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Mary Venerato Laki, South Sudan returnee: "We want to go to our own homeland"
6 May 2013
(IRIN
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Years ago, Mary Venerato Laki fled conflict in South Sudan, moving north to Sudan, where she worked as a teacher for 42 years. But after a January 2011 referendum paved the way for South Sudan's independence, Mary, now a 60-year-old widow and sole guardian of four nieces, decided to move back home.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/97980/Mary-Venerato-Laki-South-Sudan-returnee-We-want-to-go-to-our-own-homeland
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The long road home to South Sudan
6 May 2013
(IRIN
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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 further south.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97981/The-long-road-home-to-South-Sudan
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Conflict and returnees strain South Sudan food security
2 May 2013
(IRIN
),
Food security in South Sudan is deteriorating in the face of ongoing conflict, high food prices, and the large-scale return of refugee and internally displaced families.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97957/Conflict-and-returnees-strain-South-Sudan-food-security
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South Sudan prioritizes immunization, keeps polio at bay
24 April 2013
(IRIN
),
Through frequent door-to-door polio immunization campaigns, South Sudan has vaccinated more than 94 percent of children under age five against the disease, according to the Ministry of Health. The immunization effort has been one of the country's few health success stories since it achieved independence a year and a half ago.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97910/South-Sudan-prioritizes-immunization-keeps-polio-at-bay
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Uganda pilots mobile courts for refugees
23 April 2013
(IRIN
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Uganda's government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched a pilot mobile court system to improve access to justice for victims of crimes in Nakivale, the country's oldest and largest refugee settlement.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97903/Uganda-pilots-mobile-courts-for-refugees
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Kony hunt still on after CAR coup
26 March 2013
(IRIN
),
The search for the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the rainforests of the Central African Republic (CAR) will continue despite the ouster of President François Bozizé by rebel group Séléka, officials say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97737/Kony-hunt-still-on-after-CAR-coup
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Aid for Trade - does it help the poor?
12 March 2013
(IRIN
),
Since the World Trade Organization launched its Aid for Trade initiative in 2005, an estimated US$200 billion dollars of development funding has been mobilized for the programme. But some NGOs are asking whether Aid for Trade really helps reduce poverty.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97630/Aid-for-Trade-does-it-help-the-poor
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South Sudan's gender gap still too wide
8 March 2013
(IRIN
),
Years after the end of South Sudan’s war with Sudan, the country’s women still find themselves on the front line - this time, battling abuse, child marriage, and a dowry system that commodifies them from birth.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97616/South-Sudan-s-gender-gap-still-too-wide
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African migrants pay high prices to send money home
27 February 2013
(IRIN
),
New data from the World Bank has revealed that African migrants pay more to send money home to their families than any other migrant group in the world.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97557/African-migrants-pay-high-prices-to-send-money-home
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Scant help for South Sudan’s disabled
18 February 2013
(IRIN
),
Tens of thousands of people disabled by shrapnel and landmines during South Sudan’s two-decade-long war with Sudan and thousands more disabled through disease and accidents are struggling to find support in Africa’s newest country, where proper healthcare and funding are in short supply.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97496/Scant-help-for-South-Sudan-s-disabled
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Briefing: Humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Nuba Mountains
14 February 2013
(IRIN
),
The ongoing conflict in Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states continues to present a major challenge to aid agencies in the region, which say access is urgently required to meet the humanitarian needs of hundreds of thousands of people.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97479/Briefing-Humanitarian-crisis-in-Sudan-s-Nuba-Mountains
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Free speech at stake in South Sudan
7 February 2013
(IRIN
),
Increasing reports of harassment faced by journalists and civil society in South Sudan have raised concern that the world’s newest country is curtailing the basic freedoms it spent decades fighting its northern neighbour for.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97425/Free-speech-at-stake-in-South-Sudan
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Reprieve for urban refugees in Kenya, but fear persists
24 January 2013
(IRIN
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Urban refugees in Kenya, threated with relocation to overcrowded refugee camps, are breathing a sigh of relief following a High Court ruling that has provisionally halted the move.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97329/Reprieve-for-urban-refugees-in-Kenya-but-fear-persists
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In Brief: Staples, not export crops, key to tackling Africa’s poverty – report
18 January 2013
(IRIN
),
Africa could reduce its poverty levels faster by focusing more on the production of staples rather than export crops, according to a study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97278/In-Brief-Staples-not-export-crops-key-to-tackling-Africa-s-poverty-report
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Women without men vulnerable in South Sudan's refugee camps
16 January 2013
(IRIN
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Mahasa sits in the dust outside the hut she built herself, holding her youngest son in her arms. The 29-year-old mother of four knows how vulnerable she is. "I'm scared," she said.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97260/Women-without-men-vulnerable-in-South-Sudan-s-refugee-camps
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Fear keeps Abyei residents from returning home
8 January 2013
(IRIN
),
Only a fraction of the 120,000 people who fled the Abyei Area following an invasion by Sudanese troops in May 2011 have returned to their homes, amid fears of repeat military action and uncertainty over the area’s political future.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97191/Fear-keeps-Abyei-residents-from-returning-home
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SOUTH SUDAN: Tensions grow between refugees and host community
2 January 2013
(IRIN
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The earth in Maban County, South Sudan, is already dry and cracked, and even a faint breeze raises a haze of brown dust.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97159/SOUTH-SUDAN-Tensions-grow-between-refugees-and-host-community
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SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Ayom Nyol, “There is nothing left from the burning”
21 December 2012
(IRIN
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Ayom Nyol is one of several thousand people who have returned to Abyei Town, the once-bustling capital of a region lying on the border between South Sudan and Sudan. Sudan deployed troops there in May 2011, leading most of the population, around 100,000 people, to flee southwards.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/97102/SUDAN-SOUTH-SUDAN-Ayom-Nyol-There-is-nothing-left-from-the-burning
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IDPs: African IDP Convention comes into force
6 December 2012
(IRIN
),
The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) 2009, also known as the Kampala Convention, came into force on 6 December; it is the world’s first legally binding instrument to cater specifically to people displaced within their own countries.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96984/IDPs-African-IDP-Convention-comes-into-force
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Grace Taban Genova – Home-brewer, South Sudan
6 December 2012
(IRIN
),
Grace Taban Genova, who thinks she is around 38, is searching for a job and land to cultivate. In the meantime, she sells home-made liquor brewed from kola-nut, sugar, yeast and water.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/96961/Grace-Taban-Genova-Home-brewer-South-Sudan
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