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		<title>Improved water retention measures needed to thwart floods</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/465</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash floods that affected 418,000 people and left 23 dead and four missing this week in western Sri Lanka could have been avoided with proper water retention schemes, government irrigation engineers told IRIN.
Floods caused by the onset of the southwestern monsoon on 2 and 3 June affected more than 94,000 families in nine districts in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resettled IDPs rebuilding livelihoods</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/456</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 01:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs-Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN):
Tharmalingam Sudarshan, a farmer, returned to his home in Vavunathivu town, Batticaloa District, in eastern Sri Lanka in July 2007, having fled the area for three months due to conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and government forces. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Provincial elections could trigger widespread redevelopment</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/446</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 02:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After provincial elections in Sri Lanka&#8217;s Eastern region concluded on 10 May, some economic recovery and increased assistance from the humanitarian community is likely, according to UN and other officials. 
Much of the Eastern Province, which includes Batticaloa, Ampara and Trincomalee districts, was devastated by fighting in 2006-2007 between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armed group releases underage recruits</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/442</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 20:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Karuna faction, the Tamil Tiger breakaway group, which has been transforming itself from an armed military group into a political party, released 39 underage recruits in April 2008.
The group, officially known as the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP), released 28 children on 24 April after 11 were let go on 11 April.
The TMVP was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDPs continue to flee fighting in northwest</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/423</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intensified fighting in recent months in Sri Lanka&#8217;s restive northwestern Mannar District has forced more than 16,000 people to flee to safe areas within the region.
In light of this, A Nicholasspillai, the government agent for Mannar, told IRIN he had made contingency plans for up to 25,000 additional IDPs fleeing the clashes between government forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food insecurity a growing problem</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/408</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poor rice harvest, rising global food prices and the enduring conflict are increasing food insecurity for hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans, UN food experts have warned. 
Only half the country&#8217;s 20 million people are receiving the minimum daily calorie intake of 2,030, according to the latest poverty assessments compiled by the government. 
&#8220;An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International experts pull out but government backs human rights inquiry</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/401</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pull-out of an international expert group supervising a key human rights investigation has dented the credibility of the inquiry, said activists, but the government is confident the perpetrators will be brought to justice.
The International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), headed by former Indian chief justice P. N. Bhagwati, withdrew from its watchdog role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Variable rains and flooding impact on rice harvest</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/394</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changing rainfall patterns in Sri Lanka have prompted later paddy planting by farmers and affected the country&#8217;s overall rice yield, government officials said. 
Traditionally, rice farmers would begin planting in early October for the Maha harvest &#8211; the main growing season in the country. 
However, variable rainfall in that month over the past two decades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newly resettled IDPs dream of life without war</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/388</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last 18 years of Kanavathipillai Thangarasa&#8217;s life have been in constant flux. The 62-year-old man and his family have been displaced from their home on numerous occasions since 1990 by fighting in eastern Sri Lanka between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). 

[Children in front of the shelters they live [...]]]></description>
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