Introduction

1 . The Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), established in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007, held its eleventh session from 2 to 13 May 2011. The review of Sudan was held at the 14th meeting on 10 May 2011. The delegation of Sudan was headed by Mohamed Bushara Dosa, Minister of Justice of the Republic of the Sudan. At its 17th meeting held on 13 May 2011, the Working Group adopted the report on Sudan.

Introduction

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) is a Brussels based academic research institution which has been undertaking epidemiological research into international disaster and conflict health for over 30 years. This analysis forms part of a loose series of country analyses produced by CRED staff. Former country analyses have been conducted on Ethiopia, Darfur, Somaliaand and Zimbabwe.

PROJECTED FOOD ASSISTANCE NEEDS FOR JANUARY 2012

Key Points

• Movement and access restrictions continue to affect humanitarian partners’ ability to provide lifesaving assistance to affected communities in South Kordofan.

• Returns from Sudan to South Sudan continue by barges and trains.

• UNISFA deployment to the Abyei area ongoing, with 1,200 troops planned to arrive by 31 July.

• Airstrikes reported in South Darfur.

• Some 2,700 people displaced in areas between North and South Darfur.

• Flood warning issued for parts of eastern Sudan, Greater Kordofan and Darfur.

1 August 2011: Plan has started delivering food to schools in Kenya’s drought-hit district of Machakos as part of its emergency school feeding programme which will reach 150,000 children across the country.

For pupils in Liani community, the maize, beans and oil dispatched are the first aid supplies they have received since the drought crisis hit.

Hunger pains

Liani Primary School’s deputy headmaster, Onesmus Malombe, hopes that the food will help stem the tide of school drop-outs.

July 30, 2011 (YAMBIO) - The continual rise in food prices in Western Equatoria has become a major cause for concern in Yambio town the capital of the agric-producing state always described as South Sudan’s breadbasket.

Escalations in food prices and the subject of food security are global issues are not peculiar to Western Equatoria alone. But 95% per cent of Western Equatoria’s food is produced locally so there is a slight direct correlation in global food crisis.