Social / CSR in Sudan
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SOUTH SUDAN, 2015/08/18
South Sudan President Salva Kiir failed to sign a peace transaction proposed by regional leaders on Monday, saying he required additional time, the mediator of the crisis said.
Seyoum Mesfin, the mediator for the regional group IGAD, said Kiir's side required two weeks before signing the peace transaction that was accepted by the South Sudanese rebels.
"In the next 15 days, the government will come back to Addis Ababa to finalise the peace agreement," Seyoum said.
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SUDAN, 2015/04/26
Since 2012, an average of three bombs a day have been dropped indiscriminately by the government of Sudan onto civilians living in rebel held areas. With humanitarian access denied by the government and increasing numbers being displaced, people's ability to survive grows additional precarious by the day.
A new statement launched today by the International Refugee Rights Initiative and the National Human Rights Monitoring Organisation brings the voices of civilians living through the conflict in Sudan's Southern Kordofan National to the international community.
Focusing on the devastating impact of the conflict on each aspect of people's lives, the statement highlights the extraordinary resilience and resistance of the civilian people. Inevitably, however, this resilience is as well being worn away by the continuing onslaught.
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BAHRAIN, 2015/04/25
Confidence part Arab youth that the Arab Spring would bring positive change across the region is declining and as a result they are uncertain whether democracy could ever work in the Middle East. This is the headline finding of the 7th Annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey released today.
- Arab youth see the rise of ISIS as the biggest obstacle facing the region
- Youth are keen to start their own business as concerns about unemployment continue
- The UAE remains the majority popular country to live in and emulate and Saudi Arabia is viewed as the region’s biggest ally
- A lot of view the Arabic language as central to their identity but believe it is losing its price to English
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
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SUDAN, 2014/12/18
The government of Ireland has donated over US$ 3 million to help address the growing humanitarian needs in the Sudan, the UN said in a press statement Tuesday. The press statement, received by PANA here, said the Government of Ireland contributed an additional US$ 1,891,551 to the Sudan Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF), following an before contribution this year of US$1,362,200, bringing to US$ 3.25 million its contributions so far this year.
“The Irish funding will help the UN and its partners to respond entirely to the immense humanitarian needs in Sudan, inclunding by improving nutrition, ensuring better access to clean water and to healthcare, and addressing other critical humanitarian gaps,” Seán Sherlock, Ireland’s Minister for Development, Trade Promotion, and North-South Co-operation, was quoted by the release as saying Tuesday.
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SUDAN, 2014/09/14
The National Consensus Forces (NCF) are not interested in a national dialogue, as long as it will not dismantle the one-party-national in Sudan. The allied opposition parties instead call for an intifada.
Next a lengthy conference on Wednesday, the leadership of the NCF, a coalition of Sudanese opposition parties, issued the September Declaration, calling for the "elimination of the Khartoum regime" through civil disobedience and a popular uprising, with the purpose of establishing "an alternative democratic and independent Sudan, conference the aspirations of the people".
"The NCF are not interested in any dialogue that does not aim at dismantling the one-party national that is responsible for the wide-spread abuses against the Sudanese people", Faroug Abu Eisa, chairman of the NCF told Radio Dabanga.
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QATAR, 2014/02/27
A continued commitment to the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), particularly the Final Security Arrangement, was the focus of the Third Conference of the DDPD Joint Commission Tuesday in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.
The Commission, one of two ceasefire monitoring and operational mechanisms provided for in the DDPD, is chaired by Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the Joint Appropriate Representative (JSR) of the African Union-United Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
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SUDAN, 2013/11/28
The scale of human destruction and suffering in Darfur is scarcely imaginable, and would not be imaginable at all if we were to depend on the reporting of the UN (either humanitarian agencies or the UN/African Union "hybrid" Mission in Darfur, UNAMID).
The grim task of reporting on Darfur's realities has fallen almost entirely to Radio Dabanga, which next month marks its fifth anniversary of this reporting. It has become an indispensible journalistic resource, all that prevents the initial genocide of the 21st century from becoming entirely invisible.
Indeed, it is through the eyes of Radio Dabanga and a few critical reports (from the Small Arms Survey and one or two other organizations) that we have seen the changes on the ground, as the extreme violence of village and people destruction that continued through 2007, and even beyond, has given way to an enormously cruel and destructive "genocide by attrition."
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BOTSWANA, 2013/06/21
Despite catalysing strong economic increase, the revenues taken from resources are widening the gap between rich and poor in a lot of African nations, the Africa Evolution Panel says.
While the continent’s 20 resource rich nations account for almost 80 % of its gross domestic product and per capita incomes have generally increased, these nations’ records on poverty reduction and human development are chequered, the APP says in its Africa Evolution Statement 2013.
“Africa’s increase figures are real and there is nothing wrong with resource based increase in terms of taking off, but increase has got to be equitable,” Strive Masiyiwa, a member of the Panel and founder of Econet Wireless said.
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EGYPT, 2013/05/06
A new partnership announced today between the United Nations and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) seeks to fight poverty and create jobs through trade reforms in the Middle East and North Africa.
"Today we find ourselves at a world turning point, with nations of the South increasingly driving world increase and making rapid evolution on poverty reduction and job creation," said the Associate Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Rebeca Grynspan at an event in New York.
