Informes

WINDHOEK – Namibia has one of the highest rates of Gender Based Violence (GVB) in the entire Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, according to the head of the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) Commissioner Nicholas Endjala. Eleven…

By DENNIS ODUNGA Senate Agriculture Committee has turned its attention to Baringo County and other regions affected by severe food shortage. The team wants to know what leaders in those regions are doing to save residents from hunger…

Minister of Local Government and Housing, Hon. Emmanuel Chenda, MP recently commissioned the K5 million Pemba Water Supply Project which was wholly funded by the Government through the Ministry. Hon. Chenda said the scope…

4 June 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged South Sudanese President Salva Kiir to meet with former Vice-President Riek Machar on Monday, as agreed to in the 9 May document that aimed to end the…

Background On 15 May 2014, the Ministry of Health declared a cholera outbreak in Juba. Since then cases have been reported and laboratory confirmed from different suburbs in Juba and other states in South Sudan. Situation Update Table 1…

This publication highlights the progress of the Gender and Sexuality Programme of the Refugee Law Project for the last 6 months (September 2013 – April 2014). It brings to front key issues that the Refugee Law…

Mr. President, Thank you very much for the opportunity to brief the Council on the humanitarian situation in Somalia. Since the establishment of the Federal Government of Somalia in 2012, optimism over the expected progress in state and…

June 4, 2014—Slowly roasting in the heat of the mid-day sun, residents of El Saharig in East Darfur State line up just outside the local water yard with their donkey carts, horse carts, camels, and on…

The former rebels of the RENAMO (Mozambican National Resistance) claimed attacks conducted this morning in the central Sofala region, reports the national AIM news agency. Based on a reconstruction, the ambushes took place near the Gorongosa National…

NATONGA, Zambia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Barotse floodplain in western Zambia stretches into the distance, dark swamp grasses framing ripples glittering in the light of the setting sun. For half of the year this vast…