Waste suspected of killing over 30 cows in Warrap State
August 13, 2012 (JUBA) - At least 32 cows have died in Tonj South County of Warrap State, a week after reports alleging that medical waste had been dumped in the area. Officials are not yet linking the...
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South Sudanese UN staff strike over pay and working conditions
August 13, 2012 (BENTIU/BOR/RUMBEK) - Hundreds of South Sudanese United Nations staff across the young nation went on strike Monday demanding that they are paid in US Dollars rather than South Sudanese...
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Abyei joint committee signs peaceful coexistence pact
August 13, 2012 (JUBA) - The Abyei Joint Oversight Committee (AJOC) have signed a pact highlighting the necessity to strengthen social ties and to embrace living in harmony to restore and promote...
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South Sudan's first Olympic athlete captures imagination of London 2012
By Tom Law August 13, 2012 (LONDON) - Guor Marial, South Sudan's first Olympian, has not just inspired a generation, the theme of the London 2012 Games, but has become an inspiration for a whole nation...
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Gunmen attack Darfur Regional Authority in El-Fasher, seize 4 vehicles
August 13, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — A group of armed men attacked Monday the premises of two ministries of Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) in the capital of North Darfur and fled after seizing some vehicles....
View ArticleARABIC: Document signed by Ngok Dinka and Misseriyia nomads on core...
ARABIC: Document signed by Ngok Dinka and Misseriyia nomads on core principles for peaceful co-existence. 10 August 2012 - Documents / South Sudan, Sudan, Abyei Joint Oversight Committee, Dinka Ngok,...
View ArticleAU condemns attack on UNAMID personnel in South Darfur
August 14, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - The African Union (AU) Commission has strongly condemned Sunday's attack against members of the Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit (FPU) in the AU?UN Hybrid Operations in...
View ArticleWFP official discusses tripartite initiative in Khartoum and visits Juba
August 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The visiting Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), and the Sudanese foreign ministry officials on Monday discussed the implementation o the tripartite...
View ArticleSudanese activist freed by judge but re-arrested by security
August 13, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese activist Rudwan Dawood who has been in jail since July pending trial on terrorism-related charges was ordered free by a judge on Monday only to be re-arrested by...
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South Sudan minister retracts spy charge against international reporter
August 13, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – South Sudan minister of information, Baranaba Benjamin Marial, has declared retraction of statements in which he accused an international reporter covering his country of...
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UN national staff protest against low pay, poor work conditions
August 13, 2012 (JUBA) - At least two hundred national staff working for the United Nations on Monday protested in Juba, the South Sudan capital over what they claimed was their employer's alleged...
View ArticleSouth Sudan launches human rights forum to address its challenges
August 14, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan has launched a forum to address concerns of human rights as the country tries to clean its image after numerous reports documenting human rights violations in the...
View ArticleLakes State's Cueibet County is now at peace - official
August 14, 2012 (RUMBEK) - The Commissioner of Cueibet County of Lakes State, Isaac Mayom Malek, told the media on Tuesday that following tension between Waat and Ayuel sections of the Dinka community...
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19 MPs boycott Jonglei State Assembly in protest against Speaker
August 14, 2012 (BOR) - Nineteen members of the Jonglei parliament, almost 40% of the state's 49 MPs, boycotted the parliamentary session in Bor on Tuesday in support of four MPs who had been suspended...
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Nuer youth reject S. Sudan's newly appointed NEC members
August 14, 2012 (JUBA) - Members of the Nuer Youth Association (NYA) have strongly opposed the membership of the recently formed National Elections Commission (NEC), alleging that most of the...
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US diplomat renews calls to resume dialogue over bilateral relations with Sudan
August 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — US Chargé d'affaires, Joseph D. Stafford, has renewed his country's desire to overcome the challenges facing bilateral relations between the two countries through dialogue,...
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Darfur's LJM calls on splinter group to join peace process
August 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Darfur's former rebel group, Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) welcomed a "splint" within the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and called on the breakaway group to...
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Armed clashes in Nyala stoke Darfur's upsurge of violence
August 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Heavy firefighting erupted on Tuesday's night between an unknown armed group and government forces in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State, in the latest sign of...
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Sudan complains of unregulated web journalism
August 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A Sudanese official has expressed dissatisfaction with the existence of virtual newspapers and media outlets operating without regulation from the state, warning that they...
View ArticleS. Sudan, Twic County ex-commissioner found guilty of stealing public funds
August 14, 2012 (JUBA) - The former commissioner of Warrap state's Twic county, Dominic Deng Kuic, was found guilty on Tuesday in Warrap civil court of embezzling public funds. The ex-commissioner was...
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