Sudan's Hawa: the banat come of age
By Magdi El GizouliDecember 19, 2012 — Hawa Jah al-Rasool, better known as Hawa al-Tagtaga, passed away on 10 December in Khartoum. Born around 1924 in northern Kordofan Hawa moved to the capital at...
View ArticleSudan thwarts fresh coup attempt: reports
December 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese authorities have quietly arrested more than half a dozen army officers accusing them of plotting to stage a coup against the government led by president Omer...
View ArticleThe FBI Investigation of Isaiah Abraham: Challenges, opportunities and...
By Steve PaternoDecember 20, 2012 — The agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), charged with helping the investigation of Isaiah Abraham death, is reported to have landed in Juba, the...
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Jonglei residents have their eyesight restored at the ‘Lost Boys Clinic'
December 20, 2012 (DUK PAYUEL, Jonglei) – The eyesight of 286 patients has been restored by a team of 16 US doctors visiting the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in Jonglei state.After having her eyesight restored...
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Police courts to be established as forces deployed for festive season
December 20, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan Police Service spokesman James Mondau Enok said at a press conference on Wednesday that the police courts are to be established and that they are fully prepared...
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Wau: UN pledges more troops to calm tense situation
December 20, 2012 (JUBA) - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) will deploy more peacekeepers in Wau, the capital of South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal state to calm a situation, it...
View ArticleGhanaian appointed UN, AU special envoy for Darfur
December 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) - Both the United Nations and the African Commission have appointed Mohammed Ibn Chambas as their Joint Special Representative for Darfur, Head of the African Union and...
View ArticleUnity state: Authorities initiate campaign to reduce cattle rustling
By Bonifacio Taban KuichDecember 20, 2012 (BENTIU) Commissioners from the nine counties in South Sudan's Unity state on Wednesday vowed to ensure effective service delivery to rural communities as a...
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US upgrades South Sudan's preferential trade status
December 20, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – The United States President Barack Obama on Thursday added South Sudan to a program that gives it further trade privileges.United States President Barack Obama (Photo...
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Sudan to repartition South Kordofan into two states
December 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan First Vice President announced on Thursday that West Darfur state will be soon reestablished as a separate territorial administrative entity during the celebrations...
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South Sudan's army down UN helicopter in Jonglei, 4 Russians killed
December 21, 2012 (LONDON) — The South Sudanese army, SPLA, shot down a United Nations helicopter in the troubled state of Jonglei, killing all the members of its Russian crew, the international...
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Jonglei: Four killed in Twice East cattle raid
December 21, 2012 (BOR) - Four people were killed and three others wounded in Jonglei State's Twice East County following a cattle raid on Mission cattle camp in Kongoor Payam on Wednesday 19, Sudan...
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Police step up security measures in and around Juba
December 21, 2012 (JUBA) – Police in the South Sudan's capital, Juba, have beefed up security to protect the lives and property of people ahead of the Christmas and New Year festivals.Southern Sudan's...
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WBGS governor makes public appearance to dismiss suspension rumour
December 21, 2012 (WAU) - The governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal, Rizik Zachariah Hassan on Thursday toured Wau town, perhaps to dispel rumors he had been suspended from his position over the...
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Sudanese army bar UNAMID from investigating fresh clashes in North Darfur
December 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese army prevented an investigation team from the joint peacekeeping mission from investigation recent fight that caused new wave of internal displacement in North...
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OCHA South Sudan Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin for the period 10 December - 16...
OCHA South Sudan Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin for the period 10 December - 16 December 2012HIGHLIGHTS 5,500 displaced people to receive food assistance in Jonglei About 4,000 Congolese refugees cross...
View ArticleWhy the armed forces of South Sudan shot down a UN helicopter
By Eric Reeves,22 December 2012 — On December 21, 2012—in a deeply tragic accident—military forces of South Sudan shot down a UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) MI-8 helicopter with four Russian pilots...
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Jonglei official denies SPLA shot down UN helicopter
December 22, 2012 (BOR) - The commissioner of Pibor, Joshua Konyi, claims that the helicopter shot down on Saturday in Jonglei was supporting rebels in the area and denied claims that it was downed by...
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Bor Bishop regrets rebellion of his former pupil David Yau Yau
December 21, 2012 (BOR) - The Bishop of Bor Diocese, Rev. Ruben Akurdit Ngong, had thought the young David Yau Yau "was going to make a pastor" when he taught him some years ago but admitted to Sudan...
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SPLA arrests two police officers in connection to Wau killing
December 22, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan's army has announced arresting a number of police officers who were responsible for recent killing of ten civilians in the Western Bahr el Ghazal's capital,...
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