Reports

3 September 2014 - South Sudan’s National Legislative Assembly today ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The convention, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979, defines what…

5 September 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the initiative of holding a comprehensive national dialogue in Sudan to achieve sustainable peace as well as the progress being made by Sudanese stakeholders to prepare for…

HIGHLIGHTS Relief agencies focus on drainage improvements to address flooding at the UNMISS protection of civilians (PoC) site in Bentiu town, Unity State Food and nutrition assistance mitigate food insecurity in some areas; concerns for risk of deteriorating…

Highlights Following the ongoing Ebola outbreaks in West Africa and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, partners have stepped up preparedness plans in the event that the disease is reported in South Sudan.  The number of cholera…

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have asked for the case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to be adjourned indefinitely. Read the full story

Conflict Trends September 2014 In the September 2014 edition of ACLED’s Conflict Trends report, CCAPS researchers Clionadh Raleigh and Caitriona Dowd report on the decrease in violence in some areas of Africa, and the steady increases in…

La Coopération monégasque poursuit son partenariat avec la FVS-AMADE Burundi pour la construction d’une école secondaire de référence au profit de 460 élèves, dont 30% d’orphelins et enfants vulnérables. La Coopération Internationale, la FVS-AMADE Burundi, l’AMADE Mondiale…

Ongoing debate over water resource management and land degradation suggests a need for efficient sustainable land management mechanisms to improve agricultural output in the Blue Nile basin in Ethiopia. Numerous econometric and hydrological models have been…

Although theory predicts that better property rights to land can increase land productivity through tenure security effects (investment effects) and through more efficient input use due to enhanced tradability of the land (factor intensity effect), empirical…

What has been the recent performance of the agricultural sector in Mozambique and the progress made thus far toward achieving the objectives established under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) initiative for Mozambique that began…