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WFP Airdrops Food Into Southern Sudan To Feed Thousands Of People
JUBA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has commenced air drops of food assistance into Southern Sudan to feed 155,600 people cut off from road access during current rains in areas hit by conflict, high food prices...
Bishop Warns War Could Return As Secession Vote Nears
Khartoum — A Sudanese bishop has warned that the country could return to war, with tensions apparently increasing. "Something is in the air," he said, noting reports that military groups are arming themselves in the run-up to...
Sudanese Military Mobilizes [2009-10-22]
Bishop Asks, Will 2011 Bring Peace? Bishop Macram Gassis stated this to Aid to the Church in Need, the agency reported today. He reported that both the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army, a rebel movement, and the military in...
Sudan: Bishop Disputes UN Army Chief Claim War is Over
Khartoum — A Catholic bishop in the heart of Darfur, theatre of a bloody 6-year conflict, has disputed a recent claim by a senior UN military official that the war has all but ended. Bishop Antonio Menegazzo, Apostolic...
AFRICA/SUDAN - “We cannot say that the war in Darfur has ended,” says Apostolic Administrator ...
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – There has been great surprise and hesitation in response to declarations made by General Martin Luther Agwai, outgoing commander of the United Nations-African Union peace-keeping force in Darfur...
Water Arrives In Sudan’s Drought Belt
For years, residents of central Sudan’s desolate North Kordofan state spent precious time and money to obtain water. No longer – thanks to a massive reservoir, built as a World Food Programme food-for-work project.
HOW TO: Do a food airdrop
NAIROBI, 30 July 2009 (IRIN) - The humanitarian cavalry is the food airdrop: when you need to shift serious tonnage in a hurry to somewhere inaccessible, nothing quite does it like a large cargo plane and skilled pilot and crew.
EUROPE/ITALY - Darfur and southern Sudan: Caritas Internationalis forum on the dramatic crisis
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Figures in Darfur and southern Sudan are dramatic: decades of civil war, nine out of ten people living on less than a dollar a day, 300,000 people killed, 2.7 uprooted from their homes, 290.000 more...
Sudanese Women Get Second Shot At Literacy
Many girls in rural Sudan fail to get far with their education because they marry early or their parents need them to help put food on the table at home. In the north Kordofan state, WFP is helping 55 women to make up for lost...
Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin No. 16 and 17, 30 Apr 2009
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Key overall developments - In order to continue feeding all beneficiaries previously under the expelled NGOs' care beyond June, the World Food...
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