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 [...]
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 [...]
Juba — The newly-appointed paramount chief of the nine Ngok Dinka of the disputed region of Abyei vowed on Wednesday that he will follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, late Kuol Deng Kuol. The former chief died on Saturday when a convoy he was travelling in with the United Nations Interim Force for Abyei [...]
May 8, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese side of the Joint Political and Security Committee (JPSC) between Khartoum and Juba, headed by Sudan’s defense minister, Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein has extended invitation to his southern counterpart to attend the first meeting of the committee which will tackle the issue of rebel groups in the two countries. [...]
Kuol Deng Majok, the chief of the Ngok Dinka tribe, and an Ethiopian peacekeeper from the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) have been shot dead in Abey on Saturday. The EU condemned the killings and asked for an investigation into the incident. Abey is an oil reach region contested by Sudan and [...]
5 May 2013 Last updated at 05:37 The disputed border region is being administered by an interim UN security force A prominent tribal leader in the disputed Sudanese territory of Abyei has been shot dead in an incident involving a rival Arab militia. Kual Deng Majok, the chief of the Dinka ethnic group, was killed [...]
April 25, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state is seeking assistance to facilitate the return of over 26,000 people who officials say remain stranded in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. A South Sudanese man waves as he sits on a bus waiting to leave the Sudanese capital Khartoum on March 19, 2013. [...]
Sudan and South Sudan reached a deal in the early hours of March 12, after a week of negotiations in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, which should spark the beginning of exports of South Sudanese oil from Sudan‘s Port Sudan, on the Red Sea coast, for the first time in more than 15 months. Companies are [...]
Sudan and South Sudan reached a deal in the early hours of March 12, after a week of negotiations in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, which should spark the beginning of exports of South Sudanese oil from Sudan‘s Port Sudan, on the Red Sea coast, for the first time in more than 15 months. Companies are [...]
Juba — The United Nations Assistant Secretary General, Dmitry Titov, who is in charge of the rule of law and security institutions in the UN‘s department of peacekeeping operations is in the country to discuss with the leadership issues of peace and security in South Sudan. The visiting UN senior official from New York on [...]
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