Reports

Illegal fishing practices, hazardous waste dumping, soil erosion, and the felling of mangrove and acacia trees for charcoal – these are all ongoing activities that are damaging Somalia’s coastline, which happens to be the longest in…

El Fasher, 13 June 2014 – An international contractor working at UNAMID, Mr. Irfan Jaffery, abducted in El Fasher, North Darfur, on 11 March, was freed yesterday in Kabkabiya, after 94 days in captivity. The contractor, a…

Situation Update As of 12 June 2014, a total of 1,628 cholera cases including 37 deaths (CFR 2.3%) had been reported. During this week, alerts of suspected cholera cases were received from Lanyi, Mundri East, Western Equatoria, Nimule…

Summary: On 15 December 2013, violent clashes erupted in neighbouring South Sudan which rapidly deteriorated into a full conflict spreading to the eastern states of South Sudan. The continuing insecurity in South Sudan has so far resulted…

The government of Rwanda and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has engaged efforts for joint interventions to curb gender-based violence in refugee camps. In order to achieve the above commitment, a process to establish…

**The arrival of the rains can be a warning of further disaster in South Sudan ** Ongoing fighting, road blocks and the arrival of the rains threatens to put tens of thousands of South Sudanese in danger…

MAPUTO, Mozambique (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Smallholder farmers in Mozambique are resisting experts’ efforts to get them to adopt hybrid varieties of maize, the main staple food, mainly because if the rains fail, hybrid maize crops…

Overview On 15 December 2014, violence broke out in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, and quickly spread to neighboring states. Six months later, over one million people are displaced within the country and over 300,000 have fled to neighboring…

Planning a state’s public spending on local infrastructure and basic services, and keeping reliable and transparent records of that expenditure, is crucial. These processes boost citizen confidence about the integrity of its public officials and good…

By CHRISTABEL LIGAMI Special Correspondent IN SUMMARY Despite progress in treatment scale-up, more than 50 per cent of HIV-infected adults and adolescents were unaware of their infection. Increase in the proportion of persons who are aware of their infection…