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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.
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Iran would provide another 320 railway wagons to Sudan, said (...)
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In (...)
Tuesday 9 August 2011 August 08, 2011 (LONDON) – The Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS) on Monday affirmed its ability to meet the "true demand" of customers for hard currency through increasing the daily injection into banks and forex bureaus. Central Bank of (...)
Wednesday 12 December 2007 European Coalition on Oil in Sudan
www.ecosonline.org
This fact sheet offers basic information about the economy of Sudan’s oil
industry, all taken from publicly available sources. It a living document, we will
regularly issue (...)
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Sudanese economy is (...)
Wednesday 25 July 2012 By Julius N. Uma
July 24, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s annual inflation increased by 74%
from June 2011 to June this year, while the country witnessed an
upsurge in its consumer price index by 1.7% from May 2012 to June, the
National (...)
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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 (...)
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Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom
Newspapers, Other Media Censored, Confiscated, Shut Down
MAY 3, 2013
(Nairobi) – Sudan should immediately stop censoring (...)
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National unity: a project for each and every South Sudanese 2013-05-21 14:23:01 By Jacob K. Lupai May 21, 2013 - South Sudan has just attained independence from an imposed unity that had failed miserably to take into account the objective realities on the ground. In the old (...)
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