Category: Sudan
This Week in The Horn
Africa and the African Union The 66th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa (RC66) Kicked off at the United Nations Conference Center (UNCC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Friday (August 19). Regional oral health strategy 2016-2025, regional strategy for health security and emergencies, and multi-sectoral action for a life course approach to healthy…
South Sudan security blocks media coverage of Machar’s escape to Congo
JUBA (HAN) August 19.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s security operatives have imposed restriction on media coverage of successful escape into Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of the armed opposition leader and the first vice president, Riek Machar. Machar left South Sudan over fears for his safety after government forces mounted a…
Riek Machar might have found refuge in DR Congo
South Sudan’s opposition leader, Riek Machar, has reportedly found refuge in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, several weeks after he withdrew from the capital, Juba, during fierce fighting with government troops. Opposition fighters had “successfully relocated our leader to a neighboring country where he will now have unhindered access to the rest of the…
US Pushes Regime Change in South Sudan; UN Intervenes to Protect Rebel Leader
JUBA (HAN) August 16.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.OPINION BY:Thomas C. Mountain. The USA and its soon to be departed lap dog at the UN, General Secretary Ban Ki Moon are pushing for regime change in South Sudan. The reason the USA wants to rid itself of President Salva Kiir, the internationally recognized leader of South…
Machar Relocated to a Neighbouring Country: Spokesperson
JUBA (HAN) August 17.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Riek Machar, former South Sudanese First Vice President and leader of the armed opposition faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO), has been “successfully” relocated to a neighbouring country after more than one month of battling President Salva Kiir’s forces in the capital, Juba, and…
S.Sudan President sets Date for Army Integration
JUBA (HAN) August 17.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, has announced his government would integrate all armed dissidents by May 2017 to allow creation of unified national army. His first target is the armed opposition group led by his former first deputy, Riek Machar, which his new deputy, Taban Deng,…
New VP Deng Gai blames Riek Machar for stalling peace pact
JUBA (HAN) August 16.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.By AGGREY MUTAMBO. South Sudan’s first vice president Taban Deng Gai has accused rebel leader Riek Machar of stalling a peace agreement aimed at ending violence in the country. Gai claimed Machar ran “a parallel government in Juba” before he fled following violence that rocked the capital…
U.S. envoy condemns targeted raping of aliens in South Sudan
JUBA (HAN) August 16.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power said she is “outraged by reports of assaults” on foreign aid workers and journalists in South Sudanese capital, Juba last month. In a press statement released Monday, Power said South Sudanese soldiers carried…
Sudan Ceasefire talks collapse after less than a week
Talks to secure a lasting ceasefire in Sudan’s three warring regions under a road map for peace have collapsed less than a week after they began, the government’s chief negotiator said on Monday. Rebels have been fighting the Sudanese army in the southern regions of Kordofan and Blue Nile since 2011, when South Sudan declared…
Salva Kiir Calls for Talks on New UN Force “Sovereignty Comes First”
JUBA (HAN) August 15.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan President Salva Kiir said Monday he is not opposed to the deployment of a strengthened UN force while expressing “very serious concerns” over the internationally-backed plan. In a speech at the opening of parliament in the capital Juba on Monday, Kiir said more…
