Reports

UM RAI (21 Apr.) - A North Darfur youth and a boy were critically injured on Monday after a grenade they found at the roadside detonated. Idriss Nile Salahuddin (20) had his hand blown off, and…

BENTIU (21 Apr.) - Sources from South Sudan have reported the death toll in the Bentiu massacre on Monday and Tuesday of last week has now risen to 406. Abakar Abdulah, who has traded in the region…

Porto Amboim - The Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, is working since Wednesday in Cuanza Sul province, to assess the implementation of structuring projects of fighting and mitigating drought in that region of…

I. INTRODUCTION The present report is submitted pursuant to paragraph 14 of Security Council resolution 2113 (2013), by which the Council requested me to report every 90 days on the implementation of the mandate of the African…

By November 2013, with 1.8 million people in need of food aid, Malawi’s humanitarian community faced a dilemma. Read the full story on OCHA

Most analyses of violence in Darfur ignore the local dimension of the crisis, focusing instead on the region’s economic and political marginalization and climatic variability. However, agricultural change and other changes relating to the land-rights and…

21 April 2014 – Opposition forces in South Sudan killed “hundreds of South Sudanese and foreign civilians” after determining their ethnicity or nationality when they captured Bentiu last week, the United Nations confirmed today, calling for…

Key Events Assessment results in Boricha and Dale woredas of SNNPR suggest that the under-estimation of relief food beneficiaries and the absence/delay in Targeted Supplementary Feeding (TSF) interventions are likely parts of the reasons for the high…

Mogadishu, 21 April 2014 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, has condemned the murder of Isaak Mohamed Rino, a Member of the country’s Federal Parliament. Following the attack the…

UNMISS strongly condemns the targeted killings of civilians based on their ethnic origins and nationality in Bentiu. UNMISS also strongly condemns the use of Radio Bentiu FM by some individuals associated with the opposition to broadcast…