A Selection of News Headlines (16/10/08)

Zimbabwe foes 'near cabinet deal' (BBC News) - [text online]

Afghan aid blunders 'waste millions' (The Independent) - [text online]

World Focus: Russian delegation arrives late for testy talks with Georgia (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : The Humanitarian Monitor Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 29, Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 27 Sep - 10 Oct 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Ethiopia: UN and Govt revise financial requirements for humanitarian aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Philippines: Full-scale humanitarian crisis feared in troubled Mindanao (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report: 01 - 30 Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Engaging with the 'other' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Congolese refugees in Zambia keen to hear about conditions back home (UNHCR) - [text online]

Kenya: Promptly Establish Special Tribunal (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Progress made by Pinochet arrest ten years ago is under threat (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Unauthorized Immigration Declining, But Experts Disagree on Why (Migration Information Source) - [text online]

Asylum Update - 15 October 2008 (ICAR) - [text online]

Darfur: UN police conduct night patrols at displaced persons’ camp (UN News) - [text online]

UN chief in Sudan spotlights achievements and UN role since end of civil war (UN News) - [text online]

Conflict in eastern DR Congo will not be resolved by force alone – UN envoy (UN News) - [text online]

Haiti in desperate need of investment and contributions, warns top UN official (UN News) - [text online]

Ethiopia: UN appeals for aid as number of drought victims keeps growing (UN News) - [text online]

UN mission monitoring Ethiopia-Eritrea border nearing close (UN News) - [text online]

Africa’s partners must not renege on development support – Assembly chief (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: A day in the life of hyperinflation (IRIN News) - [text online]

GUINEA-BISSAU-SENEGAL: Child trafficking on the decline say local authorities (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA-SOUTH AFRICA: Mahad Omar Abdi: "I cannot go back to Somalia" (IRIN News) - [text online]

EGYPT: Long road to resettlement for disabled Iraqi refugees (IRIN News) - [text online]

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