13 March 2015 - Following up on a pledge made at the High-Level Event on the Humanitarian Crisis in South Sudan in Nairobi on 9 February, Japan today confirmed a contribution of US $2.5 million for the mine action in the country.

According to a join press release issued by the Embassy of Japan and the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the funding will go towards a project, “Creation of quick response capacity and provision of support to the Japanese Engineering Contingent”.

“The new contribution and support from the people of Japan will enable UNMAS to establish Quick Response Teams and Explosive Detection Dog teams,” said the press release. “They will conduct activities to provide an explosive-free safe environment to protect civilians and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance.”

The Quick Response Teams will conduct emergency response to reports of explosive items, conduct surveys and clearance of explosive remnants of war, and provide risk education to people at risk, the statement said.

It added that the Explosive Detection Dog Teams will provide explosive and/or weapons search capacity at entrances to and inside such facilities as UN camps, Protection of Civilians sites and other relevant places.

The teams would also support the infrastructure construction and rehabilitation activities of the Japanese Engineering Contingent in UNMISS, the statement said.

The Japanese Ambassador South Sudan, Mr. Takeshi Akamatsu stressed that as the chair of the Mine Action Support Group since 2014, his country had strongly committed to make every effort to support mine action activities globally.

He noted that Japan was concerned about the threat caused by explosive remnants of war in South Sudan, which are threatening lives and hampering the ability of aid agencies to deliver services to vulnerable people and promote the socio-economic development.

“We hope that the support from the Japanese people will contribute to creating a safe and secure environment free from the threat of explosives for people in South Sudan,” he said.

He reiterated Japan’s support for UNMAS in continuing their work and leadership in the international community to help create an explosive-free environment.

Lance Malin, UNMAS Programme Manager, stressed the importance of the support from Japan and appreciation of Japan’s support for the UN agency’s clearance efforts in South Sudan.

“We admire Japan's strong initiative and moral support for global mine action activities,” said Mr. Malin. “This funding will be used to clear dangerous areas throughout the country including those from the current crisis, to create a safe environment for the South Sudanese people and humanitarian aid workers.”

He added that UNMAS would continue to work closely with the UNMISS Japanese Engineering Contingent in supporting their operations.

According to the press release, during the last three years, Japan’s contribution to mine action operations in South Sudan has exceeded US $10 million.

HIGHLIGHTS

• On 10 March, the Special Representative of the United Nations SecretaryGeneral (SRSG) and head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, Ms. Ellen Margrethe Loej, and the United States Chargé D’Affaires, Mr. Charles Twining, visited Malakal. “I expressed my grave concerns about the forcible recruitment of boys recently at the Wau Shilluk village near Malakal and elsewhere in Upper Nile State,” Ms. Loej said.

• On 09 March, the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, announced the appointment of Mr. Stephen O’Brien as Under-SecretaryGeneral for Humanitarian Affairs, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Emergency Relief Coordinator. He will succeed Ms. Valerie Amos.

• On 08 March, South Sudan commemorated International Women’s Day with a variety of activities focused on issues such as gender-based violence, early marriage, girls’ rights to education, participation of women in the ongoing peace process, and more presence of women in leadership roles.

• Peace talks were suspended on 06 March. On 03 March, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on a framework for imposing sanctions, which will be reviewed after 01 April, the next Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) peace talks deadline.

Highlights

• Since its launch end March 2014, UNICEF has completed 40 Rapid Response Missions (RRMs), reaching a total of 705,000 people including 144,000 children under five. In 2015, the RRM remains a critical response model to provide humanitarian assistance in hard to reach areas. Since the start of the year, six RRM missions have been completed in northern Jonglei and northern Unity States, reaching over 102,000 people, including 17,000 children under five. Two missions are currently underway in Kuach and Nimni in Guit County, Unity State.

• UNICEF continues to support the release and reintegration of children formerly associated with the Cobra Faction. Following a release in Fertet on 6 March, the total number of released boys is now 660. Two new local partnerships have been established to undertake community-based monitoring, including monitoring of possible re-recruitment.

• UNICEF is continuing its advocacy on the recruitment of children. While some of the forcibly recruited children in Wau Shilluk are now returning home for meals and to sleep, they continue to be required to attend military training during the day. There has been no formal release of children.

• UNICEF commissioned a water system in Nabweliangakine, Kapoeta East County providing 3,000 people with safe water. Kapoeta East is in the epicentre of the remaining Guinea Worm cases in South Sudan. In 2015,
UNICEF will provide 55 boreholes towards the final push to eradicate Guinea Worm from South Sudan by the end of 2016.

12 March 2015 - To promote peace and security in Wau County, UNMISS today handed over a police post to the county’s police commission.

The police post worth $50,000 was built using funding from the mission’s Quick Impact Projects.

Speaking at the hand-over ceremony of the post, which includes offices and prison cells for men and women as well as juveniles, Acting State Coordinator Nwanne Vwede-Obahor described it as infrastructure that would help the new county to function fully.

“We look for projects which have maximum impact in the community,” said Ms. Vwede-Obahor. “The people of this community prioritized their security which shows their commitment to ensure peace and security.”

The State Coordinator acknowledged the good cooperation UNMISS is enjoying in the state authorities.

UNMISS Relief, Reintegration and Protection Officer Bernald Brima, who was in charge of the project, reiterated that the police station was constructed based on the priority of county.

Zekaria Makuac, Director of Police of Wau County, said previously, residents of Wau County used to travel all the way to Wau town to report any crime related cases.

“This time, any complaint or case can be easily brought to police,” he said. “Police is a close friend of citizens (and the police post) will be open (24 hours daily).”

Mr. Makuac promised to equip the new police post with necessary facilities including power and fence.

12 March 2015- As part of continuing efforts to enhance community policing in Eastern Equatoria State, UN Police (UNPOL) advisors today held an awareness forum on crime prevention.

Present at the event, which was the third of its kind in recent weeks, were 123 pupils and four teachers at Dumak Upper Primary School.

UNPOL advisor Teddy Kargbo noted that he was impressed that the school’s head, Rogato Obwaha Marcello, was the first primary school head teacher to invite UNPOL for such a programme.

He encouraged pupils to give a moral support to their head teacher by improving on their performance.

“For you to be what you want to be in ten years to come, you must get prepared now,” said Mr. Kargbo. “Dedicate your time to improve on weak subjects (instead) of wasting time on (criminal acts).”

Jone Banuve, another UNPOL advisor, advised the pupils to avoid bad peer groups and to help the South Sudan police to advance investigations against crimes to create safer environment for their studies.

“I tell you, if you acquire anything through theft or burglary, you’ll take short time to enjoy and long period of time to suffer in prison,” he stressed.

UNMISS gender police advisor Fatmata Gbla warned the female pupils never to give in to men who could destroy their beautiful future.

She said it was too early for the school girls to acquire phones and other expensive items from men whose only target would ruin their future.

“Embark on studies and have what you want when you’re educated and employed,” said Ms. Gbla. “Use the opportunities you have to develop yourselves. I was also encouraged to be what I am today.”

Speaking on behalf of other pupils, Santo Ewot thanked UNPOL for the discussion on crime prevention.

“I now know who to report to in case of crime occurrences in school or in the community,” he said, adding that he would like to become a police man in future.

Highlights

● During the month of February, Mine Action partners released 960,770 square meters of land; and assessed, surveyed, or cleared 552 kilometers of road from mines and unexploded ordnance.

● Thirty-seven per cent of funds pledged at the Nairobi conference on South Sudan and the region have been received.

4.1 million People to be assisted by the end of 2015 (HRP)

2.5 million People facing crisis/emergency levels of food insecurity Jan-Mar 2015 (IPC)

1.5 million People internally displaced by conflict since December 2013 (OCHA)

$529 million Pledged at Nairobi conference for response to South Sudan crisis (OCHA)

March 13, 2015 (JUBA) – The South Sudanese government has welcomed extension of peace talks with rebels after direct negotiations between two warring factions hit a deadlock a week ago.

“As the government, we welcome the extension of the talks because finding a solution to the problem requires participation of not only the two parties to the conflict but also those affected by their actions,” foreign minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin said Friday.

“And involving everybody takes time because it is a process”, he added.

South Sudan president, Salva Kiir and the armed opposition leader, Riek Machar on 6 March failed to agree on a permanent peace deal, despite pledging to end the conflict that has killed thousands and displaced millions of people since its outbreak in 2013.

Marial, however, commended the African Union and the United Nations Security Council for giving the two sides an opportunity to iron out their differences through dialogue, instead of violence and for indicating readiness to delay imposition of targeted sanctions.

The minister’s remarks follows a visit to Africa by a team from the UNSC, during which they agreed with the AU to grant both warring parties more time to reach a peace deal or face possible sanctions.

Ismael Gaspar Martins, Angola’s ambassador to the world body made this announcement following a joint meeting with officials from the AU Peace and Security Council in Addis Ababa, Thursday.

"It takes time to resolve problems which are not simple," said Martins, who co-chaired of the AUPSC meeting in the Ethiopian capital.

"It also takes time to bring leaders together and create cohesion,” he stressed.

Last week, members of the UNSC unanimously adopted a resolution permitting the creation of a system to impose sanctions on individuals or entities perceived to be obstructing the peace process.

Luka Biong Deng, the director for peace and development studies at Juba University says president Kiir has a lot to share with the people of South Sudan to renew any lost hope among the public.

“We are in a real crisis and it is becoming more complicated, there is a feeling of despair among the people especially; they attached a lot of hope to the peace talks in Addis Ababa and everybody was expecting that by 5th March, peace would come to the country,” Deng told Sudan Tribune during a Friday interview.

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)-led talks between the two warring parties will resume next month, Ethiopia’s foreign ministry said Wednesday.

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Addis/Brussels | 12 Mar 2015

Another round of South Sudan peace talks mediated by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) (The members of IGAD are Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda) in Addis Ababa has failed. The regional organisation was unable to alter the domestic and neighbouring nations’ military, political and economic calculus favouring further war, because its own divisions prevented it from applying concerted pressure for compromise. Its limitations laid bare, IGAD now calls, sensibly, for mediation to be led by an expanded “IGAD Plus” group that may include the African Union (AU), China, the U.S., UK, Norway and European Union (EU). But talks are dangerously suspended until April. Meanwhile, fracturing within both the government and the opposition coalitions threatens to substantially expand and complicate the war. The government has offered Sudan Peoples Liberation Army – In Opposition (SPLA-IO) members an amnesty until 31 March, after which a major offensive is likely. It is thus critical to restart preparatory talks and intense diplomacy before the end of this month.

The government’s army, the SPLA, has been gaining ground since May 2014 thanks to major arms purchases, improved tactics and the influence and presence of the Ugandan army. Many in the SPLA increasingly see little reason for concessions to the SPLA-IO. The amnesty is unacceptable to most in the SPLA-IO, who would be expected to return to the SPLA without political guarantees and with their former ranks, while many officers who remained with the government have been promoted. The government feels urgency to push for victory, as a looming fiscal crisis threatens its fragile coalition, much of which is built upon patronage networks running short of cash. Disgruntlement in important parts of the country – the Equatorias and Bahr el Ghazal – is mushrooming into new opposition groups, only some of which are affiliated to the SPLM-IO, where tensions over military and political strategy as well as personalities threaten the movement’s hard-forged unity.

REPORT | South Sudan: Jonglei – “We Have Always Been at War”, 22 December 2014

The priority for IGAD Plus must be to secure peace between what for the moment at least are still two broad groupings. No time should be lost engaging hardliners on both sides so as to stop those not in Addis Ababa from spoiling the process. To deter emerging anti-Juba groups from joining the war, a final agreement must have provisions for governance reform that address their grievances. All this requires substantial, coordinated work by IGAD Plus in the region as well as in South Sudan. In particular, giving it special observer status might facilitate Uganda contributing to the negotiations more systematically than at the Heads of State summits. The new mediation should also more carefully weigh how to use both the forms of pressure at its disposal – such as personal sanctions, asset freezes, travel bans, an arms embargo, criminal accountability and use of force – and the types of incentives that might be provided (and by which partner) to encourage compromise.

REPORT | Sudan and South Sudan’s Merging Conflicts, 29 January 2015

Monitoring and upholding the cessation of hostilities agreement – one of the IGAD talks’ few successes – is vital; there are frequent skirmishes, but it has prevented return to full-scale war. However, the beleaguered IGAD Monitoring and Verification Mission (MVM) needs urgent improvement; its reporting is not timely and does not regularly identify individuals responsible for violations. Finally, the new UN Security Council sanctions regime needs to be used carefully to support the peace process – flawed information has already led at least one individual who was not present during an atrocity to be targeted for EU sanction.

CONFLICT ALERT | Looming Military Offensives in South Sudan, 29 October 2014

To prevent full-scale war taking hold again while the mediation is being restructured, IGAD Plus, including existing envoys, must:

• pre-empt a government offensive by immediately beginning preparatory work – including with both warring parties – in South Sudan and the region before the next round of talks;

• utilise the preparatory period to establish IGAD Plus’s mediation strategy, including how and by which member to mix pressure and incentives;

• pay specific attention to the conflict’s regional dimensions, including by giving special observer status to Uganda;

• prioritise dialogue with hardline military commanders on both sides to stop those not in Addis Ababa from undermining the process; and

• significantly reform the IGAD MVM to:

-- enable the SPLA-IO to rejoin, which may require establishing an operational base in the SPLA-IO’s Pagak headquarters and moving the Joint Technical Committee from Juba to Addis Ababa;

-- report violations to IGAD Plus and the Security Council within 72 hours; and

-- identify individuals, not just armed groups, responsible for violations, so the Security Council can better justify potential individual sanctions.

Jacob Achiek, Lucy Poni

Last updated on: March 14, 2015 5:31 PM

BOR— Asia's newest nation and one of its oldest are stepping up to help Africa's -- and the world's -- youngest country, South Sudan.

On Friday, more than half of a $150,000 grant from the government of Timor-Leste, which became independent from Indonesia in May 2002, was released to officials in Jonglei state. The $80,000 is to be used to build a school in Bor County. Many schools in the county have been shut down by the 15-month-old conflict in South Sudan.

The cornerstone of the school was laid on December 5, 2013 in Kolnyang payam by then Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão. Ten days later, violence erupted in Juba and spread around the most of the country, causing officials in Bor County to put the construction project on hold.

But conditions are such now in Bor County that construction can begin. County Commissioner Mamer Ruk ​said workers have begun digging the foundation, and construction is expected to be completed in a year.

Timor Leste has also pledged to build a hospital in Bor County, although no time frame has been given for that project.

Japan helps clean up

In Juba, meanwhile, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is teaming up with the Juba City Council to clean up the main road in the Juba Nabari neighborhood. A recent visit by Japanese officials prompted the clean-up effort, JICA's public relations adviser Atong Demach said.

​"The Japanese ambassador, as well as some of our officials, went to visit the road to see how the community is maintaining the road, and they were not so impressed with the results," Demach said. The officials found that the concrete culverts built aliong the road to help drain off water in the rainy season were blocked with household trash and sand, she said.

Before the road was built in 2013, the Juba Nabari community often flooded during the rainy season, making it difficult for residents of the neighborhood to move around freely, and increasing the risk of water-borne diseases.

Demach said the road fell into disrepair almost as soon as the Japanese handed responsibility for its maintenance to the local community. With the rainy season due to start next month, Demach said it is urgent that the culverts and the road are cleared of rubbish. Nabari residents will join Japanese engineers deployed with the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and South Sudanese officials for the clean-up operation, which is expected to last three weeks, she said.

Construction of the murram roadway with its concrete drainage culverts cost more than $1-million in 2013.

JICA has said the road benefits more than 3,000 households in Juba Nabari. Demach said it is the duty of those residents to maintain the roadway.

Lucy Poni Modi reported from Washington on the JICA road clean-up.

Over 126,814 persons have arrived in Sudan from South Sudan

• 78,214 persons have received humanitarian assistance (specific assistance only)

• Sudan hosts an estimated 350,000 Southern Sudanese individuals following the separation of South Sudan from Sudan

* Abyei PCA Box is estimated to have received 2,496 (IOM)

• As of 12 March, the estimated number of civilians seeking safety in six Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites located on UNMISS bases is 112,840 including 34,674 in Juba UN House, 21,368 in Malakal, 2,649 in Bor, 52,908 in Bentiu, 337 in Wau and 904 in Melut.

Describes events through 11 March 2015

An LRA attack in Naibiapai, Western Equatoria State (WES), took place in early March 2015, the first in that village in three years. According to local officials, an LRA group likely travelling from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), attacked Nabiapai on the night of 3 March, killing one and abducting 13 people. At least nine were later released after self-defense forces engaged the group, reportedly killing one fighter.

Located in Gangura Payam, Yambio county, Nabiapai sits close to the DRC border. While the village itself has not been attacked since 2012, the local population has been wary of LRA attacks since 2009 when LRA groups based in DRC’s Province Orientale launched frequent attacks that caused a massive displacement of Nabiapai residents to Yambio, the WES capital. LRA attacks in the vicinity of Nabiapai, on the DRC side, have kept large numbers of former Nabiapai residents away from their homes. In May and July of 2014 groups of people travelling from Orientale to Nabiapai market—a significant hub of economic activity in the region—were attacked and looted by LRA elements.

Attacks in South Sudan, however, remain sporadic, with the majority of LRA violence taking place in DRC. The LRA have targeted various locations in Province Orientale’s Haut-Uele region. Numerous attacks were registered along the Duru-Bitima axis throughout February, including the presumed death of a soldier in the Congolese national army on 28 February 2015. A unit of about 13 armed LRA fighters is likely responsible for his death and the abduction of at least 9 people from Bitima in early March 2015. The LRA reportedly killed three people in Nangume, Dungu territory, on 2 March 2015.

At least one LRA group located north of Gwane, near the CAR border in Province Orientale’s Bas-Uele region has also attacked civilians and looted property in February and early March 2015. One particularly brutal attack took place on 17 February in Sukadi where the LRA abducted two women and injured one man. On 22 February the same LRA group clashed with forces from the Congolese army north of Gwane. One LRA fighter was reportedly killed.

LRA activity was also registered in the southeast of Central African Republic (CAR). There were several incidents reported on 10, 17, and 20 February 2015, in Agoumar and Selim, near the town of Rafai in Mbomou prefecture. Six bodies were found near Agoumar on 17 February, reportedly hunters killed by armed forces believed to be part of the LRA. Local sources claimed that the recent increase in violence is not solely attributable to the LRA but also due to a combination of forces described as ‘foreign Muslim elements’ from Sudan or Chad. Locals are also concerned that the nomadic cattle herders known as Mbororo are involved in the recent attacks.

The Ugandan anti-LRA forces in CAR reportedly attacked an LRA group operating north of Mboki, in CAR’s Haut-Mbomou prefecture in late February. According to media reports and the Ugandan army commander Michael Kabango, on 28 February 2015, Ugandan forces killed five members of a 30-strong LRA group, 75 km north of Mboki. Kabango did not provide identities of those killed but another Ugandan army source claimed they were part of the command structure of the larger group. There are concerns that the Ugandan army has hindered the possible defection of the entire group of 30, who had expressed a desire to abandon the LRA ranks and surrender peacefully in Obo. Local actors working on encouraging defections of LRA fighters noted that the death of the five at the hands of the Ugandan army could significantly roll back any gains made in the aftermath of the surrender of commander Dominic Ongwen in early 2015.

Ongwen is currently in The Hague awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda conducted a visit in Uganda at the end of February as part of the case against Onwgen. Bensouda’s visit to Northern Uganda prompted fresh calls for investigations in the behavior of the Ugandan army during the LRA conflict. ‘The atrocities in northern Uganda were committed by both the government troops and LRA rebels. We need fresh investigations and prosecution of both actors,’ Hellen Akello, a survivor of a 2004 LRA massacre of 300 people in Barlonyo, Lira District, told Bensouda during a community meeting, according to media reports. The ICC has indicted only LRA commanders for violence in Northern Uganda, including LRA leader Joseph Kony, whose whereabouts are unknown, and Ongwen.

The LRA is still capable of abusing civilians in Central Africa. According to a report from ‘The Resolve, the LRA Crisis Initiative,’ a non-governmental organization documenting LRA behavior over the last few years, LRA violence in 2014 increased in relation to the two previous years. Attacks and abductions in 2014 increased by 10% and 32%, respectively, from 2013. Yet the LRA fighting force continues to decline in numbers, down to about 150 armed men of Ugandan origin, according to the US organization. There were some 800 armed Ugandan-origin LRA fighters at the end of 2008 when the Ugandan army commenced operations against LRA bases in DRC’s Garamba National Park. In the face of declining numbers, Kony has encouraged the promotion of non-Ugandan fighters to junior officer ranks as well as his own sons to senior leadership positions.

16 March 2015

Highlights

• Hailstorm in Rumbek (Lakes) compromises WFP Logistics and UNHAS air assets, including four helicopters and one caravan.
  An assessment is currently underway to evaluate the impact. It is anticipated that significant logistical challenges will be faced while the assets are being repaired or replaced.

• Expansion of warehouses are at top gear to support prepositioning efforts. The Bor (Jonglei) hub has been completed with a capacity of 11,000 mt. The Rumbek hub (Lakes; 5,000 mt) is expected to be completed by end March while the Bentiu hub (Unity; 10,000 mt) will be finished in April.
  Meanwhile, expansion in Wunrok (Warrap; phase one: 5,000 mt) will commence soon which will serve as a forward hub for Yida and Bentiu (Unity) as well as Abyei.

• A robust fleet augmentation is in place, with the first convoy of 21 fleet trucks and commercial trucks (400 mt of mixed food commodities) already dispatched to Pochalla (Jonglei). Since 01 January, approximately 29,000 mt of food commodities has been dispatched for prepositioning. Some 15,500 of this amount has been dispatched to Bentiu and Yida (Unity) through crossline deliveries.

HIGHLIGHTS

• As at 12 March 2015, Kakuma had received 45,342 asylum seekers from South Sudan. As at 9 March, 181,015 refugees had been registered by UNHCR and DRA, with South Sudanese making up 49.8% of the registered population.

• On 7 March 2015, refugee women led UNHCR and partner agencies to mark International Women’s Day. The event which is celebrated globally on 8 March was themed “Make It Happen” and was marked with lots of colourful performances. The Day is a celebration of women’s strength and achievements and an occasion to review how far women have come in their struggle for equality, peace and development. The various speakers and performances underscored the importance of empowering the girl child and women to become pillars in society.

KEY FIGURES

45,342 Asylum seekers received since influx began in December 2013.
2,759 UAMS in Kakuma Camp.
300 Women who attended the opening of new GBV women’s centre
18.2 Litres of water provided per person per day in Kakuma.
7,115 Number of roofed durable shelters in Kakuma 4.

FUNDING

USD 36.5 MILLION Requested for the operation

PRIORITIES

• Monitor trends of daily new arrivals and their unhindered access to asylum.

• Finalizing Participatory Assessment for 2016 planning

The organisation World Without Mines (WWM) has granted 49,300 USD to facilitate DCA’s emergency Risk Education operations in South Sudan, that seeks to inform and educate the internally displaced people in the areas around the Northern border about the threats of the Explosive Remnants of War.

The ethnic violence in South Sudan has since the beginning of the conflict killed thousands of people and over 1.4 million people have been internally displaced. Fighting around the states of Jonglei, Upper Nile and Unity has been particularly intense and tensions remain high as sporadic fighting in the area continues.

The internally displaced people (IDP) have gathered in small pockets alongside the host population in very rural areas of the Northern border, which makes it extremely difficult for humanitarian agencies to reach those positions.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for emergency Risk Education (RE) for the IDPs who are not familiar with the threats of Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and do not have good knowledge about the areas they are going to or passing through.

The grant from WWM allows DCA to send emergency response teams to the rural areas to prepare the IPDs for what they might find when they return home, or if they move on to another location.

They will learn about what unexploded and abandoned ordnances might look like, how they should avoid them, report them, and protect others in the community from them.

Furthermore, with the grant from WWM, DCA will provide Community Focal Point training to selected members of the community, who will be able to provide peer-to-peer training to those who are most at risk, but unable to attend the direct RE sessions provided by DCA. This way the safety messages continues to be shared even when the project ends.

The project starts the 1st of March and has a duration of six months.

R2P Monitor:

• Provides background on populations at risk of mass atrocity crimes, with particular emphasis on key events and actors and their connection to the threat, or commission, of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

• Offers analysis of the country’s past history in relation to mass atrocity crimes; the factors that have enabled their possible commission, or that prevent their resolution; and the receptivity of the situation to positive influences that would assist in preventing further crimes.

• Tracks the international response to the situation with a particular emphasis upon the actions of the United Nations (UN), key regional actors and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

• Suggests necessary action to prevent or halt the commission of mass atrocity crimes.

Syria {p. 2}
Iraq {p. 4}
CAR {p. 5}
Nigeria {p. 7}
Sudan {p. 9}
South Sudan {p. 11}
DR Congo {p. 12}
Libya {p. 14}
Burma/Myanmar {p. 15}

General Overview

Completeness for weekly reporting in week 10 of 2015 was 89% compared to 55% for the corresponding week of 2014.

ARI, malaria, AWD, ABD and suspect measles are the top causes of morbidity among IDPs.

During week 10 of 2015, ARI was the top cause of morbidity among IDPs and registered a proportionate morbidity of 18.8% and incidence of 65 cases per 10,000 population.

Eight new suspect measles were reported from Bentiu (3 cases), Melut (4 case), and Lankien (1 case). Four samples from Bentiu (2), Panyinjiar (1) and Renk (1) tested negative for measles in week 10.

Four Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) cases were reported from Bentiu (2) and Mingkaman (2). The cumulative now stands at 34 HEV cases with no deaths in Bentiu and 139 cases with six deaths (CFR 4.3%) in Mingkaman.

No new cholera cases have been reported in Nakoringole, Ikotos County, Eastern Equatoria State in week 10. The cumulative remains 43 cholera cases including three deaths. The Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is 7%. The under-5 and crude mortality rates by IDP site were below the emergency threshold in week 10