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- Monday 27 February 2012
February 26, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudanese police authorities on Sunday announced that the government had approved a pay increase, despite the country looking to reign in spending as it adjusts from the loss of oil revenues. A picture (...)
- Monday 27 February 2012
February 27, 2012 (JUBA) – Top generals of the South Sudan army, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), have been asked by the South Sudan Anti-Corruption Commission (SSACC) to declare their income and assets, in the latest effort to (...)
- Saturday 3 December 2011
December 2, 2011 (JUBA) - South Sudan plans to borrow $679 million in the 2011-2012 financial years to invest in improving its road and rail networks, a senior official with the Finance Ministry said on Friday. Central Bank of South (...)
- Monday 14 May 2012
May 13, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan has received a "large" transfer of cash from unspecified source which would soon cause a 50% jump in the value of the local currency against the U.S. dollar, officials in Khartoum said. A Sudanese man (...)
- Friday 22 July 2011
July 21, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government today announced that the new currency will be officially circulated next Sunday amid tensions with the new state of South Sudan on how to get rid of the old currency. Sudan’s Central (...)
- Friday 8 March 2013
March 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese finance and national economy ministry today reiterated that it is eligible for debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative.
The Undersecretary of the ministry Yusuf (...)
- Tuesday 19 July 2011
July 19, 2011 (JUBA) – The new currency for the newly born nation of the
Republic of South Sudan was officially launched on Monday by President Salva
Kiir Mayardit, amidst citizens concerns that the date on which the notes were (...)
- Wednesday 2 February 2011
February 1, 2 011 (KHARTOUM) – The financial authorities in North Sudan told their Southern counterparts that they will discontinue use of the pound after the semi-autonomous region officially becomes an independent state.
Ninety-nine (...)
- Monday 27 August 2012
By Julius N. Uma
August 26, 2012 (JUBA) – A South Sudan government delegation, led by cabinet affairs minister Deng Alor, held talks with Donald Steinberg, the deputy administrator for the US Agency for International Development (...)
- Thursday 3 February 2011
By: Bonifacio Taban Kuich
February 2, 2011 (BENTIU) – A Kenyan private airline has decided to suspend operations in all ten states of Southern Sudan in light of the chronic deterioration in the value of the Sudanese pound against the (...)
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