South Sudan: South Sudan Army - 'Khartoum Behind Killing of Ngok Dinka Chief in Abyei'
Source: Africa Headlines
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-14 11:05:58 -0700 | travel-news
Juba Spokesman for the South Sudanese army has accused Khartoum of complicity in the assassination of Kuol Deng Kuol, paramount chief of the Ngok Dinka, by Misseriya gunmen in the disputed area of Abyei ten days ago...The attack resulted in...
Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn arrives in Juba to open bank
Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-13 23:10:23 -0700 | political-news
Disgraced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in South Sudan on Monday to open a new bank, marking a rare return to the financial world since his career was derailed by a lurid sex scandal two years...
Detained Sudanese lawyer and activist at risk of torture: Amnesty
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-14 00:53:18 -0700 | travel-news
Amnesty International has called for the release of Sudanese lawyer and human rights activist Asma Ahmed, who has been detained incommunicado by security services since 4 May, warning she is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Ahmed's family home...
Army in Unity state clash with raiders returning from Lakes state
Source: Sudan Tribune
Bentiu :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-13 23:10:02 -0700 | political-news
Authorities from Unity state say that five men, including their leader Gatluak Kuekuek, clashed with police and soldiers on Sunday as they returned from a cattle aid on Rumbek North (Maper) county in neighbouring Lakes state and on Unity state's...
A country where big is no longer beautiful
Source: BBC
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-13 17:42:07 -0700 | technology-news
Now the men are the only ones who will be left who will be fat! End Quote Amal Ahmed Fitness trainer "The idea of being fat is our fathers' and grandfathers'" says Nusaiba Abdelaziz, a student studying at Afhad University...
Insurgents kill two rebel chief...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-13 15:26:00 -0700 | travel-news
Two Darfur rebel chiefs who signed an accord with the Sudanese government have been killed in an insurgent attack near the strife-torn region's border with Chad, the foreign ministry said yesterday. The forces of the Revolutionary Front carried out an...
Trial of 'celebrity terrorist' Carlos the Jackal starts in confusion in Paris
Source: The independent
Umm Durmān :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-13 10:30:55 -0700 | sports-news
The 1970s celebrity terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez better known as Carlos the Jackal complained on Monday that the Venezuelan government was trying to sabotage his appeal against life imprisonment in France. Sanchez, 63, had counted on the late Venezuelan president,...
5 reasons why Sudan’s Nafie ali Nafie is not welcome in the United States
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-13 06:20:01 -0700 | travel-news
The White House has invited Nafie Ali Nafie, the Advisor and Assistant of Sudan's ICC indicted President, to the United States for high level talks. Since Nafie's proposed visit was announced, reasons, such as the following, have surfaced almost daily...
Strauss-Kahn in South Sudan to open bank
Source: The Daily Star
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-13 06:19:44 -0700 | travel-news
One-time French presidential hopeful and former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Dominic Strauss-Kahn is pictured after his arrival at Juba International Airport, South Sudan on May, 13 2013. South Sudan: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in South...
S. Sudan: UK aids teacher training college
Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-12 23:35:41 -0700 | technology-news
The donation is part of the ongoing national textbook distribution, aimed at providing teaching materials to the country's more than 4,900 schools...She however stressed that special attention will be given to transfer skills in the handling and maintenance of the...
Calls for deputy interior minister to resign over detention of Juba journalists
Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-13 03:32:51 -0700 | political-news
South Sudan's deputy minister of interior to step down over the detention of two Juba Monitor newspaper journalists who were recently detained by police. Managing editor Michael Koma was detained on 2 May and released three days later, while editor-in-chief...
Darfur former rebel leader killed near Sudan-Chad border area
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-13 05:01:46 -0700 | travel-news
A former Darfur rebel faction announced on Sunday the death of its leader Mohamed Bashar and his deputy Suleiman Arko saying they were killed during an attack carried out by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) inside the Chadian territory...
Abyei youth call for immediate termination of UNISFA mandate
Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-12 23:35:35 -0700 | travel-news
Arab Misseriya tribe, in an attack the Sudanese government is accused of masterminding. There is no point to have [the] United Nations [peace]keeping force in Abyei...Many of our people are killed in the presence of the so called peacekeeping force....
Greater Bahr el Ghazal calls for conference to discuss country?s situation
Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-12 23:35:33 -0700 | travel-news
The four states of the Greater Bahr el Ghazal region have called for their intellectuals and senior political leaders to report themselves to Wau, the former regional capital and current state capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal, to discuss challenges...
Learner driver in fatal accident remanded in custody
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Umm Durmān :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-12 23:33:29 -0700 | sports-news
A drink-driver whose boyfriend was killed when she smashed a car into a tree had just crashed into two other cars and narrowly avoided hitting a third in the minutes before the fatal impact, a Victorian court has heard. Ding...
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