Sixty participants at an UN-hosted workshop in Khartoum deliberated on strategies for enhancing women’s participation in elections that might occur next year. The UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) organized the workshop in collaboration with the Women Empowerment for Peace and Development Network. According to a statement from the Mission, the event had aimed "to support women’s participation in post-conflict political processes, including electoral process."

In a meeting yesterday, South Sudan legislator, Dr. Richard Mulla, revealed that they have a policy to allocate women 25 percent of the seats in the country's legislative assembly. Dr. Mulla, who is part of a Sudanese delegation in Botswana, on a mission to learn how the Botswana parliament runs its Public Accounts Committee said that the decision, which is expected to be implemented by February next year after the general elections, was in recognition of women's contributions to war efforts.