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- South Sudan and DFID officials pose with pupils at the launch of the textbooks, October 22, 2012 (ST)
- Monday 13 May 2013
May 11, 2013 (YEI/JUBA) – The British government, through its Department for International Development (DFID), has donated 200 primary school textbooks and teacher guides to Yei Teacher Training College (YTTC).
The books, DIFID said in (...)
- Friday 22 March 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 21, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - An independent panel has urged an investigation into complaints by Ethiopians that the World Bank is funding a programme that has forced tens of thousands of people off their land. (...)
- Wednesday 20 March 2013
March 19, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s Health Ministry, Malaria Consortium and other international partners have signed the Malaria programme review, renewing their commitment to fight the disease. South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar (...)
- Tuesday 5 March 2013
March 4, 2013 (JUBA) – A lawyer representing 39 businessmen whose shops and hotels at South Sudan’s border town of Nimule could be demolished following a ministerial order has challenged the legality of the process. A vast land at (...)
- Saturday 9 March 2013
March 7, 2013 (BENTIU) - South Sudan’s new syllabus is being introduced to teachers in Unity state this week through a workshop organised by Charles Kendall Consulting, a British business our are distributing the country’s new text (...)
- Sunday 6 March 2011
By Toby Collins
March 5, 2011 (LONDON) – In a major shakeup of Britain’s aid policy, London announced a new set of programmes in north and South Sudan, focusing on providing clean water; women’s education and justice; health programmes (...)
- Friday 26 October 2012
October 25, 2012 (JUBA) - The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DIFID) has unveiled nearly 10 million textbooks worth about US $16m, to boost primary school education in the world’s newest nation. South Sudan and (...)
- Wednesday 27 March 2013
March 25, 2013 (BOR/JUBA) – A caravan stands next to a tent. On it was a phrase, “Bye Bye Guns – I don’t need you any more”, signifying the start of an anti-small arms campaign in South Sudan’s largest state. Balázs Horváth, UNDP Country (...)
- Sunday 13 January 2013
January 12, 2013 (LONDON) - An exiled independent advocacy group, Resolve Ogaden Coalition (ROC), on Saturday urged the British government to refrain from sending money to train Ethiopian paramilitaries that are widely accused of human (...)
- Monday 23 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
July 22, 2012 (OWINYKIBUL) - The country representative for the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) on Friday urged parents in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State (EES) to send more children to school and improve (...)
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