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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
Monday 7 March 2011 March 6, 2011 (JUBA) – The price of bottled water in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, has doubled in recent weeks.
Half litre bottles of drinking water, initially priced at one Sudanese Pound (USD 0.37) now costs two Sudanese Pounds - (...)
Thursday 22 November 2012 November 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese finance ministry Undersecretary Abdel-Rahman Dirar today denied that he has issued a decision imposing new taxes and fees on sugar and accused merchants of artificially bumping up prices. 50 (...)
Tuesday 14 August 2012 August 13, 2012 (JUBA) - At least two hundred national staff working for the United Nations on Monday protested in Juba, the South Sudan capital over what they claimed was their employer’s alleged failure to address their concerns (...)
Thursday 12 January 2012 January 11, 2012 (ABU DHABI) – As part of the ongoing efforts to mobilise foreign investment South Sudan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Abu Dhabi Investment Company of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in order to (...)
Tuesday 9 October 2012 October 8, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The recent deal with South Sudan over oil transit fees will not be reflected in the 2013 budget, the country’s finance and national economy minister said. Sudan’s finance minister Ali Mahmood Abdel-Rasool (...)
Tuesday 10 July 2012 July 9, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Various parts of Sudan’s capital Khartoum and other regional towns are beginning to witness shortages of bread coupled with exorbitant price increases, in the latest manifestation of a growing economic crisis. (...)
Saturday 17 November 2007 November 16, 2007 (DAKAR, Senegal) — U.S. sanctions on Sudan’s telecoms company Sudatel
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are having no effect at all as it pursues an expansion into Africa by seeking stakes in Nigerian and Congolese operators, its (...)
Saturday 9 June 2012 June 8, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers has proposed a record 137.8 billion Birr (nearly $ 8 billion) annual budget for the 2012/2013 fiscal year, focusing on combating poverty.
The proposed budget, according to (...)
Sunday 27 May 2012 By Mariar Wuoi*
May 27, 2012 — South Sudan’s economy is suffering some shocks due to the sudden decision to shutdown oil production in response to north’s decision to impose unilateral decision to hijack South’s oil as a form of payment (...)
Sunday 21 April 2013 April 20,2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan has announced that it will pay its employees two months salaries, confirming uncertainties and speculations that the government had difficulties in getting funds to pay civil servants. South Sudan (...)
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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