Sudanese opposition & rebel groups agree to topple Bashir's regime
January 5, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese opposition forces and rebel groups agreed Saturday on a charter to topple the regime of the National Congress Party (NCP) and to jointly rule the country before to...
View ArticleJonglei: Ethiopian found dead in Bor market
January 6,2013 (BOR) - An Ethiopian businessman, believed to be a driver of taxi-motorbikes - known as boda boda in South Sudan - was found dead at a market in Jonglei state capital on Saturday...
View ArticleW. Bahr el Ghazal denies failure to sensitise citizens over Wau transfer
January 6, 2013 (WAU) - Senior officials from South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal on Sunday rejected claims arguing that the state's administration had done little to sensitise the local population...
View ArticleAweil community contributes money to support South Sudan army
January 6, 2013 (JUBA) – Aweil community of South Sudan's Northern Bahr el Ghazal state who reside in Juba on Sunday contributed nearly 200,000 South Sudanese pounds ($70,000) to the national army, the...
View ArticleAU vows new support for durable peace between the two Sudans
By Tesfa-Alem TekleJanuary 6, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The African Union (AU) on Sunday freshly committed itself to end differences and bring a just and lasting peace between former civil war rivals Sudan...
View ArticleS. Sudanese in diaspora petition President Kiir over Wau killings
January 6, 2013 (JUBA) – A committee of South Sudanese living in the Diaspora have petitioned President Salva Kiir over the recent spate of killing of unarmed protestors and civilians in Wau, the...
View ArticleSudanese authorities bar activists from delivering memo to the presidency
January 6, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese authorities prevented activists on Sunday from submitting a memorandum to President Al-Bashir against the escalating crackdown on civil society groups, less than a...
View ArticleSudanese regime cautions opposition against its charter with rebels
January 6, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudanese parliament criticized the charter signed by the rebel groups and the opposition forces, cautioning that the...
View ArticleScores killed in South Kordofan tribal clashes
January 6, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Fierce clashes erupted in the restive state of South Kordofan between three clans of the Arab Misseriya tribe killing more than a dozen people and injuring more others,...
View ArticleSouth Sudan asks UK to provide colonial border maps - Machar
January 7, 2013 (JUBA) – The leadership of South Sudan has asked the British government to provide maps that will indicate some of the colonial borderlines between South Sudan and Sudan, revealed the...
View ArticleJonglei: "80,000" cattle raided from Twice East County
January 7, 2013 (BOR) - Close to 80,000 heads of cattle have been raided from Pajut cattle camp in an attack on Twice East County in which two people were killed, South Sudan officials reported on...
View ArticleSouth Sudan release journalists after “interrogations” in Wau
January 7, 2013 (WAU) - South Sudan's security apparatus in its border state of Western Bahr el Ghazal have released two journalists after questioning them for failing to cover President Salva Kiir's...
View ArticleDarfur rebels repulse SAF attempt to retake Jebel Marra's Jaldo
January 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The fighters of Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid Al-Nur (SLM-AW) repulsed an attempt by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) to retake a position they control in the...
View ArticleSudanese official expresses fury over new opposition accord
January 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Nafie Ali Nafie, the Sudanese presidential assistant who is also deputy chairman of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) expressed outrage over an accord signed last...
View ArticleMisseriya want to settle in Abyei before referendum
January 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Misseriya leaders said they are decided to settle in Abyei during this year to participate in the referendum over the future of the area which is claimed by Sudan and South...
View ArticleSudan's Umma party distances itself from new opposition charter
January 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese National Umma Party (NUP) led by former Prime Minister Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi expressed reservations on the "New Dawn" charter signed with other opposition parties...
View ArticleStatement by the spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on...
EUROPEAN UNION Brussels, 8 January 2013 A 4/13Statement by the spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the recent closure of civil society organizations in SudanThe spokesperson of...
View ArticleS. Sudan recalls MPs as constitutional review commission mandate expires
January 8, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan MPs, who were until now on recess, have been recalled back to the national legislative assembly as part of efforts to give the country's Constitutional Review...
View ArticleGermany's delayed investment conference for Sudan to go ahead
January 8, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - A Sudan investment conference will go ahead in Germany this month after being called-off following the storming of its embassy by protesters in Khartoum last year.The...
View ArticleSouth Sudan will conduct fresh population census next year
January 8, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan will conduct another population census in 2014 following the independence of the country one and a half years ago.An enumeratorinterviews residents of Juba on April...
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