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MIDDLE EAST: IRIN-ME Weekly round-up 117 for 9-15 March 2007
BBSNews 2007-03-15 - Listed below are IRIN stories carried from the Middle East between March 9th and March 15th.
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| Youss’ra Ahmed, 85, was left behind by her relatives when they fled their Baghdad home. She was found hungry and thirsty by neighbours, after two days of lying in a bed.
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For the image shown above in a larger size, see Youss’ra Ahmed, 85, was left behind by her relatives when they fled their Baghdad home. She was found hungry and thirsty by neighbours, after two days of lying in a bed.
More BBSNews images are available in BBSNews Photos. |
EGYPT: New laws to prevent bird flu spread: The Egyptian government is working on new legislation that will restrict the movement of live poultry as the country reported its 24th case of avian flu.
IRAQ: Child malnutrition - correction: IRIN wrongly attributed an estimate of 4.5 million undernourished Iraqi children to UNICEF in a recent report. IRIN regrets the error.
IRAQ: Elderly most vulnerable to insecurity: Elderly people in Iraq are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with daily life as the country's security conditions worsen, say specialists.
IRAQ: Kurdish women struggle to advance: Women in Iraq's Kurdistan are using the relative calm in their region to make slow progress towards equal status with men - but there is still a long way to go, according to activists
IRAQ: Children's education gravely affected by conflict: Eight-year-old Ahlaam al-Hasnawi and her three brothers, aged between seven and 13, should be at school but their widowed mother recently demanded they stay at home for fear that they might be killed on the streets of Baghdad or in school.
IRAQ: Fu'ad Ahmed, Iraq, "I have no job, no food, no home and no respect": Fu'ad Ahmed is a 47-year-old Palestinian father of two who has been living in Iraq for the past 18 years.
JORDAN: Honour killings still tolerated: Jordanian law continues to be lenient on those who kill their female relatives in the name of protecting family honour. Last year, between 15 and 20 women were stabbed, beaten or strangled to death by family members, sometimes women themselves.
LEBANON: Water supply is priority issue for the south: Water supply to hundreds of thousands of people across southern Lebanon remains the priority development issue, say officials, seven months after Israel's bombardment of the area severely damaged an already inadequate water and sanitation system.
YEMEN: Thousands displaced by rebel fighting: Thousands of residents of the northern province of Saada have been displaced from their homes following clashes between government troops and followers of the deceased Shia leader Hussein Badr Eddin al-Houthi.
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