(CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey) Bruna Maloal, a 63-year old Catholic catechist, stands at the gate to her home in Abyei, a town at the center of the contested Abyei region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan. • • • Printer Friendly March 27th, 2013By Paul Jeffrey ABYEI, Sudan – When Bruna Maloal was a [...]
Falah Salah was only a boy when he saw oil flow from the backyard of his family’s home in Kirkuk: “One day we got up and there was a pool of black mud at the entrance. My father told us not to tell anyone,” recalls Salah. The family’s discretion was understandable. “If the government had [...]
A senior church leader and two expatriate Christians have been expelled from Sudan, as pressure continues to build on Southerners living in the capital, Khartoum. Santino Morokomomo Maurino, secretary-general of a bishops’ conference in Khartoum, was briefly detained by security forces, then given three days to leave Sudan. He told sources that he was given [...]
Long before the separation of north and south in July 2011, the region that is today Sudan and South Sudan teetered towards chaos. From civil war and internal disintegration, to poverty and brutal slaughters, this land has longed for – and lacked – leadership and compromise to maintain peace. But in recent days Sudan‘s president, [...]
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) – South Sudan‘s president says he and Sudan‘s president have agreed to a resumption of oil exports and border trade. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir traveled to South Sudan on Friday for the first time since the south peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011. South Sudan President Salva Kiir said the [...]
KHARTOUM: Almost 1,000 South Sudanese left their squalid Khartoum camp to return home by convoy on Tuesday but there is little immediate hope for tens of thousands who remain, officials say. South Sudan‘s embassy and the Africa Inland Church arranged the journey to Malakal, in South Sudan‘s Upper Nile state, after Sudanese authorities asked them [...]
ABYEI-CATECHIST Mar-25-2013 (1,100 words) With photos. xxxi Catechist recalls Abyei violence: ‘We prayed the rosary as we ran’ By Paul JeffreyCatholic News Service ABYEI, Sudan (CNS) — When Bruna Maloal was a child, Abyei was a peaceful place, and every year her tribe, the Dinka Ngok, welcomed the Misseriya nomads who came to the region [...]
By Ian Timberlake (AFP) – Mar 19, 2013 KHARTOUM — Almost 1,000 South Sudanese left their squalid Khartoum camp to return home by convoy on Tuesday but there is little immediate hope for tens of thousands who remain, officials say. South Sudan‘s embassy and the Africa Inland Church arranged the journey to Malakal, in South [...]
ABYEI, Sudan (CNS) — When Bruna Maloal was a child, Abyei was a peaceful place, and every year her tribe, the Dinka Ngok, welcomed the Misseriya nomads who came to the region with their vast herds of cattle. “They came with their cows for the water and grass, and we would eat together. They harvested [...]
Date: 21/03/2013 The Sudanese government has submitted a formal letter to the commander of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) declaring that the area south of the January 1956 border line is free of any presence by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) as per the security deal signed last week with South Sudan [...]
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