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The US Special Envoy for Sudan, General Scott Gration, visited DanChurchAid Mine Action programme in Sudan on February 19th. He emphasised the need for clearing cluster munitions and mines in South Kordofan.
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The refugee camps in Darfur are alive with conversations and activities, where men and women are busy with daily chores, literacy classes, meetings and income-generating activities. Gathered in a community center, the women talk about their fears of being attacked and their desire to go back home. Although Sudan's president al-Bashir ordered 16 humanitarian organisations out of the country in March 2009, the humanitarian organisations and the people in the camps are still going strong. They are hopeful.
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Derieg camp was and is Fiza’s safe haven since she fled with her family from the Janjaweed 5 years ago. The noise and clutter of the 22.000 IDPs here is nothing compared to the fear of attack, rape or death. Here she can earn money as a tailor, drink tea in the afternoon with her friends at the women’s community center and sleep safe.
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The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa.
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Refugees are now seriously returning to South Sudan. Expectations are high but there is very little to come home to
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Even though the regime in Khartoum and the revolutionary movement SPLM in south have been persuaded to lay down their arms, the challenges of gaining permanent peace in Sudan are huge.
This is said by Mads Frilander, programme officer in DanChurchAid in South Sudan.
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This is said by Mads Frilander, programme officer in DanChurchAid in South Sudan.
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The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) has granted 24 million DKK for DanChurchAid’s HMA programmes in Africa and Asia.
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A large group of children gather in front of Um Gozein School in Mershing, South Darfur, filling the yard with the excited chatter of their young voices. They are lined up and eager to receive school kits being distributed by ACT-Caritas.
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Under the shade of a straw roof, the space is alive with chatter. Children play outside while women gather in groups to practice newly learnt skills that include making pasta and traditional mat weaving.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and DanChurchAid (DCA) hosted an international seminar 'Protection of Civilians - Learning from Darfur' in Copenhagen autumn 2007. A report has been made based on the seminar. It can be downloaded from www.r2p.eu.
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A humanitarian problem that will not go away quickly: Recent killings of African Union peacekeepers and World Food Programme contract drivers combined with detentions of humanitarian workers in the conflict-ridden Darfur region of western Sudan are just the latest examples of a deteriorating situation, which is prompting increased anxiety by those affected by the ongoing crisis, as well as by those responding to the emergency, soon to enter its fifth year.
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With thousands of people forcefully driven from their homes into overcrowded camps, where both resources and opportunities are short, disputes have become a frequent feature of life for many of Darfur’s displaced.
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One evening towards the end of June, a crowd of 300 people or so gather round the local football pitch in Zalingei town in West Darfur. For the first time ever, a football match is being played between young people from Khamsadegaig camp and the local youth team from Zalingei. The match, organised by ACT-Caritas, is an effort to bridge the gap between those displaced by the conflict and the local community.
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In South Darfur, another 3,000 people have been forced to flee their homes because of brutal attacks on their villages, adding their number to the more than 2.5 million others in Darfur that have suffered the same fate. The conflict has killed at least 200,000 people since violence escalated in 2004.
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Five months ago, Lino Lokwkawa and his family came out of hiding from the mountains. They had fled to escape the violence during the 20-year civil war in south Sudan. Now, the Lokwkawa family and others have begun returning home to Ikotos County in Eastern Equatoria and are re-establishing their lives in the village of Longairo.
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The Mennonite Central Committee, a long-standing partner of ACT-Caritas, sent over 40,000 blankets to the Darfur Emergency Program (DERO), to assist conflict-affected communities in the province. But these are no ordinary blankets - they have been individually hand-made by members of the Mennonite community in the U.S.
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On Sunday 17th June, an ACT-Caritas employee was shot and killed on his way home from work in West Darfur. ”This killing shows how cruel and chaotic the situation is in Darfur. It’s unacceptable to do humanitarian work in this environment but we have to continue. A lot of people are dependent on our help,” says Lisa Henry, Relief Director in DanChurchAid.
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DanChurchAid continues to work in Darfur despite the worsening security situation. 72,000 people are being provided with access to clean water, latrines, and skills in good hygiene practices.
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Sudan: A sand track leads north from Zalingei to the village of Abata, but these days few people travel along it. The track is flanked by tall acacia trees, and every so often the track cuts through a group of deserted, roofless shells of buildings. The countryside is silent. Where there were villages, only the wind now speaks through the trees.
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Providing remote rural communities with access to health care has been one of the principal achievements of ACT/Caritas’s health care program in Kubum locality, south Darfur. A mobile clinic has been just part of the solution. However, as funding reduces, sustainability is now a major concern.
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Firewood collection: A threat to women and a threat to the environment. ACT/Caritas’s Darfur Emergency Response Operation is working on initiatives to protect both.
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Darfur: As the sun rises from behind the mountain, boys in long, white shirts, known as “jelabia,” hurry through the streets of Nertiti, kicking up the dust with their feet.
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Darfur: Over the past two months, more than 10,000 people have arrived in Otash camp, fleeing attacks on their homes in the Tulus and Buram localities in Sudan’s South Darfur province.
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To mark World AIDS Day (December 1), the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC), a local partner of ACT-Caritas, has organized three days of events in Nyala town, the capital of South Darfur state.
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Gunfire, fields alight and homes burning. Around 40,000 civilians have been forced from their homes in the eastern region of South Darfur in the past month.
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For some of the internally displaced people living in camps in Darfur, it is now safe to go home. However, those who can go home are not Darfurians; they are the displaced from southern Sudan who, two decades ago, fled fighting in their homeland.
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Despite intense world pressure, Sudan still resists UN force in Darfur. Sudan faces escalating world pressure in coming weeks to reverse its dogged opposition to the dispatch of a large UN force in war-torn Darfur where UN officials are warning of a worsening humanitarian crisis, writes ReliefWeb.
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People living in camps in Darfur depend on humanitarian aid agencies for all their basic needs: food, water, shelter and essential household items. But with community centers in eleven camps, ACT-Caritas is providing something more: These centers help people overcome trauma.
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In recent months, following attacks by armed militias in Chad, hundreds of refugees from Darfur have fled back across the border into Sudan. Too afraid of the militias to return to their villages, they are sheltering in the town of Juguma.
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Darfur: One boy dies, houses collapse, crops destroyed and water sources contaminated in one of the worst floods Kubum has seen for years. As residents of Kubum started their day’s work on the morning of Thursday, August 10, water started flowing into the town and the villages of Falanduge and Nyilela. Roads were turned into streams, gardens into swamps, and houses into basins of water.
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Over the past few months, humanitarian organizations in Darfur have become the focus of armed attacks, forcing a suspension of humanitarian activities in certain areas. ACT-Caritas water committees continued to work during the suspensions, providing clean water to their communities. But if the pattern of violence is sustained, will they be able to cope?
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In Nyala, the principal town in south Darfur, some youths have chosen to fight. But they have taken up arms against a very different opponent to that of other armed groups - they are fighting against HIV/AIDS.
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Hundreds of families who have spent two months sheltering in school buildings now have their own individual shelters.
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People living in camps in South Darfur continue to live in fear.
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The health clinic in Garsila is finding it hard to cope with an influx of patients. There are not enough staff and not enough drugs to treat the sick.
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The people of Mershing are living in fear of another militia attack. Only five months ago, the town was raided, and 55,000 people were displaced.
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The displaced people of Darfur have started to call for justice and protection from international forces.
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In a unique co-peration, ACT and Caritas have shared their resources to work together to help many of the 1.9 million internally displaced people in Darfur.
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Over the last month, some 4,000 families have fled to Nyala in South Darfur to escape the fighting between militia and rebel groups in Gereida and militia attacks on villages around Buram, an area that lies south of Nyala. They have sought refuge in overcrowded camps surrounding the town. For many of the people displaced by the conflict, Nyala seems their safest option for now.
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The role of the church in Sudan is far from finished. After the peace agreement between the north and the south, there is a need for information, reconciliation and also integration of the returning refugees.
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The peace deal between the government of Sudan and the main southern rebel movement the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement signed in January 2005 has taken its first steps forward. On 10 May a joint military ceasefire committee met to discuss how to implement the peace deal which officially ends one of Africa’s longest and deadliest wars.
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Act International and Caritas Darfur: Armed militias have driven more than 55,000 people from their homes in South Darfur.
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In the Nuba Mountains in Sundan, DanChurchAid has taken an innovative cross conflict approach involving the NGOs JASMAR and OSIL from the government and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement sides respectively. This is aimed to contribute to the peace and confidence-building effort between the different sides of the conflict.
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