Notwithstanding slower global growth and lingering impacts of recent catastrophic floods, private sector activity, outside the oil sector, has been supported by a relative return to peace, and higher government spending. Nevertheless, the economy is estimated to have contracted by 0.4 percent in FY23/24, reflecting drags from oil production. Supported …
Three million Sudanese children under the age of five are suffering from severe malnutrition, according to the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF).In its weekly bulletin seen by APA on Sunday, UNICEF said the Sudan National S3M survey conducted in 2013 revealed that 128 of the total 184 localities in the country …
Khartoum — At least nine people, including five women, died of sunstroke in northern Sudan where temperatures ranged between 47 to 48 DC in the shade. The Minister of Health, Bahar Idris Abugarda, said the deaths were a result of heat stroke. Speaking at a press conference he held Thursday, …
Mortality rates owing to severe malnutrition among children in western Jebel Marra, Central Darfur, are rising rapidly. Nierteti Hospital is crowded with young patients from the areas of Guldo, Tor, and Golo, an activist told Radio Dabanga. "From 18 July until Thursday more than 15 children at Nierteti hospital died …
Thousands of civilians in South Sudan's Upper Nile state face starvation after the government blocked aid groups from using the Nile River to deliver relief food, aid agencies said Friday. The Nile is a transportation lifeline in a country with few all-weather roads or airstrips, but it currently forms the …
Khartoum- Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Dr. Hassan Abdul Gadir Hilal announced the signing of an agreement between the Ministry of Environment and the Nile River State in the field of agricultural fence to ward off the rain and remnants of mining, calling for the need to monitor environmental …
Khartoum - Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Hassan Abdul Gadir Hilal announced that his country got $ 20 million from the World Bank, as part of the bank support to the great green wall and support of the environment, and that Sudan received $ 3.8 million as first payment. …
Ghana has slipped further on its sanitation performance globally to become the World’s 7th worst performing country, according to a new report released on Tuesday. The Joint Monitoring Programme report, “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment,” a collaborative effort between the World Health Organisation (WHO) …
Thousands of people in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state are likely to face severe hunger due to lack of rainfall and unexpected crop failure, an official told Sudan Tribune Monday. The state minister for agriculture, Clement Chichim, disclosed that the greater Kapeota counties were the worst-affected regions. Greater Kapeota consists …
South Sudan’s wildlife has been forced to relocate to neighboring countries due to rampant poaching and their habitats being used as battlegrounds during the ongoing crisis. Many animals flee their homes for safety in neighboring countries, as their habitats have become the epicenter for fierce clashes between warring factions, says …
Khartoum — Sudan's Health Ministry on Sunday said it raised the level of alert to prevent transmission of cholera to the Sudanese territories from South Sudan. "The Federal Ministry of Health has raised the level of alert in the disease monitoring system and adopted a package of precautionary measures to …
Cholera cases are rapidly increasing in South Sudan's capital, Juba, as the cost of clean water skyrockets amid a worsening economic crisis. 33 people have died in Juba alone including seven children under five, with 700 more people infected with the deadly and contagious disease. Zlatko Gegic, Country Director for …
Use of oral vaccines is proving to be an effective tool to control outbreaks of cholera, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday, adding that the deadly water-borne disease is a major public health concern from Tanzania to South Sudan, and Nepal to Yemen. The use of Oral Cholera Vaccines …
Cairo — Within two weeks, a tripartite meeting by Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia will be held in Khartoum to resume negotiations on the impact of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River's water provision on the two downstream countries. The decision was taken at a meeting of 12 …
Cholera has killed at least 18 people in Juba, capital of South Sudan, in the last three weeks and the government will step up measures to counter the spread of the disease, the health minister Riek Gai Kok said on Tuesday. Juba has seen more than 171 suspected cholera cases …
Donors attending Tuesday's Geneva pledging conference for South Sudan should address a massive funding shortfall - more than $1.1 billion of the humanitarian response - in order to avert immense suffering for millions of people, humanitarian agencies said today. $200 million out of the $529 million that was pledged at …
Maggi noodles are popular in Kenya and neighbouring countries East Africa's biggest supermarket chain has withdrawn Nestle's Maggi noodle brand from its shops in five countries, amid concerns over food safety. Nakumatt says the noodles have been withdrawn from shops in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Sudan, after demands …
The International Islamic Relief of Muslim of World League has opened a new station to provide drinking and irrigation water in 'Ghabsha Badein' area, which lies 170 kilometers to the West of Al-Obeid city in Western Sudan. The station is provided with capabilities necessary to pump large quantities of water …
Juba — The lives of nearly a quarter of a million children are at significant risk as food and nutrition security rapidly deteriorate in parts of South Sudan, UNICEF said today. The crisis comes as a result of ongoing conflict, diminished household food stocks and a shrinking economy. According to …
In an effort to continue essential support for millions of the world's most food insecure people, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) delivered another 47,500 metric tons of sorghum to Sudan. This food, supplied through USAID's Office of Food for Peace, will support the UN World Food Program's (WFP) …
The number of people facing food shortages is projected to hit 4.6 million by July At least 40% of South Sudan’s population will face severe food shortage over the next couple of months as the latest escalation in a bloody civil war disrupts farming and aid deliveries, a top aid …
