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Chad: Five years at the heart of the desert

In the field

• Female volunteers participate to an ACTED project in Pakistan
• Back to School in Gaza (oPT)
• Building boats in the Delta (Myanmar)
• Opening- up of Kouki (CAR)
• The issue of drought in the Horn of Africa (Uganda)
• The "Sanitized village" programme: At the heart of the sanitation issue (DRC)
• ACTED-PSF Cambodia: A multidemensional struggle against HIV/AIDS

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OXUS Tajikistan: Khosiat and her candyshop

This report examines the role of formal, state-based mechanisms of justice and traditional mechanisms in the context of post-conflict Adjumani. Building on prior research conducted by the RLP in West Nile, this report explores how well formal justice mechanisms are functioning in Adjumani; but more importantly, it is concerned with broadening our understanding of the different conceptions of justice within Adjumani, and how traditional mechanisms dovetail with those conceptions. The report ensures that it examines traditional justice within the context of postconflict Adjumani society.

HIGHLIGHTS / KEY PRIORITIES

- Vulnerability intensified in Southern Sudan in 2009

- Almost twice as many people were displaced by conflict in 2009 than in 2008

- The food crisis that emerged in 2009 will spill over into 2010

I. SITUATION OVERVIEW

Five years after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended more than two decades of civil war, Southern Sudan still has some of the worst vulnerability indicators in the world. Surges in localized violence and food insecurity in 2009 added to an already

Les principales activités du HCR Burundi

1. Le rapatriement et la réintégration des réfugiés burundais.

2. Protection et assistance de 31 398 réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile, dont 18 837 Congolais installés dans les camps de Bwagiriza (Ruyigi), de Gasorwe (Muyinga), de Musasa (Ngozi). 240 réfugiés Rwandais vivent dans le camp de Giharo (Rutana). Le HCR au Burundi assiste sous diverses formes et veille également à la protection de quelque 12 227 réfugiés urbains et demandeurs d'asile, dont 99 % sont originaires de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC).

FAITS MARQUANTS

- En décembre 2009, OCHA a répertorié un total de 30 attaques dans les territoires des Uele qui ont occasionné la mort de 83 personnes alors que 106 civils ont été pris en otage dont 17 enfants. Le total des victimes pour l'année 2009 est estimé à 849 personnes tuées et 1486 enlevées dont 185 enfants.

- Hausse de 9% du nombre de déplacés dans le Haut-Uele et de 11% dans le Bas-Uele en un mois suite aux attaques de la LRA.

CONTEXTE GENERAL

District de l'Ituri

En 2009, la situation sécuritaire s'est

By =D8ystein H. Rolandsen (PRIO)

Executive Summary

Violence and insecurity threatens peacebuilding in the Southern Sudan and the 2011 referendum on self-determination. The Sudan's interim period which started with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) 9 January 2005 is now reaching its final phase but communities in the South still face multiple types of violence stemming from local and regional tensions as well as conflicts at the national and even international level. The underlying causes of this predicament are

By Susan Anyangu-Amu

NAIROBI, Dec 30 (IPS) - The European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) has raised a red flag over the worsening food security situation in the Horn of Africa.

Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner in charge of development and humanitarian aid, attributes the disastrous situation to the terrible potential of climate change.

"Large parts of the Horn of Africa have had less than 75 percent of normal rainfall this year, having already endured a series of severe droughts. The population can no longer cope

Uganda: Sixth Review Under the Policy Support Instrument and Request for an Extension of the Policy Support Instrument-Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Uganda.

Executive Summary

The Ugandan economy is weathering the impact of the global financial crisis better than anticipated. Despite a slowdown in economic activity, real GDP growth (at 7 percent) has remained strong by regional and international standards. Core inflation has been easing in spite of an increase in headline inflation due to higher food