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1.	Analysis: South Sudan struggles to meet demand for education
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 4 September 2012
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Youth & Children	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: education, South Sudan, children, literacy
	Summary & Comment: Five decades of war and upheaval in South Sudan has had an inevitable impact on education: almost three-quarters of adults in the world’s newest country are unable to read or write. Since South Sudan seceded from the north in July 2011, the country has struggled to build an education system for its young and to educate the millions of adults who mi . . . [expand]
2.	Chad: Darfur’s forgotten refugees
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 10 August 2012
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Human Rights	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: IDPs, refugees, conflict, Darfur, Sudan
	Summary & Comment: Ten years after fleeing violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur, many of the camp’s 18,000 refugees, most of them from Darfur, are reluctant to return home. Darfur at present has an estimated 1.7 million IDPs registered in camps while Eastern Chad is hosting an estimated 264,000 Sudanese refugees. Since 2010, Darfur has all but vanished from the . . . [expand]
3.	Anti-graft activist kidnapped for 2 days in South Sudan
	Author: Hereward Holland	Date Written: 16 July 2012
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Reuters
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://af.reuters.com/
	Key Words: South Sudan, Corruption, South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, Kidnap
	Summary & Comment: A South Sudanese anti-corruption activist said he had been kidnapped and beaten for two days by unknown assailants angry at his campaign to expose officials suspected of stealing $4 billion of government funds. Widespread corruption, rising food prices, dwindling government funds and fraught relations with Sudan plague the nation, and overshadowed . . . [expand]
4.	Forgotten Darfur : Old tactics and new players
	Author: Claudio Gramizzi and Jérôme Tubiana	Date Written: 11 July 2012
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Small Arms Survey
	Secondary Category: Human Rights	Source URL: http://africanarguments.org/
	Key Words: conflict, governance, human rights, peacekeeping, Sudan, Darfur
	Summary & Comment: Amid claims of declining violence and wider regional transformations, the Darfur conflict has all but vanished from the international agenda since 2010. The conflict has moved into a new phase, in which the Government of Sudan has shifted away from using Arab proxy militias only to rely on newly formed (and newly armed) non-Arab proxies. ‘Forgotten . . . [expand]
5.	South Sudan one year on from independence
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 9 July 2012
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Human Rights	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: South Sudan, independence,governance, human rights, refugees, security
	Summary & Comment: South Sudan marked its first year of independence July 9th. The economy is in free-fall, development plans are on hold as humanitarian crises take precedence, and there is a real fear of a major escalation of hostilities with Sudan. When South Sudan seceded in July 2011, taking with it 75 percent of the former Sudan’s oil wealth, hopes were high, b . . . [expand]
6.	US-based billionaires pledge to rescue South Sudan economy through investment
	Author: Sudan Tribune	Date Written: 23 May 2012
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Sudan Tribune
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.sudantribune.com/
	Key Words: South Sudan, economy
	Summary & Comment: "South Sudan may soon relax its austerity measures if the government reaches a breakthrough with companies owned by a group of US-based multi-billionaires who have expressed their readiness to invest in various sectors in South Sudan." GK
7.	South Sudan accuses Sudan of resuming attacks, warns of retaliation
	Author: Sudan Tribune	Date Written: 22 May 2012
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Sudan Tribune
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.sudantribune.com/
	Key Words: South Sudan, AU, UNSC
	Summary & Comment: "South Sudan on Tuesday accused the government of neighbouring Sudan of resuming attacks it said were largely targeting civilian populations, resulting in the destruction of properties and settlements." GK