Juba — A group of Sudanese opposition politicians visiting neighboring South Sudan have accused Khartoum of complicity in the May 5 killing of the paramount chief of the contested border region of Abyei, Kuol Deng Kuol, who was murdered by Arab nomads from the Misseriya tribe, while he was travelling in a United Nations convoy. [...]
April 29, 2013 (JUBA) – A minister in South Sudan’s Warrap state on Monday defended the suspension of the workers’ trade union, accusing its members of allegedly frustrating government work. Warrap state Governor Nyandeng Malek at the SPLM offices in Kwajok, April 14, 2012 (ST/Julius Uma) The state Governor, Nyandeng Malek, last week issued a [...]
By Luka Biong Deng* It seemed the moderates within Sudan’s ruling NCP eventually prevailed over the hardliners, allowing for president Omar el-Bashir’s visit to Juba to go ahead. This is a positive sign. However, the visit was also necessitated by other factors. These included the diplomatic embarrassment of Bashir’s failure to attend the inauguration ceremony [...]
It seemed the moderates within Sudan‘s ruling NCP eventually prevailed over the hardliners, allowing for president Omar el-Bashir‘s visit to Juba to go ahead. This is a positive sign. However, the visit was also necessitated by other factors. These included the diplomatic embarrassment of Bashir‘s failure to attend the inauguration ceremony of Kenyan president Uhuru [...]
Juba — The delay in the formation of a joint administration in the Abyei area remains a setback in efforts to achieve peace and stability in the disputed oil-producing region. Majak D’ Agoot, South Sudan‘s deputy defence minister, said he is optimistic the new nation will celebrate this year’s independence in July, with Abyei “under [...]
Photo: Tim McKulka/UN Photo South Sudan politics is beginning to move along the line of the customary of realpolitik. Just recently, the populace living on the new country’s borders voiced their misgivings over land issues in the government’s agreement with Khartoum. Their grievances appear to have been ignored without proper explanations and the political latitude [...]
October 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — A leading member of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) warned the South Sudanese government against continuing to harbour Darfur rebel groups saying that it poses a direct threat to their cooperation agreement. Map of South Sudan’s Unity State. Referring to a reported visit of Gibril Ibrahim, Justice and Equality [...]
Phd — Now that the Addis Ababa deals have been ratified by the August Houses of the Republics of the Sudan and of South Sudan, the ball has been kicked back to the Presidencies in the respective countries and their executive teams. By these mutual parliamentary ratifications, the Addis Ababa Agreements have been accorded with [...]
By Luka Biong Deng October 17, 2012 — The first round of the AU Roadmap has come to an end on 27th September when the direct negotiation between the two countries ended with the signing of the Cooperation Agreement. The last phase of the AU Roadmap is to ensure a comprehensive agreement by resolving the [...]
The violence unleashed on Emmanuel Jal on Saturday 8th September 2012 in Juba is not any surprise at all. Nobody in Juba is exempt from the barbarism of SPLM security people be they VIPs, diplomats, scholars etc. We have had diplomats from very important countries in Africa slapped left and right in Juba by illiterate [...]
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