Category: Sudan
Sudan: The New Gold Rush: On the Artisanal Miners Who Risk Their Lives
KHARTOUM (HAN) December 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. By: Peter Schwartzstein and Leyland Cecco. It’s a little before 7am on a bright, airless morning and already Abdullah Idriss Isaac has been hard at work for hours. Swishing his aluminium pan back and forth through a waist-deep pool of brackish water, he wearily…
S.Sudan: Break-Away Rebels Sign MoU With Juba Government
JUBA (HAN) December 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. A faction, which broke away from South Sudan’s armed oposition forces (SPLM-IO) in July signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Juba government, pledging to send a delegation to Juba next week. The Federal Democratic Party (FDP – political wing) / South…
S.Sudan: Equity Bank Receives 2015 Top Banking Award
JUBA (HAN) December 26, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Kenyan-based Equity bank has been awarded best award for its investment, employment opportunities, and for offering financial literacy training in the Republic of South Sudan. South Sudan Chamber of Commerce (SSCC), one of the organizers for the event in Crown Hotel in Juba,…
Sudan: Russia Sign 14 Cooperation Agreements
KHARTOUM (HAN) December 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Sudan and Russia On Tuesday signed 14 cooperation agreements in different domains, including oil, minerals and banks. The accords were signed following a four- day session of the Sudanese-Russian Ministerial Committee for Economic, Commercial, Cultural and Technical Cooperation, co-chaired by Sudanese Minister of Minerals…
Sudan: Burundi Clashes with African Union on Peacekeeping Force
KHARTOUM (HAN) December 23, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Sudanese government appeared to be siding with Burundi in its clash with the African Union (AU) over the latter’s decision to send a peacekeeping force to quell a growing wave of violence that is widely feared to develop into full blown ethnic…
S.Sudan: Rebel Advance Team set to Arrive in Juba
JUBA (HAN) December 21, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. An advance team of rebel Sudan’s People’s Liberation Movement/Army-In Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) is set to arrive in Juba today (Monday), Spokesman for the leadership of the SPLM/A-IO has announced. The declaration came weeks after South Sudanese government claimed that an initial number of the…
Sudan: Intelligence Agency Shuts Down Critical Newspaper
KHARTOUM (HAN) December 16, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the illegitimate closing of newspaper Al-Tayar by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). Al-Tayar’s journalists think that the closure is a punishment for an editorial in which Editor in chief Mirghani criticized the finance minister’s announcement of…
S.Sudan: UN Failing to Protect Civilians
JUBA (HAN) December 15, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. People in South Sudan’s Unity State are being subjected to murder, rape and kidnapping with little protection from the thousands of UN peacekeepers there, the Guardian reports, citing Doctors Without Borders. The United Nations mission to South Sudan hasn’t offered any protection…
UN Peacekeeping Chief Warns that South Sudan is at a “Critical Juncture”
JUBA (HAN) December 4, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. UN Under-Secretary-General for UN Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous told the UN Security Council on Wednesday (December 2) that with both sides repeatedly violating the ceasefire, and endangering progress so far made towards a political transition, the South Sudan peace process was at a…
Sudan: UN Official Calls on US to Lift Sanctions
KHARTOUM (HAN) December 3, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. A United Nations expert has called for an easing of the unilateral sanctions that the United States imposed on Sudan 18 years ago. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and International Sanctions Idriss Jazairy said the sanctions are hurting innocent people instead…
