LYCOS RETRIEVER
Sudan: South
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) a one-year, $31.85-million contract to improve infrastructure in Southern Sudan. The contract will support the building of roads, bridges, health facilities, and other vital structures to support economic growth and recovery in Southern Sudan.
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CASMAS is a human rights, abolitionist movement started by activists from Mauritania, Sudan and the United States on March 5, 1995. The mission of CASMAS is to bring together abolitionists/human rights groups from Mauritania, South Sudan and North America to collectively fight for the eradication of institutionalized and chattel slavery and other forms of human rights violations in Africa, especially in Mauritania and Sudan
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It is estimated that their withdrawal has deprived Sudan of programmes worth US$ 32 million serving 1.6 million people. ECHO on the other hand provides the African state with 20-25 million Euros in funds each year, of which about 2/3 is for southern Sudan.
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Canada is part of a concerted international effort to support a just and lasting peace in all of Sudan. Canadian contributions focus primarily on resolving the humanitarian and human rights crisis in Darfur, and supporting the full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which ended the southern civil war in January 2005. IN DEPTH VIEW
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