Sudan, South Sudan Agree to Set Up Demilitarized Border Zone

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South Sudan Arrests 2 State TV Journalists
ABC News
A journalists group says two reporters working for state TV in South Sudan have been arrested without charge. The Committee to Protect Journalists says the journalists were arrested following protests and ethnic clashes last month in the northwestern …

Kenya applauds Sudan, South Sudan peace talks
Daily Nation
President Mwai Kibaki on Monday commended Sudan’s President Bashir and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir for signing cooperation agreements that are geared towards the resolution of outstanding issues between the two countries. Kibaki also …

South Sudan, Sudan To Speed Up Deals To Demilitarise Borders
Ventures Africa (blog)
VENTURES AFRICA —South Sudan and Sudan would speedily implement deals to demilitarise their borders, it was announced at the weekend. The presidents of the two countries also agreed to allow oil exports to flow from South Sudan’s oil fields north …

Sudan, South Sudan Agree to Set Up Demilitarized Border Zone
Bloomberg
South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, shut down its 350,000 barrel-a-day crude production last January after accusing authorities in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, of stealing $815 million of its oil. Sudan said it took the …

South Sudan’s Boma district touched by the healthcare magic of Merlin – in …
The Guardian
South Sudan is routinely referred to as the world’s newest country, yet it is also among the poorest. In Boma, a small town near the border with Ethiopia, an outreach programme provides the only available access to primary healthcare Photograph: Peter …

South Korea sends Peacekeepers to South Sudan
Bahrain News Agency
Seoul: Jan. 7 — (BNA) The South Korean Army announced the formation of a military unit comprising 280 soldiers as part of UN Peacekeeping Task Force in South Sudan in order to assist in reconstruction efforts in the newly independent African country.

South Sudan: violence forces more refugees to flee
MSF UK (press release)
More than 170,000 people who have fled violence in Sudan are already living in refugee camps in South Sudan. Now that floods caused by the rainy season are subsiding, people are starting to cross the border again. In December 2012, around 370 …

Sudan, South Sudan Try to Resolve Conflicts to Get Oil Flowing
Atlanta Black Star
Sudan and South Sudan have been engaged in conflict for so long that after South Sudan was granted its independence in 2011, the two sides seemed unable to resolve the many disputes that come with sharing a 1,200-mile border — particularly when …

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