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South Sudan's anti-corruption body running short of cash
February 4, 2013 (JUBA) - Austerity measures have left South Sudan's Anti-Corruption Commission (SSACC) short of money and having to cut back its activities investigating graft in the young nation.A...
View ArticleEthiopia records double-digit economic growth under GTP
February 6, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The ministry of finance and economic development on Wednesday announced that Ethiopia has registered an average of 10% economic growth during the past two years of the...
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Qatar to fund Chad-Sudan road, Bashir says
February 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Qatar will fund the construction of a road connecting Sudan and landlocked neighbouring Chad, president Omer Al-Bashir announced following a meeting with his Chadian...
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S. Sudan: High food prices pushes inflation to 35%
February 7, 2012 (JUBA) – Inflation in South Sudan increased to 35% last month, compared to the 25% registered in December 2012, the country's national bureau of statistics said in its latest...
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SPLM-N Arman says Islamic movements threaten African diversity
February 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) secretary general, Yasir Arman, has cautioned against the Islamist movements saying they represent a threat to African...
View ArticleStudents stage sit-in at Khartoum university over dormitory burning
February 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Students from the faculties of Law and Economics at the University of Khartoum staged a sit-in on Thursday to protest the reaction of the school's administration to the...
View ArticleLand grabbing may soon be of the past
By Jacob K. LupaiFebruary 8, 2013 - Recently land grabbing in and around Juba has hit news headlines. The Citizen newspaper of Friday, January 25, 2013 – Vol.7. Issue No. 356 had as a lead news...
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S. Sudan's Machar warns of “fragmentation” if reconciliation not given priority
February 7, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan risks being fragmented if a peace-making and reconciliation initiative to mend broken ties is not given priority, the country's vice president, Riek Machar warned...
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AI: SUDANESE STUDENT DETAINED, AT RISK OF TORTURE
Amnesty International Sudanese student detained, at risk of tortureFebruary 8, 2013Mohammed Osman Moussa, a Sudanese student, has been detained incommunicado for nearly two months following his arrest...
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US urges Sudan to allow humanitarian access in Darfur
February 8, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The US administration said it was deeply alarmed by the recent surge of violence in Darfur and called on the Sudanese government to grant unfettered humanitarian access to...
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Minister sacked by Lakes state's military governor
February 8, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Lakes state's military caretaker Governor Maj-Gen Matur Chut Dhuol has relieved two senior members of the state government on Friday evening without replacement.Lakes...
View ArticleJuba to absorb South Sudanese returnees from Sudan and Diaspora
February 8, 2013 (JUBA) – The South Sudanese government on Friday resolved to absorb qualified returnees from Sudan and the Diaspora into civil service jobs.Based on statistics presented at a cabinet...
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South Sudanese army kills 7 rebels in Upper Nile
February 8, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan army (SPLA) forces on Thursday repulsed a militia attack, in which seven rebels were killed in the Obudi area of its Upper Nile state, a military source said.South...
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Unity state authorities to hand over 90 cows raided from Lakes
By Bonifacio Taban KuichFebruary 8, 2013 (BENTIU) – Authorities in Mayiandit County of South Sudan's Unity state said they recovered nearly 100 heads of cattle, raided from neighbouring Lakes...
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South Sudan bishop wins UN peace award
By Julius N. UmaFebruary 8, 2013 (JUBA) – When Bishop Emeritus Paride Taban started his Holy Trinity Peace Village in Kuron, South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria state in 1999, little did he know it would...
View ArticleSudanese Communists resolved to continue dialogue with rebels
February 8, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) says that it is committed to continue dialogue with Sudanese rebel groups and confirmed having received a letter from the political...
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Dismissal of Lakes' Information Minister ordered by Kiir
February 9, 2013 (RUMBEK) - The military caretaker Governor of Lakes state has distanced himself from Friday's sacking of Lakes state's former information minister, after a letter has emerged from...
View ArticleCPJ: Ethiopia's court hearing on journalist “politicized”
February 9, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - An international press freedom watchdog has denounced an Ethiopian court hearing after a Judge on Friday renewed charges against a journalist who is facing multiple...
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S. Sudan's pipeline construction begins October: minister
February 9, 2013 (JUBA) - Construction of South Sudan's oil pipeline, to by-pass reliance on neighbouring Sudan, will commence by October, the country's petroleum and mining minister, Stephen Dhieu...
View ArticleDisintegration of the Sudanese State: the most likely scenario
By Elwathig KameirFebruary 10, 2013 - Successive political crises have been the hallmark of the interim period that followed the conclusion of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Sudan...
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