rebel attack (IRIN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks enter substantive phase (UN News) - [text online]

Israel’s daily 3-hour truces in Gaza good first step, but not nearly enough, UN warns (UN News) - [text online]

Number of Bhutanese refugees resettled from Nepal last year tops 8,000 – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: Ban welcomes US pledge to airlift supplies to UN-African Union force (UN News) - [text online]

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