‘6 million’ livestock at risk in Sennar due to border closure
Cattle keepers in Sudan’s Sennar state on the border with South Sudan’s Upper Nile state expressed their concern on Wednesday that ‘more than 6 million cattle’ are at risk due to lack of pasture land,...
View ArticleCall for end to female circumcision on International ‘Zero Tolerance’ day
A group of female Sudanese politicians and activists called for the abolition of female circumcision yesterday, the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation.read more
View ArticleCall for release of women detainees in South Kordofan
Calls for the release of a group of Sudanese women jailed in South Kordofan for suspected links to the rebel group SPLA-N have been made during a seminar at the National Legislative Assembly in...
View ArticleJuba criticises Khartoum’s sale of disputed oil shipment
The Republic of South Sudan has claimed it was taken by surprise when it learned that Sudan has sold a South Sudanese oil shipment of one million barrels being held in Port-Sudan to a UAE-based oil...
View ArticleNuba education office starts English curriculum in Rashad, New Tagali
The Nuba Mountains Regional Education Office is sending teachers to Rashad and New Tagali, newly SPLM-N controlled territories, to open schools following the New Sudan curriculum in English.This was...
View ArticleSAF to release 5 South Sudanese prisoners on Monday
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have announced that they will release five South Sudanese soldiers captured last year in a disputed area around the border with South Darfur state.read more
View ArticleSudan: no forced UN intervention in troubled border states
The National Congress Party’s (NCP) Minister for External Relations in Sudan, Ibrahim Gandur, has criticized the United Nations’ statement declaring the introduction of humanitarian aid for South...
View ArticleUNMISS head calls for reconciliation during visit to Wau
Special Representative of the Secretary General with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, Hilde Johnson, paid a visit to Western Bahr El-Ghazal state on Wednesday in her first visit since clashes...
View ArticleEl-Fula clashes: Capacity building peace workshop in Babanusa
A capacity building workshop held in Babanusa for those participating in an upcoming peace conference drew to a close yesterday.read more
View ArticleMan shoots dead wife and three children in South Sudan
A man apparently shot his wife and three children in Wanyjok in South Sudan before killing himself last Thursday night.Different eyewitnesses said the killer was a SPLA soldier from 5th Division...
View ArticleShortage of textbooks in Dalami primary schools, Nuba Mountains
Schools in the Dalami area of the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan face a severe shortage of textbooks amid ongoing conflict in the region.There are 2700 pupils at nine primary schools in the areas of...
View ArticleNo drugs in Nuba Mountains’ Heiban district
Heiban Locality in the Nuba Mountains has run out of medicine. The district’s sick and injured primarily have to travel to the neighboring Kauda area to seek treatment.“We have run out of medicine,”...
View ArticleJuba to complain to UN Security Council about SAF attacks
South Sudan has announced its intention to file a formal complaint against Sudan to the United Nations Security Council and the African Union’s Peace and Security Council regarding air strikes and...
View ArticleAbyei Joint Oversight Committee Co-Chair Biong to resign
South Sudan’s Co-Chairman of the Abyei Joint Oversight Committee, Luka Biong, has informed South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir, of his intention to resign from the position.read more
View ArticleMotorcycles ‘security threat’ in South Kordofan
A special police team from the federal government arrived in central Sudan’s South Kordofan state to regulate the use of motorcycles, which are used by armed Arab militias, highwaymen, and smugglers to...
View ArticleBorder clashes: Bebeniss allegedly attacked again
South Sudanese forces repulsed an attack by Sudanese forces for the second Sunday in a row at Bibeniss on the county’s eastern frontier with Blue Nile State, according to the Renk County...
View ArticlePrimary examinations start in Unity State
Primary leaving examinations started on Monday in South Sudan’s Unity state with a turnout of 2,583 pupils, less than a fifth of which are girls.Speaking to Radio Tamazuj yesterday, the headmistress of...
View ArticleKadugli detainee transferred to Khartoum hospital
A woman detained without charge in South Kordofan by security forces has been transferred to a hospital in Khartoum after her health worsened allegedly due to torture.Khadija Badr is one of dozens of...
View ArticleMine in South Sudan kills 6 Misseriya cows
Six cows owned by Misseriya Arab herders were killed by a mine in Warguet Payam during their southward migration. The cattle were moving along one of the agreed routes in territory of the Dinka...
View ArticleSudan’s released POWs arrive in Juba
Five South Sudanese prisoners of war (POW) released by Khartoum arrived in Juba yesterday with assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross/Crescent (ICRC).read more
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