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12 Jun 2013

Sudan + 2 others
Calls for AU, UN to take action in Sudan's Blue Nile State

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— IRIN

NAIROBI, 12 June 2013 (IRIN) - The UN and the African Union must step forward and take decisive action to stop Sudan from committing war crimes against civilians in Blue Nile State, says a new Amnesty International report, dismissed as "false" by Khartoum.

"There has been no acknowledgement by the [UN] Security Council of the fact that Sudan is carrying out indiscriminate aerial bombardment. They need to press Sudan to stop," Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, Amnesty International's Sudan researcher, told IRIN.

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27 May 2013

South Sudan (Republic of) + 3 others
South Sudan's humanitarian crises overshadow development needs

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— IRIN

JUBA, 27 May 2013 (IRIN) - A 2005 deal to end decades of civil war in southern Sudan led many to hope that conflict-related humanitarian relief would gradually give way to the peace dividend of development aid and economic growth. Eight years later, emergency needs in the now-independent South Sudan remain overwhelming, with aid agencies calling for more than a billion dollars to tackle them in 2013.

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06 May 2013

South Sudan (Republic of) + 1 other
The long road home to South Sudan

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— IRIN

RENK, UPPER NILE STATE, 6 May 2013 (IRIN) - George Malual Deng, 24, has spent two years stuck in a transit site waiting to return to his home in South Sudan's Jonglei state. He is among 20,000 people who have made a home of sorts in the river port of Renk, waiting for a barge to take them further south.

When he began his journey from Khartoum, Sudan was a single state, albeit one still bitterly divided between north and south in the wake of decades of civil war, despite the signing of a major peace accord in 2005.

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02 May 2013

South Sudan (Republic of) + 1 other
Conflict and returnees strain South Sudan food security

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— IRIN

NAIROBI, 2 May 2013 (IRIN) - Food security in South Sudan is deteriorating in the face of ongoing conflict, high food prices, and the large-scale return of refugee and internally displaced families.

Lakes, Western Bahr El Ghazal and Unity states are the most affected, with at least 1.15 million people expected to face food insecurity as the rainy season progresses, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) office in South Sudan told IRIN.

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19 Apr 2013

Sudan + 2 others
Renewed fighting worsens Darfur crisis

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— IRIN

NAIROBI, 19 April 2013 (IRIN) - A recent spate of violence in Sudan's western region of Darfur has left tens of thousands displaced; humanitarian agencies say they are struggling to access populations in need of support.

An estimated 2.3 million people remain displaced by Darfur's decade-long conflict.

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16 Apr 2013

Chad + 3 others
Au Tchad, l'insécurité régionale accroît les besoins humanitaires

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— IRIN

NAIROBI, 16 avril 2013 (IRIN) - Le sud-est du Tchad est aux prises avec un afflux de réfugiés et de rapatriés, notamment en provenance du Soudan, à la suite d'affrontements interethniques [ http://www.irinnews.org/fr/Report/97447/Appel-pour-un-acc%C3%A8s-humanit... ] au Darfour, et de la République centrafricaine, depuis le coup d'État.

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13 Apr 2013

Chad + 3 others
Regional insecurity adding to Chad's humanitarian needs

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— IRIN

NAIROBI, 12 April 2013 (IRIN) - Chad is grappling with an influx of refugees and returnees into its south-eastern regions, mainly from neighbouring Sudan, and others from the Central African Republic (CAR) following a series of inter-ethnic clashes in Darfur and a recent coup in the CAR, respectively.

At least 74,000 people have fled into Chad from Darfur in the past two months, 50,000 of them in the past week alone, sparking the largest influx of refugees from Sudan into Chad since 2005, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

Waves of refugees

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11 Mar 2013

Israel + 3 others
Imprisoned Eritreans complain of being forced to leave Israel

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— IRIN

TEL AVIV, 11 March 2013 (IRIN) - Testimonies of jailed Eritrean migrants and asylum seekers (collected by a local NGO) say officials at Saharonim prison in Israel’s Southern Negev desert are coercing them to sign “voluntary repatriation” forms.

In one of the many testimonies a 28-year-old Eritrean detainee reported being repeatedly visited by a translator telling her to accept deportation to a third country (Uganda).

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08 Mar 2013

South Sudan (Republic of) + 1 other
South Sudan's gender gap still too wide

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— IRIN

Years after the end of South Sudan’s war with Sudan, the country’s women still find themselves on the front line - this time, battling abuse, child marriage, and a dowry system that commodifies them from birth.

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21 Feb 2013

Egypt + 1 other
Egyptian farmers fearful as locust threat looms

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CAIRO, 21 February 2013 (IRIN) - Scattered pockets of locusts in southern Egypt and northern Sudan are a threat to agricultural land, warns the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Countries along the Red Sea should remain on "high alert and make every effort to find and treat all infestations", it says.

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19 Feb 2013

World + 8 others
The use and abuse of humanitarian principle

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— IRIN

DAKAR, 19 February 2013 (IRIN) - Following the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the Global War on Terror, many humanitarian policy wonks spoke of a new era of heightened aid instrumentalization - that is the use of humanitarian action or rhetoric as a tool to pursue political, security, development, economic, or other non-humanitarian goals, which would muddy humanitarian principles and constrain access to those in need.

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14 Feb 2013

Sudan + 1 other
Briefing: Humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Nuba Mountains

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— IRIN

NUBA MOUNTAINS/NAIROBI, 14 February 2013 (IRIN) - The ongoing conflict in Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states continues to present a major challenge to aid agencies in the region, which say access is urgently required to meet the humanitarian needs of hundreds of thousands of people.

IRIN has put together a briefing on the humanitarian situation and prospects for peace in the region.

Who is fighting?

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08 Feb 2013

Sudan
Call for humanitarian access after clashes in North Darfur

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— IRIN

Humanitarian agencies have not been able to conduct comprehensive assessment missions to gauge the exact scale of the need.

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31 Jan 2013

Mali + 4 others
Analyse: Malgré ses difficultés financières, la CPI ouvre une enquête au Mali

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LONDRES, 31 janvier 2013 (IRIN) - Des inquiétudes émergent concernant le risque que l’enquête de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) sur les crimes de guerre présumés au Mali pèse lourdement sur ce tribunal déjà surchargé et en proie à des difficultés financières.

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16 Jan 2013

South Sudan (Republic of) + 1 other
Women without men vulnerable in South Sudan's refugee camps

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— IRIN

MABAN, 16 January 2013 (IRIN) - Mahasa sits in the dust outside the hut she built herself, holding her youngest son in her arms.

The 29-year-old mother of four knows how vulnerable she is. "I'm scared," she said.

Mahasa* is one of many women who have fled, unaccompanied by their husbands, to Maban County in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, escaping the fighting in Sudan's Blue Nile State between government forces and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North. Mahasa's husband is still in Blue Nile, fighting alongside the rebels.

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15 Jan 2013

Sudan
Sudan continues crackdown on opposition groups

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— IRIN

KHARTOUM, 15 January 2013 (IRIN) - A number of Sudanese opposition party leaders are in custody following the signing of an accord, dubbed the 'New Dawn Charter', under which they agreed to overthrow the government of President Omar al-Bashir and institute a federal system of government based on democracy, pluralism and the separation of religion and the state.

The charter, signed in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on 6 January, calls on parties to work together to topple the regime through either "democratic civil peaceful means" or "revolutionary armed struggle".

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08 Jan 2013

South Sudan (Republic of) + 1 other
Fear keeps Abyei residents from returning home

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— IRIN

ABYEI, 8 January 2013 (IRIN) - Only a fraction of the 120,000 people who fled the Abyei Area following an invasion by Sudanese troops in May 2011 have returned to their homes, amid fears of repeat military action and uncertainty over the area’s political future.

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02 Jan 2013

South Sudan (Republic of) + 1 other
Tensions grow between refugees and host community

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— IRIN

MABAN, 2 January 2013 (IRIN) - The earth in Maban County, South Sudan, is already dry and cracked, and even a faint breeze raises a haze of brown dust.

The trials of the rainy season - flooded homes and impassable roads - are over. But as the weather changes, and the emergency response transforms into a longer-term humanitarian relief effort, new worries weigh on the minds of refugees and aid workers alike.

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21 Dec 2012

Sudan + 1 other
Ayom Nyol, “There is nothing left from the burning”

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ABYEI, 21 December 2012 (IRIN) - Ayom Nyol is one of several thousand people who have returned to Abyei Town, the once-bustling capital of a region lying on the border between South Sudan and Sudan. Sudan deployed troops there in May 2011, leading most of the population, around 100,000 people, to flee southwards.

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26 Nov 2012

Chad + 20 others
Migration : Les 10 crises de réfugiés les plus négligées

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JOHANNESBOURG, 26 novembre 2012 (IRIN) - Les crises de réfugiés semblent commencer et se terminer. En 2011, tous les yeux étaient tournés vers le complexe de réfugiés de Dadaab, dans le nord du Kenya, alors qu’il accueillait des centaines de milliers de Somaliens qui fuyaient la famine et le conflit. Cette année, c’est l’exode des réfugiés syriens qui a attiré l’attention du public, même si la majorité des Somaliens qui sont arrivés à Dadaab l’an dernier y sont toujours.

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