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Focusing on the importance of voluntary testing, awareness-raising and equal rights, Juba, Malakal, Wau and Khartoum celebrated World AIDS Day in early December. "People living with HIV/AIDS in Southern Sudan face discrimination ... some were dismissed from their workplace," said Lole Laila Lole…

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities was marked earlier this month by a roundtable discussion in the Southern Sudanese capital of Juba, and a landmark meeting in the national capital of Khartoum between officials of the National Elections Commission (NEC) and a delegation representing…

Commemorating International Anti-Corruption Day at the Nyakuron Cultural Center in Juba on 9 December, Southern Sudan launched a five-year anti-corruption strategy for 2010-2014. The strategy was a roadmap developed in participatory consultation with stakeholders in the government, private sector…

Hosting UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy Read the full transcript

Statement by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi today congratulated the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) on reaching agreements allowing…

Today, the United Nations Secretary-General's Special representative for Sudan, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, welcomed the culmination of the voter registration exercise, which was conducted peacefully throughout the country, registering more than 15 million voters, over 75 % of the estimated voting-age…

Human Rights Day was celebrated throughout Sudan on 10 December with speeches, poetry, dances, football matches and military parades. Warrap State residents gathered in Kuajok's Freedom Square, together with state ministers, UNMIS officials and members of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement as…

Some 1,200 Mabaan internally displaced persons (IDPs) set off from Ed Damazin, Blue Nile State, to their homes in Upper Nile State in two convoys on 7 and 14 December, the last UN and state joint organized return to that area funded by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Addressing the…

As voters' registration for the scheduled April 2010 national elections closed on 7 December, citizens throughout Sudan rushed to add their names before the books were officially closed. By the end of the day, a total of more than 15 million voters, or over 75 per cent of the estimated voting-age…

Statement by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, expressed his concern over the detention and alleged beating of some prominent Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) leaders, opposition supporters and…

A series of four Abyei villages' hall meetings was concluded yesterday in the first ever post-court ruling engagement of the area's Administration with the Misseriya and Dinka-Ngok communities. The Administration's message that "boundaries are not barriers" was positively received by some 4,000…

In an effort to push forward the return of internally displaced persons from Ed Damazin, to Bonj, Blue Nile State, the Pakistani Engineering Company recently made extensive repairs to a badly deteriorated road in the Kurmuk area. The 33-member Pakistani team worked for 10 days to strengthen, harden…