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Eritrea seeks to facilitate talks between Sudan and SPLM-N rebels
August 19, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Eritrean government has launched an initiative to bridge gaps between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) in order to end...
View ArticleTurabi says revolution may happen in Sudan at any time
August 19, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — A revolution to oust the regime of President Omer Al-Bashir could occur at any moment, said the Islamist opposition leader Hassan Al-Turabi on Sunday, after accusing the...
View ArticleAMNESTY: URGENT ACTION SUDANESE ACTIVIST RELEASED
URGENT ACTION SUDANESE ACTIVIST RELEASED Sudanese activist Rudwan Dawod was released on 16 August, after being seized by the National Security Service (NSS). On 13 August 2012, Rudwan Dawod was seized...
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi dies
August 21, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died at the age of 57, state TV announced on Tuesday, ending months of speculations about his worsening health condition. A...
View ArticleSudan-based rebel group and Ethiopia seal peace accord
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle August 20, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Ethiopian government last week signed a peace accord with rebel group, Benishangul People's Liberation Movement (BPLM) to end the latter's two...
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Jonglei: heavy rains flood Bor
August 20, 2012 (BOR) - Jonglei's capital, Bor, and surrounding areas are flooded, following heavy rains that began at the beginning of August. The the children of James Kur, bailing water from their...
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Sudan says all journalists freed as reporter details torture in detention
August 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The head of the government-controlled Union of Sudanese Journalists (USJ), Mohi Al-Din Titawi, announced on Monday that all journalists arrested in a crackdown during weeks...
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S. Sudan's draft media law requires broad consultations claims HRW
By Julius N. Uma August 20, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan's draft media law, currently before the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), should be subjected to extensive consultation to ensure the...
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Foreign advisor to South Sudan's president flees Juba after disclosure of...
August 20, 2012 (WASHINGTON) — A presidential advisor to South Sudan has been forced to leave Juba after the disclosure of a letter urging 75 officials to return some four billion dollars they are...
View ArticleSudan's destroyed plane was piloted by Russian national
August 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese plane that crashed in South Kordofan state on Sunday was driven by a Russian pilot, the Russian embassy in Khartoum said. An Antonov AN-26, belonging to Alfa...
View ArticleThe irony of urgency in Juba
By Zechariah Manyok Biar August 21, 2012 - South Sudanese tend to develop bad habits and cherish them. One of these bad habits is crazy driving on Juba roads. People die every day as a result and...
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S. Sudan: IOM, Japanese government launch $5.4m border program
August 21, 2012 (JUBA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Japanese government on Monday signed an agreement with South Sudan to mark the launch of a new initiative seeking to...
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Child mortality rates exceed emergency levels in S. Sudan: MSF
By Julius N. Uma August 21, 2012 (JUBA) - An average of at least three to four Sudanese children, under the age of five, have been dying daily at Batil refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State,...
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Unity State: Child dies, thousands affected by Payinjiar County floods
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich August 21, 2012 (BENTIU) - A five-year-old child drowned in the Nyal area of Unity State's Payinjiar County as heavy floods washed away around 100 villages over the last week,...
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Sudan and South Sudan eulogise Zenawi amid uncertainty over next round of talks
August 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM/JUBA) – Sudan and South Sudan offered their condolences to neighbouring Ethiopia on Tuesday following the death of its Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, describing him as a friend...
View ArticleMachar calls on all sectors to address the sources of fragility in South Sudan
August 21, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan's vice president, Riek Machar, has called on all the stakeholders in the country to identify and address issues that make the country one of the most fragile states...
View ArticleTwo Jordanian peacekeepers are missing in North Darfur
August 21, 2012 (EL-FASHER) - Two Jordanian peacekeepers have gone missing since Monday in North Darfur state, the hybrid mission in Sudan's western region said on Tuesday. The African Union - United...
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Sudan's civil aviation chief resigns over plane crash
August 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The head of the Sudanese Civil Aviation Corporation (SCAC), Mohammed Abdel Aziz, tendered his resignation to the country's president Omer Al-Bashir on Tuesday, citing the...
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South Sudan's Paulino Matip dies in Nairobi after long illness
August 22, 2012 (NAIROBI) — General Paulino Matip, deputy commander in chief of the South Sudanese army (SPLA) and political leader died in Nairobi after a long battle with illness, his son told Sudan...
View ArticleCan South Sudan grow new universities without new vice chancellors?
By John A. Akec Project Universities without Vice Chancellors and No Funding August 21, 2012 — Dr Peter Adwok Nyaba, the Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology; joined by a...
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