Agok/Doro – December 22, 2011: Six months after the birth of South Sudan as the world’s newest independent country, a series of emergencies are unfolding that require urgent humanitarian responses. The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) has scaled up into full emergency mode in Upper Nile State to respond to the sudden influx of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in neighbouring Sudan. And around the town of Agok in Northern Bahr al Ghazal State MSF is facing the spectre of a food shortage and has launched a preventive supplementary feeding programme for children who risk becoming malnourished in the months... Continue Reading
By Peterking Quaye– for Shout-Africa.com – Developing news received by Shout-Africa.com from Ghana has confirmed that many Liberian refugees at the Buduburam camp are reportedly returning to their native country voluntarily after an announcement by the Ghana Refugee Board that they will lose their refugee status by June 2012. Estimated over 8,000 of the refugees are said to have already gone back to Liberia. The decision, which is being implemented by the international community will cut aid supplies to the 11, 000 refugees. Liberia recently held its second democratic election after experiencing years of civil war. The Information Officer of UNHCR,... Continue Reading
By Peterking Quaye – Liberian refugees living in Ghana will lose their status by June next year. The decision which is being implemented by the international community will cut aid supplies to the refugees. It could also see the closure of the Bububuram refugee camp. Programs Coordinator for the Ghana Refugee Board, Tetteh Padi, told a Shout-Africa.com source that the refugees will be forced to integrate if the deadline elapses. The first 95 Liberian refugees arrived in Ghana in 1990 but the number swelled up to 42,000 in 2004 according to a report by the United Nations High Commission for... Continue Reading
By: Augustine N. Myers – The Minister of Public Works, Attorney-at-Law Samuel Kofi Woods, II, has called for a comprehensive performance review of the Independent Human Rights Commission of Liberia. Public Works Minister, Samuel Kofi Woods Minister Woods who is also former Director of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, made the comments Saturday, December 10, 2011 when he spoke via telephone with some journalists from Brussels en route to Oslo, Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony. He said International Human Rights Day celebrations will have meaning when the legally mandated entity established to provide proper national guidance on human... Continue Reading
In the second half of 2011, MSF witnessed increased insecurity in the camps located near Dadaab, Kenya. The kidnapping of two MSF international staff members in October forced the organisation to halt activities in Ifo camp and to temporarily reduce services in Dagahaley camp to life-saving activities in the hospital only. Despite the situation, MSF medical teams never stopped providing medical care in the biggest refugee camp in the world, and MSF has now resumed all medical activities in Dagahaley to ensure quality medical care for the refugees. The 300-bed hospital in Dagahaley is running at full capacity, and four... Continue Reading
