Khartoum, Oct. 5 (SUNA) - The First Vice President and President of South Sudan Government, Salva Kiir, has affirmed the commitment of the national unity government and the Government of the South to...
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Sudan: Colonial bridge reconstructed
The reconstruction of a vital colonial bridge in southern Sudan's Equatoria region, has been completed The bridge is on Aswa River, which is a major tributary of River Nile. It lies about two...
Sudan: Bring this war to an end
Sudanese church leaders have appealed to the international community to end the war in their country by organising a referendum on self-determination for the southerners. A referendum, they said,...
Sudan: Conflict transcends religious realm
The root cause of the current conflict in Sudan transcends the religious realm contrary to the picture often created in Europe, religious sources say. A member of a German inter-religious dialogue...
SCIO Sudan Monthly Report Feb 2002
1. Chronology February 16: A Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church has suggested that it is the time to launch an international campaign of protest against Sudan for violating human rights. Cardinal...
Khartoum government action outrages organisations
The Sudanese government is using militia groups staffed with southerners to facilitate attacks on civilians by Khartoum, two groupings of Sudanese non-governmental organisations (NGOs) charged...
Sudan: Khartoum violates truce for the Nuba Mountains, SPLA
The Sudanese government has been accused of violating a cease-fire it agreed with the rebel Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) mid-January for the country's region of Nuba Mountains. In a statement...
SCIO Sudan Monthly Report Jan 2002
1. Chronology January 15: Sudan and a leading Russian oil company signed US$200 million oil and gas exploration deal, the first such contract with a Russian firm. Slavneft plans to invest US$180...
SCIO Sudan Monthly Report Dec 2001
Chronology December 16: The Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) accused Khartoum of bombing the Nuba Mountains in violation of a truce aimed at allowing humanitarian aid into the war-torn region...
Sudan: Bishop appeals for boreholes
The Catholic Bishop of Diocese of Rumbek in southern Sudan, Caesar Mazzolari, has appealed to UNICEF to dig boreholes in northern Bahr el Ghazal to cater for local school going children and...
IDP's desperate in Sudan's northern Bahr el Ghazal region
An estimated 7,600 people are living in misery in camps for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Sudan's northern Bahr el Ghazal region, church and relief sources said Monday. The reports, which...
SCIO Sudan Monthly Report Nov 2001
1. Chronology November 16:The US special envoy to Sudan, John Danforth, suggested three confidence-building measures to bring together the parties in the country's civil war. Danforth asked the...
Two killed as Khartoum hits northern Bahr el Ghazal
By Charles Omondi At least two people were killed and several others wounded Monday (November 26, 2001) when a Khartoum government bomber hit two locations in Sudan's northern Bahr el Ghazal area. In...
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Uganda/Sudan: Catholic priest killed in LRA ambush
By Charles Omondi Uganda rebels of the Lords Resistance Army last Saturday shot dead a Sudanese Catholic priest in the volatile northern Uganda region. Fr Peter Obore of Catholic Diocese of Torit was...
Kenyan aid worker doesn't mind return to southern Sudan
Julian Muiruri, Kenyan nutritionist recently abducted in southern Sudan by Sudanese authorities, hopes to return to region to serve the victims of the 18-year civil war. Speaking to Sudan Catholic...
SCIO Sudan Monthly Report Oct 2001
Chronology 16: More than 8,000 Sudanese demonstrated in the Sudanese capital, burning an effigy of US President George Bush and the American flag in protest at US-led air strikes on Afghanistan. Some...
Fate of Kenyan relief worker still unknown
The fate of the Kenyan relief worker kidnapped in Sudan is still unknown; four days after Arab militias seized her in the country's northern Bahr el Ghazal region. There has been no information from...
Bishop appeals for release of abducted Kenyan relief worker
By Matthias Muindi The Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Rumbek in southern Sudan, Caesar Mazzolari, has appealed to the Sudanese government to release a female Kenyan relief worker who was seized on...
Humanitarian crisis in western Bahr el Ghazal
By Matthias Muindi A humanitarian crisis is looming in western Bahr el Ghazal region in southern Sudan following attacks on civilians by pro-government Arab militias, said the Sudan Peoples...
Sudan: Floods kill, displace people in Tonj
Six people have died in the last few days from water borne diseases due to severe flooding in southern Sudan's Tonj County, a community leader said. The official said that the six died on diverse...