On 22nd October 2001, Mr. Wisely Wani Barnaba, a Sudan Medical Care (SMC) community health worker (CHW) was abducted by the Government of Sudan (GOS) sponsored Militia while traveling by bicycle between Napotpot and Lolim (on Loyoro River), Eastern Equatoria, south Sudan. New Sudanese Indigenous NGOs (NESI-Network) hereby, appeals to all UN and international NGOs Agencies working in South Sudan to amount a protest and demand the immediate release of Mr. Baranaba.

On Wednesday 7/11 the Community Security’s Police beat a 15 year old child to death. Alnour Ali Abd Allah who worked as street trader in Alkalakla Al-lafa Local market about 9 miles southwest centre of Khartoum.

Making war, these days, also amounts to making law. Just as Nato's attack on Serbia established a right of humanitarian intervention, so the war to topple the Taleban will stand as a legal precedent -but for what universal principle?

President Mugabe's Government has announced that it would not allow aid agencies to distribute emergency food supplies to Zimbabweans affected by a famine. The ban will wreck a relief operation that was being mobilised by the United Nations and several international charities, including Oxfam, Western diplomats said. Nearly a million people are in dire need of food, according to a survey last month by the World Food Programme. Food stocks are expected to start running out in December and even the Government says that at least four times as many people will be affected as the famine worsens.

Events following the disappearance of Cain Nkala, a senior Bulawayo-based war veteran, have taken a sinister turn as senior government and Zanu PF officials threatened a violent response to members of the MDC, who they accuse of being responsible for his ‘kidnapping’.

The impact of Angola's long war and a lack of investment in social services have had a devastating impact on the country's children, with basic indicators continuing to be "among the worst in the world", Save the Children Fund says in its latest emergency update.

Differences in status and associated power between women and men, old and young, richer and poorer, make grassroots planning difficult if the aim is to represent the diversity of perspectives and interests in a community. Since 1994, Redd Barna Uganda has acknowledged such differences within communities and adapted participatory approaches to provide innovative ways of incorporating a gendered perspective into community-based planning.

How can international NGOs (INGOs) integrate peacebuilding into development and relief work in conflict zones? What are the risks and consequences of mixing relief with peacebuilding? Can INGOs simultaneously be mediator, arbitrator, advocate, trainer, witness, supporter, counsellor and therapist in fraught circumstances?

As many as 20,000 refugees from across the world, cleared to come to the United States to escape persecution in their homelands, have had their arrival delayed indefinitely in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Protracted social conflicts do not erupt overnight. They are the result of a slow accumulation of tensions and hostilities built up over time. In the Horn of Africa an innovative early warning mechanism being explored by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) could provide a pointer for similar conflict-prone regions.

‘Resettlement’ refers to the relocation to other countries of refugees who have sought refuge in a country where they continue to face risks to their “life, liberty, safety, health or other fundamental human rights”. It provides individuals with the opportunity to re-start and re-build their lives. It has been used successfully to resettle refugee women and girls who have been victims of sexual or gender-related violence, including rape. This article outlines the grounds upon which resettlement is granted, noting the very individual nature of a claim but recognising its use in protecting refugee women and girls in general.

Human rights must be top of the agenda of the new transitional government in Burundi, said Amnesty International.

Zambia's judicial and legal failings make it imperative that the country scraps the death penalty, says the international human rights group Amnesty International.

With less than 13 months to go, President Daniel arap Moi's categorical announcement that he will stand down in 2002 finally clears the way for a raft of hopeful successors. But he is wary of pointing out the likely victor as it would reduce his twilight months to a lame duck presidency.

The church in Rwanda was only next to the government in the preparation and execution of the 1994 genocide, an expert witness has told the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

Civilians continue to seek safety in government-controlled towns across the country as they flee intensifying fighting between rebel UNITA forces and Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) troops, according to humanitarian officials.

Fighting in Angola along the border with Zambia has moved north, as a new influx of refugees this week entered Zambia's Northwestern province, humanitarian sources told IRIN.

The world's major diamond producing and trading countries have reported progress in drafting an international certification scheme for rough diamonds.

The psychological impact of Zimbabwe's political violence is only slowly beginning to emerge, as experts call for more attention to be paid to the effects of trauma.

The failure of a coup attempt over the weekend on the breakaway Comoros island of Anjouan has raised optimism among pro-union parties that a referendum across the archipelago on a new constitution to end the country's secessionist crisis will go ahead in December as scheduled.