South Sudan Seeks to Forge Strong Ties with Ethiopia: FM
South Sudan Seeks to Forge Strong Ties with Ethiopia: FM
CRIENGLISH.com – 5 hours ago
South Sudan Foreign Affairs Minister Deng Alor Kuol said his country is keen to forge strong ties with Ethiopia. While conferring with Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn here on Tuesday, Deng Alor said …
US says Sudan must open up conflict state
(AFP) – 5 hours ago
UNITED NATIONS — The United States urged Sudan on Tuesday to grant international access to strife-torn South Kordofan after the United Nations reported extrajudicial killings and disappearances.
Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, pointed to an “increasingly dire” situation in South Kordofan, where Khartoum government forces have been fighting rebels close to rival South Sudan.
Rice said President Barack Obama’s administration “strongly” backs a UN call for “immediate, unhindered access for humanitarian assistance and ongoing human rights monitoring, as well as for an independent inquiry to hold perpetrators of violence to account.”
A report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN mission in Sudan, released Monday, detailed “extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and illegal detention, enforced disappearances and attacks against civilians” in South Kordofan in June.
It also described the aerial bombardment of civilian areas in the main town, Kadugli.
The UN said the allegations could amount to crimes against humanity or war crimes. The Sudan government labeled the report as biased.
Rice said in a statement that the United States was “deeply disturbed by the reports of extrajudicial killings, attacks on civilians, mass graves, arbitrary detentions, abductions, house-to-house searches, forced displacements and other clear violations of humanitarian law.”
South Kordofan is on the border between Sudan and the new South Sudan.
It remained under Khartoum’s control when South Sudan became independent in July, but the Sudanese army has clashed with Nuba rebels once allied to South Sudan since June.
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