Reports

Experts and policy-makers meet to share key findings from Ugandan and Indian national planning and food security study Nairobi, 15 July 2014 - A shift in agricultural policy to encourage crop diversification and use of new water…

July 15, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government is stepping up its efforts to meet pledges made by president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir to end tribal conflicts in the country by the end of the year. A reconciliation…

By GALGALO BOCHA In Summary The leaders resolved to work together to preach peace among locals and restore calm in the county. County Commissioner Njenga Miiri and Lamu Governor Issa Timamy addressed a press conference after the meeting. Lamu Senator…

Tatenda Gumbo 15.07.2014 20:19 WASHINGTON —Zimbabwe is among 15 countries in Africa that will soon be able to test infants for HIV in just 60-minutes. The test, called Alere q HIV ½ Detect assay, which has proved effective in…

Philip Aleu Last updated on: July 15, 2014 6:28 PM JUBA —U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, Anne Richard, on Tuesday called the violence in South Sudan a tragic chapter in the country's short…

Highlights • To date, 606,230 children under five years old have been screened for malnutrition, of which 41,677 (6.9%) were suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and 78,565 (13%) from moderate acute malnutrition (MAM). Twice as many…

Highlights ► Essential Package of Health Services launched to provide free health services in nine regions of Somalia ► Measles outbreak spreading in Somalia; cases quadrupled in March and April ► High level meeting held in Kampala to strengthen…

Situation Update A total of 4,418 cholera cases including 100 deaths (CFR 2.3%) had been reported in South Sudan as of 16 July 2014 as summarized in Tables 1, 2 and 3.

4 July 2014 - In an urgent effort to prevent cholera from spreading within the UNMISS Malakal Protection of Civilians (PoC) site and surrounding areas, the mission today began draining stagnant water in the camp. Ongoing, heavy…

KALMA CAMP (15 Jul.) - More than 70 people have died in less than a month the Kalma camp for the displaced in Nyala locality, South Darfur, owing to the bad humanitarian situation in the camp,…