Category: Sudan
Juba refuses that Machar takes oath of office upon arrival: spokesperson
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 12. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News In what seems to be a serious stumbling block ahead of the return of First Vice President designate Riek Machar, South Sudan government has refused to allow Machar to be sworn in to take up his post in the new government upon his arrival on…
Sudan demands African Union to probe actions of ICC chief prosecutor
KHARTOUM (HAN) April 11. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.Sudanese government has asked the African Union’s Open ended Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs on the International Criminal Court to investigate political motives behind actions of the court’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. The Open ended Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs on the ICC was formed…
South Sudan rejects third party arranging first meeting for rival leaders
JUBA (HAN) April 11. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudanese government has rejected a proposal by the head of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), Festus Mogae, to facilitate a first meeting between President Salva Kiir and the First Vice President designate, Riek Machar, upon his return to the country. The government argued that…
China donates 1,700 tons of rice to war-torn S. Sudan
JUBA (HAN) April 11. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.. The Chinese government has donated 1,700 tons of rice to South Sudan in the wake of the current humanitarian crisis in the world’s youngest nation. The move, the Chinese ambassador said, will help tackle the deteriorating humanitarian situations in the war-torn nation. “Rice is the first…
Sudan’s Bashir says he will step down by 2020
KHARTOUM (HAN) April 7. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir Wednesday said he will step down by 2020 and won’t run for office again. In an interview with the BBC Arabic Service, Bashir said he is not worried about the accusations of the International Criminal Court (ICC), pointing that the arrest warrant issued…
Machar will arrive in Juba on 18 April: spokesperson
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 7. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudan’s First Vice President designate, Riek Machar, said he will arrive in the national capital, Juba, on 18 April, 6 days after the initial 12 April arrival proposal by the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), his press secretary has confirmed. Earlier on Monday,…
MACHAR: New South Sudan govt to ensure respect for ceasefire
JUBA (HAN) April 4. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.The first vice-president designate talks to The EastAfrican‘s Fred Oluoch about his plans and challenges of his pending return. Do you take responsibility for the delay in the formation of the transitional government? I will return to Juba as soon as 1,370 SPLM-I security personnel are in…
More than 370 armed opposition forces arrive in Juba
JUBA (HAN) April 4. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. At least 372 members of the armed opposition (SPLM-IO) forces out of the expected 1, 370, arrived Juba in the last week, the United Nations mission said. The soldiers will form part of the joint integrated unit to manage security in Juba ahead of the arrival…
Enough is enough. It’s time for an arms embargo in South Sudan
JUBA (HAN) April 4. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. OVER THE past two months, according to the United Nations, some 38,000 people have been driven by hunger from South Sudan to seek refuge in the Darfur region of Sudan. This is every bit as bleak as it sounds: Today’s hungry are migrating to yesterday’s killing fields…
South Sudan regrets Khartoum’s decision to close border
JUBA (HAN) March 30. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. South Sudanese government has regretted a decision of the Sudanese government to close its recently reopened border between the two countries, accusing Juba of resuming its support to rebel groups. General Chol Thon, Governor of Eastern Nile state, one of the newly created 28 states,…
