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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 25 October 2011 October 24, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese First Vice President Ali Osman Taha paid a one-day visit to Kuwait for talks focused on ways the Arab Gulf state can bolster its investments to aid the beleaguered economy. Sudanese First Vice (...)
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Friday 17 August 2012 August 16, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The price of the US dollar in Sudan’s black market for hard currency jumped on Thursday to SDG 5.95 as the country’s central bank further devalued the local pound in renewed efforts to plug the gap with the (...)
Sunday 8 July 2012 July 7, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir on Saturday said that he rejects ’secularism’ and reiterated his commitment to replace the country’s constitution with an ’Islamic’ one. FILE PHOTO - Sudan’s President Omer (...)
Monday 21 May 2007 May 18, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan federal finance minister has attributed shortfall in revenues to the decline in petroleum production from the Adar Yeil oilfield in Upper Nile State, in Southern Sudan.
The federal minister of finance (...)
Tuesday 14 February 2012 February 13, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – The United States (US) President Barrack Obama’s 2013 budget proposal, released on Monday incorporated the possibility of relieving Sudan’s entire debt owed to it if certain conditions are met. U.S. (...)
Monday 12 January 2004 Abu Dhabi Investment Fund clears Dh552m to build dam in Sudan
By Khaleej Times
ABU DHABI, Jan 12, 2004 — The UAE Governmen’s Abu Dhabi Investment Fund has recently approved Dh552 million to construct Sudan’s largest Marawi dam to (...)
Tuesday 26 June 2012 June 25, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan President Omer Al-Bashir on Monday issued a decree relieving nine of his advisers from their positions as part of a countrywide downsizing of executive authorities that saw entire regional governments (...)
Thursday 11 November 2010 November 10, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese parliament today approved the 2011 budget as the country moves towards a likely breakup of Africa’s largest country into North and South in the self-determination referendum due to take place (...)
Tuesday 7 February 2012 February 6, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The government of Qatar is set to loan Sudan USD $2 billion as the country enters a phase of deep economic crisis that was compounded by the secession of the oil rich South less than a year ago. A Sudanese (...)
Alex de Waal: the rebirth of a principled activist?2013-06-20 03:33:50 By Monim El-Jak
June 19, 2013 - Whenever Alex de Waal publishes analysis or reflections, Sudanese intellectuals and activists, and the concerned international institutions and individuals, give (...)
On Abyei enough is enough2013-06-18 05:01:47 By Deng Vanang
June 17, 2013 - No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody’s wish that dialogue could (...)
The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: what is the evidence?2013-06-18 04:57:44 By Eric Reeves
17 June 2013 - News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and (...)
South Sudan civil society alliance ask to meet the president2013-06-12 05:23:59 South Sudan Civil Society Alliance
National Issues Discussed with the Presidential Legal Advisor and Appeal to meet the President
June 7, 2013
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, today the (...)
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Alex de Waal: the rebirth of a principled activist? 2013-06-20 03:33:50 By Monim El-Jak June 19, 2013 - Whenever Alex de Waal publishes analysis or reflections, Sudanese intellectuals and activists, and the concerned international institutions and individuals, give (...)
On Abyei enough is enough 2013-06-18 05:01:47 By Deng Vanang June 17, 2013 - No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody’s wish that dialogue could (...)
The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: what is the evidence? 2013-06-18 04:57:44 By Eric Reeves 17 June 2013 - News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and (...)
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