Umma Party criticize minister’s Abyei speech
The National Umma Party described the foreign minister’s speech before parliament on Tuesday as inept, saying that government’s approach could lead to a confrontation with the African Union.Last...
View ArticleSit-in protest over public services continues in Babanusa
Hundreds of citizens in Babanusa town of South Kordofan state continued their strike in front of the locality building.A member of the youth league, Hassan Adam, told Radio Tamazuj that hundreds of...
View ArticleHealth minister acknowledges poor state of Malakal hospital
The Ministry of Health in Upper Nile state has recognized the deterioration of health conditions at Malakal Hospital.Charles Yor, the state health minister, told Radio Tamazuj that patients at the...
View Article300 cross from Nuba Mts. to South Sudan daily
Hundreds of refugees are crossing daily the border from Sudan’s South Kordofan area to Yida camp in Unity state of South Sudan amid complaints of mothers and children of lack of transportation along...
View ArticleNew commander takes over SPLA division five
A newly posted major general has officially taken command of the SPLA 5th Division, which is currently stationed in the greater Bahr El Ghazal region.Chol Thon Ballouk takes over from Major General...
View ArticleKhartoum initiates resettlement of pastoralists in Sennar
The Sudanese government began implementing a project which will cost 327 million pounds to resettle about 100,000 Sudanese pastoralists who have returned from the states of South Sudan to Sennar state...
View ArticleWarning of new Misseriya-Rizeigat clashes
Inhabitants of the border areas between South Kordofan and East Darfur are fearing the possibility of a fresh confrontation between the Rizeigat and Misseriya tribes.Tribal leaders have reportedly...
View ArticleSecurity in Aweil block Rizeigat from tribal conference
Security officers in Aweil have blocked Rizeigat Arab delegates from Darfur from reaching a tribal conference organized by the government of Western Bahr el Ghazal and the organization Concordis...
View ArticleBreaking: Armed clashes in Wau town
Fighting has broken out in Wau town, the capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal state, in the wake of the political crisis over transferral of Wau county headquarters to Baggari payam.Gunfire began around...
View ArticlePolio campaign reaches almost all children of Yida
A polio vaccination campaign reached 13,480 children at Yida camp in South Sudan, targeting children up to five years oldThe effort was supposed to continue to cover the entire camp but was stopped due...
View ArticleGovernor orders curfew, probe into killings of Wau youth
Rizig Zakaria Hassan, governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal, ordered on Sunday afternoon a curfew and immediate investigation of the killings that occurred earlier in the day and the prior evening.read more
View ArticleMoney Monday: 5 key stories
This is the seventh edition of ‘Money Monday’ featuring a round-up of financial journalism from or about the two Sudans:Interview: Sudan rules out devaluation despite black market gap (Reuters, 5...
View ArticleSixty citizens detained without trial in South Kordofan
Sixty people from Dilling, Southern Kordofan state have been detained for over a year without trial according to the Sudanese Network for Human Rights. Arrested on the 18th November and since...
View Article16 days of fighting violence against women concludes in Yida
Saturday saw the concluding celebrations in Yida refugee camp of the international 16 day campaign to fight violence against women which ended today.Celebrations at Yida camp, which accommodates...
View ArticleWhite Nile State teachers protest union deductions
A number of secondary school teachers in the two provinces of Kosti and Guli, White Nile state have protested against trade union deductions from their monthly salaries.Some of them interviewed said...
View ArticleAid funding to South Sudan $796 million in 2012
International donors committed nearly $796 million to humanitarian operations in South Sudan for the year 2012, according to publically avaiable data.The UN coordination agency organizes yearly a...
View ArticleGovernor Malong visits army near disputed border with Darfur
The governor of Northern Bahr el Ghazal visited army units at Unyiik on Monday after unconfirmed reports of fighting the previous day.He was accompanied by six ministers on the visit to Unyiik,...
View ArticlePhotos: Burial procession of Wau protesters
Those killed Saturday and Sunday were taken for burial in Wau, the capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal, on Monday.read more
View ArticlePests destroy crops in Upper Nile state
A number of farmers in northern Upper Nile have said that pests and worms ruined their cultivation of sesame and sorghum.Deng Kur, the deputy secretary-general for the union of mechanized farmers in...
View ArticleSPLM-DC denies link to South Kordofan attacks
The office of the SPLM-DC chairman Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin dismissed allegations that their movement has a military wing, denying any link to armed groups in either Sudan or South Sudan.A statement from...
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