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SUDAN: No Clear Studies on Impacts of Merowe Dam
ips.org | 02 Jan 2012
By Reem AbbasThirty villages of the Manasir people were flooded during construction of the Merowe Dam. / David Haberlah/CC BY 2.0 KHARTOUM, Jan 2 (IPS) – The multi-billion dollar Merowe Dam on the Nile River more than doubled Sudan's electricity supply, but its environmental impacts still...
 Sudan | Economics and the Environment | Energy | Environmental Impacts
South Sudan: Annual Needs and Livelihoods Analysis - January 2011
feedproxy.google.com | 07 Apr 2011
The findings of the 2010/11 Annual Needs and Livelihood Analysis (ANLA) indicate an improvement in food security compared to 2009. About 9.7% of the population will be severely food insecure compared to 21% in 2009. This severely food insecure is the segment of the population that is generally...
 Sudan | Access to Information | Agriculture | Environmental Awareness | Education
Sudan MP says 150,000 starving in Red Sea state
feedproxy.google.com | 02 Apr 2011
A Sudanese opposition MP said on Saturday that 150,000 people are suffering from hunger in his constituency in an impoverished region of Red Sea state and called on those responsible to resign. "150,000 people living in 40 villages in south Tokar are suffering from hunger," said Hamid Idriss, who represents the region in the Red Sea state assembly.
 Sudan | Access to Information | Agriculture | Food Security | Planning and Management of Development
Nile Basin Countries Hopeful Framework Pact To Be Signed
AfricaFiles | 05 Mar 2011
There are only two months left for The Nile Basin upstream states to convince Egypt, Sudan, Burundi and The Democratic Republic of Congo to sign the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement, which would guarantee water security for all nations who receive water via the Nile River.
 Burundi | Congo | the Democratic Republic of the | Egypt | Sudan
DDR in Sudan: Too Little, Too Late?
feedproxy.google.com | 02 Mar 2011
More than six years have passed since the signing of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on 9 January 2005, and yet the country's disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programme—a key element of the CPA—is still in a relatively early stage. After years of political wrangling...
 Sudan | Food Security | Planning and Management of Development | Poverty Reduction
South Sudan: Annual Needs and Livelihoods Assessment 2010/2011
feedproxy.google.com | 18 Feb 2011
The findings of the 2010/11 Annual Needs and Livelihood Analysis (ANLA) indicate an improvement in food security compared to 2009. About 9.7% of the population will be severely food insecure compared to 21% in 2009. This severely food insecure is the segment of the population that is generally...
 Sudan | Food Security | Research
A Roadmap for Peace in Darfur
feedproxy.google.com | 16 Feb 2011
In the aftermath of a successful referendum process in South Sudan which will likely lead to the emergence of two new states – North and South Sudan – from one, and against the backdrop of sweeping changes throughout the Middle East and North Africa, violence in Darfur appears to be on the rise. In...
 Sudan | Food Security | Governance | Poverty Reduction
Government of Sudan and FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to the 15 Northern States ...
feedproxy.google.com | 08 Feb 2011
The cereal harvest for the 15 northern states of the Republic of the Sudan is estimated at 5.707 million MT, comprising 4.606 million MT of sorghum, 0.667 million MT of pearl millet and a low forecast for a wheat harvest in March-April 2010, only partially planted during the assessment, of 0.443 million MT plus small amounts of maize and rice.
 Sudan | Agriculture | Farming Practices | Food Security
Special Report: Government of Sudan and FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to the 15 ...
feedproxy.google.com | 08 Feb 2011
The cereal harvest for the 15 northern states of the Republic of the Sudan is estimated at 5.707 million MT, comprising 4.606 million MT of sorghum, 0.667 million MT of pearl millet and a low forecast for a wheat harvest in March-April 2010, only partially planted during the assessment, of 0.443 million MT plus small amounts of maize and rice.
 Sudan | Agriculture | Food Security | Research
S Sudan's daunting challenges
english.aljazeera.net | 07 Feb 2011
Southern Sudan is likely to become an independent nation once the official results of its referendum are announced. But many challenges lie ahead for what would be the world's newest nation.
 Sudan | Industry | Public Policy | Transport | Urban Planning
Sharing Views on Africa
Africa News | 28 Jan 2011
The internet search engine giant - Google - is digitalizing yet to be seceded South Sudan after a smooth January 9 referendum. According to Google, the Satellite Sentinel project would aid humanitarian agencies to quickly respond to crisis without having to go through difficulties of locating unmapped areas as exists now.
 Sudan | Access to Information | Environmental Awareness
New Chinese dam project fuels ethnic conflict in Sudan
AfricaFiles | 27 Jan 2011
Chinese companies have been given three contracts to construct hydroelectric dams along the Nile River in Sudan. Other Nile River Dams have led to the displacement of thousands of Sudanese citizens. The protests over these dams have been strongly suppressed by the Sudanese government.
 Sudan | Hydropower | Land Tenure Issues | Local Issues
South Sudan seeks millions for war-hit wildlife
Reuters | 18 Jan 2011
South Sudan appealed for investors to plough $140 million into its war-hit wildlife parks, seeking to kick-start a tourism industry and wean itself off oil months ahead of its expected independence.
 Sudan | Biodiversity | Impacts on Ecosystems | Protected Areas | Tourism and Biodiversity
Sudan: South Expects New Oil Finds to Boost Its Economy
AllAfrica.com | 14 Jan 2011
Khartoum — South Sudan government expects that new oil finds in the region by European operators would increase its revenue and help to cover important expenditures for the new state which might proclaim its independence next July. The semi-autonomous region is conducting nowadays a referendum on self-determination which would lead to the establishment of a new African state devoid of infrastructure and ravaged by war.
 Sudan | Economics and the Environment | Fossil Fuels
Africa: Will an Independent South Trigger More Secession?
AllAfrica.com | 13 Jan 2011
As Southern Sudan prepares to vote in the secession referendum on January 9, the question on the lips of most observers is whether a vote for secession would spur more secessionist tendencies on the continent. According to a brief by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) "Secession and Precedent in Sudan and Africa" written by Jon Temin, a senior programme officer in USIP's Centre for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, such a scenario is unlikely.
 Sudan | Food Security | Poverty Reduction
Sudan needs clearer oil-sharing deal
BBC World Service | 10 Jan 2011
Sudan needs to have greater transparency over its oil revenues to help preserve peace in the region, according to a new report. Campaign organisation Global Witness says suspicions over how revenues have been shared have added greatly to mistrust between north and south. The report comes ahead of Sunday's referendum on southern independence.
 Sudan | Economics and the Environment | Energy Consumption | Fossil Fuels
BIODIVERSITY: Pharaonic Palm at Risk of Extinction, Again
Inter Press Service | 07 Jan 2011
Environmentalists have called for more efforts to protect the argun palm, a rare desert tree prized by the ancient Egyptians that is on the verge of extinction.
 Egypt | Sudan | Biodiversity | Conservation
How Kenya was left stranded with tanks meant for S. Sudan
Daily Nation | 09 Dec 2010
The US last year threatened to impose sweeping sanctions against Kenya if it delivered 32 Russian-made tanks to the government of Southern Sudan, according to leaked embassy cables. The cables prove that the government did not tell the truth when it claimed that the tanks were meant for the Kenyan military. Not only were the tanks, now lying at the Kahawa Barracks, meant for Southern Sudan, but a further 67 had already passed through Kenya.
 Kenya | Sudan | Trade and Environment | Transport
SOUTH SUDAN; Children Too Hungry to Return to Civilian Life
ips.org | 22 Nov 2010
SOUTH SUDAN, When Timothy was forced into the southern Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) at age 11, the first thing they did was beat him. Then they took him to a military base where his tasks were to carry other soldiers bags, wash their clothes, collect firewood for them, and cook their...
 Sudan | Food Security | Health and Environment | Land Tenure Issues
SUDAN: Food the key to resettlement in South
IRIN News | 12 Nov 2010
The influence of Northern Sudan on Aweil in Bahr el-Gazal state of Southern Sudan is everywhere - from food deliveries to the truck-loads of returnees. You see the lorries – full of people, returnees, says Omwenga Kinanga, project manager for Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team, a local NGO. Traders do not bring much cargo these days.
 Sudan | Agriculture | Food Security

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