The first session of the Civil Society Forum on Sudan and South Sudan convened in Addis Ababa on 21-23 January 2013. The second session in Addis Ababa on 16-18 May 2013. The Third session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 20 - 22 nd, 2014. This event was organised by Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre in collaboration with the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Darfur Bar Association, Human Rights Institute of South Africa and South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocacy. The Forum adopted 11 (eleven) resolutions addressing an array of issues in Sudan and Republic of South Sudan.
The Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre (DRDC) commends the United Nations Security Council for its unanimous decision renewing the mandate of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) until 30 June 2018. By adopting Resolution 2363(2017) of 29 June 2017, the Security Council renewed its concern about the deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions in Darfur and the need to keep the situation under its scrutiny as it represents a threat to regional and international peace and security. DRDC fully agrees with the Council’s conclusion that: “… the overall security situation in Darfur remains precarious due to activities of militia groups, the incorporation of some militias into auxiliary units of the Government of Sudan forces, which have become key actors in the conflict between the Government of Sudan and the armed movements and in inter-communal conflict and further exacerbate insecurity and threats against civilians in Darfur.”
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Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre (DRDC) is alarmed that since mid-August 2016, many parts of Sudan have been facing a growing cholera epidemic. Currently the deadly disease spread into hitherto unaffected regions, including the national capital Khartoum and its twin cities Omdurman and Khartoum North (Bahri). Since the outbreak of the disease in August 2016, at least 12 of Sudan’s 18 States were severely affected. The epicentre of the pandemic is the White Nile, Khartoum, North and South Kordofan, River Nile and Northern States. In his address at Sudan’s National Assembly “Parliament” on 1st June 2017, the Federal Minster of Health stated that over the last ten months some 14,659 cases of “acute watery diarrhoea” were reported all over Sudan and that 265 mortalities were reported during this period. DRDC believe that these figures are conservative and do not reflect the reality, however, the case fatality rate deduced is over 1.8% of confirmed cholera cases. This mortality rate is above the threshold to declare cholera epidemic in a country. According to independent medical practitioners in Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan the numbers of confirmed cases of cholera are much higher and that the mortality rate in some affected areas has reached over 10% of the declared cases.
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Dar es Salaam Declaration on Reenergizing the Peace Process in Darfur
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Darfuri students sit for their annual exam, 12 March 2012 |