UN to investigate South Sudan deaths

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UN to investigate South Sudan deaths
Aljazeera.com
South Sudan’s Civil Society Alliance, an umbrella group for local civil society organisations, quoted witnesses saying the demonstrators had been unarmed and protesting peacefully. It began when the army was sent to dismantle road blocks set up by …

US envoy: Sudan demands block S. Sudan peace deal
MiamiHerald.com (registration)
JUBA, South Sudan — New security demands raised by Sudan are blocking the implementation of a peace and security deal between Sudan and South Sudan, the U.S. special envoy said Friday during his last official visit to the region. Princeton Lyman’s …

More troops for wartorn South Kordofan: Sudan minister – Region – World …
Ahram Online
Sudan’s army has been unable to eliminate the 18-month-old rebellion in oil-producing South Kordofan, and blames South Sudan for supporting the insurgents of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N). That support — widely believed by …

Khartoum demands a setback to peace deal: US envoy
Sudan Tribune
Speaking at a press conference in the South Sudan capital on Friday, Lyman said is “troubled” by Khartoum’s recent requests and demands, which links the resumption of oil production and the implementation of other agreements to the satisfaction of the …

Protesters shot at by South Sudanese army
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera has received new pictures of what appears to be South Sudanese soldiers firing on a crowd of unarmed demonstrators in the northwest of the country. At least nine people were reportedly killed in the town of Wau, where crowds had gathered to …

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South Sudan embarks on building Bentiu oil refinery
Sudan Tribune
December 14, 2012 (JUBA) – The ministry of Petroleum and Mining of the Republic of South Sudanand a Russian giant oil company have signed a ground breaking agreement to build a Bentiu oil refinery in order to provide fuel for the new independent …

Man freed by South Sudan arrested for kickbacks – SFGate
San Francisco Chronicle
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A businessman recently released from prison in South Sudan has been arrested on charges of receiving more than $73,000 in illegal kickbacks in Afghanistan. A criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in federal court in New Orleans …

South Sudan: Saving lives at the clinic under the tree
Medecins Sans Frontieres
David Bude is an Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinician who was working in MSF’s health clinic in the remote village of Lekwongole, near Pibor town, in South Sudan’sviolence-afflicted Jonglei State . When fighting erupted in Lekwongole in August

Sudan sending military reinforcements to South Kordofan amid reports of heavy …
Sudan Tribune
December 13, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese army is dispatching heavy reinforcements toSouth Kordofan in order to defeat the rebellion and increase security in the border region, the country’s defense minister Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein has …

Western Bahr El Ghazal State Government On the Wau County Issue
AllAfrica.com
Carrying guns illegally is prohibited as stated in the National Transitional Constitution of Republic ofSouth Sudan 2011, under the article 151, paragraph (3) reads as: “No person or persons should raise any armed or paramilitary force in South Sudan …

South Sudan parliament debates media laws
Sudan Tribune
December 13, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan lawmakers on Wednesday started deliberations on draft legislation to regulate the young nation’s media industry. The bills were presented for the first reading by the specialise committee on information, culture …

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