NewsRack: 'Aid' news in 'Darfur Crisis' topic for user newstrust

UN prepositions aid for Darfur refugees ahead of rainy season (Cached)	18.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New York, May 18 : With tens of thousands of Darfur refugees in eastern Chad, the United Nations refugee agency Friday said it is "in a race against time" to deliver aid before heavy rains cut off access to the group escaping violence linked to tribal conflicts.
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S. Sudan: Doctors Without Borders hospital ruined	17.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
S. Sudan: Doctors Without Borders hospital ruined
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South Sudan: 'your chair or your wife' – tough choices at Renk port	8.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
South Sudanese people stuck at northern port of Renk, having left Sudan but unable to take families and luggage back home George Malual Deng, 24, has spent two years stuck in a transit site waiting to return to his home in South Sudan's Jonglei state. He is among 20,000 people who have made a home of sorts in the river port of Renk, waiting for a barge to take them south. When he began his journey from Khartoum, Sudan was a single state, albeit one bitterly divided between north and south in the wake of decades of civil war, despite a major peace accord in 2005. Since then, almost 2 million people have left the north for their homelands in what became the independent republic of South Sudan in July 2011. Many, like Deng, say they left amid increasing discrimination and reduced access to education. The period following secession was tumultuous, marked by sporadic conflict between the neighbours' armed forces and a row over how much Sudan could charge for piping and exporting South ...
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Darfur: UN joint mission assesses security and civilian needs (Cached)	2.5.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, May 2 : The head of the joint African Union-United Nations mission in Darfur reiterated the commitment of the UN and its partners in protecting and assisting local communities in the region, following his assessment of the security, humanitarian and political situations in the five Darfur states.
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World Digest: April 26, 2013	27.4.2013	Washington Post: World
The fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony recently found refuge in territory controlled by Sudan, a watchdog group said Friday, accusing the Sudanese military of offering aid to commanders of the Lord’s Resistance Army. ...
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UN lauds talks between Sudanese authorities and opposition (Cached)	26.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, Apr 26 : The top United Nations humanitarian official in Sudan Thursday welcomed the beginning of direct talks between the Government and one of the main opposition groups, and urged an end to the conflict that has affected more than a million people in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.
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UN: Peacekeeper shot dead in Darfur attack	19.4.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. says that a peacekeeper in Sudan's state of East Darfur was shot dead and two others were injured Friday in an attack
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Sudan: UN expands aid to conflict-ravaged Blue Nile (Cached)	12.4.2013	New Kerala: India News
New York, Apr 12 : The United Nations has been able to reach 51,000 people with food aid in Sudan's Blue Nile state in the week since it managed to start its first deliveries in the conflict-wracked region in 19 months, but it needs more funds to feed all those in need there.
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No 'magic wand' for Sahel as food shortages loom yet again	10.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
WFP says 2012's good harvest in Sahel not enough to alleviate deep-rooted poverty, as millions more face hunger this year Aid agencies are gearing up for a second year of emergency response in the Sahel where an estimated 10.3 million people could be affected by food shortages, according to the UN (pdf). Despite rains in 2012 leading to a good harvest in October-November, deficits incurred during last year's food crisis means the poorest families have not been able to replenish their stocks and pay off debts. The situation this year is exacerbated by a lower than expected harvest in Nigeria (pdf), which produces a lot of the grain consumed in the Sahel – prices have shot up. The crisis in Mali has prevented thousands of families there from planting at all. "We can say there is a crisis already, just by the number of cases of malnutrition which we're dealing with in hospitals from Chad to Burkina Faso to Mali," said Alvaro Pascual, Sahel desk officer for Action Against Hunger . ...
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Darfur donor nations pledge $3.6bn	8.4.2013	BBC: World
Donor nations pledge $3.6bn over a six-year-period for the development of Sudan's Darfur region, after a two-day conference hosted by Qatar.
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Qatar hosts Darfur donor conference	7.4.2013	BBC: Front Page
The Gulf state of Qatar is hosting a two-day conference on development and reconstruction in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Darfur and Sudan: visionary approach needed – and Qatar can help \| Najeeb Bin Mohammed al-Nauimi	5.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Sudan needs a political framework to foster comprehensive peace. Neglecting it will doom peace and nation-building efforts The crisis in Darfur is now a decade old, yet fighting continues. More people were displaced by a surge of violence in January than in the whole of 2012. Over half the population (3.5 million Darfuris) still receives food aid – about the same amount as five years ago when the Darfur crisis was said to be at its height. Even more telling of the suffering of civilians, 1.4 million of those receiving food aid are still living in "temporary" camps . In its bid to foster peace in this region, Qatar is hosting the Doha Donors Conference on Darfur this Sunday . Such leadership should be lauded. However, if Qatar wants to see real return on its investment, those attending the conference must understand the reality and look beyond Darfur to the fundamental drivers of conflict that affect all of Sudan. The Darfur peace deal brokered by Qatar in February represents welcome ...
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Group says South Sudan aids rebels in Sudan	5.4.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Group says South Sudan aids rebels in Sudan
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UN reaffirms commitment to world free of remnants of war (Cached)	5.4.2013	New Kerala: India News
New York, Apr 4 : United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday reiterated the importance of eliminating the threat of mines and explosive remnants of war as a crucial endeavour that advances peace, enables development, supports nations in transition and saves lives.
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UN food aid reaches Sudan's Blue Nile state (Cached)	5.4.2013	New Kerala: India News
New York, Apr 4 : In what the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is calling a "major breakthrough," the first UN food rations have reached conflict-affected people in Sudan's Blue Nile state since 2011, when the isolated rural area near the South Sudan border was cut off by insecurity and movement restrictions imposed by the Government.
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Letters: Right to abortion for victims of rape	29.3.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
In Darfur, Congo and other conflict-affected states, I have understood the need to respond to the fact that sexual violence is a brutal and specific consequence of war ( Britain pledges £180m to help tackle rape crisis in Congo , 27 March). However, there is no mention of the continuing and significant gaps in the international response to this global scourge. The major providers of humanitarian services routinely exclude abortion as an option to girls and women raped in armed conflict, giving as their reason the fact that it is illegal in the country involved. But under the provisions of the Geneva conventions and under international humanitarian law, women have an absolute right to non-discriminatory care when rape is used as a weapon of war in armed conflict. That is precisely why we need to hear a clear policy statement from the UK on issues related to abortion and war victims, and also on the impact of US abortion restrictions on DfID-funded aid. In theory, the UK is not directly affected by ...
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Editorial: Kenya’s Awkward Choice for President	14.3.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Kenya’s decision to elect a president charged with crimes against humanity poses a challenge for the West.
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The Cardinals who will select a Pope: full list	12.3.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Who is choosing the next Pope? Find out who the cardinals in the conclave are • Download the data • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian Who is choosing the next Pope? Right now over 100 catholic Cardinals are sitting in conclave in Rome arguing over who should succeed Pope Benedict XVI. That's the theme of the Guardian Interactive team's wonderful Pontifficator . And here's where you download the data behind that interactive guide. Behind the interactive is weeks of work by Guardian journalists including the Datablog's Ami Sedghi and Mona Chalabi in finding the key facts about each cardinal. Andrew Brown - who brought his expertise to bear on the data - explains today how we categorised each cardinal , with all the nuanced problems that brings. These categories do not map easily onto the secular world. A Cardinal may be conservative in matters of sexual morality and radical economically. Or he could be ferocious in pursuit of gay people but committed to ...
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Darfur: UN assists civilians fleeing violence (Cached)	26.2.2013	New Kerala: World News

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Fear stalks South Sudan	22.2.2013	BBC: World
South Sudan optimism fades as repression grows
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