Category: Sudan
Who’s behind South Sudan’s return to fighting?
JUBA (HAN) July 11.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Despite President Kiir and Vice-President Machar’s call for calm, hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced in Juba over the past few days. South Sudanese soldiers on the country’s Independence Day in 2011. Credit: European Union. As heavy fighting has erupted in the capital Juba over…
South Sudan: UN Security Council emergency Meeting. ‘back to war.’
JUBA (HAN) July 10.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The recent violence began on 7 July, reportedly when SPLA soldiers stopped and attempted to arrest members of Machar’s guard at a checkpoint in the Gudele section of Juba. Machar’s guard members resisted the arrest and a shootout ensued. Media reports have indicated that 5…
Kenya Airways halts flights to South Sudan capital Juba
NAIROBI (HAN) July 10.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Kenya Airways said on Sunday it was suspending flights to South Sudan’s capital Juba after a flare-up of fighting between rival factions in the unity government. “We wish to advise our guests that we have suspended flights to Juba, South Sudan due to uncertain security situation,”…
S.SUDAN CRISIS: GUNFIRE ERUPTS AGAIN IN JUBA
JUBA (HAN) July 10.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Al Jazeera staff in the city on Sunday heard loud booms, characteristic of heavy weapons, and gunfire coming from the area near the airport, which local sources said had closed. In a post on Twitter, Kenya Airways said they had suspended flights to Juba “due…
S.Sudan death toll reaches over 100 at the Presidential Palace
JUBA (HAN) July 9.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. More than 100 fighters from the rival forces in South Sudan shooting around the presidential palace have been counted dead, as tense remains visibly high, with the violent government soldiers in collaboration with police and national security services, manning major streets. South Sudan defence minister, Kuol…
GERD: Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia to sign contracts on Dam impact studies
CAIRO (HAN) July 9.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Ati on Saturday said the final contracts on the impact studies of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) would be signed within a few days. Last year, Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia signed a declaration of principles…
Salva Kiir ordered an inquiry into Juba deadly clashes
JUBA (HAN) July 9.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Saturday has ordered an inquiry to determine the circumstances under which a heavy gunfire erupted outside presidential palace, resulting in the death of over hundred of soldiers from the SPLA and SPLA-IO on Friday. The clashes which involved the use of heavy…
S.Sudan: Post war trauma causing mental health crisis- Amnesty
JUBA (HAN) July 9.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By KEVIN J KELLEY. Thousands of South Sudanese, some of who were forced to eat human flesh or disembowel corpses, are suffering mental illnesses, Amnesty International says in a new report. Describing South Sudan as “a traumatised nation,” Amnesty found mental disorders to be widespread in…
Why elections may be the only answer for South Sudan
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) July 9.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Five years ago today, over 100,000 South Sudanese from all walks of life gathered at Dr John Garang’s Mausoleum in Juba, the nation’s capital, to celebrate the independence of their country from Sudan. It was a dream come true for South Sudanese who had…
Fighting erupts inside S.Sudan’s Presidential Palace
JUBA (HAN) July 8.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Heavy fighting has erupted inside South Sudan’s presidential palace as President Salva Kiir allegedly attempted to arrest his first deputy, Riek Machar, official sources have said. There is heavy fighting going on near the Presidential Palace in Juba as we speak,” James Gatdet Dak, Machar’s…
