Protección de los refugiados sudaneses de Darfur

I call on all concerned to ensure full respect for humanitarian principles and to allow aid organizations to work in peace. The armed opposition groups in Darfur have a clear obligation

Overall yield prospects are good in Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali and Senegal where outputs of +7% to +12% above the 5 yr average are anticipated. However there are local differences within these countries. In Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo, the overall yield prospects are also positive with an estimated surplus of about +4% relative to the 5 yr mean. In Sudan and Sierra Leone crop yield prospects are close to average (=B10%), but somewhat less (1- 3%) than 2007 yields.

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KHARTOUM, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Darfur rebels on Friday criticized a U.N. Security Council resolution linking a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force to African concerns at a move to indict Sudan's president for war crimes.

But the rebels said it was no victory for Khartoum and urged the world body to support the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which last month sought an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the remote west.

"They should not have linked the

Kenya, Burundi and Sudan face considerably reduced yields of respectively -8%, -5% and -5% relative to the 5 yr average. In Sudan particularly the central east-west zone is affected, including Darfur. In the regions south of Lake Victoria, large yield decreases (-20%) are expected in the east of Burundi and the north of Tanzania. Low yields in the north of Tanzania are compensated by high yields in the centre of the country, and therefore at national level the outputs may be close to average (-1%). In Rwanda a moderate decrease of -3% is foreseen. Yields

BACKGROUND

In 2008, Sudan continues to cope with the effects of conflict, displacement, and insecurity countrywide. Since 2003, a complex emergency in Sudan's western region of Darfur has affected nearly 4.3 million people, including more than 2.4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs). In Darfur, fighting among armed opposition factions, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), militias, and ethnic groups is ongoing. According to the U.N., the clashes have displaced nearly 200,000 people within Darfur

Former Waikato University student Michael Carter has recently returned home to Raglan following a 12 month deployment with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Zalingei where he was based in the Darfur region of Sudan.

As a specialist water and sanitation aid worker, Mr Carter was primarily responsible for the maintenance and

New York - Marking the one year anniversary of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1769 - which authorized deployment of the Darfur peacekeeping mission -a new report sets out for the first time which countries have the critically-lacking helicopters needed to protect civilians in Darfur.

The report, titled 'Grounded: the International Community's Betrayal of UNAMID' carries a foreword by the group of Elders

Highlights and Major Findings

- The Central and East African (CEA) region total Consolidated Appeals were only 46% funded by Mid-Year Review;

- Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) prioritization advances were made; and

- The Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) responded to the effects of rising food prices in the region.

I. CAP MID-YEAR REVIEW IN THE CEA