Reports

Nakfa, 04 June 2014 – The Agriculture Ministry’s branch in Nakfa sub-zone, Northern Red Sea region, indicated that construction of a total of 8 water reservoirs is underway with a view to meeting the water demand…

Highlights • A cholera outbreak was declared in Juba on 15 May, with over 1,200 suspected cases and 29 related deaths reported by 2 June. • Hunger and access to food continued to worsen,…

OTASH CAMP (4 Jun.) - Thousands of the displaced inhabitants of Otash camp in Nyala, face a bleak humanitarian and health situation as no food rations have been received. Those affected include the newly displaced, as well…

SENNAR STATE (4 Jun.) - Brigadier Yousif Ahmed Yousif Aboroaf, MP for the Rufaa tribe has accused the Governor of Sudan’s Sennar State, Ahmed Abbas of seizing SDG 5 million ($878,000) allocated for the resettlement of…

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…