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South Sudan establishes commission for refugee affairs

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Sudan Tribune

May 11, 2013 (JUBA) – The Republic of South Sudan has established a Commission for Refugee Affairs (CRA) as hundreds of thousands of refugees have entered the new republic from the neighbouring countries.

Most of the refugees fled from the neighbouring Republic of Sudan due to the conflicts in Darfur, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states.

Others come from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia and Uganda.

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Sudan and Uganda to resume talks over strained relations

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October 10, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan and Uganda agreed to reactivate a joint committee between the two countries to discuss contentious issues and improve strained relations, a Sudanese official said.

Salah El-Din Wansi, state ministry for foreign affairs told the official news agency SUNA on Monday evening following his return from Kamala that the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, directed to reactivate a joint committee to tackle ways to improve bilateral relations and to ease tensions.

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Sudan warns Security Council against mixing LRA issue with Darfur peacekeepers

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July 24, 2012 (WASHINGTON) — Sudan strongly warned the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) against including the issue of Ugandan Lord Resistance Army in a resolution under preparation to renew the mandate of the African Union – United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).

Sudan’s U.N. ambassador, Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman was speaking to the UNSC after a briefing from the UNAMID chief Ibrahim Gambari as the Council is expected to adopt a new resolution renewing the mission’s mandate for another year.

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Sudanese delegation in Uganda for talks over South Sudan

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May 7, 2012 (JUBA) — The Sudanese government on Saturday dispatched a high level delegation to Uganda as part of efforts to seek remedies to the ongoing tension between the former and neighboring South Sudan.

The delegation, the New Vision reported, comprises of lawmakers from the country’s national assembly who were due to meet Rebecca Kadaga, the speaker of Ugandan Parliament.

Ahmad Abdelrahman Mohamed, the chairperson of the Sudanese parliamentary committee on foreign affairs reportedly heads the delegation, which comprises several other members of the committee.

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EU earmarks €9m for joint military operation against LRA

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By Julius N. Uma

March 25, 2012 (JUBA) — The European Union (EU) has allocated €9m for humanitarian assistance to people affected by over two decades of the Joseph Kony-led Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) as part of the United Nations and African Union-backed joint military strategy against the rebels.

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Uganda to create jobs for teachers in South Sudan

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October 19, 2011 (KAMPALA) – Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni says his country will send teachers to South Sudan as an effort to help the new nation build its human capacity and recover from decades of conflict that have badly affected literacy and the education system.

Speaking at the opening of a leaders retreat for his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) on Monday in the town of Kyanykwanzi, president Museveni said this will aid job creation for his citizens.

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Nine LRA abductees in W. Equatoria reunited with their parents in Congo

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September 21, 2011 (KAMPALA) — Abducted children who were rescued by the Ugandan People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) forces in Western Equatoria state have been reunited with their parents in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

On 20 September 2011, the State Ministry of Social Development in Western Equatoria in collaboration with other partners, returned nine Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) abductees to their families.

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Sudan and Uganda agree Darfur and LRA rebels threaten regional stability

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August 15, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese and Ugandan governments have agreed that rebel groups in Darfur region and northern Uganda particularly the Lord Resistance Army are negative forces threatening the regional stability.

Uganda since the beginning of this year started hosting Darfur rebel groups, after accusing Sudan of supporting LRA rebels of Joseph Koni who refused to sign a peace deal brokered by South Sudan.

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Food price hike now worrisome in W. Equaotoria’s markets

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Sudan Tribune

July 30, 2011 (YAMBIO) - The continual rise in food prices in Western Equatoria has become a major cause for concern in Yambio town the capital of the agric-producing state always described as South Sudan’s breadbasket.

Escalations in food prices and the subject of food security are global issues are not peculiar to Western Equatoria alone. But 95% per cent of Western Equatoria’s food is produced locally so there is a slight direct correlation in global food crisis.

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LRA rebels launch fresh attacks in remote area of Western Equatoria

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By Richard Ruati

February 1, 2011 (RII-YUBU) - For the second time this week, rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Tuesday launched attacks against civilians in the southwest of Western Equatoria in Sudan's south.

The attack in Rii-Yubu locality in Tambura County killed one man and wounded two. Two young girls where abducted.

The LRA's indiscriminate attacks and looting in Western Equatoria, have displaced thousands.

The location of the latest attack is just five miles away from Tambura a town, which borders the Central Africa

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Suspected LRA rebels kill one and wound another in southern Sudan

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October 21, 2010 (BAWO, W. EQUATORIA) - One person was killed and another injured Wednesday in a raid on a village near Yambio, the state capital of Western Equatoria state, in southern Sudan.

The Lords Resistance Army (LRA), who originated from Uganda 20 years ago, are suspected of being behind the attacks according to Yambio county commissioner Angelo Mboringba Bakote.

"The Lord's Resistance Army has levied a fresh attack in Bawo area in Yambio county on Wednesday 20th October 2010 at 9:00pm which left one man dead and a woman with broken leg," Bakote said on Thursday.

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Sudanese war planes bomb South Darfur villages - rebels

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September 23, 2010 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese military warplanes bombed during the last two days villages in southern and eastern Jebel Marra killing 18 people, the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) said on Thursday.

Nimir Abdel Rahman, spokesperson of the SLA led by Abdel Wahid Al-Nur said military Antonov bombarded several areas in Jebel Marra and burned Harika village northern Draibat in South Darfur state.

The bombing, which started on Wednesday and resumed today, killed 18 people including three children, four women and eight old men, he further said.

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South Sudan army calls for quick provision of security information

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By Ngor Arol Garang

September 16, 2010 (MALAKAL) - The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) on Thursday called for the quick and timely provision of security information, saying that delays in passing on sensitive information to relevent authorities in the region, such as that relating to security, results in delays in crucial intervention.

Kuol Deim Kuol, official spokesman of the SPLA told Sudan Tribune from Juba that the latest Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attack in western Equatoria, occurred just eight miles away

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Darfur rebels say LRA attacked their positions near Central African Republic

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September 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) - The rebel Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), a signatory of a ceasefire agreement and currently negotiating peace deal with Khartoum in Doha, said today their troops were attacked in South Darfur by the notorious Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).The attack took place in the remote area of South Darfur, Davaq, which also borders West Bahr El-Gazal state and Central African Republic (CAR) in the morning of Thursday 2 September.

"The assailants came form the border

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Sudan: Renewed LRA attacks may occur before referendum - ex-Ugandan Presidential Aide

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By Julius N. Uma

August 27, 2010 (NIMULE) - The Lord's Resistance Army could attempt to re-enter Uganda through southern Sudan according to a former aide to Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni.

Richard Todwong, told Sudan Tribune that an attempt to re-enter Uganda via Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from the LRA's base in Central African Republic (CAR) could undermine the Southern Sudan's quest for independence.

The former aide to Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said that such a move by could easily be employed as a

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Sudan: Hundreds flee renewed attacks by LRA rebels in WES

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By Richard Ruati

August 2, 2010 (NZARA) - Fresh attacks by the Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Sangua Payam of Nzara County, Western Equatoria state, have forced hundreds of people to flee their homes and created a worrying spike in humanitarian needs, state government officials and aid local chief have warned.

The rebels appear to have timed their raid on Sunday afternoon, looting food items, and burning houses. "The recent attacks have triggered widespread panic and fear in Sangua and other

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Four LRA abductees rescued by vigilantes in Sudan's W. Equatoria

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By Richard Ruati

July 25, 2010 (YAMBIO) - Four women have been rescued from the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) by a local vigilante group in Ukuo village in Yambio County.

The vigilante group known as the Arrow Boys also apprehended a senior 'wife' of rebel commander Dominic Ongwen, who was among the LRA leaders the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for in 2005.

Abe Agness, 28, who was abducted in 2000 in Gulu, gave birth to two children, a 5 year-old boy and a 9 month-old girl during her ten year abduction.

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Sudan: Western Equatoria seeks humanitarian aid for LRA-affected IDPS

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July 1, 2010 (JUBA) - Authorities from southern State of Western Equatoria have on Thursday called for humanitarian assistances for the recently displaced local population by elements associated with Uganda's rebel known as Lord Resistance Army (LRA) in the area.

A nurse dresses the machete wounds on the head of Jean-Marie Anigbishe, 45, who was attacked by Ugandan LRA rebels near Ngalima in northeastern Congo February 21, 2009 Increased reports of attacks by LRA continue to dominate both local and international media after the December 2008 joint military operation, pushed the fragmented

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Sudan: Ugandan LRA rebels hold 3 Sudanese children - village chief

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By Richard Ruati

May 31, 2010 (TAMBURA, Western Equatoria) - Ugandan rebels are holding 3 children they abducted from schools during raids last Sunday on villages in remote Tambura County, a village chief said on Monday.

"Fighters from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) appeared in Namutina at 1:00PM and collected three kids and escaped with them to the bush but they didn't kill anybody," local resident said.

The abducted children are between the ages of 8-15 years old.

A local chief who requested anonymity

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LRA rebels murder three people including two policemen in Sudan's Tambura

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By Richard Ruati

May 29, 2010 (TAMBURA) - Sudan Tribune has uncovered remote villages in Western Equatoria's Tambura County, where murders took place on Wednesday, leaving at least three dead and few villagers abducted.

The murders were committed by fighters from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a notorious militia group originating in Uganda that now spreads mayhem and terror to neighbouring Southern Sudan.

Eye witness says this is one of the worst attack carried out by the LRA in part of Tambura. The stench of the three