Category: Sudan
South Sudan: SPLM-IO Endorses Taban Deng as ‘acting’ VP
A meeting of SPLM-IO leaders who survived the recent fighting in Juba voted today to make Taban Deng Gai the ‘acting’ first vice president in spite of a directive from SPLM-IO Chairman Riek Machar yesterday removing him. Machar in a letter yesterday said that Taban Deng has ‘defected’ to the SPLM faction headed by Salva…
South Sudan’s FVP Machar Fires Taban Deng
JUBA (HAN) July 23.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s First Vice President, Riek Machar, has dismissed Taban Deng Gai from the party of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO), accusing him of having defected to President Salva Kiir’s faction. Machar also asked President Kiir to relieve Gai from his position as Minister…
Kiir asks Machar to return to Juba
South Sudan’s president wants his vice president to return to the capital to try to salvage a peace agreement that was jeopardised by fighting earlier this month between forces loyal to the two long-time rivals. President Salva Kiir asked Vice President Riek Machar on Thursday to make contact with him in the next 48 hours,…
Key opposition leaders back Kiir rejection of AU troop deployment
JUBA (HAN) July 21.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By JOSEPH ODUHA. Key senior members of the opposition faction led by Vice President Riek Machar have pledged allegiance to President Salva Kiir and rejected a AU recent approval of additional foreign troops to be deployed in South Sudan. Taban Deng Gai, former opposition chief negotiator…
President Kiir’s forces accused of violating ceasefire
JUBA (HAN) July 20.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s opposition faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) said troops loyal to President Salva Kiir have violated the one-week old cessation of hostilities which the two parties declared on Monday last week. “President Salva Kiir’s forces have violated the cessation of hostilities declared…
South Sudan: China to send special envoy to Africa over the current crisis
JUBA (HAN) July 20.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. China is sending its special envoy for Africa to the continent to help with efforts to resolve the political crisis in South Sudan, China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Veteran diplomat Zhong Jianhua would visit Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya, the ministry said. Zhong would meet…
Sudan adjourns visit of Chadian and Qatari leaders to N. Darfur
EL-FASHER (HAN) July 20.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. North Darfur government Tuesday announced the postponement of the visit of President Omer al-Bahsir, the Emir of Qatari and Chad’s President to El Fasher to mark the completion of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD).Earlier this month, it was announced that the Chadian…
S.Sudan: Machar could be replaced, Minister Says
JUBA (HAN) July 20.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudanese information and broadcasting minister has confirmed on Tuesday reports that the the country’s First Vice President, Riek Machar, could be replaced from his position by another official from his faction in accordance with the provision of the August 2015 peace agreement, which ended 21 months…
S. Sudan: Amnesty International launches free journalist campaign
The campaign group, Amnesty International, has launched a global campaign in solidarity with Alfred Taban, South Sudanese editor arrested last week. Taban, founder of the Juba Monitornewspaper, was arrested by security operatives in relation to an article calling for the resignation of the country’s leaders. According to the editor, both President Salva Kiir and First…
AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE ADOPT ROAD MAP TO ELIMINATE MALARIA IN AFRICA BY 2030
KIGALI (HAN) July 19.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) is commending the adoption of a comprehensive new roadmap to eliminate malaria in Africa by 2030. On Sunday, African leaders endorsed the Catalytic Framework to end AIDS, TB and Eliminate Malaria in Africa by 2030 during the 27th African…
