Category: Sudan
Kenya Airways resumes flights to South Sudan
NAIROBI (HAN) July 13.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Kenya Airways said on Wednesday that it will resume its flights to South Sudan’s capital of Juba on Thursday after four days of suspension following a flare-up of fighting between rival army factions. The national carrier said the twice daily flights will depart Nairobi for…
South Sudan’s vice president leaves Juba, not seeking war
JUBA (HAN) July 13.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.By Denis Dumo. South Sudan’s vice president has withdrawn with his troops to outside of Juba but is not planning for war, his spokesman said on Wednesday, as a ceasefire that ended heavy fighting with the president’s forces entered its third day. Forces loyal to longtime rivals…
AU can and must intervene to prevent atrocities in S.Sudan
JUBA (HAN) July 13.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The challenge facing the African Heads of State and Government as they meet in Kigali this week is not whether but how to act in South Sudan. When the security arrangements of South Sudan’s fragile peace agreement collapsed last week, fighting returned and attacks on civilians and…
Moroccan King invites President Omer al-Bashir to visit Rabat
KHARTOUM (HAN) July 12.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has invited Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir to Rabat for talks on bilateral and economic relations, a visiting minister announced on Monday. Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Salaheddine Mezouar arrived to the Sudanese capital on Monday where he held a…
South Sudanese warring parties declare ceasefire in Juba
JUBA (HAN) July 12.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Rival leaders in South Sudan have unilaterally declared cessation of hostilities to stop a four-day fighting between their forces in the national capital, Juba. Heavy fighting had been going on between forces of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) loyal to President Salva Kiir, and the…
Ban Ki-moon calls for arms embargo on S.Sudan
JUBA (HAN) July 12.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The United Nations Security Council should impose an immediate arms embargo, enact additional targeted sanctions on leaders and commanders blocking implementation of the peace deal, and to fortify the UN mission in the country, which has seen a resurgence of deadly violence in recent days, its…
South Sudan: East African Ministers Demand Immediate Ceasefire
JUBA (HAN) July 11.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. PRESS RELEASE: IGAD Council of Ministers demand immediate ceasefire in South Sudan and spell out consequences for non compliance: Nairobi – IGAD’s Foreign Ministers today met in Nairobi, Kenya to address the escalation of violence in South Sudan. The Ministers were joined by the Troika cluster…
Riek Machar, Fighting in S. Sudan, and the Issue of Responsibility
JUBA (HAN) July 11.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. I have received substantial criticism—including from the spokesman for the SPLA-IO—for my web posting of yesterday (“A Coup in the Making in South Sudan-led by Riek Machar” | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1Uu/). Some of this criticism seems guided by the assumption that I have only a single source…
S. Sudan Authorities admits Friday’s fighting Killed over 270
JUBA (HAN) July 11.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Authorities at South Sudanese Ministry of Health have warned that the death toll from Friday’s fighting in Juba could rise as over 270 lives have already been lost. The ministry, in a statement issued on Sunday which was also confirmed by Juba Teaching hospital, said up…
African leaders to prioritise South Sudan in Kigali talks
JUBA (HAN) July 11.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. African leaders will be under pressure to find a quick solution to the escalating tensions in South Sudan during the ongoing African Union Summit in Kigali. The AU Summit opened in Kigali on Sunday with the meeting of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC), which continued…
