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1. FOOD: Fishy business - the cost of illegal trawling
2. AID POLICY: Translating early warning into early action
3. AFRICA: "Sexual refugees" struggle to access asylum
4. SECURITY: Ammunition - the next round in arms trade control
5. MIGRATION: Human smugglers profit as tragedies multiply
6. FOOD: Another crisis coming?
7. HEALTH: Family planning summit focuses on mother and child survival
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FOOD: Fishy business - the cost of illegal trawling
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JOHANNESBURG, 9 July 2012 (IRIN) - Illegal and unregulated fishing is
rampant worldwide, particularly off the coasts of West Africa and the
Horn of Africa, and accounts for between US$10 billion and $23 billion
of direct losses globally every year, say the authors of the latest
report on fisheries and aquaculture by the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO).
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AID POLICY: Translating early warning into early action
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LONDON, 9 July 2012 (IRIN) - No one can say they did not see last year's
food crisis in East Africa coming; there was almost a year of
increasingly strong warnings, but it was not until Somalia was formally
declared to be in a state of famine that substantial funding finally
started coming in.
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AFRICA: "Sexual refugees" struggle to access asylum
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JOHANNESBURG, 9 July 2012 (IRIN) - As a gay man living in Tanzania,
Cassim Mustapha could have faced imprisonment, but prosecutions under
the country's Sexual Offences Act are rare, and the bigger threat came
from his own community. After one of his neighbours attacked him with
an axe leaving a deep wound in his head, Mustapha fled and applied for
asylum in Malawi, the first country he reached.
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SECURITY: Ammunition - the next round in arms trade control
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JOHANNESBURG, 9 July 2012 (IRIN) - For a couple of hundred dollars or
less an arms dealer can illegally source a blank end user certificate
with the required signatures and stamps - needed to transfer weapons
across international borders - and "if no one checks its authenticity
(often the case) he can ship his wares to the world's hotspots with
minimal risk, for maximum profit," a report by the Small Arms Survey
(SAS) said in 2008.
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MIGRATION: Human smugglers profit as tragedies multiply
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JOHANNESBURG, 11 July 2012 (IRIN) - When Abdo Giro*, a 55-year-old
evangelist minister and political dissident from southern Ethiopia,
paid smugglers 55,000 birr (US$3,095) to take him from the Kenyan
border town of Moyale to Johannesburg in South Africa, he was
completely unprepared for the ordeal that lay ahead.
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FOOD: Another crisis coming?
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JOHANNESBURG, 12 July 2012 (IRIN) - In the Russian summer of 2010, the
worst drought recorded in 38 years destroyed its wheat crops, sending
the world into another food-price crisis, dumping millions into hunger
and inflating food import bills in poor countries. Two years later, the
world is experiencing the consequences of another eventful northern
summer.
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HEALTH: Family planning summit focuses on mother and child survival
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LONDON, 13 July 2012 (IRIN) - By focusing on health and mother and
child survival, and sidestepping some of the more contentious issues,
the 11 July London Summit on Family Planning led to financial pledges
of an extra US$4.6 billion for family planning services in developing
countries over the next eight years.
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