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"For this
cause a man shall leave his father & mother and shall be
united to his wife and the two shall become one"
Together with
their families
Emmanuel Moses
Omot Ochan & Gisma Steven Okoth Gilo
Invite you to
share in the celebration of their wedding
Thursday, 17th
June 2010 at 5:OOpm
All Saints'
Cathedral - Khartoum - Sudan
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Photos by Yunis Ongew
Nyigow: AkoboCiro Touring Anyuak Land |
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South
Sudan: Why is Akobo hungry?
Friday, April 9, 2010
By Elizabeth
Kendal
Religious Liberty Monitoring
Special to ASSIST News Service
(ANS) -- One of the
Government of Sudan's (GoS's) favourite weapons of war
during the 21 year-long jihad against the South (1983-Jan
2005) was engineered famine
The present famine in
Akobo, Southern Sudan, should be viewed in this light. Not
that the GoS has bombed or ravaged Akobo recently, but that
the regime in Khartoum is quite content to let the periphery
starve, and Southern Sudanese civilians are starving when
they shouldn't be <<continues
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| Opiew, Ochan and Odong Obong, left to right, barely
3-day-old triplets, lay under a mosquito net in a hospital
ward in Akobo, southeastern Sudan, Thursday April 8, 2010.
Two years of failed rain and tribal clashes in this Sudan
region bordering Ethiopia have laid foundations for a
humanitarian crisis the U.N. mission dubs the
"hungriest place on earth." A recent survey found
that almost 46 percent of children in the region are
malnourished. Lise Grande, the top U.N. official in southern
Sudan, said most humanitarian agencies regard a malnutrition
rate of 15 percent at an emergency threshold |
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South Sudan food crisis (AKOBO)
Please support our
treatment centres in delivering food and medicines to Akobo
- an area of fierce conflict between two neighbouring tribes
since the start of 2009 - where malnutrition rates are three
times the official emergency level <<more>>
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Is this the
hungriest place on earth?
By Andrew Harding
BBC News, Akobo
Visiting Akobo, Lise Grande said
the levels of malnutrition were three times higher than the
standard UN threshold for an emergency |
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Emaciated children signal crisis in
southern Sudan
By JASON
STRAZIUSO (AP) – Apr 8, 2010
AKOBO,
Sudan — Three-day-old Odong Obong lay in the hospital bed,
his pencil-thin arms almost motionless and his shriveled,
gaunt face resembling that of an elderly man.
Emaciated babies and young
children throughout the ward bore the signs of hunger:
exposed ribs and distended stomachs. Outside, old villagers
reclined motionless in the shade, too frail to walk.
The U.N. calls this the
"hungriest place on Earth" after years of drought
and conflict, with aid agencies already feeding 80,000
people here. A doctor says the worst is yet to come.
Two years of failed
rains and tribal clashes have laid the foundation for
Africa's newest humanitarian crisis. The World Food Program
quadrupled its assistance levels from January to March in
the Akobo region of southeastern Sudan. <<more>> |
| g these kinds of rates now
we can only expect far worse in the coming months," she
said, warning of a 50% short-fall in aid funding, and an
urgent need to pre-position food supplies before seasonal
rains cut off access to more than half of the region in the
next few weeks. |
| Emergency
response underway after young children found with high
malnutrition rates in Akobo, Southern Sudan
30. March 2010,
Medair
Sudan (Southern Sudan) - A
recent assessment in Akobo East County found malnutrition
rates that were three times higher than the accepted
threshold for an emergency situation.
“Our team were
surprised by the situation they found,” said Jeri Westad,
Country Director for Medair, who initiated the assessment in
association with Save the Children in Southern Sudan (SCiSS).
“This is one of the most desperate places we have seen in
Southern Sudan <<read more>> |
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AKOBO HISTORY- LAND AND PEOPLE |
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 Important statement to the great people of
Sudan
Looking
critically and realistically into our social and
political arena,
and far from the unrealistic approach that tie
down and detain our ability to free thinking; it
is very obvious that our community is uniquely
characterized by the rich cultural and
geographically diversity. This diversity is largely witnessed and it is
absolutely undeniable and indisputable especially
in our context in south Sudan and in the Sudan as
large. continue in
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or Click here to read the Arabic
Version
 Kassa and Leashia
happiest moments
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Akobo town: Is an
attractive fertile piece of land surrounded by
four major Rivers and they are Agwei, Dikony, Dikon and
the Akobo River.
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Disorderly Freedom of Movement to
anywhere or to Acquire Property is unlawful and has
Consequences.
February 26/2008 J.
Ojoch*
Before attempting to express my opinions I
want to salute the heroes who fought and sacrificed their
lives and those who won the battle alive to make us all free
and happy today. May those who survived live long and
longer.
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Remembering December 13th
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December 13, 2008 marks the
five-year anniversary of the brutal massacre of 424
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| Know the Anyuak people.
The Anuak are a river
people whose villages are scattered along the
banks and rivers of southeastern Sudan and western
Ethiopia. The Anuak of Sudan live in a grassy
region that is flat and virtually treeless. During
the rainy season, this area floods, so that much
of it becomes swampland with various channels of
deep water running through it
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A Message of Hope for the
New Year from the Anuak Justice Council (Click 2008)
An
Anyuak teenager girl keenly caring for her younger
brother at home. Meanwhile both heads of the
household are outside searching for daily meals.
Interviews on how December
13 was honored in US
Achalla Gora and Rachel Anok
The 2007 December
13 has come and gone. But the messages delivered
that day still linger in the minds of the Anyuak
people and their friends. Well-selected speakers
delivered very powerful messages to strengthen the
community, the families who lost loved ones and
all the sympathetic friends of the Anyuak
communities around the world Full text.
Obama & Oballa
In recent
days, the issue of race has threatened to consume
the 2008 presidential campaign
(Click remember the pass)
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Anyuak
Community traditional dance team - Brisbane.
Australia
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War Does Not Pay: It is Time
for Law and Order.
By Obang
Kello
This
is a message to both warlords and peaceful people.
War does not pay. The Anyuak have said many times
even in front of the GoSS President that they do
not want their voice heard through violence. How
much more can this position be made clearer to the
Lou Nuer warlords? In recent article published by
the Independent on line: “The crisis in the Horn
of Africa: Nomads with no future,” (08 September
2006) herdsmen from 60 tribes including two Nuer
clans, the Lou and Jikany Nuer who have fought a
savage for decades gathered in Ethiopia, united by
the battle to preserve their way of life.
According to the article, for the nomadic herdsmen
of east Africa, this was an opportunity for their
voice - so often ignored by their own governments
- to finally be heard. Is not the peaceful way the
Anyuak want to get their land back from nomadic
tribe?
Full article click
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| Land bill passes in South Sudan
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26, 2009 (JUBA) — The South Sudan parliament
today passed a bill on land, natural resources and
the environment by acclamation, to be enacted by
the presidency the Government of Southern Sudan.
The bill
was passed at 4:34 p.m. Sudan local time. On
behalf of GOSS, the minister of parliamentary
affairs expressed gratitude to legislators for
passing the land bill to address a source of
fighting that has cost thousands of lives,
especially youth, during 53 years of liberation
struggle. <<<<Continue>>>> |
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"You crown the year
with your bounty, and your carts overflow with
abundance."
Psalm 65:11