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Fwd: WEST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 766 5 December 2014




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Boko Haram hits north Cameroon schools

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YAOUNDE, 1 December 2014 (IRIN) - Nearly 70 schools in Cameroon's Far North Region have been forced to close, are damaged, or operate intermittently as a result of the recurrent cross-border raids by Nigerian Boko Haram insurgents, officials say.
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Locking Ebola out of Sierra Leone jails

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DAKAR, 1 December 2014 (IRIN) - It is next to impossible to avoid physical contact in an overcrowded prison. In Sierra Leone, heavily congested jails and a worsening Ebola outbreak make a potentially lethal combination. So how do you keep inmates safe?
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Ebola: Where next and how bad?

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LONDON, 1 December 2014 (IRIN) - In the past few months huge amounts of time and energy have been spent trying to second-guess the progress of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Where will the next hotspot be? Is the outbreak still exploding or is it starting to burn itself out? And how many beds will be needed next week, next month or next year?
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Cash transfers: Good for people, bad for the community?

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DAKAR, 2 December 2014 (IRIN) - Some 24 million people around the world now receive money instead of food or goods from humanitarian and development agencies.
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IRIN's top reads this week

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DUBAI, 4 December 2014 (IRIN) - Do you want to stay on top of the current debate around humanitarian and development issues without having to trawl the web? Welcome to our reading list pulling together our correspondents' top picks of must-read research, reports and in-depth articles.
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Male Ebola survivors asked to abstain from sex

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MONROVIA/DAKAR, 5 December 2014 (IRIN) - Male Ebola survivors in Liberia are being warned by local health authorities to abstain from sex for at least three months after being discharged from treatment centres, over fears the virus can still be passed on, even once the person has been given a clean bill of health.
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