Category: Sudan
IGAD and Stakeholders Meet over Migration Governance in the Region
Khartoum: The 7th Meeting of Regional Consultative Process on Migration (RCP) of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) was launched this morning 2016 in Khartoum to consider recommendations of the Regional Migration Coordination Committee that closed on May 17th at the same venue after two days of successful deliberations restricted to IGAD Member States (see…
S.Sudan: FM Station Assembled 21 Year Old Boy
YAMBIO (HAN) May 18.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Andrew Atoroba, a 21-year old boy in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state has set up a radio station after several attempts to achieve this. Named Zereda FM, the radio now broadcasts on 108.5 frequency. A student a Bangasi Academy, Atoroba is described by his schoolmates…
S. Sudan’s VP says improved roads enhance service delivery
JUBA (HAN) May 18.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s vice president, James Wani Igga said Tuesday that proper roads in the country would enhance service delivery of goods to its population. Igga, who paid a visit to the roads and bridges ministry, said the transitional national unity formed last month would only succeed…
Millions could face famine in South Sudan, warns WFP
JUBA (HAN) May 16.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. At least 5.3 million people or nearly half the population of South Sudan could face acute hunger in the next three months during the lean season, when traditionally hunger worsens, a United Nations food agency warned last week. Too many people, World Food Programme (WFP) revealed,…
Sudan: China working to remove external obstacles facing cooperation
May 15, 2016 (KHARTOUM) – China’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Ming Sunday said his country seeks to remove “external obstacles” facing economic and trade cooperation with Sudan. Ming told reporters following the 7th meeting of the Sudanese/Chinese political consultations committee in Khartoum that the relationship between the two nations is at its best…
Sudan is awaiting outcome of Doha meeting with holdout rebels
KHARTOUM (HAN) May 16.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Sudanese government is awaiting the outcome of a meeting between the Qatari mediator and two rebel leaders over peace in western Sudan region, said the head of Darfur Peace Office Amin Hassan Omer on Sunday. The Qatari Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed bin Abdulla Al-Mahmoud last Monday…
General Dau Aturjong dismisses claims of defection
JUBA (HAN) May 12.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. General Dau Aturjong, a senior military officer in the armed opposition faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) under the leadership of the first vice-president, Riek Machar, has dismissed as “lies” claims that a number of officers have defected from his forces in Northern…
Sudan’s Bashir pays rare visit to Uganda on Thursday
KHARTOUM (HAN) May 11.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir would start a two-day visit to Kampala on Thursday to discuss bilateral ties and the situation in South Sudan with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni. Following ten years of strained relations, Museveni visited Khartoum last September where he and Bashir agreed to…
Two S.Sudan generals in jail for over three months without trial
JUBA (HAN) May 11.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Two senior generals from South Sudan army (SPLA) now in detention have spent three and half months without trial, Sudan Tribune has learned. The duo are General Buay Rolyang, formerly the special division one commander of Melut oil fields and General Joseph Manyuat Manyzol, an…
Salva Kiir Declines meeting with Governor of the Newly created Gogrial State
JUBA (HAN) May 10.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has turned down a request by Abraham Gum, governor of the newly created Gogrial state, sparking speculations and rumours that the rejection signalled dissatisfaction with performance of the governor who hails from the president’s home state. A presidential source told Sudan…
