The Sudanese Government and aid agencies are making progress in their attempts to halt the spread of mosquito-borne yellow fever and immunize 6 million people in Darfur, despite funding and logistical challenges.
More than 700 people contracted the disease and 165 have died in what the World Health Organization (WHO) says...
The United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, has allocated US$14 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to life-saving humanitarian projects in Darfur, western Sudan. This money will get vital aid to people who are enduring one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. ...
As the security situation in the disputed region of Abyei improves, aid workers are gearing up to respond to the possible return of tens of thousands of displaced people who fled the area a year ago.
In May 2011, an estimated 110,000 people fled their homes and villages when the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) took over...
More than 4,500 of the 12,000 South Sudanese who were stranded at the Sudanese river port of Kosti have completed their journey home. This comes just over a week into the airlift operation to transport the refugees via Khartoum.
The Sudanese authorities gave South Sudanese residents nine months to regularize their status or...
UN agencies and humanitarian partners are helping to support thousands of South Sudanese who are stranded in Kosti in Sudan’s White Nile State.
The State Governor has called for the 12,000 – 15,000 stranded people, and the international organizations that are helping them, to leave Kosti by 20 May. The...
7 December 2012 - 12:30pmThe Sudanese Government and aid agencies are making progress in their attempts to halt the spread of mosquito-borne yellow fever and immunize 6 million people in Darfur, despite funding and logistical challenges. More than 700 people contracted the disease and 165 have died in what the World Health Organization (WHO) says...
17 October 2012 - 3:07pmThe United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, has allocated US$14 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to life-saving humanitarian projects in Darfur, western Sudan. This money will get vital aid to people who are enduring one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. ...
3 July 2012 - 11:54amAs the security situation in the disputed region of Abyei improves, aid workers are gearing up to respond to the possible return of tens of thousands of displaced people who fled the area a year ago. In May 2011, an estimated 110,000 people fled their homes and villages when the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) took over...
25 May 2012 - 10:23amMore than 4,500 of the 12,000 South Sudanese who were stranded at the Sudanese river port of Kosti have completed their journey home. This comes just over a week into the airlift operation to transport the refugees via Khartoum. The Sudanese authorities gave South Sudanese residents nine months to regularize their status or...
3 May 2012 - 7:07pmUN agencies and humanitarian partners are helping to support thousands of South Sudanese who are stranded in Kosti in Sudan’s White Nile State. The State Governor has called for the 12,000 – 15,000 stranded people, and the international organizations that are helping them, to leave Kosti by 20 May. The...