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Minnawi group claims seizure of new position in South Darfur
April 14, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudan Liberation Movement faction led by Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) claimed on Sunday to killing 43 Sudanese soldiers, as well as the capturing a new area in South...
View ArticleLawyers for Sudan's ex-spy chief call for his release
April 14, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) referred the case of its former director Salah Gosh and his aide Salah al-Sheik to the Justice Ministry amid calls by...
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UPDATE: South Sudan's Kiir withdraws delegated executive powers from VP Machar
April 15, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir on Monday issued a decree withdrawing executive powers that were delegated to his vice-president Riek Machar, according to a broadcast by the...
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Sudan justice minister asks Bashir for forces to capture Darfur suspects
April 15, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's justice minister, Mohamed Bushara Dousa, disclosed on Monday that he had asked president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir to issue a decree establishing a joint force comprised...
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Sudan's Bashir will probably seek a new term, opposition leader says
April 15, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The secretary-general of the opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP), Hassan Abdullah al-Turabi, said that Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir will likely run in the...
View ArticleSudan to step up crackdown on corruption, minister says
April 15, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese justice minister Mohamed Bushara Dousa announced today that he has received the green light from the country's chief justice to establish new courts to deal...
View ArticleEthiopia conducts peaceful and transparant election, say national observers
By Tesfa-Alem TekleApril 15, 2013 (ADDDIS ABABA) – Millions of Ethiopians across the nation on Sunday went to the polls to cast their votes in local and city council elections, which national observers...
View ArticleUS says Sudans making progress in cooperation agreement
April 16, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The United States embassy in Khartoum has welcomed the recent progress made in the implementation of cooperation agreements signed last September between the two Sudans,...
View ArticleCan women in South Sudan make national decisions?
By Jane Kani EdwardApril 14, 2013 - In celebration of International women's Day, March 8th, senior officials of Government of South Sudan and members of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),...
View ArticleDirect talks on South Kordofan and Blue Nile to begin next week, SPLM-N says
April 15, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Direct talks between Sudanese government and Sudan people's Liberation Movement- North (SPLM-N) to settle South Kordofan and Blue Nile conflict will start on 23 April,...
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S. Sudan police urge public support to curb insecurity
April 15, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan's Inspector General of Police (IGP), on Monday, urged the public to cooperate with law enforcement officers in order to reduce high rates of crimes committed in the...
View ArticleCommunique of Darfur international donor conference
F IN A L C OMMU N I Q U É International Donor Conference for Reconstruction and Development in DarfurDoha from 7-?8 April 2013PreambleWe, the Participants in the International Donor Conference for...
View ArticlePeril of ethnic federalism in the Republic of South Sudan
By Stephen Par KuolApril 16, 2013 - United by common struggle against common oppression, the people of Southern Sudan's three provinces of Bar-El -Gahzal, Equtoria and Upper Nile had been clamoring for...
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Machar tells UN his country reforms security sector and promotes peace
April 16, 2013 (JUBA) – The United Nations Assistant Secretary General, Dmitry Titov, who is in charge of the rule of law and security institutions in the UN's department of peacekeeping operations is...
View ArticleLakes State MPs boycott swearing in of new officials, Governor puts...
April 16, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Seven new ministers and three commissioners, who were appointed last weekend by Lakes state's caretaker military Governor were sworn into office on Tuesday but the event was...
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UN denies peacekeepers failed to defend themselves against fatal Gumruk ambush
April 16, 2013 (BOR) - The head of the Untied Nations Mission to South Sudan, Hilde Johnson, has strongly dismissed the perception among many in Jonglei state, that UN peacekeepers killed last week,...
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Confusion over new Lakes state appointments
April 16, 2013 (JUBA) - The appointment of a new cabinet in Lakes state has some confusion in the troubled state after one of the appointees has the same name as well known South Sudanese...
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Warrap: Woman assaulted by co-wife demands divorce
April 16, 2013 (WAU) - A woman in South Sudan's Warrap state is demanding divorce from the husband, after his other wife allegedly poured on her hot water during a slight domestic brawl.The bizarre...
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IMF upgrades GDP growth forecast for Sudan in 2013
April 16, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday raised its projections for Sudan's economic growth in 2013 and adjusted 2012 figures upward as well.In this handout...
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Sudan MPs call for dialogue and ceasing press censorship
April 16, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese parliament speaker, Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir, denied the existence of political prisoners in the country's prison with the exception of more than half a dozen...
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