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- Tuesday 14 May 2013
May 13, 2013 (JUBA) – Disgraced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in South Sudan on Monday to open a new bank, marking a rare return to the financial world since his career was derailed by a (...)
- Friday 5 April 2013
April 4, 2012 (JUBA) - The governor of South Sudan’s Central Equatoria state, Clement Wani Konga, said on Thursday that the government should stick to mobilising more internally generated resources rather than depending on oil revenues (...)
- Friday 20 July 2012
July 19, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese council of ministers chaired by president Omer Hassan al-Bashir on Thursday approved recommendations put forward by the forum on financing state projects which included discussions on the (...)
- Wednesday 12 September 2012
By Julius N. Uma
September 11, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s Central Bank has sufficient reserves of local currency, capable of running the country for the next five years without printing any money, Kornelio Koriom, its Governor said (...)
- Monday 21 May 2012
May 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Central Bank of Sudan’s (CBS) decision to allow Forex bureaus in the country to use their own rates instead of the official one in currency transactions has attracted criticism from senior officials (...)
- Thursday 29 November 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
November 28, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – Remittances sent to poor nations from family and friends living abroad has increased from $3.5 billion in 1990 to $27 billion in 2011, according to a new United Nations report.
The (...)
- Saturday 3 November 2012
November 2, 2012 (JUBA) – An agreement between private financial institutions and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has “unlocked $7 millions for lending” to South Sudanese farmers, the US embassy said in a press (...)
- Thursday 19 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
July 18, 2012 (JUBA) - In a bid to promote international banking, KCB Bank of South Sudan has officially launched diaspora banking, an initiative targeting South Sudanese nationals currently living outside the world’s (...)
- Friday 3 August 2012
August 2, 2102 (JUBA) - Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) South Sudan has announced the appointment of Jashinto Pakon Genye as the new chairman of the bank’s board of
directors, replacing Musa Ndeto, who becomes the KCB Group chairman. (...)
- Thursday 7 June 2012
By Julius N. Uma
June 6, 2012 (JUBA) - The Kenyan Commercial Bank (KCB) on Wednesday unveiled a SSP 200,000 ($40,000) cheque in support of the dilapidated Juba military hospital, as part of the institution’s corporate social (...)
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On Abyei enough is enough 2013-06-18 05:01:47 By Deng Vanang June 17, 2013 - No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody’s wish that dialogue could (...)
The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: what is the evidence? 2013-06-18 04:57:44 By Eric Reeves 17 June 2013 - News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and (...)
Bashir’s decision, a material breach of the oil agreement 2013-06-16 06:21:14 By Justice Deng Biong June 15, 2013 - After its ratification by the National legislatures in both South Sudan and Sudan States, the Cooperation Agreement [CA] (Oil Agreement included) signed on (...)
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