December 31, 2010 (YAMBIO) - On Thursday 30th December 2010, a Ministerial delegation from Government of southern Sudan (GOSS) on food security toured Western Equatoria state (WES) to assess the food security in the State.

GOSS Minister of Agriculture Anne Itto (L) and Stephen Dhieu, GOSS Minister of Commerce and Investment addressing WES council of ministers (ST) Food experts have warned of acute food shortages in southern Sudan should the referendum votes confirm southern Sudan as a separate nation.

Addressing the Council of Ministers at

By Richard Ruati

December 22, 2010 (MARIDI) - Four days before Christmas, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), now based in South Sudan's neighbor, the Central African Republic, are reported to have killed at least two people, injured four and abducted an estimated 50 people in a weekend attack on Zumaro village of, Mboroko locality in Western Equatoria's Maridi County.

Nineteen aid agencies have called for efforts to prevent mass killings by one of Africa's most feared rebel militias over the Christmas period.

The aid agencies vigilant of LRA atrocities

By Manyang Mayom

December 20, 2010 (RUMBEK) - The government of Lakes state have received 36 returnees from Khartoum on Monday, most of whom are disabled, blind and elderly, according to, Lakes state minister of Legal Affairs, Margaret Samuel Aru.

The returnees were received from Rumbek airport by Lakes state Governor Chol Tong Mayay with his cabinet and Lakes State Assembly speaker John Marik Makur.

This is the first arrival of displaced people in Rumbek, the capital of Lakes state, from Khartoum, apart from 380 people who arrived on Monday after travelling on 21 buses.

December 19, 2010 (ABYEI) - Officials from the southern state of northern Bahr el Ghazal on Sunday said it has managed to repatriate 9,780 internally displaced persons from northern Sudan in three consecutive organized returns ahead of the south's referendum on independence.

Speaking to Sudan Tribune from Khartoum, John Agany Deng Kawac, a member of the Khartoum based National Assembly, representing Aweil East County, constituency number 2, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, said they have assisted a total of 9,780 persons from Khartoum in three consecutive returns.

By Ngor Arol Garang

December 15, 2010 (ABYEI) - Southern officials say that dozens of trucks and buses carrying approximately 6,735 internally displaced persons from the northern states have begun arriving in the town of Aweil town, capital of Northern Bahr el Ghazal.

Sudan's south is preparing to hold a referendum on January 9 that could see the oil-producing region break away from the north as part of a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of conflict.

On the same day, a referendum is due to take place in the north-south border region of Abyei, but the vote has

December 13, 2010 (ABYEI) - Deng Arop Kuol, chief administrator of the oil-producing region of Abyei on Monday denied that any armed forces belonging to the Sudan People's Liberation Army has entered Abyei town and its surroundings.

On Sunday Colonel Al-Swarmi Khalid Saad, the spokesman of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) controlled by the northern government accused the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) of entering Abyei area with 10 military tanks and 15 Toyota land cruiser vehicles.

Ahkbar Al-Youm newspaper quoted the SAF

By Ngor Arol Garang

December 8, 2010 (JUBA)- Authorities from the southern state of northern Bahr el Ghazal on Wednesday received humanitarian assistance for the victims of air attack allegedly carried out by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF).

Speaking to Sudan Tribune from Gokmachar, Kuol Athuai Hal, commissioner of Aweil North County said some relief organizations in the area are providing medical care to thousands of the recently internally displaced persons, who fled air bombardments in the area.

He said a quick assessment conducted