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Jackson Joshua Jada walked up to a polling centre in the Kator district of Juba at 1 a.m. on 9 January to ensure he would be its first voter in Southern Sudan's long-awaited referendum on self-determination. The moment was a…
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20 January 2011 - On 18 January UNAMID senior officials attended the signing ceremony of a peace agreement between Sudan Liberation Army / Historic (SLA/H), a breakaway faction of Sudan Liberation Army / Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW)…
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20 January 2011 - The provisional results of the South Sudan referendum, provided by South Sudan Referendum Commission (SSRC) and UNMIS, indicate that 55 per cent of participants voted for unity in Darfur. A total of 12,036…
8 January 2011 - The chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission has been awarded the 2010 Tipperary International Peace Award for her contribution to freedom and democracy in Afghanistan. The Tipperary Peace…
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Bukavu, 13 January 2011 - The Bangladeshi Police Unit in Bukavu, the provincial capital of North Kivu, on 13 January paid a courtesy visit to the Ekabana Orphanage located in the town of Kaputu. The contingent doctor, Farid…
As people speak their minds in public forums about implementation of Sudan's peace accord in Blue Nile State, the majority agree that it ended the war but has failed to satisfy their needs. As the "popular consultation"…
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KABUL - Soaring opium prices may induce more farmers to grow opium, warned the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its full 2010 Afghanistan Opium Survey released today. The high prices are based on…
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19 January 2011 - UNAMID confirms reports of the killing of a man in the market of Al Salaam internally displaced persons (IDP) camp, near El Fasher, Norh Darfur, on 17 January by Sudanese police. The motive behind the…
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19 January 2011 - UNICEF and the Government of Sudan’s Water, Environment and Sanitation project, with support of UNAMID, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World Health Organization, have…
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KANDAHAR - Kandahar’s rise in cricket continues as the team beat out players from 21 other provinces to win the national championships in Nangarhar for a second year in a row. Each team played two-day matches against three…
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Ituri, 14 January 2011 – The Force Commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO), Lieutenant General Chander Prakash, respectively visited Bukiringi, Aveba, Kasenyi, Tchomia, Bogoro, Kabona…
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18 January 2011 - Following the stoning of a Central Reserve Police convoy today in El Fasher, North Darfur, officers proceeded to enter a high school in search of those responsible. On entry, shots were fired into the air…