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India Today
April 17, 2018
The foreign acquisition unit of Oil and Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) has filed an arbitration claim against the government of Sudan in a London court, a company official said, seeking to recover dues pending for years from a project hit by the breakaway of South Sudan in 2011. People familiar with the matterÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 17, 2018
Berlin — Also the Sudanese armed movements that have been meeting with the delegation of the Government of Sudan in Berlin, Germany, expressed hope for a positive outcome of their informal consultations this week. The consultations about the continuation of the peace process between the partiesÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
April 17, 2018
April 16, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese government and two armed groups from Darfur, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Sudan Liberation Movement Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) Monday have started a two-day informal consultations meeting in Berlin. In a joint statement extended to SudanÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 17, 2018
Hilal had refused to cooperate with the government's campaign of disarmament and arms collection. Last week one of the mediators between Hilal and the Sudanese government was kidnapped in Omdurman to an unknown destination. The mediator had reportedly received threats to stay away from Hilal.
PRI
April 17, 2018
But Ali questioned the billions of dollars of loans China has given to the corrupt government of Sudan. The Sudanese government turned to Beijing after Washington imposed sanctions on Sudan 20 years ago in the wake of human rights abuses and the government's links to terrorism. Today, China isÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 17, 2018
Sudanese refugees fled to Chad following eruption of conflicts in Darfur in 2003 and 2004. This first return follows the signing of a tripartite agreement in May 2017 by the governments of Sudan and Chad and UNHCR for the voluntary repatriation of 20,000 Sudanese refugees from Chad this year.
Reliefweb
April 16, 2018
Ibrahim underscored that peace is a strategic not tactical goal for the government, calling on arms bearers to end the war in order to reach a political settlement to achieve permanent peace. The Sudanese army has been fighting the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) rebels in the BlueÃâà...
Xinhua
April 16, 2018
"It is very moving to see refugees returning to their home country after many years in exile," Noriko Yoshida, UNHCR representative in Sudan, said in the statement. She appealed to the international community to assist the efforts of the Sudanese government on the return of Sudanese refugees from Chad.
Xinhua
April 16, 2018
JUBA, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The South Sudan government on Monday launched a factory producing concrete poles that will facilitate an ambitious project done by a ... It is owned by South Sudanese business people but currently it has been taken over by Power China for a brief period of one year," he said.
Sudan Tribune
April 15, 2018
April 13, 2018 (JUBA) - South Sudanese armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, Saturday accused the government forces of attacking their positions in ... “extreme” concern on the report submitted by CTSAMM on flagrant violations of the ceasefire agreement by South Sudan government troops in Nassir areaÃâà...
The Peninsula Qatar
April 15, 2018
He noted that Qatar, after mediating in the realisation of peace in Darfur, turned to economic partnership and helping Sudan in achieving food security as well as enabling it to overcome the challenges of safety. The Doha Document for Peace in Darfur was signed by the Sudanese government and theÃâà...
IRINnews.org
April 14, 2018
When the third round of talks aimed at revitalising the chances of peace in South Sudan gets underway in Addis Ababa on 26 April, the country's influential former military chief wants to be at the table. .... South Sudan's government-controlled army was founded in 1983 by 'father of the nation' John Garang.
africanews
April 14, 2018
... and Sudan, a minister said on Friday, the first time the East African nation has acknowledged it is in talks over such a deal. “The State of Israel working with other refugees' managing organisations has requested Uganda to allow about 500 Eritreans and Sudanese to relocate to Uganda. The governmentÃâà...
Voice of America
April 14, 2018
The U.S. government is calling on East African leaders to release five unpublished reports documenting violations of South Sudan's failed December cease-fire and to punish those responsible ... South Sudanese civil society leader Peter Biar Ajack accused IGAD of talking tough but being "reluctant" to act.
Mission Network News
April 13, 2018
In 2016, the Sudanese government told three churches they would be demolished. The churches went to court in an attempt to block their demolition. The court told the government they needed to produce an order that showed the demolitions would be legal. When the government produced the order, thereÃâà...
ABC News
April 13, 2018
Targeted by the Sudanese government. Catena learned how to perform many surgeries on the job. He worked alongside different surgeons in Kenya, where he performed more than 2,000 operations. He read about other surgeries in books. As a woman in the film pointed out, he is "the physician, theÃâà...
IRINnews.org
April 12, 2018
The Sudanese government has a long history of blocking aid. Easing these restrictions was a condition for the United States – still the largest donor of aid to Sudan – to lift 19 years of economic sanctions. But the benchmarks for assessing progress remain vague, while rebel-held areas are still inaccessible,Ãâà...
The Guardian
April 4, 2018
Nationals of several other specific countries that were previously considered for resettlement, such as South Sudan, Somalia and Iran, are now ... that settlement priorities for Australia's humanitarian program, including the Community Support Program, are determined each year by the government. “PeopleÃâà...
American Media Institute Newswire
April 4, 2018
The party, which expresses a center-right and secular affiliation, currently controls a handful of government ministries and a few key ambassadorships. The DUP is a minority party within Sudan's unity government in which many of the key positions are held by members of the National Congress Party.
AllAfrica.com
April 4, 2018
Parliament — Parliament has recommended that the government pays outstanding arrears amounting to $41m (Shs150 billion) to 10 Ugandan companies that supplied maize and sorghum to government of South Sudan. The 10 companies, under the Uganda South Sudan Grain Traders and SuppliersÃâà...
News24
April 4, 2018
Bashir, backed by Islamists, toppled Mahdi's civilian government in a 1989 coup after which the former prime minister's Umma Party, Sudan's main opposition group, has regularly ... A fixture of Sudanese politics since the 1960s, Mahdi was prime minister from 1966 to 1967 and again from 1986 to 1989.
Anglicannews
April 4, 2018
[ACNS, by Kenyi Dube] Archbishop Paul Yugusuk, leader of the Church of South Sudan's internal Central Province, has called on the government and opposition groups to declare an end to violence before the next round of peace talks. The continuation of phase two of the talks is expected to take place inÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
April 4, 2018
April 4, 2018 (KHARTOUM) The Sudanese government Wednesday renewed its readiness to engage in direct negotiations with Darfur rebels as soon as ... Sudan's Presidential Envoy for Diplomatic Contact and Negotiation for Darfur Amin Hassan Omer told the semi-official Sudan Media Center (SMC) thatÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
April 4, 2018
On Tuesday, however, Parliament's Committee on National Economy, recommended that government of Uganda pays the balance of $41m (Shs150 billion) to traders who have been verified under their association, on behalf of the South Sudan government. South Sudan is expected to pay back the moneyÃâà...
Amnesty International
April 3, 2018
Sudan signed the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 1986 but it is yet to ratify the Convention more than 30 years later. In the periodic reviews of its human rights record by the UN Human Rights Council, the Sudanese government has beenÃâà...
Toronto Star
April 1, 2018
First, she called the South Sudan Media Authority, an organization that acts as a regulatory body between the government and journalists. She then planned to ... We are South Sudanese, and when we are together like this we don't have war, we share ideas, we learn from each other. Nobody says, 'BeÃâà...
Borneo Bulletin Online
April 1, 2018
Humanitarians have been providing food, shelter and medical care to both the Sudanese refugees and their South Sudanese hosts for years. South Sudan's government said it is in discussions with Yida's local officials to put “strategies in place” to assist with the transition to other camps, said John Dabi,Ãâà...
Sudan Tribune
April 1, 2018
The African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) is brokering comprehensive peace talks to end the war and achieve democratic reforms in Sudan. The two-track process comprises the Sudanese government and opposition forces including the armed groups in Darfur and the Two Areas.
The Philadelphia Tribune
March 31, 2018
After fighting broke out in neighboring Sudan between the government and opposition fighters in the Nuba Mountains in 2011 and Osma's cousin and nephew were killed, the 24-year-old escaped with her daughters, two and six years old, to the world's youngest nation. Even as millions of South SudaneseÃâà...
Prensa Latina
March 30, 2018
30 de marzo de 2018, 00:22Khartoum, Mar 30 (Prensa Latina) The Government of Sudan announced that an economic coalition will be created among the countries of the Horn of Africa during a summit of its member countries on April 12th. The summit will be held in this capital city and attended by headsÃâà...
africanews
March 25, 2018
While Eritrea wondered why the Qataris would involve themselves in 'such senseless intricacies', the Sudanese government reassured their neighbours that they are committed to a policy of 'non-interference in internal affairs'. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reaffirms the commitment of the Government ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 22, 2018
Particularly, a large number and unexpected influx of South Sudanese refugees fled into Sudan has been radically increasing, and high percentage of the refugees are temporary accommodated to White Nile State that severely impacted the hosting communities. Mr. Wael thanked the Government of JapanÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
March 20, 2018
March 19, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - Reacting to the accusation by the opposition groups that it relinquished the roadmap agreement, the Sudanese government has stressed its adherence and commitment to implement the framework deal. The government and the opposition Sudan Call alliance including theÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
March 6, 2018
She also underscored France efforts to convince the rebel movements to sign a permanent peace agreement with the Sudanese government, vowing to strengthen the economic cooperation between the two countries. According to Mumtaz, the First Vice-President underlined Sudan's keenness to enhanceÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 6, 2018
NAIROBI: Activists accused South Sudan's government on Monday of funnelling cash from the state oil company to militias responsible for atrocities and attacks ... U.N. investigators last month said they had identified more than 40 South Sudanese military officers who may be responsible for war crimes andÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
March 4, 2018
March 3, 2018 (JUBA) – Members of South Sudan National Movement for Change (SSNMC) have denied and condemned in the “strongest terms” government's allegations that it apprehended a United Nations car loaded with guns, ammunitions and military equipment with connection to the SSNMCÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
March 4, 2018
March 3, 2018 (JUBA) — The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has declined Juba demand to be included into the alleged sexual crimes carried out by Ghanaian peacekeepers in Wau Protection of Civilians ( POC) site. The South Sudanese government on Friday cast doubts on the neutrality of theÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 4, 2018
South Sudan's government has called for a joint investigation with the United Nations over sexual crimes committed by UN peacekeepers in ... The South Sudanese foreign ministry summoned on Friday the chief of staff of The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) to hand him an official protestÃâà...
TheChronicleHerald.ca
March 4, 2018
“International partners have to start targeting the accomplices, intermediaries of the South Sudanese parties.” Yet Uganda, which sent troops to fight on the side of the government of South Sudan in the early stages of the war, is still feeding the conflict with weapons, according to Richard Downie, deputyÃâà...
Xinhua
March 2, 2018
Virginia Gamba, special representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, addresses a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan, March 1, 2018. Virginia Gamba on Thursday expressed satisfaction over the commitment by Sudanese government to implement the UN plan to protectÃâà...
Voice of America
March 2, 2018
Nine South Sudanese opposition groups have formed an alliance to accelerate efforts to end the conflict in South Sudan. ... A group of opposition parties held a news conference in Addis Ababa last month to accuse South Sudan's government of not taking the High-Level Revitalization Forum seriously andÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 1, 2018
Now a decade later, armed conflicts between government security forces and armed opposition groups continue and Sudan is still being criticized for committing human rights violations on a systematic level by attacking, killing and raping civilians, looting and destroying their property and forcing hundredsÃâà...
Voice of America
March 1, 2018
Lam Paul Gabriel, the deputy military spokesman of the Machar faction, said government forces attacked their positions along the Yei-Maridi road, leading to clashes that lasted several hours. Government military spokesman Brig. Gen. Lul Ruai Koang denied that government forces attacked the rebels'Ãâà...
ABC News
February 25, 2018
More than six million people, up about 40 percent from a year ago, are at threat without aid, according to the report released Monday by the United Nations and South Sudan's government. It says 150,000 people in 11 counties in Jonglei, Upper Nile, Unity and Western Bahr el Ghazal states could slip intoÃâà...
Voice of America
February 22, 2018
Nindorera said South Sudan's National Security Service embeds its officers in some newspapers' printing establishments, forcing South Sudanese journalists to employ self-censorship. But Nindorera said the government showed a gesture of goodwill last month. “A number of positive initiatives wereÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 20, 2018
February 19, 2018 (JUBA) – South Sudan government has denied reports that it supplies food and free transport to refugees returning from neighboring ... A number of South Sudanese refugees currently residing in Northern Uganda have expressed a willingness return to the war-torn nation, upon hearingÃâà...
Voice of America
February 16, 2018
Ismail Wais, IGAD's special envoy for South Sudan, told delegates from the various South Sudanese stakeholders that his office would communicate a date for the resumption of the peace talks, dubbed High Level Revitalization Forum (HLRF). "Today we shall postpone phase two of the forum," he said.
Voice of America
February 9, 2018
South Sudan's government Friday declined to sign an agreement on rules to facilitate discussion aimed at reviving the country's collapsed 2015 peace deal. The government's delegates refused to approve the Declaration of Principles (DOP), intended to guide a second phase of high-level talks. They citedÃâà...
africanews
December 31, 1999
The South Sudanese rebels have recently warned that they will not accept a deal that requires their leader to relocate to another country after he is released from house arrest in South Africa. They claim their group has already signed the cessation of hostilities agreement with the government which provesÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
This made Sudan increasingly reliant on its oil revenue -- which accounted for over half of Sudan's government revenue and 95% of its exports. ... However, the country's e-commerce entrepreneurs still face some major hurdles -- for instance, how to steer Sudanese people from using cash to paying online?
