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UNICEF prepares to help victims of conflict in South Sudan

18th January 2012 | by unicef | Sudan | No Comments

Pibor County, in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, is the site of recent conflict between members of the Murle and the Lou Nuer tribes. The violence has forced thousands of people to take refuge in surrounding bush areas. Here, UNICEF’s Sunil Verma reports from an assessment mission organized by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. [...]

Challenges ahead to strengthen children’s rights as South Sudan prepares for independence

9th July 2011 | by unicef | Sudan | No Comments

Daunting task Yet today, South Sudan’s education indicators remain among the worst in the world. Over one million primary school aged children still do not have access to basic education. These stark facts have grim implications for hopes of accelerating South Sudan’s social and economic development in the years after independence. When it comes to [...]

As South Sudan looks to nationhood, education is pivotal

8th July 2011 | by unicef | Sudan | No Comments

At the end of this week, on 9 July, South Sudan will become an independent nation. Citizens of the newest country in the world, the people of Southern Sudan face immense challenges and immediate threats. Report by Rudina Vojvoda They also stand before a unique opportunity to build a country that is free of war, [...]

UNICEF providing for thousands displaced by Sudanese fighting

20th June 2011 | by unicef | Sudan | No Comments

Residents gather outside UNMIS sector headquarters in Kadugli. As many as 60,000 people may have fled fighting in Sudan’s Southern Kordofan state after nearly a week of clashes between northern forces and southern-aligned groups. Report by Simon Ingram, UNICEF. KHARTOUM, Sudan (June 20, 2011). Two weeks after hostilities erupted in and around Kadugli, the morning [...]

UNICEF to Sudan: more talking, less fighting

14th June 2011 | by unicef | Sudan | No Comments

It takes more courage to talk than to fight, and it is encouraging to see that President Omar Hassan al Bashir and the First Vice-President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, have begun to do exactly that. Nils Kastberg is the UNICEF Representative in Sudan. In the past weeks, during developments in Abyei, Kadugli and in other parts [...]

Weeks before Southern Sudan’s independence, UNICEF helps children in troubled border areas

26th May 2011 | by unicef | malnutrition, Sudan | 1 Comment

The bullet hole is high on the whitewashed wall of what is, in other respects, a perfectly normal conference room, the kind you might find in a UNICEF office anywhere in the world. But to the staff of UNICEF’s Malakal office, the broken plaster – and its ricochet in the frame of a map on [...]

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