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UN calls for extra troops in disputed Abyei

| May 22, 2013 | 0 Comments

//– Video Eldorado Park residents say they feel much safer thanks to an intervention spearheaded by President Jacob Zuma. Coverage The controversial landing of a chartered Gupta jet at Waterkloof Air Force Base is finally debated in Parliament. Exclusive It took eNCA’s investigation for the SAPS to realise that their website had beenRead more: http://www.enca.com/africa/un-calls-extra-troops-disputed-abyei

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Khartoum Denies Blocking South Sudan Oil Flow

| May 22, 2013 | 0 Comments

Khartoum — The Sudanese oil minister Awad Al-Jaz on Tuesday denied reports that his government hampered the exportation of South Sudan crude through the Heglig pipeline, stressing it functions normally. In statements to the official news agency, SUNA, Al-Jaz said South Sudan‘s oil is flowing normally on Sudanese soil to the export ports. “South Sudan‘s [...]

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Sudan, South Sudan hold talks to ease Abyei tensions

| May 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

The talks came after UN leader Ban Ki-moon and the African Union appealed for calm in the flashpoint area following the killing of a tribal chief and a UN peacekeeper on Saturday. “Our president has been in direct contact with president Bashir… they exchanged ideas about this sad incident,” South Sudan‘s Information Minister Barnaba Marial [...]

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Ex-South Sudan Rebels Claim Khartoum Arrested Its Members, Confiscated …

| May 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

Kampala — A South Sudanese rebel group, which recently signed a peace deal with the Juba government, claims the government of Sudan arrested some of its members and confiscated personal belongings, including cars and houses in the capital, Khartoum. Gordon Buay, who identifies himself as the spokesperson of South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA), said the [...]

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Breaking silence on Abyei

| May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

By Beny Gideon Mabor “I don’t know what’s right and wrong anymore”, he said, tears streaming down his cheeks. “On the one hand, I am warned that you are the tool of oppression against our people, an enemy of the Christians and an agent of the evil. On the other hand, when I am with [...]

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UN Mission in Abyei Relocates Over 120 Sudanese Staff to Kadugli

| May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

Juba — The United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has relocated over 120 Sudanese national staff working in various mission support departments to Kadugli, the capital South Kordofan state, well-placed sources within the mission told Sudan Tribune Tuesday. Tensions between Sudan and South Sudan, which both claim Abyei, have heightened since the murder of [...]

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UN mission in Abyei relocates over 120 Sudanese staff to Kadugli

| May 19, 2013 | 0 Comments

May 14,2013 (JUBA)- The United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has relocated over 120 Sudanese national staff working in various mission support departments to Kadugli, the capital South Kordofan state, well-placed sources within the mission told Sudan Tribune Tuesday. the late leader of the Dinka Ngok tribe, Kuol Deng Kuol (L), shakes hands with [...]

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ABYEI: Misplaced civility at the heart of an intractable conflict

| May 19, 2013 | 0 Comments

By Deng Vanang May 13, 2013 – Until death do us part, seem to be the rapturous echoes ripping through the throbbing heart of bewildered Ngok Dinka citizens in Abyei. The disputed territory is aging as it is well over its centenary year in self-imposed exile. It is to be recalled the tiny but much [...]

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Increase of UN troops in Abyei is part of a previous agreement, Sudan says

| May 19, 2013 | 0 Comments

May 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s foreign ministry has stated that the call of the UN secretary General for adding (1126) troops to the UN Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA) came in the context of an earlier agreement between Sudan and South Sudan and the UN. Soldiers of the United Nations’ Interim Force for Abyei [...]

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Khartoum Summons Western Diplomats Over Juba’s Alleged Rebel Support

| May 18, 2013 | 0 Comments

Khartoum — The Sudanese Foreign Affairs ministry on Tuesday summoned top diplomats from Britain, US and Norway over claims alleging that South Sudan supports rebel movements in the country. Khartoum officials, SUNA reported, informed the British and US Charge d’Affaires and the Ambassador of Norway of rebel groups, which recently attacked Um-Rawaba and Abu-Karshola areas [...]

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