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Catholic University of South Sudan, Juba and Wau, 2008 [5] Mikese University College Yambio South Sudan Founded 2008 Started as internet cape; Ebony University, based in Greater Bahr-el-Ghazal, Wau; South Sudan Christian University Juba, founded in 2010; WOI University, P.O.BOX 245 Juba, incorporated on 27 May 2011; St. Mary's University in ...
On 28 October 2019, the Minister of Welfare and Social Development, Lena el-Sheikh Mahjoub, and the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed, opened the Human Rights Knowledge Centre at al-Fashir University, as a cooperative project between the university and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The new centre ...
According to the 2010 South Sudan Household Health Survey, the nationwide literacy rate for women remains to be 13.4 percent. [4] According to UNICEF, fewer than one percent of girls complete primary education. One in four students is a girl and South Sudan maintains the highest female illiteracy rate in the world. [6]
As of September 2011, the university was a member in good standing of the Association of African Universities. [3] On 31 August 2021, conflict arose between students of the university and government forces after students demanded that the gates of the former United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur headquarters be opened to them. In the ...
A number of new universities were established, among them Kordofan, Darfur, Blue Nile (at Al-Damazin), Bahr al-Ghazal, Upper Nile, and Al-Imam Al-Mahdi (at Kosti). [19] In a parallel development, a number of provincial colleges were upgraded to university status, including those at Nyala, Dongola, Port Sudan, Kassala, and Al-Gedaref. [19]
The WFP mission in Sudan said Tuesday that more than 50,000 people in hunger hotspots across South Darfur are receiving much-needed food assistance in collaboration with relief agency World Vision.
South Sudan (/ s uː ˈ d ɑː n,-ˈ d æ n /), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. [16] It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the west by the Central African Republic. South Sudan's diverse ...
Dar Fur Daju numbering 80,000 (2007) and living in Southern Darfur in the Sudan in the Daju Hills 40 km northeast of Nyala. They speak the Nyala language. Much of this population has fled to Chad as a result of the Darfur Conflict. [13] There is also a small population of Dar Fur Daju near the city of Lagowa in the Nuba Hills.