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Sudanese MP wary about endorsing move to lift fuel subsidies
June 28, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - A key member of Sudan's national assembly said that they have yet to receive official document on a possible decision to lift fuel subsidies and warned that critical...
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Sudanese president to chair new anti-drug council
June 28, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese president, Omer Hassan al-Bashir, has issued a directive to form a supreme council for drug control under his chairmanship with the aim of arriving at a...
View ArticleSudanese court blocks sale of land to Saudi investor
June 28, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - The Khartoum state Supreme Court has issued a ruling to stop devolution of Mugarsam Island in the Red Sea state to the Saudi businessman Ahmed Abdullah al-Hassaini and to...
View ArticleFormer LJM rebels to implement security arrangements
June 28, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) led by Tijani El-Sissi will start soon the implementation of a security arrangements deal reached with the Sudanese government after...
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Gunmen kill 6 people outside Nyala, advocacy group says
June 28, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - An advocacy group said six people were killed this week in different attacks perpetrated by unidentified armed men near Nyala, South Darfur, and called on the peacekeepers to...
View ArticleBashir's regime rolls to its end
By Salah ShuaibJune 28, 2013 - The consistent opposition against Bashir's regime is inevitably going to escalate in the coming months. But there is a question which should be raised: How could we deal...
View ArticleProven wrong
By Zechariah Manyok BiarJune 29, 2013 - After the failed states report came out in June, 2013 showing South Sudan as ranking forth of the failed states, a friend whom I did not know before but knew me...
View ArticleSymposium: Ethiopia's Nile dam cuts Sudan's expenditure on siltation
June 29, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) which is being built on the Blue Nile river will enable neighbouring Sudan to save millions of dollars a year in clearing...
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Lakes state government shutdown Catholic Radio Good News in Rumbek
June 29, 2013 (RUMBEK) - The ministry of information and communication in South Sudan's Lakes state shut down Radio Good News, a Catholic broadcaster in Rumbek, on Friday morning.Lakes state's military...
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Bilpam founder finally laid to rest in Bentiu
June 30, 2013 (BENTIU) - A veteran leader and founder of the historical Bilpam military headquarters for subsequent South Sudanese rebels was finally laid to rest on Saturday.Major General Vincent...
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Two dead in fresh Lakes state clashes
June 29, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Fresh inter-communal clashes in South Sudan's Lakes state have left two dead, authorities told Sudan Tribune Friday.Manyang Luk Lueth, the Yirol East County commissioner, said...
View ArticleMachar to hold talks in Khartoum on cooperation deals
June 29, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - South Sudanese vice-president Riek Machar is expected Sunday in Khartoum where he will hold talks with his Sudanese counterpart on the implementation of cooperation...
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China & Sudan sign agricultural agreement
June 29, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's minister of agriculture Abdel Halim al-Mutafi, announced that his government signed an agricultural cooperation agreement with Beijing which gives Chinese companies...
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Sudan downplays Juba's pursuit of new oil pipeline
June 29, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's oil minister, Awad Ahmed al-Jaz, has asserted the difficulty of building a new pipeline to transfer South Sudan's oil through another country and said that it is not...
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Sudan's Al-Mahdi speech does little to quell doubts about his position on...
June 29, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - The leader of the opposition National Umma Party (NUP) Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi addressed a mass rally in Sudan's twin capital of Omdurman in which he called for establishing a new...
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Sudan opposition party warns against amendments to army law
June 30, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - The opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP) has warned today against the dangers of the proposed amendments to the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) law which allows for referring...
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Police arrests dozens at demonstration in north Sudan
June 30, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - At least 12 people were arrested and dozens others were injured when police forces using tear gas rushed to disperse protesters in the town of Dalgo of Mahas area in the far...
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Lakes state's Bar-Naam bridge a threat to public transport
June 30, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Citizens in Lakes state have expressed concern over the safety of the Bar-Naam bridge which connects South Sudan's central state to Western Bahr El Ghazal state to the west.The...
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Jonglei community raise funds for development projects
June 30, 2013 (BOR) - A fundraising event in Bor, the capital of Jonglei, has raised 84,000 South Sudan pounds for development projects including maintenance of waterways in South Sudan's troubled...
View Article70,000 Sudanese are HIV positive: WHO
June 27, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) said recent statistics show that the number of people living with HIV in Sudan have now reached 70,000 people.The WHO representative in...
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