CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 629 4 May 2012

	humanitarian news and analysis a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Table of contents 1. DRC: Poor sanitation systems hinder fight against cholera 2. SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: All we are tweeting is give peace a chance 3. AID POLICY: The myth and mystique of humanitarian space 4. KENYA: Rights groups oppose move to sideline ICC 5. UGANDA: Combining safe riding on a motorcycle taxi with safe sex 6. SOUTH SUDAN: Losing the war against kala-azar 7. DRC: Congolese refugees flee fighting into Rwanda DRC: Poor sanitation systems hinder fight against cholera KINSHASA, 30 April 2012 (IRIN) - More than 7,500 cholera cases have been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of the year as an epidemic that began in June 2011 continues to affect parts if the capital, Kinshasa, as well as four other provinces. Read report online SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: All we are tweeting is give peace a chance KHARTOUM, 30 April 2012 (IRIN) - As Sudan and South Sudan sink deeper into full-scale conflict and hostile rhetoric nine months after the country split in two, people from both sides of the border are tweeting a very different message, one of peace, solidarity and frustration with their leaders. Read report online AID POLICY: The myth and mystique of humanitarian space LONDON, 2 May 2012 (IRIN) - The phenomenon of 'shrinking humanitarian space' is earnestly debated by aid workers. The often-heard complaint is that neutrality and independence is increasingly compromised by donors, peacekeepers and warring parties seeking to co-opt them, and they blame the growing toll of attacks on agency staff on the perception that they are no longer impartial. Read report online KENYA: Rights groups oppose move to sideline ICC NAIROBI, 2 May 2012 (IRIN) - Rights groups in Kenya have warned of a potential miscarriage of justice after the government moved to have the cases of four people charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court transferred to a region tribunal which has no experience in handling such crimes. Read report online UGANDA: Combining safe riding on a motorcycle taxi with safe sex KAMPALA, 3 May 2012 (PlusNews) - It's Saturday night and Jaffari Musoke*, who rides a 'boda boda' - motorcycle taxi - arrives at his regular stage, or departure point, near several hotels in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. He has an easy camaraderie with the sex workers who hang around the hotels, taking many of them home after a night's work. Sometimes he mixes business with pleasure. Read report online SOUTH SUDAN: Losing the war against kala-azar OLD FANGAK, 3 May 2012 (IRIN) - In the dusty courtyard of a crowded clinic in Old Fangak, in South Sudan's Jonglei state, throngs of people, some of them under mosquito nets strung between trees, wait to get tested for kala-azar, amid the worst continuous outbreak in three decades. Read report online DRC: Congolese refugees flee fighting into Rwanda KIGALI, 4 May 2012 (IRIN) - Renewed heavy fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) North Kivu Province has pushed some 3,000 Congolese refugees into northern Rwanda where they are in need of humanitarian assistance, says a senior UN official. Read report online