South Sudan: Governor – Forces Loyal to Late Athor Defect to SPLA
South Sudan: Governor – Forces Loyal to Late Athor Defect to SPLA
AllAfrica.com
He urges all rebels to take seriously the calling for peace in South Sudan as well as the President’s general amnesty declared to them to put down their arms and join fellow South Sudanese in nation building…
South Sudan aid effort under way, UN says
CNN International
(CNN) — A huge aid effort is under way in a remote area of South Sudan to help an estimated 60000 people who fled their homes to escape roaming fighters, the United Nations said. Some 6000 armed men from the Lou Nuer tribe marched on an area of …
Sudan’s Bashir skips South African’s ANC centenary celebrations
Sudan Tribune
January 6, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government announced that president Omer al-Bashir will be unable to attend the celebrations in South Africa of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) 100th anniversary. Bashir’s adviser Mustafa Osman …
Obama adds South Sudan to list of countries eligible to receive US weapons
Sudan Tribune
But US officials said this move did not mean that Washington has imminent plans to sell arms toSouth Sudan. “We have from the beginning, and even before we got to statehood, been open to conversations that they wanted to have with us about how they …
South Sudan: Warrap Government Dismisses Over Hundred Civil Servants
AllAfrica.com
He added that some of them had served long, long time ago in the government of Sudan by then. The purpose of laying off these civil servants by the State government is to give chance to the young graduates, who could deliver services to the citizens of …
South Sudan: LRA Kills Two Persons in WBG, Fetches Supplies From Sudan
AllAfrica.com
The governor was speaking about security concerns in his state which he linked to South Darfur as a cause. .Hassan further said that the LRA rebels always access his state as a passage where they can get food items to facilitate their journey to …
Six months on, South Sudan struggles
Al Jazeera
It has been almost exactly a year since 99 per cent of people in southern Sudan voted in favour of breaking away from the north and forming their own country. South Sudan was declared the world’s newest country on July 9 last year 2011, but six months …