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Jonglei's Bor hospital treats 279 wounded in local clashes
July 20, 2013 (BOR) - The number of patients received by Jonglei's Bor hospital through the South Sudan Red Cross (SSRC) has now reached 279, with more than 50 others still to be evacuated to the...
View ArticleFresh cattle raiding in Unity state leaves three people critically injured
July 20, 2013 (BENTIU) – About 50 armed youths from Mayom county's Turkey payam [district] in Unity state raided 434 head of cattle in neighbouring Koch county on Saturday.Area commissioner John Chuol...
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East Africa's exiled journalists live in fear of attack and imprisonment
July 20, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Exiled East African journalists who fled their countries due to work-related persecution continue to live in fear of reprisal in their adopted homelands, a new report from...
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Sudan intentionally broke Cooperation Agreement, Barnaba says
July 20, 2013 (JUBA) – Juba government has expressed its anger after Khartoum's letter of 7 July announcing it will stop the flow of South Sudanese crude oil to international markets via the Sudanese...
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S. Sudan: Over 5 million at risk of river blindness
July 20, 2013 (JUBA) - Nearly six million South Sudanese remain at risk of contracting river blindness disease due to negligence, health officials have warned.The incidence of river blindness can be...
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Nigeria would have blocked visit of Sudan's Bashir if it knew ahead of time:...
July 20, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – The Nigerian government was not aware about the intention of Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir's to attend the special summit on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria...
View ArticleSudanese opposition can challenge military law before constitutional court , MP
July 20, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - A Sudanese parliamentary official called on the political parties opposed to the amended Sudan's Armed Forces Act to resort to the justice to challenge the...
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No final decisions made on formation of new government: source
July 20, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir has not made final decisions on the upcoming cabinet shuffle, a government source...
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Traffic accidents in Sudan kill 2,000 people every year: minister
July 20, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese minister of interior Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid has revealed that 2,000 people in Sudan die each year in traffic accidents.FILE - A man walks between traffic in...
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South Sudan launches business passports
July 21, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan launched last week a new type of passport that will only be issued to the business community.A South Sudanese passport (VOA/Karim Zeitvogel)The passport was launched...
View ArticleThousands of refugees flee conflict in S. Sudan's Jonglei state, says UN
By Tesfa-Alem TekleJuly 21, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – Thousands of South Sudanese have fled to Ethiopia to escape an armed conflict in eastern South Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
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Turabi says PCP relationship with SPLM stronger than ones with Khartoum...
July 21, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan's Islamist opposition leader Hassan Al-Turabi praised the strong relations between his party and the South Sudanese ruling SPLM, and expressed hopes that the two...
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Machar calls on Abyei citizens to go home and prepare for envisaged referendum
July 21, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan's vice-president, Riek Machar Teny, has called on sons and daughters of Ngok Dinka chiefdoms of Abyei to return home and prepare themselves for the expected...
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JEM rebels slam AU position over comprehensive solution
July 21, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Darfur rebels, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), have urged the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) to support the comprehensive solution for the Sudanese...
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Warrap women elect leader after amending constitution
July 21, 2013 (JUBA) – Women in South Sudan's Warrap state on Saturday elected their new leader after a constitution was drafted and amended to guide the members.Warrap State in red. Contested Abyei...
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Former UN rights chief says UNSC referral of Darfur case to ICC a ‘very bad...
July 21, 2013, (WASHINGTON) - The former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, has acknowledged that referring the Darfur case to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in...
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Khartoum-Juba security meeting will likely be postponed: sources
July 21, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - The joint security meeting between Khartoum and Juba scheduled for Monday in Addis Ababa will likely be postponed, multiple sources told Sudan Tribune on Sunday.FILE PHOTO -...
View ArticleSacking Riek Machar is not politically prudent
By Mapuor Malual ManguenJuly 22, 2013 - Speculation is rife in the country that President Salva Kiir Mayardit may sack his Deputy and main political rival Dr. Riek Machar Teny. Machar who has been Vice...
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Sudan's PCP speaks of a ‘secret' plan to topple regime
July 22, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP) declared that it has embarked on a secret strategic plan to overthrow the regime while a senior official from the umbrella...
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AU & IGAD launch probe on Sudan-South Sudan alleged support to rebel groups
July 22, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The African Union (AU) and the East African regional bloc, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), on Monday launched an investigation committee to probe...
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