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Table of contents 1. Peak youth - seizing the moment 2. Northeast Nigeria: "Hundreds of thousands have fled" 3. Terrorism hits education, health in Kenya's marginalized Mandera 4. Boko Haram hits north Cameroon schools 5. Locking Ebola out of Sierra Leone jails 6. Ebola: Where next and how bad? 7. Cash transfers: Good for people, bad for the community? 8. Press 4 for fertilizer - M-farming in Ethiopia Peak youth - seizing the moment 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. Read report online Northeast Nigeria: "Hundreds of thousands have fled" DAKAR, 28 November 2014 (IRIN) - More than 400,000 people in northeastern Nigeria, who have been forced to flee their homes due to ongoing violence by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, are in "urgent need" of assistance, humanitarian agencies say. This number is likely to increase as attacks against civilians escalate. Read report online Terrorism hits education, health in Kenya's marginalized Mandera 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. Read report online Boko Haram hits north Cameroon schools 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. Read report online Locking Ebola out of Sierra Leone jails 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? Read report online Ebola: Where next and how bad? 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? Read report online Cash transfers: Good for people, bad for the community? 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. Read report online Press 4 for fertilizer - M-farming in Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA, 3 December 2014 (IRIN) - A new mobile phone hotline is giving Ethiopian farmers instant access to vital information and practical advice to help improve their yields and prepare for bad weather as well as potential disease and pest outbreaks. Read report online

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[AfricaRealities] ICC judges tell prosecutors to strengthen or drop Kenyatta case

 

ICC judges tell prosecutors to strengthen or drop Kenyatta case

11:06am EST

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court on Wednesday gave prosecutors a week to decide whether to proceed with their case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for crimes against humanity or to withdraw the charges.

Prosecutors say Kenyatta, accused of orchestrating a wave of deadly violence after Kenya's 2007 elections, has used his political power to obstruct their investigation, especially since becoming president last year. They had asked for the case to be suspended until they had enough evidence to proceed.

The cases against Kenyatta and his Deputy President William Ruto are the highest-profile proceedings in the history of the court set up 11 years ago to try cases concerning grave international crimes that local courts cannot handle.

The court has finished only three cases, all involving little-known Congolese warlords, and has yet to show that it can hold the most powerful offenders to account.

Judges agreed that Kenya had not cooperated in "good faith" with the court, but decided against referring the matter to the body representing the court's 122 member states, saying a referral would not help bring about a fair trial.

Prosecutors did secure one small victory in that the court did not acquit Kenyatta of the charges, as his lawyers had requested. That means the charges could be brought again in future if more evidence becomes available.

Under the double jeopardy principle, an acquittal would have prevented prosecutors from ever again bringing charges related to Kenyatta's alleged involvement in the 2007-2008 violence, in which 1,200 were killed.

(Reporting by Thomas Escritt; Editing by Anthony Deutsch and Tom Heneghan)

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