Uganda
Lindsay Carter, Program Analyst, Foreign Agricultural Service | U.S. Department of Agriculture | USDA Blog Standing next to her healthy oxen, Grace Opono explains how new conservation techniques have doubled her maize yield over just two seasons.…
South Sudan
19 August 2014 - Media in South Sudan had a vital role to play in bringing peace back to the country, the Acting UNMISS State Coordinator said in the Warrap State capital Kuajok recently. Leda Liman was…
Kenya + 1 more
HIGHLIGHTS As at 20th August 2014, Kakuma had received 42,228 asylum seekers from South Sudan. This brings the total camp population to 177,670. Out of this figure, 171,807 had been registered by UNHCR and DRA as at…
South Sudan
Press Statement The African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan (AUCISS) has just completed its third fact mission, which began on 20 July 2014, on 14 August 2014. It will be recalled that the Chairperson of…
Sudan
EL SALAM CAMP Three displaced who were detained by government forces during a raid on El Salam camp for the displaced in South Darfur are still held in custody. “Eisa Mohamed Adam, Abdallah Ibrahim Mohamed, and Mohamed Yahya…
Kenya
By TOM MATOKE The National Government has been asked to resettle more than 3,000 families residing in landslide-prone areas on the Nandi Escarpment. The families have asked to be relocated to avoid disaster, after seeing boulders tumbling downhill…
Uganda
By Amy Fallon KAMPALA, Aug 18 2014 (IPS) - Barbara Kemigisa used to call herself an “HIV/AIDS campaigner”. These days she would rather be known as an “HIV/AIDS family planning campaigner”. “We need to reduce unplanned pregnancies and…
Zimbabwe
The government has officially closed Chingiwizi transit camp where at least 12 000 people affected by flooding along the Tokwe Mukosi dam basin have been staying since February amid reports that police have since declared the…
Zimbabwe
Blessing Zulu Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, is claiming mission accomplished in relocating more than 20,000 flood victims from Chingwizi holding camp to Nuanetsi Ranch. The minister is claiming that the relocated people…
South Sudan
The international community must show the same dedication as the local men and women who are the heroes of our operation The past eight months have been a dark time for South Sudan, and for the aid…
