Sese orders establishment of LJM military camps
The head of Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) and chairman of the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), Tijani Sese, has ordered the establishment of military assembly points in the areas under...
View ArticleUncertainty about political and security committee meetings on Abyei
The fate of the Joint Political and Security Committee meetings (JPSC) between South Sudan and Sudan is uncertain. A meeting which was scheduled for this week did not occur. Neither will an Abyei Joint...
View ArticleSudan army and Misseriya traders fail to broker deal
Several weeks of negotiations between the Sudan Armed Forces and Misseriya Arab tribesmen in Nyama in West Kordofan have failed to make a breakthrough after bloodshed last month. Tensions threaten the...
View ArticleCrop market opens in Baggari, ‘situation stable’
Wau County commissioner Elia Kamilo Dimo has announced the opening of a local market in Baggari area, Western Bahr el Ghazal.read more
View ArticleAl-Dabab events traders to pay ‘blood money’ to return to Sudan
The Sudanese government authorities have demanded payment of ‘blood money’ in compensation for the security personnel who were killed during clashes with a group of traders at Al-Dabab before it will...
View ArticleTwo killed and three injured as armed militia steals 3,000 cattle in Upper Nile
A 12-year-old boy and an elderly woman have been found dead and three others sustained serious injuries as armed militiamen attacked a cattle camp in Baliat County of Upper Nile state and rustled 3,000...
View ArticleZain extends coverage to Gok Machar
Zain mobile phone services were made available in Gok Machar, Aweil North County, since early this week.read more
View ArticleExclusive: Pag’an says Bashir’s oil comments ‘passing cloud’
South Sudan’s chief negotiator with Sudan and secretary-general of the ruling party Pag’an Amum Ukec has downplayed recent statements by the Sudanese president and other officials as a “passing cloread...
View ArticleBan Ki-moon, Salva Kiir discuss ‘Sudans’ in Japan
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir met last Saturday in Japan while attending the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD5).read...
View ArticleAnother 750 returnees arrive in Renk
At least 750 South Sudanese returnees arrived in Renk, Upper Nile state, earlier this week. They were ‘stranded’ in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.read more
View ArticleKadugli graduates 2,000 women from military training
Government authorities in Kadugli today graduated more than 2,000 civil servants from temporary military training and sent them back to their stations of duty within the government.read more
View ArticleSouth Kordofan population bemoan poor security
Residents of the Habila locality in South Kordofan are unhappy about the deterioration of security in the area. They attribute the situation to “Arab tribes”, who are blamed for repeated robberies and...
View ArticleLack of fuel and seeds threatens success agricultural season in Abyei
Farmers in Abyei, the contested region between South Sudan and Sudan have complained of a fuel and seed scarcity. They fears of reflecting a negative impact on the successful of agriculture season this...
View ArticleAroyo authorities urge Rizegat cattlemen to go home
Authorities in Aroyo town in Aweil Center County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, are urging Rizeigat Sudanese cattlemen living in the vicinity to return to their original home areas.read more
View ArticleRumtit returnees complain about lack of basic services, land access
South Sudanese returnees in Rumtit, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, say the area widely lacks basic services and that they land owners prevent them from cultivating, claiming the lands belong to their...
View ArticleNational Consensus Forces to meet Dinka Ngok and Misseriya communities in Abyei
The Sudan National Consensus Forces (NCF), a group of opposition political parties and civil society organisations, plan to visit the contested oil-rich region between South Sudan and Sudan within a...
View ArticleMore than 60 per cent of teachers under SPLM-N control displaced
The Director General of Education in the areas under control of SPLM-N in the Nuba Mountains region of South Kordofan, Kutie Ernesto, has complained of an exodus of teachers from the areas under SPLM–N...
View ArticleExclusive: South Sudan rebels clash at Hamra
Fierce fighting among anti-Juba militia broke out yesterday morning at al-Hamra in the Sudanese border state of White Nile.read more
View ArticleJournalist arrested for report of SAF defeat at Abu Karshola
The Sudanese security authorities on Tuesday arrested journalist Khaled Ahmed, who works for Al Sudani, an independent newspaper published in Khartoum.read more
View ArticleSouth Kordofan reinforces 270km border with South Sudan
The Abu Jabiha County Commissioner, Police Brigadier Mohammed Al Fadil Wanis, has said in a press statement that the recent events in the State have caused the County to be on standby in order to...
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