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Luka Biong Deng Luka Biong Deng
- Luka Biong August 4, 2011 (Credit: Jonathan Hutson, Enough Project)
Name: Luka Biong Deng
Position: Co-Chair of the Abyei Joint Oversight Committee.
Political Affiliation: Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)
- Friday 20 July 2012
By Luka Biong Deng
July 19, 2012 — The people of South Sudan and the marginalised people of Sudan will remember their great leader, Dr. John Garang de Mabior, on July 30, the day he died in a plane crash seven years ago. Garang, a (...)
- Monday 11 February 2013
February 9, 2013 (JUBA) - A member of South Sudan’s ruling party (SPLM) has accused the United Nations of allegedly failing to provide relief assistance to thousands of displaced people in the disputed Abyei region. Internally displaced (...)
- Saturday 2 March 2013
By Luka Biong Deng
March 1, 2013 -The question of whether the Ngok Dinka of Abyei are citizens of South Sudan may seem strange to most people, who would answer it in the affirmative. But it seems a difficult question to a few, (...)
- Thursday 13 September 2012
First published by the New Nation Newspaper
By Luka Biong Deng
The US is the biggest economy and the most powerful democratic country in the world. However, despite the huge size of its economy, economic growth has slowed down, (...)
- Saturday 17 November 2012
By Luka Biong Deng
In September 2012, I wrote a piece on the implications of the US elections to the relations between Sudan and South Sudan. Now Obama has been elected for the second term of four years in the White House with more (...)
- Monday 22 October 2012
October 21, 2012 (JUBA) - South Africa on Sunday pledged its resolve to support a peace proposal by the African Union High Level Implementation (AUHIP) which aims to end the long-running dispute between Sudan and South Sudan over the (...)
- Wednesday 5 December 2012
By Matot Akech Matot
December 4, 2012 — South Sudan has just celebrated the first anniversary of our being a new country. After many years of terrible pain and suffering, we triumphed over our enemies. We fought bravely for so many (...)
- Thursday 2 May 2013
By Luka Biong Deng*
The people of Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile have been forgotten in the prolonged tension between Sudan and South Sudan and they sometimes feel betrayed by both South Sudan and International Community. During the two (...)
- Saturday 19 January 2013
By Luka Biong Deng
January 19, 2013 - The AU Peace and Security Council will meet in Addis Ababa on 25th January on the margins of the 21st Ordinary Session of the Assembly of AU. This meeting will not only be its first meeting of the (...)
- Friday 5 April 2013
By Luka Biong Deng
April 4, 2013 - With the signing of the implementation matrix for the nine agreements signed by South Sudan and Sudan in September 2012, there is now a growing optimism in the normalization of relations between (...)
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