Weekly Education Update 1/6-1/12
Weekly Education Update
1/6-1/12
Sudan, South Sudan, DRC, Syria
Sudan, South Sudan
South Sudan has launched official passports and identity cards for the first time since the country’s independence in July.
Sudan, South Sudan
South Sudan has launched official passports and identity cards for the first time since the country’s independence in July.
Syria
Weekly STAND Education Update
10/7-10/13
Weekly STAND Education Update
9/30-10/6
A weekly update of the most important updates on the ground in our conflicts of concern. This week: potential peace talks for Darfur in Uganda, child labor in Burma, "catastrophic" interventions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and more….
The violence committed against Congolese and Southern Sudanese civilians by the Lord’s Resistance Army is worse than previously thought. Last Friday, GI-NET cited conservative reports of at least 620 people killed by the LRA since September. Reports issued this week indicate that over 1120 civilians have been killed, nearly doubling our original estimate.
One of Africa’s longest running conflicts took a turn for the worse this week. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that has been fighting the Ugandan government in an attempt to establish a theocratic state based on the 10 commandments, abducted 50 school children and killed 3 people along the Congo-Sudan border this week. South Sudan’s military also said that LRA rebels attacked one of its units, killing one soldier and setting a child on fire along the remote Sudanese border with the DR Congo.