Juba — South Sudan leader, Salva Kiir has said the young nation’s current deadlock with Sudan over Abyei will only be resolved, if international partners fully engaged the latter into accepting the African Union (AU) proposal on the final status of the disputed region. “The issue of Abyei is one of the issues which remain [...]
DanChurchAid (DCA) is looking for an experienced and energetic new Head of Finance and Admin for its South Sudan and Kenya Programme. DCA is working with local partners in South Sudan and Kenya to assist the poorest of the poor with a focus on protection, combating hunger, working for peace and conflict mitigation and the [...]
South Sudan’s secession just over a year ago was one of promise: The country had plently of oil, and boasted an on-paper GDP per capita double that of Kenya. But disputes over oil transit fees through Sudan, including a brief military occupation of a contested region, culminated in a decision by South Sudan’s government to [...]
KHARTOUM | Sun Oct 7, 2012 2:06pm EDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan will reopen its border crossings with South Sudan after the former civil war foes reached a security deal last month, Sudanese state media said on Sunday. Cross-border trade between the two countries largely stopped ahead of South Sudan‘s secession from Sudan last year, [...]
Business Written by Moses Talemwa The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan have resolved to end their differences over oil production, a move that could rule out Kenya’s plans to erect a new refinery in Lamu to refine South Sudan oil. The two presidents, Omar al-Bashir and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir, who met [...]
For over a week the oil-rich South Sudan has been experiencing fuel shortages leading to an increase in transport fares.?? “We do not have enough diesel and petrol. But we are being told that the situation will improve soon,” said a lorry driver, Ahmed Mukasa at Aru town near the border with Uganda. ??In all [...]
While there are problems with many washed out roads in Juba and other cities and towns across the country this rainy season, South Sudan, with the help of the United States, is making great strides on other major transportation projects. Today the government inaugurated the Juba-Nimule road, a 192-kilometer highway connecting the capital, Juba, with [...]
By By MICHAEL ONYIEGO – 6 hours ago JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Officials from a United Nations food agency air-dropped 32 metric tons of food to refugees on the South Sudan-Sudan border, an expensive, last-ditch way to get food to tens of thousands of people who have been forced out of Sudan by fighting [...]
Major deal By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda | Aug 11, 2012 (eTN) – Within days of reaching an agreement with hostile neighbor Khartoum, Sudan, over the fees on transporting South Sudan?s oil to Port Sudan for export – said to have been literally forced down South Sudan?s throat by western governments and subsequently [...]
Washington — The United States quickly welcomed the announcement made by African Union (AU) mediator and former South African president Thabo Mbeki that the delegations of Sudan and South Sudan reached an agreement regarding oil transit fees. The sticky issue has all but debilitated the economies of the two neighboring nations and both sides were [...]
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