A Selection of News Stories (27/11/08)

UK 'should shift security agenda' (BBC News) - [text online]

Cholera Zimbabwe's 'worst crisis' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN approval for EU Kosovo mission (BBC News) - [text online]

Iraq delays vote on US withdrawal (BBC News) - [text online]

More aid reaches blockaded Gaza (BBC News) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: 'Nobody supports the Taliban, but people hate the government' (The Independent) - [text online]

Zimbabwe borders 'must close' (The Independent) - [text online]

Israel goes to war over Hebron's 'House of Peace' (The Indepependent) - [text online]

Iraq delays vote on US deal (The Independent) - [text online]

Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis likely to worsen, warns senior UN relief official (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Recent events in Kivus had 'profound impact' on UN Mission (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Georgia: Security, return of IDP among severe challenges - ICG (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Bosnian Researcher Counts War Dead, And Faces Threats For His Methods (Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of Congo: Focus on North Kivu Province: IDPs on the move face grave human rights violence (IDMC) - [Full Overview (html/pdf)]

Displaced children in the Central African Republic need better protection and assistance as insecurity continues (IDMC) - [Full text of the press release and View the report]

Boris Johnson defends illegal immigrant amnesty proposal (The Guardian) - [text online]

Boost for the reintegration of Mauritanian returnees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Theatre raises health awareness and strengthens bonds in Rio (UNHCR) - [text online]

Guterres visits Iraq's Anbar Province, announces opening of new UNHCR office (UNHCR) - [text online]

Victims of armed conflict face increased vulnerability in 2009 (ICRC) - [text online]

TV News Footage - ICRC Emergency Appeal 2009: war, drought, world economic crisis – a deadly mix (ICRC) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: civilians continue to suffer (ICRC) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: renewed mass displacements (ICRC) - [text online]

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Mahamat Oumar Ismael, "Go back to Darfur? Not even in my dreams" (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN’s Kosovo mission reorients field presence to non-Albanian ethnic communities (UN News) - [text online]

Extra blue helmets will aid political efforts to bring peace to DR Congo – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Ban hails Sudan’s election body as major progress in north-south peace accord (UN News) - [text online]

MAURITANIA: Thousands of returnees await legal status (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Great expectations as numbers of Southern returnees on the rise (IRIN News) - [text online]

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