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Nile Basin nations call for stronger relations
June 22, 2013 (JUBA) – Members of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) have been urged to deepen cooperation among them to enable inhabitants of the River Nile basin enjoy its tangible benefits.Minister of...
View ArticleUN releases 5 months of food rations for vulnerable groups in Unity state
June 23, 2013 (BENTIU) - The United Nations World Food Programme has granted five months food assistance to 870 household of vulnerable men and women in Unity state.The first food distribution to the...
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E. Equatoria youth conference ends in controversy
June 22, 2013 (TORIT) - The commissioner of Torit county commissioner, German Charles Ojok, has refuted allegations levied against him by some delegates at a youth peace conference of an alleged...
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SPLM politburo refers its disagreements to NLC
June 23, 2013 (JUBA) – The Political Bureau (PB) of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) – South Sudan's ruling party – will take the party's basic documents, which are under review, to the...
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Twelve killed in Sudan stampede over pilgrimage opportunities
June 23, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - Twelve people including 10 women were killed and 3 others injured in a stampede that took place on Sunday in Sudan's eastern state of Al-Gedarif when a wall at school...
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Sudan justice minister to soon review appeal of Gosh's lawyers
June 23, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's attorney general Omar Ahmed Mohammed has confirmed today that the minister of justice had received the appeal submitted by the defense team of the former director of...
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Sudan calls for int'l cooperation to arrest Abu-Kershola war crimes suspects
June 23, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's attorney general Omar Ahmed Mohammed said today that the minister of justice, Mohamed Bishara Dosa, has briefed the last session of the United Nations Human Rights...
View ArticleSudan & South Sudan diplomats voice support to Ethiopia dam
June 23, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – Diplomats from Sudan and South Sudan have expressed their support for Ethiopia's controversial Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile river just 30km from the Sudanese...
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Khartoum "trained and armed" South Sudan rebels, Juba claims
June 23, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Sunday again claimed it is has evidence proving that neighbouring Sudan was providing support to rebel groups fighting the Juba government.South Sudan's defence...
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South not interested in war with Sudan, Kiir tells Eritrean FM
June 23, 2013 (JUBA) - President Salva Kiir repeated on Saturday his insistence that South Sudan is not interested in returning to war with neigbouring Sudan, asserting that the two countries need...
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Sudan reiterates its rejection of rebel demand for humanitarian truce
June 23, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The ruling National Congress Party renewed on Sunday its rejection of a proposition made by the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) for a humanitarian...
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Sudan may introduce new cuts on fuel subsidies
June 23, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - The Shura (consultative} council of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has endorsed a proposal to lift subsidies further on petroleum products, an informed source told...
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Rumbek East commissioner survives highway attack
June 23, 2013 (RUMBEK) - A group of unknown gunmen assaulted a private car carrying the commissioner of Rumbek East county, David Marial Gumke, in Lakes state on Friday.Rumbek East county commissioner...
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Unity state asks UN for funds to build home for street children
June 24, 2013 (BENTIU) - Unity state's ministry of gender, child and social welfare has inked an agreement with the United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF) to build up a care center for street children...
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Rights group accuse South Sudan Lakes state authorities of unlawfully...
June 24, 2013 (JUBA) – A US-based rights entity has openly accused South Sudanese soldiers (SPLA) of allegedly detaining unlawfully and mistreating, since February, more than 130 civilians in its Lakes...
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S. Sudan to utilise Nile River for development projects
June 24, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan says it will use the Nile river's water for development projects, stressing its need to produce green hydroelectricity to reduce reliance on generators.Minister of...
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Sudan MP calls for banning females from sports
June 24, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese MP, Dafa'a Allah Hasab Al-Rasool, has submitted a motion to a parliamentary subcommittee to ban women's sport in Sudan, saying that it is against Shari'a...
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S. Sudan losing millions in fake land transactions, says official
June 24, 2013 (JUBA) - Unscrupulous land transactions have cost South Sudan government millions of money, which remain unaccounted for, an official said.The proposed land for the construction of the...
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Sudan making efforts to improve human rights situation - spokesman
June 24, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's minister of information and the government spokesperson, Ahmed Bilal Osman, has asserted the government's keen desire to improve the human rights situation in the...
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Detention of Sudan former spy chief extended for 2 weeks
June 24, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - The judge of Khartoum's Central criminal court Osama Ahmed Abdalla, has decided to renew the detention of the former head of the National Intelligence and Security Services...
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