Category: Sudan
Seven killed, scores Injured Highway
JUBA (HAN) May 27.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Seven people were killed and equal numbers injured when unknown gunmen attacked a vehicle on a road connecting South Sudan to Uganda Wednesday. Those killed, police said, included Ethiopians, Ugandans and South Sudanese. “The passenger was attacked between Aru junction and another village on the road…
Aid and Policy Sudan & Eritrea crackdown on migrants
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 25.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Authorities in Sudan have launched a crackdown on Eritrean migrants – arresting those living in the capital, Khartoum, and intercepting hundreds travelling north through the country towards Libya, the launching point for smugglers’ boats heading for Europe. Reports that 900 Eritreans were rounded up in…
Khartoum and Juba to resume border talks
JUBA (HAN) May 24.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.BY: By JOSEPH ODUHA. Sudan and South Sudan will resume discussions on the demarcation of the border and security aimed at easing tensions between the two countries, Juba official said. The assistant head of the South Sudan mission to Khartoum, Mr Kow Nuk Mafeer, said the two…
S.Sudan working to boost oil production soon
JUBA (HAN) May 23.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s newly appointed national minister of Petroleum in the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU), Dak Duop Bichiok, has said his ministry is working to ensure that the oil production in the country should increase by July 2016. Oil production in South Sudan reduced significantly…
Sudan & China sign deal to build a nuclear power plant
KHARTOUM (HAN) May 23.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Sudan and China signed, Monday, an agreement to construct the first nuclear powerhouse in the east African country. The framework agreement to develop peaceful uses of nuclear energy in Sudan was inked following the first meeting of the China-Sudan Joint Energy Cooperation Commission in Khartoum.…
Khartoum hosts tripartite meeting on UNAMID exit
KHARTOUM (HAN) May 23.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. A tripartite committee including Sudan, African Union and United Nations will resume discussion over an exit strategy of Darfur joint peacekeeping operation (UNAMID) in the Sudanese capital on Monday Sudanese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Ali Sadiq said in a statement released on Sunday that the meeting…
S. Sudan cabinet forms committee to determine number of states
JUBA (HAN) May 23.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. The new cabinet of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) in South Sudan has accepted to form a technical committee to review boundaries and determine the number states that have continued to stoke political tensions and remaining as one of the most sticking and contentious…
More refugees fleeing to Sudan from Bahr el Ghazal region
KHARTOUM (HAN) May 19.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Latest report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said plans are underway to mobilize resources as more South Sudanese refugees have been crossing into Sudan from Bahr el Ghazal region in South Sudan. Since late January 2016, there has been a surge in…
Zhong Jianhua speaks on the progress in S.Sudan and China’s pledge to Africa
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 19.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Zhong Jianhua, China’s Special Representative for African Affairs, told journalists in China’s capital Beijing, on Tuesday (May 17) that the reunion of President Kiir and Vice-President Machar was a positive step in stabilizing South Sudan. Even after Kiir and Machar had signed an historic peace…
Advocates urge South Sudanese leaders to allow humanitarian access
JUBA (HAN) May 19.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his first deputy, Riek Machar, and second deputy, James Wani, have been urged to ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches the needy populations across the country. In a letter directed to the three leaders in the presidency, a group calling itself…
