Category: Sudan

  • UN to train S.Sudan army in combating sexual violence

    UN to train S.Sudan army in combating sexual violence

    JUBA (HAN) May 9.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.  United Nations (UN) has pledged to help train commanders of the two factions of the national army in South Sudan, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army – SPLA and SPLA-IO – in combating sexual violence. UN says practices of sexual violence against young girls and women have been…

  • S. Sudan grapples with Shaky Economy

    S. Sudan grapples with Shaky Economy

    JUBA (HAN) May 9 .2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s new Transitional Government of National Unity faces an uphill task of reviving an economy dependent on oil resources to fund its budget. The oil sector, accounting for 98% of government revenues, has been badly affected the recent war, in addition to the…

  • Machar calls for forgiveness and reconciliation in S.Sudan

    Machar calls for forgiveness and reconciliation in S.Sudan

    JUBA (HAN) May 9 .2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s First Vice President, Riek Machar, has called on the people of South Sudan to forgive one another and reconcile in order to unite the people of the young nation and leave behind the bitter past. Machar, who is also the chairman of the…

  • S.Sudan: Kiir urges global support to recover Millions

    S.Sudan: Kiir urges global support to recover Millions

    JUBA (HAN) May 9 .2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan president Salva Kiir has renewed his appeal for global support and cooperation to recover millions of dollars of public funds stolen and hidden in foreign countries by past and present officials who served in his administration. “Yes, Dr.Riek has come and we have now…

  • Ethiopian army has not invaded S.Sudan

    Ethiopian army has not invaded S.Sudan

    JUBA (HAN) May 7.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudanese army (SPLA) said media reports about alleged invasion of South Sudan by Ethiopian forces to rescue children of Ethiopian ethnic Nuer community abducted by the Murle ethnic group of South Sudan was not true. “SPLA GHQs would like to take this opportunity to correct negative…

  • Security Council calls on S. Sudan to implement peace accord

    Security Council calls on S. Sudan to implement peace accord

    JUBA  (HAN) May 5. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.  The United Nations Security Council has called on South Sudan’s transitional unity government to end the cycles of violence and fully implement the peace agreement signed by its warring parties in August 2015. In a statement to the media on Wednesday, the 15-nation body welcomed…

  • Release of Prisoners of War from Prisons Across the Country : Machar

    Release of Prisoners of War from Prisons Across the Country : Machar

    JUBA (HAN) May 6. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.  South Sudan first vice president, Riek Machar, has called on the former warring parties, but now peace partners to release prisoners of war (PoWs) from prisons across the country. Speaking at an induction workshop organized on Thursday in Juba by the ministry of cabinet affairs…

  • S.Sudan: SPLM-IO encourages cooperation in peace implementation

    S.Sudan: SPLM-IO encourages cooperation in peace implementation

    JUBA (HAN) May 5. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. It is important for the parties to the August 2015 peace agreement to cooperate in the implementation of the peace deal which ended the 21 months of conflict in South Sudan, says opposition’s official. Media official of the armed opposition faction of the Sudan People’s…

  • S.Sudan peace monitoring body rejects legitimacy of 28 states

    S.Sudan peace monitoring body rejects legitimacy of 28 states

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 5. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) on Wednesday said it does not recognize the legitimacy of the controversial 28 states which President Salva Kiir created in violation of peace agreement and the country’s constitution. A senior official of the peace monitoring body…

  • Sudan says has ‘sovereign rights’ in dispute with Egypt

    Sudan says has ‘sovereign rights’ in dispute with Egypt

    KHARTOUM (HAN) May 2. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Sudan insisted on Monday it had “sovereign rights” over two border territories whose ownership has been the subject of a long-standing dispute between Cairo and Khartoum. Sudan has regularly protested at Egypt’s administration of Halayeb and Shalatin near the Red Sea, saying they are…

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