Women, affirmative action and justice
By Suzanne JamboApril 3, 2013 - The discussion or debate on Affirmative Action, AA has been quite controversial and may have been unfairly judged or misconceived by many. I subscribe to Affirmative...
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Norway and Sweden to participate in Darfur donor conference
April 3, 2013 (KHATOUM) - Norway and Sweden will attend Darfur donors conference scheduled to take place this week in the Qatari capital Doha on 7 and 8 April.Tadjadine Bechir Niam, Minister of...
View ArticleWill Bashir Visit Juba?
By Luka Biong DengApril 4, 2013 - With the signing of the implementation matrix for the nine agreements signed by South Sudan and Sudan in September 2012, there is now a growing optimism in the...
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Lakes: New Panakurbil chief elected in Rumbek East
April 4, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Lakes state authorities conducted traditional chief authority elections in Rumbek East County headquarter in Adual on Thursday with four candidates seeking to become chief of...
View ArticleMuslim protesters face “unfair trial” under Ethiopia's anti-terror law, says HRW
April 4, 2013 (PARIS) - Human Rights Watch has expressed grave concern on the prosecution of 29 Muslim protesters in Addis Ababa, including nine prominent Islamic leaders who are being tried under...
View ArticleUnity state condemns women's abduction in cattle raid
By Bonifacio Taban KuichApril, 4, 2013 (BENTIU) - Eight women were abducted and over 170 head of cattle stolen on Monday from South Sudan's Unity state by a group of raiders allegedly from neighbouring...
View ArticleCentral Equatoria governor calls for better management of local revenues
April 4, 2012 (JUBA) - The governor of South Sudan's Central Equatoria state, Clement Wani Konga, said on Thursday that the government should stick to mobilising more internally generated resources...
View ArticleAccused ‘New Dawn' supporters remain in detention in Darfur
April 4, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Four men arrested in Central Darfur on 31 March after they were accused of being supporters of the ‘New Dawn' charter remain in custody despite Sudan's president, Omar...
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UN food aid reaches Blue Nile state for the first time
April 4, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Urgently needed food aid has reached the people of Sudan's war-torn Blue Nile state for the first time since conflict broke out in September 2011.Refugees from Blue Nile...
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Sudan determined to remove fuel subsidies despite oil agreement with south
April 4, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan's finance and national economy minister Ali Mahmood Abdel-Rasool said today that his government will continue its belt tightening policies despite securing an agreement...
View ArticleJEM rebuts UN report on military bases in South Sudan
April 4, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The justice and Equality Movement (JEM) denied allegations by a group of UN experts about the presence of its fighters in South Sudan terming it as "simply false".A UN panel...
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Sudan's Bashir grants Egypt land in Khartoum to build industrial complex
April 4, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi arrived in Khartoum today in his first visit since his election last June in the first free polls conducted after the demise of the...
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The Broken Approach to Peace Between the Sudans
Enough Project The Broken Approach to Peace Between the SudansA Proposal to End the Cycle of Incremental Progress and Dangerous DelayOmer Ismail and Akshaya KumarMarch 2013The Broken Approach to Peace...
View ArticleIntelligence agency steps up offensive against Khartoum press
Reporters Without Borders5 April 2013SUDANIntelligence agency steps up offensive against Khartoum press}}}Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Sudan's National Intelligence and Security...
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South Sudan oil will resume flowing to Port Sudan today
April 6, 2013 (JUBA) - The first barrels of crude oil from the oilfields in the oil-rich Unity state of South Sudan will begin to flow today through the pipelines to Port Sudan, announces the...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia distances itself from criticism of Ethiopian dam
By Tesfa-Alem TekleApril 5, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Saudi Arabia government has made an official statement rebuffing recent remarks made by the kingdom's deputy defense minister against the...
View ArticleS. Sudan records 209 road accidents over Easter holiday
April 4, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan's traffic police say they recorded at least 209 road accidents over the Easter holiday period in which 17 people lost their lives.According to an accidents' registry...
View ArticleEthiopia cancels $1 billion fuel imports from Sudan
April 5, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ethiopian Petroleum Supplier Enterprise (EPSE) has retracted its statement last month that reported that the country had imported over $1 billion of fuel from...
View ArticleDarfur court sentences 3 men to amputation for cooking oil theft
April 5, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – A Darfur criminal court has sentenced three men found guilty of stealing cooking oil to the amputation of their right hand from the wrist, in a hearing advocacy groups say...
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