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- Monday 20 May 2013
May 18, 2013 (JUBA) - Authorities in the Lakes state capital, Rumbek, have arrested an underage girl who threw her newborn baby into a latrine after falling pregnant outside of wedlock.
The girl, who managed to hide her pregnancy from (...)
- Sunday 19 May 2013
May 18, 2013 (JUBA) - Rumbek county court on Friday sentenced a government official to two years in prison for assaulting a reporter for South Sudan Television (SSTV) and threatening him with pistol in the Lakes state capital.
Johnson (...)
- Thursday 6 December 2012
December 6, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudanese political commentator, Isaiah Ding Abraham Chan Awuol, was shot dead in front of his house in Gudele, west of the capital Juba, early on Wednesday morning by unknown gunmen. South Sudanese (...)
- Sunday 4 November 2012
November 3, 2012 (JUBA) - Community leaders from South Sudan’s Twic County in Warrap state have strongly protested against the arrest of a youth leader by state government officials over household taxes.
The arrest of Atem Ayuen Atem, (...)
- Sunday 21 October 2012
October 20, 2012 (BOR) - Five people were killed in South Sudan’s troubled Jonglei State on Friday, including one soldier, three men and a heavily pregnant women, local authorities said Saturday. Twic East county commissioner, Dau (...)
- Saturday 18 May 2013
May 17, 2013 (JUBA) - A murder suspect who escaped from Rumbek’s main prison over a month ago was shot in the Malual-Kodi area of Lakes state on Thursday by wardens from South Sudan Prison Services.
A senior security official in Rumbek (...)
- Saturday 25 June 2011
June 24, 2011 (BOR) - Hundreds of people have been killed and a large number of cattle stolen in Pibor county in South Sudan’s largest state Jonglei following clashes between the Murle and Lou Nuer ethnic groups the county’s commissioner (...)
- Monday 13 May 2013
May 12, 2013 (JUBA) - The South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocacy (SSHURSA) has called for South Sudan’s deputy minister of interior to step down over the detention of two Juba Monitor newspaper journalists who were recently (...)
- Wednesday 15 May 2013
May 13, 2013 (RUMBEK) – Four people have been arrested in connection with last week’s highway robbery incident, in which a senior South Sudan army (SPLA) official was injured in Lakes state.
David Marial Gumke, the Rumbek East (...)
- Tuesday 3 May 2011
By John Actually
May, 2011 (BOR) - At least 27 people were killed and 14,000 cattle raided in Pibor county, Jonglei state, allegedly by members of the Nuer Lou ethnic group, in a fight that broke out between 19-24 April, displacing (...)
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