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Al Jazeera English | South Sudan facing food crisis | 30 April 2012
A combination of bad weather, pests and a deteriorating relationship with the North has led to an economic crisis that is challenging South Sudan’s food security. Ongoing clashes with Khartoum over the countries’ contested border area have halted the import of cheap food goods from the North, leaving Juba to rely on high-cost goods imported from southern neighbour Uganda. Another full-scale war between the two rival Sudans would make an already tough situation much worse. Al Jazeera’s Peter Greste reports from Juba.
Al Jazeera English | Sudan declares emergency on border with south | 29 April 2012
Al Jazeera English | Al Bashir rules out talks with South Sudan | 23 April 2012
Tuesday 23 November 2010 November 22, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s central bank issued a directive on Monday authorizing the foreign exchange bureaus and banks to buy forex at a premium which analysts said effectively amounts to a currency devaluation.
"In order (...)
Monday 29 May 2006 May 27, 2006 (MALAKAL) — A senior executive official with Nile Commercial Bank has said that the bank will open its branch in Upper Nile State in Malakal next month.
Speaking during the launch of the Nile Commercial Bank services in (...)
Monday 11 June 2012 10 June, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) is planning to reorganize its structures as part of wider austerity measures aiming to tackle the country’s economic crisis, an official revealed on Sunday. A (...)
Sunday 12 February 2012 By Julius N. Uma
February 11, 2012 (JUBA) - As South Sudan prepares to announce much anticipated austerity measures, its council of ministers on Friday resolved to maintain the defense and interior ministry’s budgets, the government (...)
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Friday 15 June 2007 June 14, 2007 (LONDON) — Total SA (TOT) and White Nile Ltd. (WNL.LN) Thursday both claimed victory after a two years dispute over who can develop a key Sudan oil concession. New oil platforms are constructed, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005 (...)
Friday 24 September 2004 RIYADH, Sep 23, 2004 (Saudi Economic Survey) — A Saudi alliance consisting of the Arabian Pipes Company, (a Saudi joint stock company based in Riyadh), and the Saudi Steel Pipes Ltd., based in Dammam, have won a contract to export pipes (...)
Monday 10 April 2006 April 9, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese first Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit, and Minister of Energy and Mining, Awad Ahmed Al-Jazz, are to inaugurate Monday 10 April the pumping of oil (Dar blend) from blocks No. 3 and 7 in the Upper (...)
Thursday 24 May 2012 May 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese minister of finance, Ali Mahmoud, faced a barrage of criticism when he presented the parliament on Wednesday with a report stating that the rate of poverty in the country has exceeded 40 percent. (...)
Wednesday 16 September 2009 September 15, 2009 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese presidency has directed to investigate a report on discrepancies of oil revenue figures, a Sudanese minister said today Oil platforms are constructed, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005 near Kotch in (...)
The Invasion of Abyei: two years of more agony 2013-05-20 05:39:13 By Luka Biong Deng
May 19, 2013 - On 21st May 2013, the people of Abyei have spent two years of more agony and they will remember again the sad memories of how their lives and livelihoods were (...)
The better approach to reconciliation2013-05-17 06:07:06 By Zechariah Manyok Biar
May 16, 2013 - Some of you who might have read my previous articles know that I promised some weeks ago to write separately on the topic of peace and reconciliation that (...)
OIL: is it a curse or a blessing in South Sudan?2013-05-17 06:04:54 By Jacob K. Lupai
May 16, 2013 - In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern Sudan there was euphoria that poverty would be a thing of the past, replaced by a high (...)
Wau Dialogue W. Bahr el-Ghazal state 13-15 May 20132013-05-13 14:41:35 South Sudan Law Society
13th-April-2013
Citizen of Western Bhar el-Ghazal State calls for limitations of President Powers and the Independence of Executive, Legislature and Judiciary and (...)
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom2013-05-04 10:53:49 Human Rights Watch
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom
Newspapers, Other Media Censored, Confiscated, Shut Down
MAY 3, 2013
(Nairobi) – Sudan should immediately stop censoring (...)
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom2013-05-03 03:23:16 Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom
New York, May 2, 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the (...)
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The Invasion of Abyei: two years of more agony 2013-05-20 05:39:13 By Luka Biong Deng May 19, 2013 - On 21st May 2013, the people of Abyei have spent two years of more agony and they will remember again the sad memories of how their lives and livelihoods were (...)
The better approach to reconciliation 2013-05-17 06:07:06 By Zechariah Manyok Biar May 16, 2013 - Some of you who might have read my previous articles know that I promised some weeks ago to write separately on the topic of peace and reconciliation that (...)
OIL: is it a curse or a blessing in South Sudan? 2013-05-17 06:04:54 By Jacob K. Lupai May 16, 2013 - In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern Sudan there was euphoria that poverty would be a thing of the past, replaced by a high (...)
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