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1. HEALTH: Sharing "open innovation" risks and rewards
2. GLOBAL: New ICC prosecutor vows to focus on victims
3. KENYA: Dadaab fire highlights emergency preparedness gap
4. WATER: Prepare to face shocks
5. REFUGEES: Resettlement still a last resort
6. UGANDA: New disarmament effort seeks community involvement
7. CLIMATE CHANGE: Deciphering a green economy
8. UGANDA: Containment worries as Ebola numbers rise
9. SOUTH SUDAN: Preparing for Ebola - or not
10. TANZANIA: Popular herbal cure-all "ineffective"
11. UGANDA: Scientists still in the dark about nodding syndrome
12. SOUTH SUDAN: He once ran for his life; now he's running for gold
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HEALTH: Sharing "open innovation" risks and rewards
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LONDON, 30 July 2012 (IRIN) - A growing trend in collaborative health
research is creating potentially life-saving global partnerships
between pharmaceutical companies, academic researchers, disease
advocates, and even the general public, who are drawn into the world of
science through "crowd-sourcing".
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GLOBAL: New ICC prosecutor vows to focus on victims
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LONDON, 30 July 2012 (IRIN) - That a war crimes court should focus on
the victims of war crimes sounds like a simple concept. But many of
those living in the African communities where most of the atrocities
being prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) took place,
have long complained they have been forgotten by this controversial and
costly institution based thousands of miles away.
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KENYA: Dadaab fire highlights emergency preparedness gap
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DAADAB, 31 July 2012 (IRIN) - Large quantities of foodstuffs and other
goods were destroyed by a fire on 29 July at the main market in one of
the camps making up Dadaab refugee complex in eastern Kenya.
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WATER: Prepare to face shocks
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LONDON, 1 August 2012 (IRIN) - Is the world ready to face water shocks?
For water shocks are certainly coming; water shocks, in fact, are
already here.
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REFUGEES: Resettlement still a last resort
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 August 2012 (IRIN) - After five years of hoping and
waiting, Marie*, her husband Simeon* and their three children, refugees
from the Democratic Republic of Congo, finally received a phone call
telling them to pack their bags; they would be leaving South Africa for
Australia at the end of the month.
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UGANDA: New disarmament effort seeks community involvement
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GULU, 1 August 2012 (IRIN) - The Ugandan government is making a fresh
attempt to rid the northern region of illegally held arms, after an
ultimatum to surrender such weapons was widely ignored earlier in 2012.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Deciphering a green economy
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JOHANNESBURG, 2 August 2012 (IRIN) - Two consecutive power outages
affecting at least 600 million people spelt out India's energy crisis
as August began. Caused in part by a coal shortage and in part by poor
rains, the lack of power makes a strong case for an urgent global need
to consider alternative sources of electricity.
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UGANDA: Containment worries as Ebola numbers rise
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KAMPALA, 2 August 2012 (IRIN) - Health officials in Uganda's western
Kibaale District are struggling to deal with an outbreak of Ebola, as
the number of suspected cases stretches local health systems.
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SOUTH SUDAN: Preparing for Ebola - or not
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JUBA, 2 August 2012 (IRIN) - South Sudan is worried about the spread of
Ebola, an incurable disease which has killed 16 people in neighbouring
Uganda over the past few days.
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TANZANIA: Popular herbal cure-all "ineffective"
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DAR ES SALAAM, 2 August 2012 (PlusNews) - A widely used concoction
administered by Tanzanian herbalist Ambilikile Mwasapile is
ineffective, the country's health minister, Hussein Mwinyi, has said.
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UGANDA: Scientists still in the dark about nodding syndrome
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KAMPALA, 2 August 2012 (IRIN) - A four-day international scientific
meeting in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, highlighted the many unknowns
of so-called "nodding disease" or "nodding syndrome", which has
affected more than 3,000 people in the north of the country, with
patients suffering from involuntary nodding, neurological deterioration
and, in many cases, death.
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SOUTH SUDAN: He once ran for his life; now he's running for gold
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LONDON, 3 August 2012 (IRIN) - They call Guor Marial an athlete without
a country, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
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