Saudi moves mirror Arab food security issues
Source: Arab News
Umm Durmān :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-04 17:19:03 -0700 | political-news
Alsir Sidahmed Sunday 5 May 2013 Last Update 5 May 2013 2:03 am A report published recently in this paper on the Kingdom's decision to stop producing wheat locally and depend on imports mirrors the regional issue of food security...
South Sudan holds Sudan responsible for killing of paramount chief in Abyei
Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-04 23:33:24 -0700 | travel-news
Kuol Deng Kuol, the paramount chief of the Nine Ngok Dinka of the disputed border region of Abyei has been killed, officials here said today...The paramount chief Kuol Deng Kuol known as Kuol Adol in the area has been killed...
South Sudan editor detained without charge
Source: News 24
Umm Durmān :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-04 14:48:53 -0700 | travel-news
South Sudan's police have detained a newspaper editor without charge and refused him access to a lawyer for three days, he told a Reuters reporter who visited him in a crowded police cell on Saturday. Rights groups frequently accuse security...
Africa in pictures: 26 April-2 May 2013
Source: BBC
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-04 09:17:15 -0700 | political-news
Patrick Okonkwo Adebayor, known as "Shaka Zulu", flips a 410kg (903lb) tire in Abidjan on Saturday during Ivory Coast's Strongest Man competition, which he went on to win. The next day, customers play dominos as they smoke shisha pipes at...
Search ends for 100 Sudan miners believed dead
Source: Qatar English Daily
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-04 04:41:19 -0700 | political-news
The search for about 100 workers believed to have died inside a collapsed gold mine in Sudan's Darfur region has ended after nine rescuers also became trapped, a colleague of the miners said on Saturday. No one has been found...
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-04 02:04:44 -0700 | political-news
In recent weeks, authorities have stepped up censorship of print media. Authorities at the National Telecommunications Corporation also block access to the websites of the opposition online newspaper Hurriyat and the popular forum Sudanese Online. Sudan muffles critical speech through...
South Sudan: Rights Groups Urge End to Harassment of Journalists
Source: Africa Headlines
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-04 01:28:36 -0700 | travel-news
Juba Security force harassment and unlawful detention of journalists is undermining freedom of expression in South Sudan, the Agency for Independent Media (AIM), Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and Human Rights Watch said today, on World Press Freedom...
Sudanese Islamist group comes under fire for gifting Quran to US dipolomat
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-03 21:22:03 -0700 | political-news
AFP/Getty Images) The committee of 300 An excerpt from author and former British Intelligence Officer for MI6 Dr. Coleman's book, The Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Committee of 300, and Their goals: 1. To establish a One World Government/New World Order with...
UN provides meals to twice as many schools in Unity state this year
Source: Sudan Tribune
Bentiu :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-03 20:24:09 -0700 | political-news
The World Food Programme (WFP) is providing an increasing number of meals to schools in South Sudan's Unity state as food shortages and malnutrition worsened in some areas. WFP flight preparing to drop aid in South Sudan (WFP, photo) The...
Abyei remains top issue to settle with Sudan, says Kiir
Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-03 21:22:05 -0700 | political-news
Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah) His comments have raised expectations that direct negotiations on the issue may push way for some progress when he visits Khartoum to witness delivery of the first oil shipment to international markets through Sudanese territory.
South Sudan says death penalty remains until constitution amended
Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-03 19:12:11 -0700 | political-news
South Sudan will keep the capital punishment in place unless amendments are introduced in the country's constitution, the chief justice said today. South Sudan's chief justice, Chan Reec Madut (AP) The transitional constitution does not have a provision that prohibits...
VP Machar tells religious leader to take amnesty document to rebel leader Yauyau
Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-03 19:12:09 -0700 | travel-news
South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar has urged a top religious leader from the troubled Pibor County of Jonglei state to deliver a copy of the general amnesty issued by president Salva Kiir to the rebel leader David Yauyau. South...
Dozens killed in Darfur to a mine collapse
Posted by: lalag
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-08 20:56:52 -0700 | disasters-news
The region has experienced in recent months a "gold rush" by oil dispute between Sudan and South Sudan At least 60 people have died and dozens are missing in the region ofDarfur (western Sudan) to a gold mine collapsed, local...
Official: 11 Sudan traders killed in South Sudan
Source: The Boston Globe
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-03 11:18:47 -0700 | travel-news
South Sudan (AP) At least 11 Sudanese traders were killed earlier this week by unknown gunmen as they crossed into South Sudanese territory, a military official said Friday, blaming the attack on militiamen who want to shatter the prevailing peace...
Sudanese Rebels Prepare for War
Source: Inter Press Service
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2013-05-03 14:24:28 -0700 | travel-news
said in an interview at a hotel in neighbouring Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. The SRF is made up of insurgent groups from Sudan's western region of Darfur, including the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the two main factions of...
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