Speaking at the 7th meeting of the Technical committee on Early Warning and Response here on Monday Ethiopian Special Envoy to IGAD ambassador Brook Debebe said the institutional capacity of CEWARN has been strengthening in handling conflict management.

Clashes among pastoralist communities mostly occur because of natural resources mainly pasture and water, he

That's the message of the Episcopal Church of Sudan in a statement issued yesterday that is both sober and urgent in tone.

The comprehensive peace agreement that brought and end to decades of civil war in 2005 is on the brink of collapse due to arguments over the law governing the referendum scheduled for 2011 (when the South will vote on whether to secede from the North) and over

I'm going to quickly say something about Uganda and Sudan. Uganda was more post-conflict situation, de facto post-conflict starting in 2006 with the start of the Juba peace talks and, effectively, the LRA raids in Northern Uganda and Eastern Uganda stopped. I'm not saying that it's a complete blanket statement. By and large, they stopped, and the IDP camps, which have ranged from between 1.5 and 2 million Acholi, primarily, in Uganda, started to -- I don't know where they got the word: "decongest;" it's probably a formal term for somebody that I

Some 70 humanitarian organizations in eastern Chad are assisting 256,700 Sudanese refugees from the strife-torn Darfur conflict, 168,000 Chadian IDPs and around 150,000 people in host villages, and several have temporarily suspended or reduced their activities due to the insecurity in the Assoungha and the Dar Sila areas.

Près de 70 organisations humanitaires portent au secours à 256.700 réfugiés soudanais victimes du conflit au Darfour et à 168.000 personnes déplacées qui vivent dans des conditions extrêmement précaires aggravées par la sécheresse et la famine qui sévit dans l'est du pays.

L'OCHA rappelle que récemment un employé

Sudan Tribune quoted Mr. Hussein Abu Sharati, presented as a spokesperson of Darfur IDPs and Refugees, as saying

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In its resolution 2009/20, the Economic and Social Council requested the Secretary-General to submit a report on the social dimensions of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), to be presented for consideration during the forty-eighth session of the Commission for Social Development, while also taking into consideration

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