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Friday 18 August 2017
August 17, 2017 (YAMBIO) – An inter-community peace dialogue between ethnic groups in South Sudan’s Gbudue state commenced on Thursday this week. The map of Western Equatoria in red
The three-day event, organized by the inter-faith (...)
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Friday 28 July 2017
July 27, 2017 (TOKYO) – Japan’s Defence Minister, Tomomi Inada announced on Friday that she had tendered her resignation after a scandal broke out over a cover-up of reports on Japan’s peacekeeping mission troops in South Sudan.
Inada, (...)
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Wednesday 28 June 2017
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
June 27, 2017 (ADDIS ABABA) - The 29th ordinary session of the African Union (AU) summit commenced in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa on Tuesday.
The pan-African summit to be held from 27 June to 4 July, is under (...)
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Tuesday 19 March 2013
March 17, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Japanese government has announced it will contribute $37.7 million to the United Nations and other international organisations to help consolidate peace efforts in conflict-affected areas in Sudan.
The (...)
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Monday 3 July 2017
July 2, 2017 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s national dialogue committee is now seeking the intervention of regional and continental leaders to bring the country’s rival leaders for face to face meeting.
An elderly politician, who preferred (...)
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Thursday 6 March 2014
By Hilde F. Johnson
As the fighting broke out in Juba on the fateful night of 15 December, thousands of civilians flocked to the gates of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in search of protection. Old men carrying nothing but (...)
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Saturday 3 May 2014
May 2, 2014 (JUBA) – Direct talks between South Sudanese president Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar should be treated as an “emergency” in order to prevent growing violence and ethnic polarisation in the country, the US envoy to (...)
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Tuesday 4 March 2014
March 3, 2014 (JUBA) – The government of South Sudan has expressed optimism of the support member countries of the Arab League could provide to address its conflict. South Sudan’s foreign affairs minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin (...)
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Wednesday 26 June 2013
June 25, 2013 (TORIT) – The governor of South Sudan Eastern Equatoria state has officially opened the state assembly with calls for patience and peace among citizens. Eastern Equatoria state Governor Louis Lobong speaks at an event in (...)
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Friday 27 April 2012
April 26, 2012 (BOR) – Consultative community meetings began in Jonglei on Wednesday as part of the Presidential Peace Committee (PCC) efforts to find a lasting solution to the troubled state’s cattle-raiding and inter-ethnic violence. (...)
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