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Human Rights & Aid Groups Welcome UN Peacekeeper Boost for CAR
(New York) - Today's unanimous decision by the UN Security Council to add a further 900 peacekeepers to the UN mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) was welcomed by a group of 16...
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Sweden to fund $6.8m three-year peace-building programme in Rwanda
The Swedish Embassy in Rwanda today announced funding for an ambitious new Rwanda-wide peace-building programme. The Rwanda Peace Education Programme is designed to counter behavioural risk factors...
Peace-building in Rwanda goes mobile
15 May 2013 – From this week, the Aegis Trust’s peace-building education programme in Rwanda will no longer be limited to the Kigali Genocide Memorial; it’s going mobile – starting in Rubavu,...
Former UN Sudan Chief visits the country’s warzones: warns of potential for another Darfur scale catastrophe
18 Jan 2013 - Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative for the Aegis Trust and former UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, has just travelled 1000km through Sudan’s Nuba Mountains and...
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Agreement between the Sudans does not address South Kordofan / Blue Nile catastrophe
28 Sept 2012 - Outcomes of the Presidential Summit between Sudan and South Sudan announced on 27th September 2012 are an important step in reaching peace between the two neighbouring countries. The...
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Thousands ‘choose peace’ on anniversary of South Sudanese independence
Warring parties urged to pull back from the brink as UN resolution deadline looms Citizens from South Sudan and Sudan have today been joined by human rights activists, civil society organisations and...
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One year into ethnic cleansing, bold measures needed to help Sudan's Nuba
5 June 2012 - A year ago today, Sudanese Government forces in Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan State, commenced a massacre of Nuba civilians. Using hit lists, they targeted anyone associated with...
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Bombed, displaced, starving: rains about to cut off people of Blue Nile and South Kordofan from international aid, even if Sudan allows it in.
24 May 2012 - International agencies last week raised the alarm that conditions for refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sudan and South Sudan – already inadequate – are about to get...
Healing Broken Societies: Can development buy love and peace?
Full text of the Valedictory Address by Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the Aegis Trust and Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester, UK at the...
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Chad blocks former UN Sudan chief from visiting its Darfur refugee camps
Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Advisor to the Aegis Trust and former UN Resident Coordinator in Sudan, was blocked from visiting refugee camps in eastern Chad last week and then expelled by the Chadian...
Aegis 2012 Appeal - Creating Young Peacebuilders in Rwanda
Inspire more young people to stand up against the root causes of genocide by supporting the Aegis Trust 2012 Appeal, enabling young people in Rwanda to understand the dangers of prejudice and...
Beyond the Pledge: International Engagement After Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement
Violations of peace agreement should trigger further sanctions (1 July 2011) With only days before South Sudan is due to secede on 9 July, Sudan is the closest to war that it has been since the...
Joint Letter to UN Security Council Members on Sudan
To United Nations Security Council Members: Dear Ambassador, Yesterday, state elections began in the critical Sudanese border state of Southern Kordofan, the final elections to be conducted under the...
Sudan: Deteriorating Situation in Darfur
(New York) -- A coalition of human rights and advocacy groups today warned of rising levels of violence in Darfur during and after the referendum on southern self-determination, scheduled to begin on...
The cost of future conflict in Sudan
Executive Summary 1.1 In 2011, Southern Sudan will vote in a referendum on whether or not to become an independent state. 1.2 The referendum comes six years after the 2005 Comprehensive Peace...
Renewing the Pledge: Re-Engaging the Guarantors to the Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Renewing the PledgeThe clock is ticking fast towards what might be the most important date in modern sudanese history - two referenda in Sudan that are likely to...
Sudan's wars are not over yet
Posted by: AnnaMacdonald in Sudan, Darfur by James Smith, Director, Aegis Trust If the war is over in Darfur it begs the question why 2.5 million displaced people stay put in the camps. As the...
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Sudan: Fundraising for educational materials for Darfur
When we can, Aegis supports the work of REACT - which provides educational materials for Darfuri refugees in Chad. You can see some of the efforts in this (exhausting) video on REACT's recent...
Sudan/Darfour : le Conseil de sécurité devrait soutenir la CPI
Des ONG appellent les membres du Conseil de sécurité à exiger que le Soudan coopère avec la Cour (New York, La Haye, 4 juin 2009) - Les membres du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies devraient...