Sudan denies joint protection of oilfields; only offered 900 technicians
The Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs denies it agreed on joint military protection of the oilfields of South Sudan’s oilfields with the South Sudan army. read more
View ArticleSudan’s Opposition to meet South Sudan’s rival parties
The Sudanese Opposition gathered in the Sudanese National Consensus Forces is sending a high-level delegation to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to meet with the conflicting parties in South...
View ArticleSPLA repulse attack in rear of Bor front
Troops loyal to former South Sudanese vice president Riek Machar who defected almost three week ago launched a new attack on an SPLA base at Pariak, behind the front lines in the battle for Bor.read more
View ArticleSecurity stable around Upper Nile oil fields: official
Commissioner of Melut County Puoc Teng Diing says the security situation is calm and stable in the oil producing area following the conflict in various parts of Upper Nile State.read more
View ArticleNegotiator decries ‘Ugandan invasion’ of South Sudan
Taban Deng, head of delegation of the South Sudanese opposition forces at the Addis Ababa talks, has called on Uganda to withdraw its forces from South Sudan saying that their presence will complicate...
View ArticleSudan army clashes with rebels in Nuba Mountains; prices rise
Sudan’s army clashed with rebel forces in the Nuba Mountains on Monday as warfare in the region and in neighbouring South Sudan continued to push up commodities prices.read more
View ArticleRed Cross spends $21 million on South Sudan crisis in 3 weeks
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has spent more than $21 million on their operations in South Sudan during the last three weeks owing to the “depth and breadth of the crisis” in the...
View ArticlePhotos: March for peace in South Sudan capital
South Sudanese civil society organizations as well as members of the student league of the now divided ruling party SPLM made a peaceful march through Juba today demanding the fighting parties to stop...
View ArticleSouth Sudanese stuck at Darfur border
The Sultan of the Dinka tribe in Khor Omer camp in East Darfur said that South Sudanese seeking to cross into East Darfur as refugees were unable to do so because they were stopped at the border by...
View ArticleChildren return from Ethiopian camps to Sudan's Blue Nile
In Geissan in Blue Nile state, some 600 refugees have returned from Aulo Beg and Amrama in Ethiopia. According to local NGOs most of these returnees are children moving due to hunger, lack of shelter...
View ArticleICRC president says ‘can’t cope’ with influx of wounded in South Sudan
The head of the International Red Cross says that the severity of the fighting in South Sudan coupled with the poor existing medical infrastructure has overwhelmed hospitals with wounded and sick.read...
View ArticleCivilians flee Bentiu in huge numbers fearing attack
Fighting moved closer to the capital of Unity State today causing huge numbers of villagers to flee from Rubkona County and sending panic among townsmen in Bentiu and its twin city Rubkona as thousands...
View ArticleIGAD: Detainees say their release not prerequisite for ceasefire
The detainees accused by South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir for an attempted coup have told the mediators of IGAD that their status should not be an obstacle to reaching an agreement on cessation of...
View ArticleRandom shooting by soldiers in Bentiu; families flee
Fighting erupted today at Rubkona main army barracks within the SPLA’s defected 4th Division loyal to General James Koang and the former vice-president Riek Machar.read more
View ArticleUN hospital in Juba unable to cope with referrals
The main hospital of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is overstretched and unable to cope adequately with newly referred patients, medical sources told Radio Tamazuj. read more
View ArticleObama administration: ‘No evidence of coup attempt’
President Barack Obama’s top official for African Affairs in the US State Department says there is no evidence that there was any coup attempt in South Sudan at the start of the current crisis in the...
View ArticlePhotos: Troji battlefield in South Kordofan
Civilians have abandoned their homes in the Troji area of South Kordofan and fled to the surrounding hills fearing more aerial attacks and ground assaults after a battle in the area about a week...
View ArticleRenk official says prison break unrelated to South Sudan crisis
At least one prison warden was shot dead and three prisoners wounded during an escape from a jail in Upper Nile State on 1 January. Renk County Commissioner Kur Chuai Deng described the incident as...
View ArticlePhotos: Juba construction boom halted by crisis
Many construction projects in South Sudan's capital have come to a standstill after weeks of conflict in the country. Investors and workers remain spooked in spite of the absence of major fighting in...
View ArticleSPLA recaptures Bentiu
South Sudan’s army (SPLA) entered Bentiu by midday on Friday after the defected army led by James Koang left the town on Thursday.read more
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