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Kiir sacks Lakes state governor
January 21, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir unexpectedly removed Lakes State governor Chol Tong Mayay of his post, putting his deputy Mabor Achol Kuer in charge until further...
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South Sudan president relieves senior army officers
January 21, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan's president Salva Kiir on Monday announced new reforms to the national army, dismissing a number of senior army officers from their duty, as well as removing them...
View ArticleEritrean mutineers surround information ministry
By Tesfa-Alem TekleJanuary 21, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – Some 200 disaffected Eritrean troops with two tanks on Monday surrounded the Ministry of Information in the capital Asmara, sources in the Red Sea...
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Lakes state orders forceful disarmament in three counties
January 21, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Authorities in Rumbek, the capital of South Sudan's Lakes state have resumed forceful disarmament after sectional clashes erupted in its Rumbek Central County for the first...
View ArticleMillions register to vote in Ethiopia as opposition parties threaten to boycott
January 20, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Millions of voters have registered in Ethiopia to take part in upcoming local and Addis Ababa City Council elections due to be held in April this year.According to...
View ArticleOmdurman's Sabreen: the gaieties of the class divide
By Magdi El GizouliJanuary 21, 2013 - Several years back, I accompanied the late Mohamed Ibrahim Nugud, the former Political Secretary of Sudan's Communist Party, on a drive through Khartoum's upscale...
View ArticleSudanese security agents break into home of opponent in capital
January 22, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese security services have broken into the home of a local official of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) in Omdurman and seized a number of documents and electronic...
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UNSC to hold consultations on Sudan, South Sudan relations
January 21, 2013 (KHARTOUM/JUBA) – Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will on Tuesday hold consultations on relations between Sudan and South Sudan, in accordance with resolution...
View ArticleFunny Guest
By Steven WönduJanuary 22, 2013 - This is in response to Dr Spencer Kenyi's long critique of the proposition by an American Senator that our crude oil could be transported by trucks to Djibouti. I am...
View ArticleSudan Development Conference: Germans need to re-confront their past
By Eric ReevesJanuary 22, 2013 - On January 29, 2013 a development conference, designed to promote international investment in Sudan, will be held in Berlin, Germany—sponsored by the German government...
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Lakes state gets new military caretaker governor
January 22, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan's president Salva Kiir has appointed Major General Matur Chut as caretaker governor of Lakes state, a day after removing governor Chol Tong Mayay, according to a...
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Former Lakes state governor halts attempted protest
January 22, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Thousands of people attempted to demonstrate against a decision by South Sudanese president Salva Kiir to remove the elected governor of Lakes state, Chol Tong Mayay, on...
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Blame SPLM members, not party for South Sudan failure: official
January 20, 2013 (BOR) - A member of South Sudan's ruling party (SPLM) has told his comrades and the public not to blame the party as an entity, but its members for failing to fulfill their rightful...
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Kiir appoints new head of South Sudan police
January 22, 2013 (JUBA) - President Salva Kiir on Tuesday issued a decree sacking Lt Gen Acuil Tito Madut and appointing Lt Pieng Deng Kuol as the new head of South Sudan's police.Former South Sudan...
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Washington “disappointed” by Khartoum refusal to allow exportation of South...
January 22, 2013 (LONDON) – The American administration has criticised the Sudanese government for its continued refusal to allow the exportation of South Sudanese oil before disengagement with rebels...
View ArticleSudan accused of “reneging” on cooperation agreement
January 21, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan this week accused the government of neighbouring Sudan of reneging on a deal signed in September 2012, claiming that its withdrawal of troops from border areas...
View ArticleEthiopia, South Sudan agree to boost border security
By Tesfa-Alem TekleJanuary 24, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia and South Sudan have signed an agreement to work jointly on measures aimed at combating regional security threats and ensuring peace along...
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SPLM extraordinary convention to only discuss basic documents – Itto
January 24, 2013 (JUBA) – The deputy secretary general of South Sudan's ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), Anne Itto, has strongly denied rumours the party will expand its agenda beyond...
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Sudan says Darfur rebels willing to discuss peace, JEM denies
January 24, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Rebel movements are willing to continue dialogue on ways to end the 10-year conflict in Darfur region, said the head of a committee aiming to persuade the non-signatories...
View ArticleW. Bahr el Ghazal official urges Lakes state to cease cattle raids
January 23, 2013 (JUBA)- An official from South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal state on Wednesday expressed concerns about the increasing level of violence in neighbouring Lake state, urging its...
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