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At least one million children at risk by Sudan aid suspension

The safety and survival of a million Sudanese children is at grave risk, not only in Darfur but across the whole of northern Sudan. The suspension of aid agencies, including Save the Children, means children across the country, including Darfur, are without access to lifesaving food, water and healthcare. Other aid agencies were asked to suspend operations by the Sudanese authorities earlier this week. When the reality of that suspension is calculated, it means over a million children will...

SUDAN: Aid agencies react to expulsions

The expulsion of 10 relief organisations from Sudan will leave hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable civilians at risk, aid groups warned as they appealed to the government to review its decision. Vice-President Ali Osman Taha told reporters on 4 March that several relief groups had been asked to leave because "they are breaking the law of the country". Taha did not elaborate, but added that Sudan remained "committed to the implementation of the agreement we signed with the UN and...

Millions face starvation and disease as aid agencies are expelled from Darfur

More than two million people in Darfur face the risk of starvation and disease following yesterday's decision by the Sudanese government to expel more than 10 aid agencies, including Oxfam, Care, Save the Children and Medecins Sans Frontieres. The expulsions came soon after a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Several other aid agencies had their assets seized. ...

ICC issues arrest warrant for Sudanese President al Bashir

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al Bashir. The warrant details charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed during the conflict in Darfur. The arrest warrant is an unprecedented move in the history of a conflict that, since it started in 2003, has seen more than 300,000 killed, thousands raped, and millions forcibly displaced. The decision, reached by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC, was announced during a press...

Bush to meet south Sudan president next week

U.S. President George W. Bush is to meet next week with south Sudan's president to discuss his peace pact with the Khartoum government, which the United States accuses of complicity in genocide in Darfur and sponsoring terrorism.The White House said on Wednesday that Bush and Salva Kiir, a former rebel who is now president of the semi-autonomous south Sudan as well as national vice president, will meet at the White House on Monday to discuss the troubled 2005 peace agreement that ended two...

Senegal peacekeeper dies after Darfur car-jacking

A Senegalese peacekeeper has died after armed men shot him in the leg when they seized his car in Sudan's Darfur region, officials said.The soldier serving in the United Nations/African Union UNAMID force was shot in North Darfur's capital El Fasher on Saturday and died from his wounds in a Khartoum hospital, they added.The shooting in El Fasher market brought the number of UNAMID personnel killed in accidents or action this year to 17.

SUDAN: Civilian disarmament remains elusive as government rethinks process

JUBA Wednesday, December 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Efforts by Southern Sudanese states to forcefully collect arms from civilians have been poorly planned, leading to violence, deaths and increased insecurity in some areas, sources said. President Salva Kiir in June directed all southern states to disarm their populations by the end of 2008. However, no government policy on how disarmament should be undertaken existed, leaving implementation to state governors and opening up the process to possible...

SUDAN: IDPs in the cold as slum demolished

MANDELA Thursday, December 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of people in a slum 20km south of Khartoum are living in makeshift shelters made of sticks and cloth after their homes were razed by the government. Local officials said 4,000 homes were destroyed as part of a government plan to reorganise the Mandela settlement to make it more habitable. Another 6,000 are due to be demolished. "When this is over, people will move back, build and live in peace," said Madut Wek, secretary to the local...

SUDAN: Josephine Moyo, “What we miss is food”

NGERJEBI Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - Josephine Moyo, 38, returned to her village in Southern Sudan in January 2008 after a decade as a refugee in neighbouring Uganda. She spoke to IRIN about the challenges of being back. “I am happy to be home but there are big challenges ahead. Lack of food is the biggest problem. We have been away since 1998, when the [Ugandan rebel] Lord's Resistance Army attacked – they killed two of my children and they wounded my husband and me. "There had been...

SUDAN: Great expectations as numbers of Southern returnees on the rise

NGERJEBI Monday, November 24, 2008 (IRIN) - Albano Tombek is proud of his new thatch hut. "It's good to be back," said Tombek, chief of the Southern Sudanese farming community in Ngerjebi, 50km south of the regional capital Juba. After 20 years of civil war that devastated the region and caused many to flee to neighbouring Uganda, the people of Ngerjebi are coming home. "But there is very much we need: water, better health services, a school, all these are problems," Tombek said. An...