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South Sudan: Stop Harassing, Detaining Journalists

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South Sudan to Resume Oil Exports
Wall Street Journal
KAMPALA, Uganda—Sudan is scheduled to resume export shipments of crude from South Sudanwithin the next few days, a Sudanese government spokesman said Friday, ending a more than 15-month halt to oil production that has battered the two nations’ 
SSLA Rebels Say Their Presence in South Sudans Means Peace Not War
AllAfrica.com
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich, 2 May 2013. Bentiu — South Sudanese rebels who crossed back into the country’s Unity State from Sudan last week said they are committed to peace talks with the government in Juba without any preconditions or demands. Maj.
US Security Strategy in South Sudan – An anti-China Strategy?
Sudan Tribune
This articles argues that behind US-designed road map towards South Sudan independence begun in 2005, and behind US’ security strategy in the new country since 2011, there is the intention of a re-appropriation of local resources – coherently with the 
South Sudan: Stop Harassing, Detaining Journalists
Human Rights Watch
(Juba) – Security force harassment and unlawful detention of journalists is undermining freedom of expression in South Sudan, the Agency for Independent Media (AIM), Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and Human Rights Watch 
Official: 11 Sudan traders killed in South Sudan
Charlotte Observer
JUBA, South Sudan At least 11 Sudanese traders were killed earlier this week by unknown gunmen as they crossed into South Sudanese territory, a military official said Friday, blaming the attack on militiamen who want to shatter the prevailing peace 
AP:12 Die In Gunfire Attack On Convoy In South Sudan – KOLO
KOLO
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) – JUBA, South Sudan (AP) – South Sudan’s military spokesman says that five United Nations peacekeepers were killed when suspected rebels ambushed a U.N. convoy in a remote, violent state. Col. Philip Aguer said five others were 
Official: 11 Sudan traders killed in South Sudan – Missoulian
The Missoulian
South Sudan military spokesman Col. Philip Aguer said Friday that “gangsters” ambushed three trucks at a trading center near the border town of Renk on Wednesday morning. He says the bodies were later discovered by another group of traveling traders.
US Media Advocates Warn Against Repression in South Sudan
Voice of America
A person reads The Juba Monitor on the day the paper ran the story about the U.N. Mission in South Sudan’s (UNMISS) Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists.South Sudan has agreed to test drive the plan, which calls for defamation to be decriminalized.
Eleven Sudanese traders shot dead by gunmen in South Sudan
Business Standard
South Sudan split from Sudan in 2011 following decades of civil war. After a tumultuous first 18 months of nationhood that almost brought it back to war with its northern neighbour and led to the closure of a largely undemarcated border, a recent 
South Sudan’s Kiir to visit Sudan for oil flow in May
Globe and Mail
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir will visit Sudan this month to witness with his counterpart Omar Hassan al-Bashir the first shipment of oil from the south after a 15-month shutdown, an official said on Friday. In March, the African 
Diehard South Sudan Rebels Warn of More Attacks – VOA
Voice of America
BOR, SOUTH SUDAN — Rebels led by David Yau Yau have claimed responsibility for an attack in Pibor earlier this week, in which a South Sudanese soldier was killed, and warned civilians and NGOs to leave the areas around Pibor and Kapoeta, 
South Sudan media decry declining press freedom
Africa Review
South Sudan journalists have marked the World Press Freedom Day by protesting against increasing intimidation and harassment within the last one year. Between 2012 and 2013, 12 cases of arrests of journalists have been recorded. In separate incidents 
South Sudan says death penalty remains until constitution amended
Sudan Tribune
“May” 3, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan will keep the capital punishment in place unless amendments are introduced in the country’s constitution, the chief justice said today. JPEG – 34.2 kbSouth Sudan’s chief justice, Chan Reec Madut (AP). “The 
Sudanese Traders Killed in South Sudan Ambush – VOA
Voice of America
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — Eleven Sudanese traders were killed by unknown gunmen as they crossed into South Sudan, just weeks after the two countries agreed to open 10 crossing points along their 1,200-mile (2,000-kilometer) border to boost the 

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