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- Friday 22 February 2013
February 21, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - There has been improved humanitarian access during the past week to displaced people in North Darfur’s conflict-affected Jebel Amir area, according to the United Nations’ humanitarian affairs body. Women (...)
- Friday 6 July 2012
Oxfam
One year on, South Sudan falters under failing economy
Skyrocketing fuel and food prices deepening humanitarian response as country teeters on economic meltdown
Friday 6 July
One year after South Sudan’s independence on July (...)
- Monday 9 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
July 8, 2012 (JUBA) - A year after it attained independence, the new Republic of South Sudan is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the end of the war in 2005, under the weight of severe economic meltdown and (...)
- Thursday 3 May 2012
May 2, 2012 (JUBA) - Water shortages and disease are affecting tens of thousands of refugees in South Sudan’s Jamam camp in Upper Nile state and they need to be moved to a new site, according to Oxfam. Refugee in Jamam camp, South Sudan (...)
- Wednesday 28 January 2009
By Tesfa-alem Tekle
January 27, 2009 (NAIROBI) — An estimated 17 million people are in need of emergency food assistance and over 25 million are food insecure in the Horn, East and Central Africa regions, Oxfam said on Monday.
Oxfam’s (...)
- Saturday 22 September 2012
Oxfam: New sites for South Sudan refugee camps must be found, as Blue Nile conflict enters second year Refugees survived “year of hell” – now at risk of disease
September 21, 2012
Camps sheltering more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees in (...)
- Friday 3 May 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
May 2, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – A new report released on Thursday revealed that 258,000 people died in Somalia during a severe famine that hit the East African nation between 2010 and 2012. A Somalian child eats gruel (...)
- Saturday 20 October 2007
October 19, 2007 (LISBON) — Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir should be barred from attending a December summit of European and African leaders, leading human rights groups said Friday. Omar al-Bashir
Bashir’s presence at the Lisbon (...)
- Friday 25 July 2008
By Tesfa-alem Tekle
July 24, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) — More than 14 million people in the east Africa region require urgent food aid due to drought and spiralling cereal and fuel prices, aid agencies say.
In an emergency appeal launched (...)
- Friday 15 February 2013
February 14, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Tens of thousands of people who have fled fighting in the largest displacement in Darfur in recent years face a severe shortage of clean water and sanitation services, Oxfam warned Thursday.
In a press (...)
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National unity: a project for each and every South Sudanese 2013-05-21 14:23:01 By Jacob K. Lupai May 21, 2013 - South Sudan has just attained independence from an imposed unity that had failed miserably to take into account the objective realities on the ground. In the old (...)
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