Khartoum-Juba cooperation agreements will impact inflation rate, says...
March 31, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese State's Minister of Finance Abdul-Rahman Dirar projected that the implementation of cooperation agreements signed with the neighboring state of South Sudan will...
View ArticleSpeculations on Bashir's succession are "personal views", says NCP official
March 31, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) affirmed that the party's next general convention will pick its candidate for the upcoming elections and decide on a successor...
View ArticleSudan says Uganda a threat to regional stability
March 31, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government lashed out again at Uganda accusing it of undermining regional security by harboring and supporting anti-Khartoum rebel movements.File photo showing...
View ArticleChristians in South Sudan mark Easter celebrations with message of...
March 31, 2013 (JUBA) – Tens of thousands of Christians in South Sudan's capital, Juba, celebrated the Easter Sunday with the message of national reconciliation across the 20-month old nation.Riek...
View ArticleEgypt's Morsi visit to Sudan ‘historic': official
March 31, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The visit scheduled by Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi to Khartoum next Thursday is "historic", a Sudanese official said today.Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir (L)...
View ArticleEx-FM of Egypt says opposed to joining ICC, will force country to arrest Bashir
March 31, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – The former foreign minister of Egypt Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said that any move by Cairo to ratify the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will hurt the...
View ArticleFlood displaces over 12,000 in Jonglei state
March 31, 2013 (BOR) - Over 12,000 people have been displaced by floods that resulted from heavy rains in various parts of South Sudan's Jonglei state, an official told Sudan Tribune.Twic East county...
View ArticleNew UNAMID chief arrives in the Sudanese capital
April 1 2013 (KHARTOUM) –The new head of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) (UNMAID) arrived to the Sudanese capital Khartoum today, more than four months after his appointment...
View ArticleKasha appointed governor of East Darfur state
March 31, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese president appointed Sunday the former governor of South Darfur Abdel Hamid Musa Kasha as a Wali of East Darfur state, a position he had refused last year.Appointed...
View ArticleNational healing and reconciliation; a painful road but unavoidable
By Suzanne JamboApril 1, 2013 - The new nation of the Republic of South Sudan, younger than five years old and is already largely perceived and/or suffering from a most chronic and crippling disease;...
View ArticleSudan's Bashir orders release of political detainees
April 1, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir said on Monday that he has ordered the release of all political detainees in the country, although it remains unclear whether the...
View ArticleLakes and Warrap agree to return looted cows to each other
April 1, 2013 (RUMBEK) - South Sudan's states of Warrap and Lakes held a Peace and Reconciliation forum on Saturday in the latter's Cueibet County where both sides agreed to end the cycle of cattle...
View ArticleS. Sudan: Swiss-based group to support national reconciliation process
March 31, 2013 (JUBA) - Initiatives for Change International (IOFC), a Switzerland-based religious organisation, has pledged to support the much-anticipated South Sudan's national reconciliation and...
View ArticleSouth accuses Sudan of launching attack ahead of Bashir's visit
April 1, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Monday accused neighbouring Sudan of "deliberately" launching a new ground attack on its border state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal, underlying the level of suspicion...
View ArticleSouth Sudan preparing to receive Sudanese president despite new attack
April 1, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan is preparing to receive a much trailed visit from the president of neighboring Sudan with which it has signed an agreement to end dispute over list of outstanding...
View ArticleSouth and North Sudanese delegations discuss arrangements to open border
April 1, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Delegations from Sudan and south Sudan started meetings in Khartoum to operationalise crossing points on the joint border between the two countries.The two countries agreed...
View ArticleSudan's 2012 gold exports top $2.2 billion: Bashir
April 1, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir announced on Monday that the country's gold exports in 2012 reached $2.2 billion stressing that his government will continue...
View ArticleTrafficked Eritrean refugees face “brutal violence” - Amnesty
April 3, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - There are ongoing reports that asylum-seekers and refugees kidnapped from camps on the Sudan-Eritrea border are being subject to cruel and inhuman treatment at the hands of...
View ArticleTurkey, S. Sudan keen on boosting ties
April 2, 2013 (JUBA) - A delegation from South Sudan has arrived in Turkey to brief its government on the progress of negotiations with Sudan aimed at ending ongoing tensions between the two...
View ArticleUS praises Sudan's move to free political prisoners
April 2, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The United States on Tuesday hailed yesterday's announcement by president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir that the government intends to release all detainees currently being held on...
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