Machar tells SPLA to distance itself from politics

May 19, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s vice-president, Riek Machar, has strongly directed the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) to distance itself from the ongoing political debates in the country. South Sudan's V-President Riek Machar speaks (...)

SPLM-N calls for UN humanitarian chief to visit rebel-held conflict areas

May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) has called on the head of the UN’s humanitarian agency to visit areas in Blue Nile, South Kordofan and Darfur outside of Sudanese government control that have (...)

SPLM deputy chairman says the party is in trouble

May 19, 2013 (JUBA) – The deputy chairman of the South Sudan’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Riek Machar has warmed of a possible collapse of party, unless it democratically transforms and refocuses itself. South Sudan (...)

UN concerned over Khartoum’s suspension of local NGO’s activities

May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The United Nations (UN) has expressed its concern over suspending activities of the Sudanese aid group Al- Manar which provides food for about 528 malnourished children in Khartoum’s neighbourhoods of Mayo and Mandela as (...)

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UN agency alarmed by humanitarian situation in Kordofan and Darfur

May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The United Nations has expressed its concern over the continued fleeing of civilians in South Kordofan state because of the fighting between the Sudanese Armed forces (...)

SPLM-N calls for UN humanitarian chief to visit rebel-held conflict areas

SPLM deputy chairman says the party is in trouble

UN concerned over Khartoum’s suspension of local NGO’s activities

Eritrean youth face most harrowing atrocities: activist

May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Renowned Eritrean activist Meron Estefanos has told an international conference in Oslo that of all the atrocities taking place in the repressive Red Sea nation, the (...)

Lakes: Teenage girl arrested after throwing baby into latrine

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 (...)

Mayom commissioner denies aiding youth that attacked police

May 19, 2013 (BENTIU) - Calm has returned along the county border between Koch and Mayom in Unity state when inter-clan fighting broke out between two branches of the Nuer ethnic group last week. (...)

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Western envoys call for end to conflict in Jonglei

May 18, 2013 (JUBA) – Western diplomats, alarmed by the increasing violence South Sudan’s Jonglei state, have issued a joint statement calling for an end to the conflict in the country’s largest (...)

Sudan says South Kordofan town to be soon liberated

May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The spokesperson o f the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) announced that they would soon retake the Abu Karshola in South Kordofan from the rebels who seized the area last (...)

Increase of UN troops in Abyei is part of a previous agreement, Sudan says

May 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s foreign ministry has stated that the call of the UN secretary General for adding (1126) troops to the UN Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA) came in the context of (...)

Sudan’s defence minister promises rebellion annihilation

May 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese defence minister, Abdel-Rahim Hussein, has reiterated the ability of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) to defeat the rebel groups, stressing that they would (...)

South Sudan denies marginalising minority tribes in government

May 18, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan has denied allegations that it is marginalising minority tribes in the government, asserting that those making such claims are individuals acting out of their (...)

CPJ urges Kerry to address AU summit on press freedom

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle May 18, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on US secretary of state John Kerry to address African leaders on the issue of press (...)

Machar tells SPLA to distance itself from politics

Rumbek court sentences government official to two years in prison

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 (...)

Saturday 18 May 2013
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UN chief appoints Haile Menkerios special AU representative

May 17, 2013 (JUBA) – The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon has appointed Haile Menkerios as new Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) and his Special (...)

S. Sudan warns security forces, militias over violence against civilians

May 17, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan president, Salva Kiir has warned armed rebel groups and “ill-disciplined” elements within the regular security forces to halt violence against innocent civilians in (...)

China to increase loans provided to Sudan

May 17, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The People's Republic of China has agreed to speed up measures aimed at increasing the level of loans offered to Sudan with priority given to projects linked to (...)

Khartoum behind fresh wave of violence over gold in Darfur: report

May 17, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - A new report argues that the Sudanese government’s struggle for control of Darfur’s gold resources, rather than inter-tribal conflicts is behind the recent surge in (...)

Unity state: Five police and one soldier die in Koch-Mayom clashes

May 17, 2013 (BENTIU) - Five Unity state policemen and one soldier were killed in Buoth district of Koch county on Friday in an attack local authorities have blamed on youth from neighbouring (...)

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