Bassole made his call in a New Year message sent to the Darfur Civil society representatives issued on December 29.

The mediation held a four day consultative meeting for Darfur civil society representatives in the Qatari capital from 17 to 20 November in order to identify the means for supporting the peace process. Over one hundred group from the tribal, traditional, youth,

- The overall security situation in Darfur, Eastern region, and Blue Nile States remained relatively calm though unpredictable.

- WHO South Darfur supported SMOH to conduct two training workshops to improve the knowledge and skills of health care providers and community health volunteers. One training workshop was conducted in Rehedalbberdi, on "Schistosomiasis Case Management" for 35 participants and the other in Edulfarsan on "Case Definitions- Notifiable Diseases in EWARS System" for 12 participants. The participants

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Security concerns and security incidents over the last week

Over the holiday period Kenya remained stable. However UNHCR's overall security posture was heightened due to a consist tread of security threat warnings emanating from Somalia suggesting the potential targeting of the UN and or UNHCR in Kenya. This lead to a tightening of security procedures within compound security and increased coordination between management and security in preparation for any possible critical incidents. Activities and staff levels in all offices remained

A. Sudan is a very large country with diversity in both climate and in ethnicity; hence the HIV situation also varies in the South and the North.

In the South, we consider the situation to be a generalized epidemic with a prevalence rate exceeding 1%. In the North however, the epidemic can be characterized as being a low to concentrated

Almost 8,000 young people aged between 12 and 17 from across Sudan will be in El Fashir, the capital of north Darfur, for the next two weeks.

The theme of the event, which is being organised by the Ministry of Education with support from UNAMID and UNICEF, is peace-building and reconciliation.

As part of the event UNICEF Sudan will

- In 2009, the Non-Food Item (NFI) & Emergency Shelter (ES) Common Pipeline in Darfur supported a total of 586,464 households. This included 549,161 households of IDPs requiring replenishment, 29,161 newly-displaced households and 8,142 households of other beneficiaries. In total, 34% of households served were located in North Darfur, 35% in South Darfur and 31% in West Darfur.

- In December, 113,058 households were supported with 652,720 essential items.

- UNJLC recommends that all coordinating

- In 2009, a total of 30,259 households were served in the ROS region. Of those, 24% were served by the Government of Sudan, 46% by NGOs, and 30% by the Common Pipeline.

- UNJLC completed the handover to the Humanitarian Aid Commission of approximately US$81,000 of NFI Common Pipeline contingency stocks pre-positioned in key locations in Rest of Sudan (ROS) to support emergency response.

- Sector reporting for the ROS and Darfur regions will be combined beginning in 2010.

- UNJLC recommends that all coordinating