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Sudan's Omar al-Bashir pardons 259 rebels
Link to web article and video here.Move comes after insurgents released 125 soldiers who fought in Darfur conflict that killed 300,000 people since 2003.More than 2.5 people were displaced by fighting...
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South Sudan conflict: 'Soldiers will kill you for no reason in Yei'
Link to web article and video here.The South Sudanese teenager's body was laid out on a bed, under a tree, beneath a mosquito net.On one bedpost hung the metal ligature which had cut into his neck when...
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EU envoy to Sudan starts a tour to eastern states
Link to web article here.March 8, 2017 (KHARTOUM) - Head of Delegation of the European Union to Sudan Jean-Michel Dumond on Wednesday has visited Gadaref State at the start of a tour to Sudan’s eastern...
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S Sudan students miss final exams over security fears
Link to web article here.Juba - Hundreds of uprooted South Sudanese students missed taking school-leaving exams this week after refusing a government order to leave the safety of a UN base to sit the...
View ArticleSudan: Women Bear the Brunt of Suffering in Sudan
Link to web article here.Sudan — Today, as the world celebrates International Women's Day, women leaders across Sudan and Darfur speak to Radio Dabanga of the complex social situations faced by women...
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Vulnerable to violence: empowering women in South Sudan
Link to web article here.Link to web image here.It is a violation of women’s rights, a major global health problem, and is experienced by approximately one in three women worldwide. Yet the fight to...
View ArticleSudan: Meeting On Funding of Arab Food Security Study to Be Held in Khartoum...
Link to web article here.Khartoum — The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Badr-Eddin Mahmoud Abbas has praised the advanced and growing relations between Sudan and the Arab Fund for Economic...
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Sudan’s inflation rises for tenth consecutive month
Link to web article here.March 12, 2017 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBoS) on Sunday reported that inflation jumped to 33,53% in February from 32,86% in January due to continued...
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South Sudan: don’t punish the starving
Link to web article here. More than 7.5 million people need assistance and Unicef says a million children are acutely malnourished. Photograph: Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP/GettyEven in the context of...
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Sudan to provide 10,000 tonnes of sorghum to famine victims in South Sudan
Link to web article here.March 11, 2017 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has directed to provide 10,000 tonnes of sorghum to assist those affected by the famine in South Sudan. He further...
View ArticleSouth Sudan melts down as we avert our eyes: Melinda Henneberger
Link to web article here.The world's newest nation is on the brink of genocide. Have we learned nothing from Rwanda?BIDI BIDI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, Uganda — There are more than 700,000 refugees from...
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Aid groups criticise South Sudan for $10,000 visa fees
Link to web article here.Government is trying to profit from humanitarian crisis by imposing huge fees on foreign workers, aid agencies say.The UN said more than 7.5 million people were in need of aid...
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UN Says World Faces Largest Humanitarian Crisis Since 1945
Link to web article here.The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with starvation and famine threatening more than 20 million people in four...
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Japan to end SDF’s South Sudan mission in May
Link to web article here.A woman carries a sack of food aid in Ganyiel, South Sudan on March 4. | AFP-JIJIJapan will withdraw 350 Self-Defense Forces engineering troops from South Sudan by the end of...
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Aid workers kidnapped in famine-hit South Sudan
Link to web article here.US charity Samaritan's Purse says South Sudanese staffers detained by 'armed personnel' in country's north.Rebels dismissed the government's claims as 'propaganda' [File:...
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Fighting famine in South Sudan: Waters offer desperate families refuge from...
Link to web article and video here.ITV News Africa correspondent John Ray has travelled to South Sudan, which is in the grip of the world's first famine in six years.He visited the Sudd marshes where...
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Relatives of four Kenyans jailed in S. Sudan petition Kenyatta
Link to web article here.March 4, 2017 (NAIROBI) - Relatives of four Kenyan citizens sentenced to life imprisonment for alleged involvement in corruption at South Sudan’s presidency have appealed to...
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Measles and diarrhoea outbreak plagues IDPs and refugees in N. Darfur
Link to web article here.March 13, 2017 (EL-FASHER) - Thousands of Sudanese displaced people and South Sudanese refugees have been hit by diseases, including measles and acute watery diarrhoea, in...
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South Sudan leader Kiir 'prays for forgiveness'
Link to web article here.Juba – South Sudanese leader Salva Kiir has reportedly "prayed for what he describes as sins he may have committed while exercising his duty as the head of state".According to...
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South Sudan calls to condemn kidnapping of oil workers
Link to web article here.March 14, 2017 (JUBA) - The South Sudanese government has issued a statement calling for the regional condemnation and along with blacklisting the former First Vice President...
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