SUDAN: Children bearing the brunt of Darfur conflict - UNICEF, 21/Dec/05
KHARTOUM, 21 December (IRIN) - At least one million children affected by the ongoing conflict in the western Sudanese region of Darfur are beyond the reach of current relief efforts due to insecurity, according to the United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF).... Full Report... Email Report
SUDAN: Twenty killed as militias raid West Darfur village, 21/Dec/05
NAIROBI, 21 December (IRIN) - Militias riding on camels and horses attacked Abu Sarouj village in the West Darfur state of Sudan on Monday, killing 20 people and wounding 16 others, according to a United Nations official in the area. ... Full Report... Email Report
SUDAN: UNHCR to begin repatriating refugees from Ethiopia, 20/Dec/05
ADDIS ABABA, 20 December (IRIN) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is to begin repatriating some 14,000 Sudanese refugees out of the 73,000 hosted in the five camps in Ethiopia next year, the head of the agency said on Monday. ... Full Report... Email Report
CHAD-SUDAN: Army chases rebels into neighbouring Sudan, 20/Dec/05
ADRE, 20 December (IRIN) - The plot is thickening in an already conflict-ridden zone as Chad’s military made good on threats to pursue rebels into Sudanese territory following heavy fighting in an eastern border town over the weekend.... Full Report... Email Report
SUDAN: Dealing with gender violence through music, 19/Dec/05
NYALA, 19 December (IRIN) - Well-known Sudanese singers and actors have an important role to play in teaching internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the western Sudanese region of Darfur about the harmful consequences of gender-based violence (GBV), aid workers say. ... Full Report... Email Report
SUDAN: AU mission in Darfur running out of cash, 16/Dec/05
ADDIS ABABA, 16 December (IRIN) - The African Union (AU) will run out of cash for its mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region within four months, the head of peacekeeping for the 53-nation bloc warned on Friday. ... Full Report... Email Report
SUDAN: Darfur war crimes probe making progress, says ICC, 14/Dec/05
NAIROBI, 14 December (IRIN) - Investigations into alleged war crimes in the western Sudanese region of Darfur have made some progress, Luis Moreno Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday. ... Full Report... Email Report
SUDAN: Thousands of children exploited - UNICEF, 14/Dec/05
KHARTOUM, 14 December (IRIN) - Thousands of Sudanese children are exploited while 149 out of 1,000 in the eastern and southern parts of the country die each year before making five, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday. ... Full Report... Email Report
SUDAN: Officials responsible for Darfur crimes, says rights watchdog, 12/Dec/05
NAIROBI, 12 December (IRIN) - Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir and other senior officials should be investigated for crimes against humanity in Darfur and placed on a UN sanctions list, the international lobby group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Sunday. ... Full Report... Email Report
ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: Ease border tension, top UN official urges, 12/Dec/05
ADDIS ABABA, 12 December (IRIN) - Ethiopia and Eritrea must take concrete actions to ease tensions along their shared frontier given continuing fears that war could break out afresh between the two countries, a top United Nations official said on Monday. ... Full Report... Email Report
SUDAN: Campaign to focus on HIV/AIDS affected children, 7/Dec/05
KHARTOUM, 7 December (IRIN) - The Sudanese National AIDS Control Programme (SNAP), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and other partners have launched a campaign focusing on the impact of the disease on children. ... Full Report... Email Report
GREAT LAKES: Returning refugees risk being displaced, 6/Dec/05
NAIROBI, 6 December (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of refugees in the Great Lakes region have started returning home, but without adequate support they could reignite conflicts and end up joining the millions of people displaced within their own countries, a senior UN official said... Full Report... Email Report