The growing concern of the United Nations on the Gibe III dam, construction of the controversial, has led the UN to address a request for urgent information to Ethiopia.

The Commission for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has given time to Ethiopia until the end of January 2012 to demonstrate reliably that impact assessments have been carried out independent and tribal peoples in the region have been properly consulted.

Survival International has lodged a formal complaint information to various authorities for the statements "offensive and ridiculous" published by newspapers around the world about the disappearance of a German tourist was "eaten by cannibals."

In a letter addressed, among others, the supervisor of the British Press Complaints Commission and the Comisión de Quejas y de la Federation of Associations ethics Periodistas de España, Survival says that newspapers have described the natives of the South Pacific as "cannibals" are responsible for promoting "false and offensive the idea that tribal peoples are primitive and wild."

In one week, Medecins Sans Frontieres has treated patients 2 thousand

Port-Au-Prince/Roma - The cholera epidemic in Haiti is not over yet. A sudden increase in cases is recorded in these days in the capital and in other parts of the country.