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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 23 July 2012 July 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Hatim Al-Sir, a leading member of Sudan’s ex-opposition Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has predicted that the party will withdraw from the government of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) as the latter (...)
Thursday 13 December 2012 December 12, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS) on Wednesday issued a ban on the exports of gold ore effective January 2013, state media reported. FILE - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (CL) attends to the inauguration (...)
Friday 26 December 2008 By James Solomon Padiet
December 26, 2008 — It is said that diplomats are legalized spies send by their countries to report back what is happening in the host country or its neighbourhood with the intention of making use of the (...)
Monday 24 December 2012 By Julius N. Uma
December 23, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s annual inflation for November stood at just 41%, while its Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 19%, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said.
However, while annual (...)
Thursday 29 November 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
November 28, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – Remittances sent to poor nations from family and friends living abroad has increased from $3.5 billion in 1990 to $27 billion in 2011, according to a new United Nations report.
The (...)
Friday 27 July 2012 July 26, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – South Sudan and Israel signed, in the latter’s capital Tel Aviv this week, their first economic cooperation agreement which focuses on development of technology and water infrastructure. South Sudan President (...)
Monday 3 April 2006 A Complex Reality: The Strategic Behaviour of Multinational Oil Corporations and the New Wars In Sudan
By Luke A. Patey, Danish Institute for International Studies
March 2006 — The influence of Multinational Corporations in war-torn (...)
Monday 18 June 2012 June 17, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sporadic demonstrations erupted on Sunday in Sudan’s capital Khartoum as well as other parts of the country in protests against rising costs of living, drawing the usual violent response from police forces. (...)
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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
The misapprehension of peace in the context of conflict resolution2013-05-16 11:40:39 By Ngor Arol Garang
May 16, 2013 - Political leaders and citizens with an interest in politics within the Bahr el Ghazal region will come together for a one week conference on Wednesday, where (...)
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 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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