News Round up 23/06/17

HART news

• Baroness Cox spoke in the House of Lords on Thursday about the situations in Sudan and Syria

Burma

• Two Chin political parties, The Chin National Democratic Party (CNDP) and the Chin Progressive Party (CPP), have agreed to merge in an attempt to unify one of the more fractured political fields in the Burma
• Burma raids Rohingya Muslim ‘terrorist’ training camp, Burmese security forces have raided what they claimed was a terrorist training camp in the remote west of the country, home to the stateless Rohingya Muslims. It follows warnings that government oppression of the Rohingya is creating conditions that Islamic State will exploit for radicalisation purposes.
• Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for the release of Kyaw Min Swe, the editor ofThe Voice Daily, who is being held under Burma’s 2013 Telecommunications Law as a result of a complaint by the military about a satirical article
• The UN denies claims surrounding Burma coordinator’s removal
• Child soldiering in Burma is still happening today

Nigeria

• ‘Half’ of Nigeria’s food aid for Boko Haram victims has not been delivered owing to theft

• The UNHCR has warned that returning Nigerian refugees could cause another crisis in the North Eastern Nigeria

South Sudan

• The outlawed Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has stepped up attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo close to the South Sudanese border as a U.S.-supported regional task force pulls out, the U.N. humanitarian office said in a report Friday
• Famine has eased slightly in South Sudan after a significant scale up in the humanitarian response. However, the situation remains dire across the country as the number of people struggling to find enough food each day has grown to 6 million – up from 4.9 million in February – and is the highest level of food insecurity ever experienced in South Sudan

Sudan

• The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is expected to rule over South Africa’s failure to arrest President Omar Al Bashir within three weeks
• The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) have detained three activists from Ed El Fursan in South Darfur have been detained without charge or access to their families and it is thought they are being tortured
• For the first time the Sudanese government has admitted there may be a cholera problem in their nation. The Sudanese Minister of Health, Bahar Idris Abugarda, acknowledged that the outbreak of watery diarrhoea – which the government refuses to call cholera – could grow into an epidemic in Sudan
• John Dau’s story as one of the Lost Boys of Sudan

Uganda

• A refugee camp in northern Ugandahas taken in more refugees than any other in the world
• UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, hails Uganda’s Generosity, noting that while other countries are closing doors to refugees, Uganda has remained generous by host refugees especially from the war torn South Sudan
• Fathers raising children in Bidi Bidi, the world’s largest refugee camp, in Uganda

Nagorno Karabakh

• Three soldiers killed by Azeri forces in Nagorno-Karabakh in the latest ceasefire violation