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Death toll in Kenya rises as world condemns terror attack
September 22, 2013 (NAIROBI) - The death toll in the Saturday's afternoon attack in an upscale Kenyan shopping mall by the Somali militant group Al- Shabaab has risen to 59 and the injured to 175,...
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Sudanese presidential assistant issues veiled threat to Darfuri tribal chief
September 22, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's presidential assistant, Nafie Ali Nafie, has implicitly criticized the leader of the Darfurian Arab Mahameed clan leader, Musa Hilal, and warned that nobody,...
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Sudan's VP calls for calm in South Darfur in the wake of deadly violence
September 22, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese 2nd Vice President, Al-Hag Adam Youssef, has called upon the residents of South Darfur state capital city of Nyala to remain calm and not to escalate...
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Sudanese president challenges US to deny his visa request or arrest him
September 22, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir has challenged the United States government to do anything except grant his visa request to travel to New York to attend the...
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Sudan officially launches second round of subsidy cuts amid tightened security
September 22, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The streets of Khartoum on Sunday witnessed heightened security presence as gas stations updated their fuel prices to reflect today's directives issued by the oil...
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S. Sudan says committed to building strong army
September 22, 2013 (WAU) - South Sudan defense minister Kuol Manyang has vowed to build a strong national army, less than a week after President Salva Kiir accused the military of widespread...
View ArticleIslamic extremist murders two members of his family in Omdurman
September 22, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - A 27-years old man in Sudan's twin capital city of Omdurman was taken into custody after fatally stabbing his mother and brother and wounding his sister leaving her in...
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Zain launches multimedia drive in S. Sudan
September 22, 2013 (JUBA) – Mobile operators, Zain South Sudan, have officially launched a new multimedia campaign seeking to inspire and communicate the services it offers clients.Wassim Mansour, Zain...
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E. Equatoria disappoited as Ugandan neighbours fail to show up to peace meeting
By Ijoo BoscoSeptember 23, 2013 (TORIT) - Leaders from South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria state were left disappointed on Monday when their counterparts from Ngomoromo lamwoo District in Northern Uganda...
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Unity state women now brew alcohol for survival
September 23, 2013 (KAMPALA) – Women in South Sudan's Unity state now sell locally-brewed alcohol to meet the high living costs and school fees demands for their children.Bentiu resident Tapitha...
View ArticleWarrap governor strips powers from finance minister
September 23, 2013 (KUACJOK) - The finance minister of Warrap state in South Sudan was unexpectedly stripped of his administrative powers on Monday by the state's governor over corruption...
View ArticleThree Al-Shabaab militants killed, siege at Nairobi mall continues for a...
September 23, 2013 (NAIROBI) - Kenyan specials forces with advice from Israeli and American experts for a third day running battled Al-Shabaab militants inside the up-scale Westgate mall which the...
View ArticleMachar decries terrorist attack in Kenya
September 23, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan's former vice-president, Riek Machar Teny, has described as very unfortunate the Saturday terrorist attack in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, that left dozens of...
View ArticleSouth Sudanese girls a family asset (Part II)
By Philip Thon AleuThe scale of early marriages in South Sudan is being underestimated by outsiders but when girls are deceived to marry and get education after that, this is where it ends. She has to...
View ArticleSudan: presidential hot dogs and ministerial pizzas
By Magdi El GizouliSeptember 23, 2013 - After almost two years of agonizing budgetary worries Sudan's finance minister, Ali Mahmoud Abd al-Rasoul, pushed forward a plan to abolish government subsidies...
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U.S. envoy urges South Sudan to prepare for 2015 elections
September 23, 2013 (JUBA) – The newly appointed US special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, Donald Booth, has urged the new country to ensure the holding of the first post-independence elections in...
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Kiir admits 2015 South Sudan elections may be delayed
September 23, 2013 (KUACJOK, Warrap State) - South Sudan's president Salva Kiir has expressed uncertainty over whether the new nation's first general elections since independence will be held on...
View ArticleKiir threatens to expel SPLM members over bickering
September 23, 2013 (KUACJOK, Warrap State) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has threatened to expel unidentified senior members of his governing Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)...
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They bombed everything that moved
PrefaceThis is the fifth update to my original May 6, 2011 report and data spreadsheet; collectively, the reports and data attempt to render as completely as possible all confirmed aerial attacks on...
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Sudan police says unknown assailants behind death during fuel subsidies protests
September 23, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese police issued a press statement late on Monday confirming earlier reports of a death during the demonstrations that broke out in the country's second...
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