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SUDAN: Peace deal in "critical phase" as donors meet |
JUBA Tuesday, May 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Sudanese officials and representatives of donor nations opened a major conference in Norway on 5 May, amid warnings that the provisions of a three-year-old peace accord had fallen dangerously behind schedule.
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SUDAN: Bombings in Darfur cast doubt on resolving crisis |
KHARTOUM Tuesday, May 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Days after the UN and African Union condemned as unacceptable the bombings of villages and markets in Darfur by Sudanese government planes, at least 13 people were reported killed in an attack on a primary school and market in North Darfur state.
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SUDAN: Of rats, stars and climate change |
EL OBIED Tuesday, May 06, 2008 (IRIN) - The days are hot and long in Sudan's arid Northern Kordofan State, between North Darfur and Khartoum, where the farmers say droughts have become more intense and frequent in the past few decades as they sip hot chai in Gereigikh village, about 100km northeast of the state capital, El Obied.
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GLOBAL: Canada to provide cash, not commodities in switch of food aid policy |
JOHANNESBURG Monday, May 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Canada is the latest major donor country to break the link between overseas food aid and supporting its own farmers.
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SUDAN: Water, water everywhere ? but it?s not fit to drink |
MALAKAL Wednesday, April 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Malakal, on the banks of the world?s longest river in Sudan?s Upper Nile State, should have enough water to quench thirst and clean itself; instead the town was grappling with serious challenges as it marked the international week of sanitation in March.
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SUDAN: Census headaches |
JUBA Tuesday, April 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Almost halfway into Sudan?s crucial national census, security problems, lingering mistrust between Northern and Southern authorities, logistics and heavy rain continue to beset the exercise across states in the South.
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SUDAN: ?I have a mine in my living-room, what should I do?? |
MALAKAL Monday, April 28, 2008 (IRIN) - Dengershufu in Malakal, capital of the Sudanese state of Upper Nile, looks like any low-income suburb of a post-conflict Southern town, with roadside stalls selling dry fish from the nearby River Nile and children playing around in the dust. The difference on 24 April was the demining team. ?That is part of a minefield that encircles Malakal town,? Fani Chikudu, site manager for MineTech, said, pointing to an area 100m from several homesteads.
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SUDAN: Slow start to census |
MALAKAL Thursday, April 24, 2008 (IRIN) - After living in Ethiopia for 14 years, Reak Chuol recently returned to his native Southern Sudan, keen to take part in a population census whose findings will influence the status of the region. But despite assurances by organisers that all was going well, many people in Upper Nile experienced delays before taking part in Sudan?s fifth census, which began on 22 April.
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SUDAN: Darfur food rations cut, Ban decries rising insecurity |
NAIROBI Thursday, April 17, 2008 (IRIN) - Banditry in Darfur has prevented the delivery of sufficient food stocks to the western Sudanese region, thereby forcing the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to reduce monthly rations, the agency said.
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SUDAN: The art of HIV education in the south |
JUBA Thursday, April 17, 2008 (IRIN) - In a tiny recording studio in the southern Sudanese capital, Juba, Patrick Taban's phone rings off the hook, but he pays it no attention - he's too wrapped up in his preparations for a big production later that evening.
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