Category: Sudan
UN warns over replacement of Machar as First Vice President
NEW YORK (HAN) July 27.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The United Nations (UN) has warned the leadership of the war-ravaged South Sudan over its recent decision to replace Riek Machar, with Taban Deng Gai, as First Vice President, saying this was a violation to the peace agreement. Machar, who has continued to command the…
Rebel commanders in Unity state dismiss Gai’s army remarks
BENTIU (HAN) July 27.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s armed opposition (SPLM-IO) sector commander in oil-rich Unity state, Lt. Gen Simon Maguek Gai has dismissed Gen. Taban Deng Gai’s claims of having army support. Deng Gai, now the country’s first vice president having replaced Riek Machar, was dismissed from the armed opposition movement…
Sudanese president meets Saudi king in Morocco
KHARTOUM (HAN) July 27.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir on Tuesday has travelled to Morocco to hold discussions with the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The Saudi monarch is spending his annual vacation in the Moroccan port city of Tangier, where he arrived on Thursday. Al-Bashir flew to Tangier…
Sudan army chief holds military talks in Saudi Arabia
KHARTOUM (HAN) July 26.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)’s Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Emad al-Din Mustafa Adawi, Monday, held military talks with his Saudi counterpart, Lt. General Abdulrahman bin Saleh Al-Bunyan, said the official Sudan News Agency. According to SUNA, Adawi’s visit to Saudi Arabia comes…
South Sudan President Advised to Stop War
JUBA (HAN) July 26.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan President, Salva Kiir, has not indicated willingness to heed an appeal by the head of Roman Catholic, whom he personally met and held talks aimed at ending conflict in 2015 in Kampala, capital of neighbouring Uganda and who later had to send a…
Riek Machar removed as S.Sudan VP
JUBA (HAN) July 26.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By FRED OLUOCH. South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Monday night removed First Vice-President Dr Riek Machar from office, replacing him with Mining Minister, Taban Deng Gai, in a move that virtually spells doom for the already fragile peace accord. This happened after the lapse of a…
S.Sudan: Advocacy group warns of “full-scale war”
JUBA (HAN) July 25.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s removal of the armed opposition leader, Riek Machar and appointing Taban Deng Gai as the country’s first vice-president could ignite a “full-scale war”, an advocacy group warned on Monday. “This move represents another marker in the South Sudan’s slow motion political…
Yoweri Museveni advises S. Sudan to accept deployment AU Troops
JUBA (HAN) July 25.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, has advised his South Sudanese counterpart, President Salva Kiir, to not reject deployment of additional regional third party force in Juba, but to instead focus on negotiating the level of their mandate as they deploy in the country. Museveni said failure…
Week in the Horn
Africa and the African Union The 27th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union was held in the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda’s capital Kigali on Sunday and Monday this week (July 17-18). The meeting, under this year’s theme of “2016: African Year of Human Rights…
Riek Machar has no Plans for an Immediate Return to Juba
JUBA (HAN) July 23.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s vice president and former rebel leader Riek Machar has no plans for an immediate return to Juba, his supporters said on Friday, accusing his rival President Salva Kiir of trying to oust or even kill him. Machar has not been seen in public…
