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- Tuesday 22 January 2013
January 21, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir unexpectedly removed Lakes State governor Chol Tong Mayay of his post, putting his deputy Mabor Achol Kuer in charge until further arrangements are made, according to a (...)
- Tuesday 10 April 2012
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
April 8, 2012 (BENTIU) - South Sudan’s vice president, Riek Machar, is urging Warrap, Unity and Lakes state governors to come to the table with their grievances and improve the security situation in (...)
- Thursday 31 January 2013
January 30, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Lakes state’s new military caretaker governor, Maj. Gen. Matur Chut Dhuol, has detailed a set of tough new reforms to quell insecurity in the state. Matur Chuot Dhuol was appointed as caretaker governor of (...)
- Thursday 24 January 2013
January 23, 2013 (JUBA)- An official from South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state on Wednesday expressed concerns about the increasing level of violence in neighbouring Lake state, urging its authorities and pastoral communities to (...)
- Sunday 3 February 2013
February 1, 2013 (JUBA/RUMBEK) - Young men arrested in relation to recent violence in Lakes state will be held at a special secret prison without access to their own lawyers or human rights officials, the troubled state’s new military (...)
- Wednesday 23 January 2013
January 22, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has appointed Major General Matur Chut as caretaker governor of Lakes state, a day after removing governor Chol Tong Mayay, according to a presidential decree broadcast by (...)
- Friday 29 June 2012
June 28, 2012 (JUBA) – President Salva Kiir Mayardit has briefed governors of South Sudan’s ten states on the austerity measures that will come into effect in the next few weeks and urged them to ’tighten their belts’. South Sudan (...)
- Wednesday 23 January 2013
January 22, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Thousands of people attempted to demonstrate against a decision by South Sudanese president Salva Kiir to remove the elected governor of Lakes state, Chol Tong Mayay, on Monday night for reasons which remain (...)
- Saturday 19 May 2012
May 18, 2012 (RUMBEK) - Police in South Sudan’s Lakes State on Monday 14 May arrested a female journalist working for state-owned Radio FM-98 in Rumbek. Lakes State Police Commissioner Saed Abdulatif Cawuol Lom at Rumbek Airport, South (...)
- Friday 28 December 2012
December 27, 2012 (RUMBEK) - Thousands of South Sudanese from Lakes State attended a meeting in Wau, the capital of troubled Western Bahr el Ghazal on Wednesday to hear to Governors of both states urge people to remain clam and not (...)
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