South Sudan News
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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan military forces tasked with carrying out a disarmament campaign among feuding ethnic groups are raping and torturing members of a minority community, community leaders and aid workers say. The disarmament campaign follows two outbreaks of violence linked to cattle raids between the Murle and Lou Nuer tribes over the last year in the
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South Sudan is trudging on with plans to develop its infrastructure amid unresolved oil issues with its northern neighbour; an inflation surge and recently imposed austerity measures to recoup revenue losses. For roads infrastructure alone, South Sudan would require an estimated $10 billion while funding for eight of its hydropower sites will need $15 billion. Speaking during the African Trade
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Khartoum - An airlift of up to 15 000 ethnic South Sudanese began on Monday from Khartoum, an AFP correspondent said. The first plane chartered by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) took off at 06:15 GMT carrying around 160 South Sudanese. They are among a group of 12 000-15 000 South Sudanese who were waiting to return to their
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South Sudan has withdrawn hundreds of police from the territory of Abyei that it disputes with Sudan ahead of a UN Security Council ultimatum, a UN spokesman said. But the United Nations is still "verifying" the South's claim that it has withdrawn all forces from the small territory on the uncharted border between the two rivals, said the spokesman, Martin
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Up to 15,000 ethnic South Sudanese who have been encamped in crowded conditions in Sudan will be flown to South Sudan, avoiding a May 20 expulsion deadline by local authorities, the IOM said on Saturday. "We hope to start within a week," Jill Helke, who heads the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) office in Khartoum, told AFP. The IOM estimates
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The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution giving Sudan and South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities or face sanctions. With China and Russia joining the growing calls for a halt to the growing border conflict, the 15-member council gave emphatic backing to African Union efforts to halt violence and get peace negotiations started. Russia and China
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Sudanese officials on Wednesday extended the expulsion deadline for thousands of ethnic South Sudanese encamped south of Khartoum, official media reported. The decision came in a meeting between Yusuf al-Shambali, the governor of White Nile state, and Social Welfare Minister Amira al-Fadel Mohammed. "They agreed to extend the deadline to May 20, 2012," said the SUNA news agency. The previous
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Juba - China has agreed to loan oil-rich South Sudan eight billion dollars for infrastructure development, Juba government spokesperson Barnaba Mariel Benjamin said on Saturday. "It will fund roads, bridges, hydropower, agriculture and telecommunications projects... within the next two years," he said, giving details of a visit this week to China by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir. "Details (of the
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South Sudan said Saturday it was ready to pull out of the contested Abyei region to meet an African Union demand but accused Sudan of failing its own commitments by backing southern rebels. The former civil war foes have been on the brink of a return to conflict for weeks, with control of oil fields and revenues crucial to both
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China has agreed to loan South Sudan eight billion dollars for infrastructure development, Juba government spokesman Barnaba Mariel Benjamin said on Saturday. "It will fund roads, bridges, hydropower, agriculture and telecommunications projects... within the next two years," he said, giving details of a visit this week to China by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir. "Details (of the projects) will be
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Juba — South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit on Friday strongly criticised international community including the United Nations and African Union of showing "deliberate" failure to hold the government of the neighboring Sudan responsible for border conflict. "The government of Sudan has never stopped bombing our innocent civil population even after signing Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). They have continued to
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The South Sudanese army said on Saturday that it repelled an attack by rebels backed by neighbouring Sudan outside Malakal, capital of the fledgling country's Upper Nile State. "It was Sudan-supported militias that attacked SPLA (South Sudan army) positions," around Malakal on Friday, Colonel Philip Aguer told AFP, adding that the South Sudanese army repelled the attack, but he could
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When President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir told the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), 'Either we end up in Juba and take everything or you end up in Khartoum and take everything,' he was acknowledging that the stakes could hardly be higher. What he didn't say, in his 19 April speech at the National Congress Party headquarters, was that the
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South Sudan's president will cut short his visit to China amid violence between the world's newest nation and Sudan, officials said on Wednesday, as Beijing unveiled plans to send a peace envoy. The announcements came as China played host to a delegation from its long-time ally Khartoum at the same time as South Sudan President Salva Kiir was in Beijing
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Soldiers from Sudan and South Sudan clashed at a river dividing their two countries, leaving 22 dead as fighting spread to a new area of the tense border. A Sudanese official demanded on Wednesday that South Sudan withdraw from an oil-rich area it occupied last week or face a concerted attack. Tuesday's firefight began after a Sudanese soldier shot a
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South Sudan's army has accused Khartoum of trying to open a second front in the northeast of its territory, an area so far spared the fierce border clashes of recent days. South Sudan's SPLA army repulsed fresh attacks launched by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) troops Sunday near the village of Kuek, a widening of the fighting outside the contested Heglig
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A Sudanese plane bombed Bentiu, capital of the oil-rich South Sudan border state of Unity, on Saturday, a local government spokesman said. "Three bombs were released next to Bentiu Bridge, and at the moment one person is confirmed killed. But they did not break the bridge," said Gideon Gatfan, spokesman of the Unity State government. -
The South Sudan army claimed on Saturday to still be in control of Heglig after Khartoum said it had launched an offensive to recapture the disputed oil hub. "The SPLA is controlling Heglig," spokesman Philip Aguer told AFP. He said that the Southern army had repelled soldiers of the Sudanese Armed Forces in the village of Kelet some 40 kilometres
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An international plan to get food into Sudan's war-torn South Kordofan is not needed, the state's governor said on Thursday, despite international fears that hundreds of thousands could soon go hungry in the area. Ahmed Haroun told foreign reporters that a joint proposal by the African Union, Arab League and United Nations was not necessary. "No need for that," Haroun
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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir rejected calls Thursday to pull out from contested border regions, but said he did not want war with Khartoum, whose warplanes bombed a Southern town for the first time. Three days of heavy fighting between rival armies this week, the worst since South Sudan won independence in July after one of Africa's longest civil wars,
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Sudan and South Sudan on Wednesday ordered mass civilian mobilisations for defence as their armies battled along their contested border, raising the spectre of a return to all-out war. A day after Southern troops seized the contested oil-producing Heglig region from Khartoum's army amid heavy artillary bombardments and airstrikes, the parliaments in Juba and Khartoum called for preparation for conflict.
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Khartoum - Airlines cancelled flights from Sudan to the newly independent South on Monday, travellers said, after new rules treating the route as international took effect. The ending of domestic services to South Sudan came the day after a deadline for an estimated half a million ethnic Southerners to return South or formalise their status in the north. "We came
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After fleeing civil strife in Sudan and risking their lives on the way, the thousands who made it across the border with South Sudan have found little respite in Jamam refugee camp. With Sudanese jets bombing the nearby contested border area from the sky and water so scarce that ever-growing lines at the taps inevitably break into fist fights, Jamam
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South Sudan: Situation On South Sudan-Sudan Border Cools As Parties Express Willingness to Meet - UN
Tensions stemming from military clashes in the border area between Sudan and South Sudan appear to be de-escalating as both parties have stated their willingness to meet in the coming days in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to prevent a new eruption of violence, a United Nations spokesperson said today. "While the exact situation on the ground still needs to be confirmed,
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Sudan and South Sudan vowed to step back from the brink of all-out war after growing international alarm at three days of border violence that included air strikes and tank battles. Fighting on the ground had reportedly ceased on both sides of the unmarked border, but dead bodies and wrecked tanks lay strewn in Sudan's contested oil centre of Heglig,
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