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21 April 2017
HART news
- We’re looking for a part time summer Finance and Admin Intern to join our HART team this summer. For more information and to apply please visit our internship page http://bit.ly/2pm3zpp
Burma
- Burma General, Min Aung Hlaing, has escaped international scrutiny and accountability for international crimes
- 285 people killed and 1,073 others injured across Burma during a four-day water festival
- Armed ethnic groups collectively called upon the government to accord all ethnic organisations with equal and dignified status at the second 21st Century Panglong Conference held in Chiangmai, Thailand
- Approximately 300 political prisoners kept in prison in Burma, according to report by Assistant Association for Political Prisoners
Burmese General, Min Aung Hlaing
Nigeria
- Nigerian army has freed over 1,600 persons from Boko Haram hideouts in the northeast region, killing at least 21 militants in the operation
- The world must aid famine-threatened Nigeria to avoid ‘mass exodus’
- Food aid will be cut for more than a million hungry Nigerians affected by Boko Haram’s insurgency if promised funding from the international community does not arrive
South Sudan
- War-torn South Sudan’s hospitals are facing critical shortages
- Three hundred UK troops and millions of pounds in foreign aid will be poured into South Sudan as famine grips the world’s newest country
- Anglican University to open in South Sudan
Sudan
- 8 million people need assistance in Sudan. Watch the UN OCHA new film on humanitarian needs in Sudan http://bit.ly/2plVKjl
- New Cholera cases in Eastern Sudan