A Selection of News Stories (13/01/2009)

Ethiopia troops 'leave Mogadishu' (BBC News) - [text online]

Court hears of Bemba 'war crimes' (BBC News) - [text online]

Army pressures Tamil Tiger base (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza: Israel prepares 'iron fist' strike at Hamas (The Times) - [text online]

Long march of the black British soldier (The Independent) - [text online]

Muslim ministers warn of Gaza backlash (The Independent) - [text online]

Israeli cabinet divided over fresh Gaza surge (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza clinics destroyed by raids (The Independent) - [text online]

Fares Akram: I rushed home in the ceasefire. Our baby's due tomorrow (The Independent) - [text online]

Biden visits Iraq amid wave of bomb attacks (The Independent) - [text online]

Warlord told his troops to 'traumatise and terrorise' (The Independent) - [text online]

Obama, Africa and Peace (Enough Project) - [text online]

Primark in storm over conditions at UK supplier (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration minister calls for changes in 'outdated' Geneva convention (The Guardian) - [text online]

A Sense of Belonging (The Guardian) - [text and images online]

From Belsen to Zimbabwe (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigrants: the perfect recession scapegoat (The Guardian) - [text online]

OPT: 910 dead including 292 children, 4,250 injured, over 28,000 staying in 36 UNRWA emergency shelters in Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Balkans: The continuing struggle of Europe's forgotten refugees (ReleifWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: UN humanitarian fund gives USD 5m to help rising number of refugees in Kenya (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.9 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DRC: LRA attacks, killings and abductions on increase; thousands more fleeing (UNHCR) - [text online]

Protracted Refugee Situation: The continuing struggle of Europe's forgotten refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: Licensed to kill? (ODI) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC strives to evacuate and treat the wounded despite limited access (ICRC) - [text online]

Israel: End Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis at Once (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Deprived and Endangered: Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Leading rights groups urge Obama to stop Guantánamo proceedings against child soldiers (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Effect of conflict on Gaza’s children ‘devastating,’ says UN rights monitoring body (UN News) - [text online]

UN fund allocates $5 million to help rising number of Somalis fleeing to Kenya (UN News) - [text online]

Gaza: UN official reports horrific hospital scenes of casualties (UN News) - [text online]

Parties at UN-backed DR Congo peace talks focus on joint cessation of hostilities (UN News) - [text online]

UN human rights body to send fact-finding mission to Gaza (UN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Ashkelon empties, trauma teams struggle (IRIN News) - [text online]

ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA: Ethiopian troops leave parts of Mogadishu (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: New year, same old problems (IRIN News) - [text online]

TOGO: Anti-trafficking law alters routes, not flow (IRIN News) - [text online]

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