South Sudan president petitioned to remove foreign minister
JUBA – A group of twenty members South Sudanese pro-government supporters have written a petition letter asking President Salva Kiir to remove from office foreign...
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South Sudan forces assault UN commander
By Tom Mugisha, tom.mugisha@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA – South Sudan troops have assaulted a commander of the UN peacekeeping unit in Juba, the capital of the World’s...
South Sudan Opens Its First Kidney Hospital
JUBA – President Salva Kiir opened South Sudan’s first-ever kidney hospital Thursday in Juba, calling it a breakthrough for the country’s medical care. The facility...
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SPOTLIGHT: East Africa leading maternal death rates in Africa
By Timothy Sibasi, timothy.sibasi@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA – East Africa has been singled out in particular to be leading the highest maternal deaths 18 percent in Africa...
Oil-rich South Sudan faces fuel shortage as ‘people suffer’
By SAM MEDNICK JUBA – “In September there was no fuel anywhere,” Samson Kamuya says. The exhausted 45-year-old hangs his head. He’s been waiting four days...
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Why EAC is yet to review taxes on ‘sensitive goods’
NAIROBI – The EAC Council of Ministers had given member states three additional months to agree on the implementation of a new CET after failing...
Heavy fighting resumes in Pagak, South Sudan
By Tom Mugisha, tom.mugisha@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA – Heavy fighting has erupted between South Sudanese army (SPLA) and the opposition forces of the SPLA-IO in Pagak area...
Former South Sudan army boss remains under house arrest
By Tom Mugisha, tom.mugisha@alleastafrica.com KAMPALA – The former army chief of South Sudan Gen. Paul Malong has said he is still under house arrest, contrary...
Ethiopia and Sudan top diplomats meet exiled South Sudan VP Machar
ADDIS ABABA – Foreign Affairs Ministers of Ethiopia and Sudan have met with former South Sudanese First Vice President Riek Machar. Ethiopia’s Workneh Gebeyehu and...
ICRC to resume operations in S. Sudan’s Equatoria region
JUBA — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Friday that it will gradually resume operations in South Sudan’s western Equatoria region, which...
