Sudan’s Bashir promises Kiir to solve border dispute
JUBA – Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has promised his South Sudanese counterpart he is willing to resolve the border dispute between their two countries. Bashir made...
Category : SOUTH SUDAN
UN Security Council ‘worried’ over S. Sudan amid formations of 53 new rebel groups
By Timothy Sibasi, timothy.sibasi@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA – The UN Security Council has failed to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan and couldn’t agree to impose...
HRW cites systematic arbitrary detentions in South Sudan
By Timothy Sibasi, timothy.sibasi@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA – Witnesses and victims of abuse interviewed by Human Rights Watch reported dozens of cases of arbitrary detention by...
Can IGAD strike peace deal in South Sudan without rebel leader?
By Timothy Sibasi, timothy.sibasi@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA – Riek Machar was Vice-President of South Sudan a year ago, however, due to ethnic power strives between the Nuwers...
South Sudan hikes foreign work permit fee by 3900 percent
JUBA – South Sudan has resolved to increase the annual fees for foreign workers running businesses in the country from $100 to $4,000 in the new...
South Sudan army units defect over arrested army General
JUBA – Some units of the South Sudanese army (SPLA) led by high-ranking officers have defected following a failed attempt to forcefully free former powerful...
South Sudan rebels find “haven” in DR Congo
GOMA – Hundreds of South Sudan rebels who fled Juba with the opposition leader Riek Machar in July 2016 are now camped in Goma, DR...
UN: 45% of South Sudanese refugee live in Ethiopia
By Timothy Sibasi, timothy.sibasi@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA- The United Nation High Commission latest report on the refugees situation in one of the world’s poorest nation of Ethiopia...
Displaced south Sudanese accuse NGO of hiding poor conditions from US diplomat Haley
Tom Mugisha, tom.mugisha@alleastafrica.com JUBA –Displaced people in a South Sudan camp have accused a French charity organization ACTED of hiding poor living conditions from the...
US Ambassador Haley tells off South Sudanese president Kiir
BY Tom Mugisha, tom.mugisha@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA – The United States permanent representative to the United Nations, Nikki Haley has said time for talking is over and...
