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Key humanitarian updates: Overcrowding main problem at Juba camps
Key humanitarian updates: Overcrowding main problem at Juba camps JUBA (4 Feb.) Link to web article here. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that overcrowding at...
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Full text: IGAD envoys ‘spearhead political process’
Full text: IGAD envoys ‘spearhead political process’ ADDIS ABABA (5 Feb.) Link to web article here. Mediators of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, an East African regional organization,...
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Abyei official expresses hopes to restore trade with Misseriya
Abyei official expresses hopes to restore trade with Misseriya ABYEI (6 Feb.) Link to web article here. Abyei Area Finance Minister Achuil Akol Achuil has expressed some cautious hopes that the Dinka...
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South Sudan army seeks thousands of recruits from western states
South Sudan army seeks thousands of recruits from western states WAU/YAMBIO (6 Feb.) Link to web article here. The Sudan’s People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) is seeking to raise thousands of recruits from...
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Bashir refuses to grant the US special envoy a visa to Sudan: Carter
Bashir refuses to grant the US special envoy a visa to Sudan: CarterLink to web article here. February 5, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The former United States president Jimmy Carter has revealed that the...
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Released SPLM leaders to participate in S. Sudan talks: mediators
Released SPLM leaders to participate in S. Sudan talks: mediatorsLink to web article here. February 5, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA/JUBA) - IGAD peace mediators invited the recently released seven leaders of the...
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S. Sudan sets no pre-conditions for talks with armed opposition
S. Sudan sets no pre-conditions for talks with armed oppositionLink to web article here. February 5, 2014 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s government has no preconditions ahead of the second round of peace talks...
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President Salva Kiir: ‘I will not pardon anyone’
President Salva Kiir: ‘I will not pardon anyone’ JUBA (6 Feb.) Link to web article here. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir said today that he will not ‘pardon’ any of the remaining four high-level...
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Nearly 30 killed in Jonglei’s Kolnyang attack
Nearly 30 killed in Jonglei’s Kolnyang attackLink to web article here. February 6, 2014 (BOR) - More than 25 people killed in Kolnyang district (payam) of Jonglei’s Bor county on 5 February by armed...
View ArticleMachar spokesperson dismisses “fabricated” statements implicating rebel leader
Machar spokesperson dismisses “fabricated” statements implicating rebel leaderLink to web article here. February 6, 2014 (KAMPALA/JUBA) – The spokesperson for the rebel leader Riek Machar has described...
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Nearly 900,000 people displaced by #SouthSudan's crisis in just under 2 months.
Nearly 900,000 people displaced by #SouthSudan's crisis in just under 2 months. More here: http://bit.ly/1c2cw5y pic.twitter.com/J5g6gLC1m4
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Washington demands withdrawal of foreign troops from South Sudan
Washington demands withdrawal of foreign troops from South SudanLink to web article here. February 8, 2014 (WASHINGTON) – The US government has called for the withdrawal of foreign forces that have...
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South Sudan rebels boycott peace talks over non implementation of agreements
South Sudan rebels boycott peace talks over non implementation of agreementsLink to web article here. February 10, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – The South Sudanese rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation...
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Opinion: Mabaan should not fight senseless war
Opinion: Mabaan should not fight senseless warBY PHILEMON DAUD (6 Feb.) Link to web article here. We the Mabaan Diaspora Voices are condemning our commissioner’s provocative statement at a rally...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: A power struggle and implications for state and nation building
South Sudan: A power struggle and implications for state and nation buildingBy Beny Gideon Mabor“Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more...
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South Sudan marks new foreign policy chapter for China: official
South Sudan marks new foreign policy chapter for China: official South Sudan's President Kiir holds a news conference in Juba (Andreea Campeanu Reuters, / January 20, 2014)Michael MartinaReuters4:19...
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Uganda pushes back at US pressure to withdraw from South Sudan
Uganda pushes back at US pressure to withdraw from South Sudan KAMPALA (9 Feb.) Link to web article here. Ugandan leaders have pushed back at a recent US government statement urging them to withdraw...
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SPLM/A opposition boycott opening of South Sudan peace talks
SPLM/A opposition boycott opening of South Sudan peace talks ADDIS ABABA (9 Feb.) Link to web article here. South Sudan’s armed opposition delegation on Monday boycotted the opening of peace talks in...
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Pope calls for peaceful end to S. Sudan conflict
Pope calls for peaceful end to S. Sudan conflictLink to web article here. February 10, 2014 (JUBA) – The global head of the Catholic Church on Monday expressed concerns about the crisis in South Sudan,...
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South Sudan: Talks in Addis Ababa Should Focus On a Political Solution for...
South Sudan: Talks in Addis Ababa Should Focus On a Political Solution for South Sudan By Liesl Louw-Vaudran, 11 February 2014Link to web article here.analysisAnalysts have warned that talks between...
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