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Friday 28 November 2014

HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 757 28 November 2014

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Peak youth - seizing the moment

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LONDON, 25 November 2014 (IRIN) - We have accepted the concept "peak oil" - the point where oil production goes into an irreversible decline. Now we are being asked to contemplate that we are also rapidly approaching "peak youth", when there will be more young people than ever before in the history of the planet, and when young people as a proportion of the population will reach a maximum, before starting to drop.
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IRIN's top reads this week

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DUBAI, 27 November 2014 (IRIN) - Want to know what those in the humanitarian community reading? Each week we present our five must reads from the development world.
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Terrorism hits education, health in Kenya's marginalized Mandera

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NAIROBI, 28 November 2014 (IRIN) - People in northern Kenya's marginalized Mandera County face a devastating loss of basic services as teachers, healthcare workers and other state employees face calls to leave in the wake of a terrorist attack which claimed 28 bus passengers.
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