South Sudan forms panel to halve national budget after oil shutdown
| South Sudan forms panel to halve national budget after oil shutdown Platts South Sudan’s President Salva Mayardit has formed a committee which will decide how to limit spending, as the government seeks to cut the annual budget by a half following the shutdown of its entire oil production, a government statement said Thursday. |
| Nicholas D. Kristof: Dodging bombers in Sudan San Jose Mercury News Sudan has barred aid workers and journalists from the area, the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, in a largely successful effort to conceal savagery that has echoes of Darfur. Like many others, I’ve denounced President Bashar Assad of Syria for his … |
In the suffering of Sudan’s Nuba, echoes of Darfur
The Seattle Times
Syndicated columnist Nicholas D. Kristof witnesses firsthand a mass atrocity that has attracted little attention: Sudan’s government starving, massacring, raping and bombing its people in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, all in hopes of crushing a …
Kristof: Rutted track leads to the latest hell on earth
Anchorage Daily News –
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan — We heard the whine of a bomber overhead, and the families I was interviewing suddenly scrambled to their feet. Like starving people everywhere, they had seemed listless, their bodies conserving every …
| Sudan accuses South Sudan of plotting against it UPI.com KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb. 23 (UPI) — Sudanese presidential assistant Nafie Ali Nafie has accusedSouth Sudan’s negotiators of scheming to overthrow Sudan’s government. Nafie made the allegation following a meeting Wednesday with a visiting Norwegian … |
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| China urges dialogue in South Sudan dispute with oil firms Reuters UK BEIJING Feb 22 (Reuters) – China on Thursday urged dialogue between South Sudan and Chinese oil firms following the expulsion this week of the head of Chinese-Malaysian oil consortium Petrodar, in its first comments on an escalating row. |
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