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Forgotten in a Protracted Crisis: South Sudanese Refugees in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region Face New Hardships as Aid Withers
Oxfam
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May 21, 2025
Clinics that once offered at least primary care and essential drugs are now often empty shelves, as supply pipelines and NGO health projects are disrupted. Education, too, is imperiled – Thijok, added “schools in the camps lack books and even...
WaterStep Partners with John Dau Foundation & Helps Contain Cholera Outbreak in Duk County, South Sudan in Just 6 Weeks
EIN Presswire
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May 8, 2025
WaterStep has restored dignity, brought hope & life-saving access to safe water to 30,000+ people in South Sudan. LOUISVILLE, KY, UNITED STATES, May 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a region long defined by scarcity, conflict, and displacement,...
UN Reveals Hunger to Intensify in Thirteen Nations
MENAFN
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June 16, 2025
(MENAFN) A new Hunger Hotspots report issued Monday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) reveals that food insecurity will intensify in 13 countries and territories in the coming months, with five...
Transforming South Sudan’s Agricultural Future: John Ladu Simon Jacob
UN International Training and Research Center
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February 21, 2025
Despite not having a university degree, John’s experience and potential were recognized and he was recruited as managing director of his current company, which provides agricultural and extension services. There, John manages an initiative to rent...
Harvesting Hope: Transforming South Sudan’s Agricultural Future
UN International Training and Research Center
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February 20, 2025
Despite not having a university degree, John’s experience and potential were recognized and he was recruited as managing director of his current company, which provides agricultural and extension services. There, John manages an initiative to rent...
The ripple effects of US foreign aid cuts to food and water access across North Africa
Middle East Institute
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June 13, 2025
This article is part of an MEI research initiative examining the complex interplay between food security, governance, political stability, and economic development in North Africa and the Sahel. The project brings together a diverse range of...
How Uganda’s push for “clean cooking” could save lives and counter climate change
UN Environmental Program
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January 22, 2025
Kagimu is one of a growing number of Ugandans who in recent months have switched to electric cooking technologies. The ambitious nation-wide push, supported in part by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is designed to stem air...
South Sudan: African Development Bank Group approves $46 million grant funding for agricultural productivity, food security and resilience
African Development Bank
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July 12, 2024
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $46.2 million grant to support the first phase of the Climate Resilient Agri-Food System Transformation Programme in South Sudan. This initiative aims to boost...
Clear Blue Technologies to Provide Renewable Energy Solutions for Telecom Sites in Rural South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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September 11, 2024
Clear Blue Technologies to implement renewable energy solutions, bringing sustainable power to rural, off-grid telecommunications sites in South Sudan and the DRC. Hybrid renewable energy-battery systems will ensure market-leading 99.97% uptime...
Empowering South Sudanese Youth Toward Success
UN International Training and Research Center
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August 28, 2024
The Great Ideas Space for South Sudan 2023: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Training for Food Security programme aimed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and network needed to turn their ideas for a social or for-profit enterprise...
Biggest-ever aid cut by G7 members a death sentence for millions of people, says Oxfam
Oxfam
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June 13, 2025
Aid cuts could cost millions of lives and leave girls, boys, women and men without access to enough food, water, education, health treatment G7 countries are making deliberate and deadly choices by cutting life-saving aid, enabling atrocities, and...
Promoting Agritech in South Sudan
UN International Training and Research Center
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July 9, 2024
Kuena James Dak Kuena, Entrepreneur, social worker and ICT specialist South Sudan Kuena James Dak Kuena is a South Sudanese entrepreneur, social worker and ICT specialist who seeks to empower local farmers and advance the agricultural sector by...
I2LEC Crackdown on Environmental Crime in Congo Basin Recovers $11.2 Million in Illicit Goods
EIN Presswire
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November 14, 2024
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, November 14, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A multinational law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Jungle Shield', coordinated by the International Initiative of Law Enforcement for Climate (I2LEC), has...
Statement on Women Building Peace in a Changing Environment, UN Security Council Open Debate
International Committee of the Red Cross
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October 24, 2024
Madam President, Excellencies, Less cruelty in conflict means less hatred as an obstacle to resolving it. That is why of the 100 steps to peace, the first must be humanitarian. The origins of the Red Cross / Red Crescent movement lie in the...
Mary’s Meals Marks World Hunger Day 2025 by Highlighting the Impact of School Feeding
EIN Presswire
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May 27, 2025
Many ask the question if we are losing the fight against hunger. Mary’s Meals offers a simple solution—reaching over 2.6 million children every school day. BLOOMFIELD, NJ, UNITED STATES, May 27, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Observed on May 28,...
Minister Ronald Lamola delivers keynote address at Solidarity Conference on Women, Peace and Security, 9 May
South African Government
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May 9, 2025
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), in partnership with the Gertrude Shope Women’s Mediation Network (GSWMN), invites members of the media to the Solidarity Conference on Women, Peace and Security – Voices of Women...
UN Report Reveals 295M Grapple with Acute Food Insecurity
MENAFN
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May 17, 2025
(MENAFN) A recent report issued by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and its collaborators reveals a concerning trend: global food insecurity and malnutrition continued their upward trajectory in 2024. The report indicates...
The Damascus-SDF agreement two months on: Fragile progress or delayed collapse?
Middle East Institute
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May 9, 2025
On March 10, 2025, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the president of Syria, and Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), signed a historic agreement, ending a long-running divide between Damascus and the Democratic Autonomous...
Slovenia at 58th session of UN Human Rights Council
Slovenia Government
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April 4, 2025
SLOVENIA, April 4 - All Slovenia's initiatives were adopted unanimously: the resolution on the human rights of older persons, the resolution on women, diplomacy and human rights and the resolution on the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable...
EBC Financial Group Deepens Commitment to United to Beat Malaria with Renewed Global Partnership and First-Ever 5K Run Sponsorship
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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April 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, April 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the world marks World Malaria Day 2025 under the theme “Malaria Ends With Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite,” EBC Financial Group (EBC) is renewing its global partnership with the United Nations...