Children have lunch at the Juba Orphanage, Sudan.
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This event has been scheduled to mark the imminent independence of the Republic of South Sudan on 9 July, following January’s referendum in which people of the south voted to separate from the north after decades of civil war.
Brainstorm session organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on how to deal with conflict and transition in the context of South Sudan
This event will launch the book Waging Peace in Sudan: Past, Present and Future (Sussex Academic Press). Speakers will discuss how regional efforts, the engagement of the Troika (US, UK and Norway) and the two leaders on each side, Vice President Ali Osman Taha and late Chairman of the SPLM/A Dr John Garang worked together in ending the longest civil war in Africa and will provide possible scenarios on the future of the two Sudans.
Livelihoods & food security work by SOS Sahel in Yobtahashi, Adabai, Sanganeb, Mistahalel & Aguamt villages, Rural Port Sudan.
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The rapid expansion of Sudan’s towns and cities confronts humanitarian and development agencies with new and complex challenges. Speakers will reflect on the challenges of urbanisation in Port Sudan, and introduce broader issues facing eastern Sudan.
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The rapid expansion of Sudan’s towns and cities confronts humanitarian and development agencies with new and complex challenges. The speakers will reflect on the challenges of urbanisation in Nyala within the context of the referendum in Southern Sudan.
Children have lunch at the Juba Orphanage, Sudan.
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The speakers will reflect on the challenges of urbanisation in Khartoum and Juba within the context of the ongoing referendum in Southern Sudan.
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Presenting case studies from Khartoum, Juba, Nyala and Port Sudan, this meeting series by the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute explores the phenomenon of urbanisation and its drivers in different parts of Sudan, and analyses its social, environmental and economic consequences, with particular attention to urban livelihoods, as well as infrastructure and the provision of basic services.
At this timely event, as the results of the South Sudan referendum begin to emerge, senior NCP and SPLM commentators from Abyei discuss the future of the region.