South Sudan army shot dead 10 protesters, UN mission says

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South Sudan army shot dead 10 protesters, UN mission says
The Guardian
South Sudan‘s army shot dead 10 people protesting against the relocation of a local council headquarters in the country’s north-west at the weekend, the United Nations said on Sunday. Human rights groups regularly accuse South Sudan’s army, a …

Slidell resident, recently released from South Sudan prison, to return home …
WWL
SLIDELL, La. — Slidell resident Mark McCabe, who spent more than a month imprisoned in South Sudan, will return home Monday. McCabe’s wife Anne confirmed the news that her husband would return at 5 p.m. Monday at the Louis Armstrong airport.

South Sudanese teens at center of recruiting controversy
Northwest Herald
BATAVIA – Four young men from war-ravaged South Sudan tower above their teachers and fellow students on the pastoral grounds of a century-old school in suburban Chicago. Eighteen months after arriving – and just as they are beginning to feel at home …

‘Touch and go’ ahead of Sudan-South Sudan talks
AFP
KHARTOUM — Progress on demilitarising the tense border between Sudan and South Sudan is uncertain, observers said, as the south’s Defence Minister John Kong arrived in Khartoum for security talks on Sunday. The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan…

South Sudan army shoots dead 10 protesters: UN
Yahoo! News (blog)
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan‘s army shot dead 10 people protesting against the relocation of a local council headquarters in the country’s northwest over the weekend, the United Nations said on Sunday. Human rights groups regularly accuse South …

S Sudan protesters die in army shooting
Aljazeera.com
At least ten people have been killed after South Sudanese troops opened fire on demonstrators angry at officials moving the seat of local authority outside a state capital, according to United Nations sources. “The SPLA [army] opened fire” on …

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan must resign
New Sudan Vision
However, the mounting internal and international pressures on the South Sudan’s leadership are disproportionatelly increasing. The trend and direction this country has been taking is simply disturbing. The United States and its allies have threatened …

IDC student from S. Sudan deported to Juba, twice
Jerusalem Post
A South Sudanese man who was enrolled as a student at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya before he was deported to Juba earlier this year returned last week on a student visa, and was deported from Ben-Gurion Airport back to South Sudan, The …

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