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South Sudan's Equatoria region calls for peaceful leadership contest
May 9, 2013 (JUBA) – Intellectuals and senior political leaders from the greater Equatoria region have called on contestants for the top seat in the ruling party, SPLM, to refrain from violent politics...
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Sudanese president travels to Chad for regional summit
May 9, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir will fly to Chad on Friday to attend the Great Green Wall summit, a presidential official said today.Chad's President Idriss Deby...
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AU calls for urgent inquiry into death of Dinka Ngok chief
May 9, 2013 (JUBA) – The African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) has called for a “credible, transparent and independent” inquiry into circumstances that resulted into the recent killing of...
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Sudan approves 22% pay raise for military
May 9, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese army has agreed to boost salaries of soldiers and officers by 22% amid growing military activities against rebels in the country.FILE PHOTO - Sudanese army troops...
View ArticleThe devil in resolving decades of Abyei conflict
By Ngor Arol GarangMay 10, 2013 - The past days have seen global community watching members of the Nine Ngok Dinka of Abyei, together with their cousins in the South Sudan shedding tears unabated. They...
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Iran to train Sudanese naval force
May 10, 2103 (Khartoum) - The Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari voiced Iran's enthusiasm for stronger naval cooperation with Sudan and announced that his forces are prepared to...
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Jonglei Governor calls for proper use of national security law
May 10, 2013 (BOR) - The Governor of South Sudan's Jonglei state on Thursday urged the Federal government to ensure that the country's security law is properly utilised once the document is endorsed....
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Rights group says Eritrea detains 10,000 political prisoners
By Tesfa-Alem TekleMay 10, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Human rights group, Amnesty International, on Thursday criticised Eritrea over the allegation that it is arresting thousands of people for political...
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Sudan urges mosques' imams to call for Jihad against rebels
May 10, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's High Committee for Mobilization and Alert has held a meeting with mosque's Imams to discuss the implications of the rebel Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) recent...
View ArticleSudanese ministry of health minimizes reports over new meningitis cases
May 10, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese ministry of health has watered down reports of meningitis outbreak in the country and called avoid crowded places.Following reports about the existence of suspected...
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Unity state: Women crash stones to fight poverty
By Bonifacio Taban KuichMay 10, 2013 (BENTIU) - Women and children in South Sudan's Unity state have resorted to crashing gravels to fight hunger threat in the oil-rich region.In a series of interviews...
View ArticleReflections on the invisibility of Darfur
By Eric ReevesMay 11, 2013 - I'm often asked, "Is the Darfur situation still awful? is it still a humanitarian crisis?" It's a painful question to have to answer, if only because of the difficulty in...
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Islamic body in Sudan calls on government to regulate massage business
Secretary General of the Sudan Scholar Council Mohamed Osman Saleh Al-Amin (SUNA)May 11, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudan Scholar Council (SSC) has called upon authorities to strictly regulate the massage...
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Sudanese security shuts down TEDx event in Khartoum
May 11, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese security agents shut down a TEDx community forum organised in Khartoum on Saturday after unplugging their power supply midway through the event, which aimed to...
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S. Sudan rejects forming joint administration in Abyei with Sudan
May 11, 2013 (JUBA/KHARTOUM) - South Sudan has rejected forming a joint administration with the Sudanese government in the contested border region of Abyei, accusing Khartoum of having "killed the...
View ArticleEx-legislator in Aweil makes controversial apology over expulsion
May 11, 2013 (JUBA) - A former member of state parliament in South Sudan's Northern Bahr el Ghazal has issued a signed apology, amid reports of bullying and allegations relating to a family dispute and...
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SPLM's Amum distances himself from dismissal of six members in Aweil
May 11, 2013 (JUBA) - The secretary-general of the South Sudan ruling party (SPLM), Pagan Amum, has distanced himself from the controversial dismissal of six members of his party in Northern Bahr el...
View ArticleSouth Sudan establishes commission for refugee affairs
May 11, 2013 (JUBA) – The Republic of South Sudan has established a Commission for Refugee Affairs (CRA) as hundreds of thousands of refugees have entered the new republic from the neighbouring...
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Senior SPLA official sustains gunshot wound in road robbery ambush
May 11, 2013 (JUBA) – A high-ranking official from the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) was shot and injured after unknown gunmen ambushed the vehicle in which he traveled on Friday. A senior...
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Sudan forms special paramilitary unit to defend capital
May 11, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The High Committee for Mobilization and Alert at Khartoum's locality headed by mayor Omar Nimir announced the inauguration of Popular Defense Forces (PDF) military training...
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