South Sudan News
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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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Sudanese warplanes bombed oil rich border regions of South Sudan overnight after days of clashes, but fighting on the ground between the rival armies has ceased, a Southern official said Wednesday. "The ground assaults this morning have stopped but they (Sudan) have still been bombing us in the night," said Gideon Gatpan, information minister for the South's Unity state, the
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Sudanese warplanes on Tuesday launched fresh air raids on oil-rich areas of South Sudan, a Southern official said, threatening a tentative rapprochement despite international calls for calm. Earlier, Sudan suspended an April 3 summit between President Omar al-Bashir and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir in Juba following border clashes on Monday, although Southern officials later said the invitation still stood.
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Juba - Sudanese warplanes launched a second day of bombardment of oil-rich areas of South Sudan, after bloody clashes between ground troops of the rival states, a Southern government official said on Tuesday. "After a day of attacks by air and ground troops on Monday, this morning we heard the Antonov [aircraft] return, and dropped two bombs," said Gideon Gatpan,
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Sudanese aircraft and ground troops attacked multiple positions in South Sudan's oil rich border regions Monday, sparking fierce battles and prompting Southern President Salva Kiir to warn of war. "This morning the (Sudanese) airforce came and bombed... areas in Unity state," Kiir said at the opening of a ruling party meeting in the southern capital Juba. "After this intensive bombardment
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South Sudan said Saturday it will not arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, during an upcoming visit to the newly independent nation. South Sudan said fears by former civil war foe Sudan that Bashir would be arrested when he visits Juba on April 3 were unfounded as he had been invited by
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Nairobi - Guns and ammunition used by a South Sudanese ethnic militia that massacred a rival group earlier this year came from both the army and a rebel group, a report said on Thursday. Beginning late December a marauding column of about 8 000 armed youths from the Lou Nuer people marched on the remote town of Pibor, home to
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Fierce ethnic clashes over cattle rustling killed more than 200 people in South Sudan at the weekend, and hundreds more were abducted in the troubled fledgling nation, a state governor said Monday. "The people killed are around 223. 150 are injured," Jonglei state governor Kuol Manyang told AFP. "There are about 300 women and children who are thought to have
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South Sudan accused former foe Sudan on Friday of holding 35,000 Southerners as "slaves," stalling talks to resolve a furious oil dispute as tensions remain high between the two neighbours. "There is unfortunately a disagreement, because the government of Sudan refused the inclusion of the freedom of about 35,000 South Sudanese enslaved citizens," South Sudan's chief negotiator Pagan Amum told
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Sudanese Christians who have barely a month to leave the north or risk being treated as foreigners are starting to move, but Christian leaders are concerned that the 8 April deadline set by Islamic-majority Sudan is unrealistic. "We are very concerned. Moving is not easy ... people have children in school. They have homes ... It is almost impossible," Roman
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Juba — As South Sudan's oil dispute with Sudan continues Juba announced on Wednesday that it plans to start exporting oil using trucks to transport its oil to ports in Kenya and Djibouti. South Sudan stopped exporting its oil through Sudan last month as part of a transit fee dispute. Stephen Dhieu Dau, the country's oil minister told Reuters on
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With an April 8 deadline looming for ethnic South Sudanese to leave Sudan or acquire documents allowing them to stay in the north, Bol Wunj's family decided on Thursday that it was time to go. Without a reservation, they showed up at a rubbish-strewn patch of sand where 20 train carriages waited to take around 1,500 South Sudanese home to
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Juba - South Sudan accused Khartoum on Thursday of bombing two oil wells in the north of the new nation and moving troops and weaponry close to an army base near the poorly defined border. A Sudanese official denied the allegations. Relations between Sudan and the South have deteriorated in recent months as talks about border disputes and oil transportation
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South Sudan government wants Kenya to mediate in the conflict between South Sudan and its northern neighbour Sudan over Abiyei and Kadugli border areas. Chief South Sudan Presidential Advisor Joseph Lagu said that Kenya being one of the leading African nations will facilitate truce between the two states for sustainable economic development in the region. "Kenya still has much to
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South Sudan said Wednesday Khartoum's decision to stop the return of hundreds of thousands of Southerners by barge on the White Nile was a looming disaster, and that alternative means were untenable. Sudan early this week halted the use of barges by South Sudanese returning home on suspicion the vessels were being used to reinforce troops near the two former
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New York – The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday hailed the signing of a treaty of non-aggression between Sudan and South Sudan over their disputed border. Ban "welcomes the signing of a memorandum of understanding on non-aggression and co-operation between the governments of Sudan and South Sudan in Addis Ababa on 10 February 2012", a UN statement said.
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South Sudan must honour promises to investigate, arrest and prosecute those responsible for an explosion of bloody ethnic violence in war-wracked Jonglei state, Human Rights Watch said Friday. "To stem this horrific cycle of violence, the organisers have to be held to account," said Daniel Bekele, HRW's Africa director, adding UN and African bodies should help for "speed and credibility’s
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Juba — South Sudan on Thursday said it has started talks with the Djibouti government to build an alternative oil pipeline through Ethiopia and Djibouti; weeks after the cabinet of the new nation passed a resolution shutting down oil production over a transit fee dispute with north Sudan. Juba accused neighbouring north Sudan of stealing it's oil, while Khartoum said
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Juba — The president of South Sudan Salva Kiir on Monday launched a fierce attack on his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan al-Bashir calling him a "thief" and urged him to surrender himself to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Addressing members of the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) at Bilpam military base in South Sudan's capital of Juba, Kiir reiterated his
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The Vice president of South Sudan Riek Machar dismissed statements made by Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir in which he raised the prospects of war between neighboring states. "Our programme is peace with the north and we will work on it," Machar told the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper. "We will not go to war with the north, not out of
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Dozens of people were killed in South Sudan in a shootout at a peace meeting to resolve disputes about stolen cattle, with some reports claiming as many as 37 deaths, officials said Friday. "These guys just started shooting everywhere," said Gideon Gatpan Thoar, Unity state information minister, giving the figure of 37 people killed in Wednesday's gunfight. Local officials from
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South Sudanese President Salva Kiir warned Thursday of renewed conflict with former foes in north Sudan if bitter oil negotiations do not include a deal on other key issues, including the contested Abyei region. "It would not be fair to my people to support an agreement that invites more conflict by failing to resolve underlying issues," Kiir told reporters. "An
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