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Sudan Tribune
April 26, 2018
In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune, the SPLA-N Agar General Commander, Ahmed al-Omda, said the attack means to retake the control of the in the gold-rich mountainous area of Kalgo which is part of the Ingessana Hills, about 32 kilometres south of the Blue Nile state capital of Ed Damazin.
Park City Caller
April 25, 2018
Even as millions of South Sudanese flee their country in what the United Nations has called the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide, hundreds of thousands of people from Sudan's South Kordofan region have found a haven there. Their presence brings concerns that theirÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
April 25, 2018
April 24, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - Britain has pledged to support Sudan's removal from US list of state sponsors of terrorism, at the end of the fifth meeting of ... are inclined to put it aside blaming armed groups also for the continuation of the conflict in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan states and Darfur region.
BloombergQuint
April 25, 2018
“No support has ever been provided nor will it be provided to the Rapid Support Forces” and the EU doesn't equip any other Sudanese border forces, it said. ... Last week, the head of the RSF, which has been accused of rights abuses during deployments in Sudan's Darfur and Southern Kordofan regions,Ãâà...
Sudan Tribune
April 25, 2018
Gruenberg is the first French special envoy for Sudan to support the African Union-led process for a comprehensive settlement for the armed conflict in Darfur region, the Blue Nile and South Kordofan states. The director of the European department at the Foreign Ministry Khalid Musa told reporters theÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
April 17, 2018
Sudan refuses to allow new aid groups to work in the region. The government also banned the access of foreign groups to the rebel-held areas in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states as well as the establishment of camps for the displaced civilians, stressing the experience of Darfur camps should not beÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 13, 2018
Aid organisations and workers in Sudan do not generally speak on the record for fear of Sudanese government repercussions. ... This refers not only to long-running unrest in the western Darfur region, but also to less well-known conflicts simmering in the southern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile,Ãâà...
IRINnews.org
April 11, 2018
... western Darfur region, but also to less well-known conflicts simmering in the southern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, where some territory is controlled by factions of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), a group that has been fighting the Sudanese government since 2011.
Sudan Tribune
April 4, 2018
Thus the 2002 Machakos Protocol of the CPA granted the people of southern Sudan the right of self-determination, but the Southern Kordofan/Nuba .... either building a national movement encompassing all Sudanese based on the new Sudan project, or reducing the party to a regional movement led by 'aÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 4, 2018
During the first fighting in March, the Sudanese army and militia forces attacked the area of Jawa, south of Deribat, in an attempt to clear the region of the last ... April 2 - 2018 ABU JUBEIHA / KADUGLI / KHARTOUM Owners of orchards and vegetable farms in South Kordofan complain about the loss of theirÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 3, 2018
Sudan has extended a unilateral ceasefire with rebels in its three main conflict areas for an additional three months, until the end of June, state news agency Suna reported on Wednesday, citing a presidential decree. Fighting between the army and rebels in the Kordofan and Blue Nile regions broke out inÃâà...
Amnesty International
April 3, 2018
Abdala Abdel Algyoum Abddalias, 54 year old father of four, and founding member of El Gedaref Salvation Initiative, told Amnesty International last year how he was abused by agents of Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). “I was taken to a courtyard and made to stand facing the wallÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 27, 2018
Hundreds of Sudanese soldiers have been deployed in Kasala in recent months, residents say. Thousands of Eritreans, fleeing a ... across the Mediterranean to Europe. Apart from Kasala, a state of emergency is in place in Sudan's war-torn regions of Darfur, Blue Nile, South Kordofan and North Kordofan.
ReliefWeb
March 20, 2018
In South Kordofan, Al Abassiya locality, an inter-agency assessment mission including UNICEF was conducted in 18 hard-to-reach communities with about ... in the location mainly because of the forced displacement which occurred in some areas in the Jebel Marra region between January and April 2016.
Sudan Tribune
March 19, 2018
Since August 2017, the Sudanese authorities launched a campaign to collect illegal weapons. The campaign, which would be implemented across the country, began by disarming tribes and civilians in Kordofan and Darfur. Last year, the UN Security Council decided to reduce the hybrid peacekeepingÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 13, 2018
The government is citing a positive outcome of the ongoing campaign to collect illicit arms from the hands of citizens in the Western regions of Darfur and Kordofan. It said some 80,000 pieces of armament have been collected from those regions by the end of 2017, while the campaign has commenced inÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 13, 2018
"He suffered from diarrhoea, haemorrhages, and pneumonia caused by environmental pollution in the region," he said. "A girl called ... In December 2015, members of the Sudanese parliament discussed the decline of fertility among women living in West Kordofan's Balila and Moga. A year later, MPs fromÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 13, 2018
"He suffered from diarrhoea, haemorrhages, and pneumonia caused by environmental pollution in the region," he said. "A girl called ... In December 2015, members of the Sudanese parliament discussed the decline of fertility among women living in West Kordofan's Balila and Moga. A year later, MPs fromÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
March 2, 2018
The United Nations signed this agreement with the Sudanese government security forces including the Sudan Armed Forces, the Popular Defence Forces (PDF) and the Sudan Police Forces on 27 March 2016. The armed groups In South Kordofan, Blue Nile states and Darfur region have signed a similarÃâà...
Xinhua
March 1, 2018
Gamba arrived in Sudan four days ago and visited some conflict areas in Sudan, including South Kordofan and Darfur region. In March 2016, Sudan and the UN signed an Action Plan to end and prevent the recruitment of children in armed conflicts. The Sudanese government has been fighting the rebelÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 1, 2018
In the Darfur region, there is a greater distribution of refugee men compared to women in North Darfur and South Darfur, with a more even distribution in East Darfur. These trends are also reflected in household composition, with a higher proportion of women-headed households in West Kordofan, WhiteÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 25, 2018
The exchange rate of the Sudanese Pound sharply declined in late 2017, as the lifting of international sanctions in October 2017, ending a trade embargo and unfreezing financial assets, ... A major concern exists for the conflict-affected areas in the Darfur Region and in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states.
ReliefWeb
February 24, 2018
The fighting has also reportedly led to displacement of about 9,000 people to the Wadaka area in El Kurmuk locality, close to the border with South Sudan. This week the two SPLM-N factions issued two separate statements blaming each other for the bloodshed. Activists and politicians have expressedÃâà...
African Arguments
February 22, 2018
In the first weeks of 2018, the Sudanese pound devalued rapidly, going from 32 SDG to the dollar to 44 SDG in just a few days. ... At the same time, conflicts in Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile and Darfur regions escalated, absorbing much of the government's revenue, with 70% of the annual budget beingÃâà...
WTOP
December 31, 1999
While South Kordofan is officially part of Sudan, the area remained home to many pro-South Sudanese communities after South Sudan won independence in 2011. Today, fighters loyal to South Sudan still shelter in the Nuba Mountains, allowing people from both countries to move freely across the border.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
December 31, 1999
YIDA, South Sudan -- Even as millions of South Sudanese flee their country in what the United Nations has called the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide, hundreds of thousands of people from Sudan's South Kordofan region have found a haven there. Their presence raisesÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
December 31, 1999
The Sudanese army has been fighting the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) rebels in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan, also ... by the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) to end the armed conflict in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan states and Darfur region.
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