Sudan: Fight for the heart of the South
13 years, 8 months ago

Sudan: Fight for the heart of the South

Al Jazeera  

South Sudan faces the challenge of creating an inclusive administration among tribes with a history of bitter enmity. Foremost in the long list of challenges faced by the government of South Sudan is the task of creating an inclusive and representative administration among different tribes with a history of bitter enmity. In addition, many see the prospect of South Sudan being rife with corruption soon after gaining independence. Other issues include oil – 98 per cent of South Sudan’s governmental income is derived from oil revenues, making it the most oil dependent nation on earth; the possible tensions which could ensue if and when South Sudan decides to abrogate the Egypt-Sudan 1959 Nile Water Agreement; and the ongoing potential for conflict across the North-South divide, as SPLA forces watch their northern counterparts on the other side of the narrow frontline.

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South Sudan teetering on edge of renewed civil war, says U.N. envoy
4 days, 10 hours ago

South Sudan teetering on edge of renewed civil war, says U.N. envoy

The Hindu  

South Sudan is teetering on the edge of a renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation has warned, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest peace effort. He said Kiir and Machar don’t trust each other enough to display the leadership needed to implement the 2018 peace deal and move to a future that …

South Sudan on brink of renewed civil war, UN warns
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4 days, 13 hours ago

South Sudan on brink of renewed civil war, UN warns

Al Jazeera  

Building tension and violence threatens to unravel the peace deal that halted ethnic conflict in 2018. South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as violence between rival factions escalates, the United Nations has warned. The situation in the country is “dire” said Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN Mission in South Sudan, late on Monday, as …

Youth lead efforts to heal South Sudan’s war-torn communities
1 week, 1 day ago

Youth lead efforts to heal South Sudan’s war-torn communities

Al Jazeera  

“The past is already the past. We need to open a new chapter,” says Lunia Okuch, a youth peace ambassador in Malakal, South Sudan, whose generation grew up surrounded by conflict in the world’s youngest nation. We fight to survive.” For many young people, gang life is both a symptom and a cause of South Sudan’s instability. Yet, it is …

Analysis: Can Sudan’s civilian leaders save their country from collapse?
1 year, 6 months ago

Analysis: Can Sudan’s civilian leaders save their country from collapse?

Al Jazeera  

Civilian forces were central to the movement that overthrew former President Omar al-Bashir, but are now marginalised. The breakdown in negotiations that followed, and the ensuing beginning of the conflict, led to accusations being thrown back and forth between the civilian groups “The parties who were not part of the framework agreement blame those in support of the agreement as …

Clouds gather over South Sudan as battles rage next door
1 year, 10 months ago

Clouds gather over South Sudan as battles rage next door

Al Jazeera  

Fighting between Sudan’s army and RSF could upend South Sudan’s shaky peace process due to oil exports and demographic concerns. Analysts said the fighting between Sudan’s army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces could upend the shaky peace process in neighbouring South Sudan due to possible oil flow issues and demographic concerns. South Sudan has relationships with …

UN: South Sudan struggling to implement power-sharing deal
1 year, 10 months ago

UN: South Sudan struggling to implement power-sharing deal

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — South Sudan is facing violent clashes and increasing disillusionment and frustration as it struggles to implement the most challenging provisions of a fragile 2018 power-sharing agreement, U.N. experts say in a new report. The world’s newest nation is struggling to integrate rival military forces, draft a new constitution and prepare for its first election as an independent …

Fear, guilt and hope in Sudan
1 year, 11 months ago

Fear, guilt and hope in Sudan

Al Jazeera  

An army and a militia are destroying our country, but we cannot give up; we, the Sudanese people, will persevere. Instead of celebrating Eid with my family, I – like millions of other Sudanese people inside and outside Sudan – spent the last few days of the holy month hunched over my phone, watching on social media my people being …

What’s behind the latest conflict in Sudan? | In Focus podcast
1 year, 11 months ago

What’s behind the latest conflict in Sudan? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

Sudan is once again on the verge of a civil war. Fighting erupted on April 15 between two military factions, leading to the death of more than 400 civilians, and leaving around 3,700 injured so far. One of the factions is headed by Lt. Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the commander of the country’s military, and the other is led by …

Sudan’s tragedy: Rogue generals and failed coups
1 year, 11 months ago

Sudan’s tragedy: Rogue generals and failed coups

Al Jazeera  

The people of Sudan should reject choosing the lesser of two evils and should seek a third option. But the more recent coups, like that in Algeria in 1992, Egypt in 2013 and Sudan in 2021, lacked vision and ambition beyond merely blocking political change and restoring the appalling status quo ante that favoured military power and privilege. So it …

Key date set in Sudan government transition, official says
2 years ago

Key date set in Sudan government transition, official says

Associated Press  

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s military leaders and pro-democracy forces vowed to begin establishing a new civilian-led transitional government on April 11, a spokesperson representing both parties said Sunday. Speaking at a news conference broadcasted by Sudan’s state-run SUNA news agency, Khalid Omar said a finalized political settlement, first agreed upon last December, would be inked on April 1st. Sudan has …

Sudan should not settle for anything other than true democracy
2 years, 2 months ago

Sudan should not settle for anything other than true democracy

Al Jazeera  

In early December 2022, after months of violence and uncertainty, the UN mission in Sudan announced the signing of a “framework agreement” between the country’s military and political parties. Due to this lack of support and guidance, Sudan’s vibrant civil society successfully instigated regime change but failed to generate effective political leadership in the aftermath of the revolution. And deals …

UN envoy: South Sudan leaders must halt violence, spur vote
2 years, 3 months ago

UN envoy: South Sudan leaders must halt violence, spur vote

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. special envoy for South Sudan urged the country’s leaders on Tuesday to intervene to halt clashes and sexual violence and urged that a two-year delay in holding elections not be used as “a holiday break.” Nicholas Haysom told the U.N. Security Council that while some noticeable progress has been made in implementing a 2018 peace …

‘Stateless’: The politician disowned by South Sudan and Uganda
3 years ago

‘Stateless’: The politician disowned by South Sudan and Uganda

Al Jazeera  

The Juba-born politician and activist is fighting for her position in parliament, her citizenship and her life. On December 22, 2021, Animu Athiei was leaving a café at the airport road of the South Sudanese capital Juba when members of the country’s secret police grabbed and put her into their van. Within two years of the predominantly Christian and multiethnic …

Sudan’s states of exception
3 years, 4 months ago

Sudan’s states of exception

Al Jazeera  

On October 25, the Sudanese military carried out a coup, announcing the dissolution of the power-sharing Sovereignty Council and the transitional government. In a statement, Sudan’s top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said the army had to step in because political rivalries “stirred up strife” and could lead to civil war. Sudan’s escalating political crisis following the coup, now a threat …

South Sudan marks tortured decade since independence
3 years, 8 months ago

South Sudan marks tortured decade since independence

The Hindu  

South Sudan marks a decade of independence on July 9 but there is little to celebrate in a country crippled by civil war, chronic instability and desperate hunger. At midnight on July 9, 2011, raucous celebrations erupted as the world’s newest nation was born and the people of South Sudan cheered the end of a decades-long struggle for statehood from …

South Sudan at risk of ‘large scale conflict’: UN report
3 years, 11 months ago

South Sudan at risk of ‘large scale conflict’: UN report

Al Jazeera  

Experts warn that the slow pace of reforms and political disputes are threatening a 2018 peace deal that halted a bloody civil war. In the 81-page report sent to the UN Security Council on Monday, a panel of experts said slow-moving reforms by President Salva Kiir’s government and more than a year of political disputes and disagreements over how to …

After 6 years of war, will peace finally come to South Sudan?
5 years, 1 month ago

After 6 years of war, will peace finally come to South Sudan?

Al Jazeera  

South Sudan’s warring parties have once again declared an official end to the country’s brutal civil war that killed an estimated 400,000 people and displaced millions of others over the past six years. “Peace is here in Juba and it will spread to all corners of our country.” Broken deals This is the bitter rivals’ latest attempt at peace since …

South Sudan rebel leader Machar ‘refused’ to sign peace deal
6 years, 7 months ago

South Sudan rebel leader Machar ‘refused’ to sign peace deal

Al Jazeera  

The main opposition groups are demanding guarantees over their reservations about the deal. South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar along with other main opposition groups have refused to sign the latest draft of a peace deal with the government that would end a brutal civil war. The opposition leader and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir signed a ceasefire and power-sharing …

In South Sudan, moderation in pursuit of justice can be a virtue
6 years, 7 months ago

In South Sudan, moderation in pursuit of justice can be a virtue

Al Jazeera  

South Sudan’s warring factions have finally agreed on a new power-sharing deal to end the brutal civil war that killed tens of thousands, displaced an estimated 3 million others and devastated the fragile economy of the new nation. President Salva Kiir contends that, unlike the 2015 peace deal, which was “forced” on them, the current deal is negotiated and agreed …

UN: ‘Ethnic cleansing under way’ in South Sudan
8 years, 3 months ago

UN: ‘Ethnic cleansing under way’ in South Sudan

Al Jazeera  

Fighting between government and rebels has seen deliberate starvation, gang rape, and the burning of villages. A UN commission on human rights in South Sudan has said a steady process of ethnic cleansing is underway in the country, involving massacres, starvation, gang rape and the destruction of villages. “There is already a steady process of ethnic cleansing underway in several …

South Sudan: A country captured by armed factions
8 years, 7 months ago

South Sudan: A country captured by armed factions

Al Jazeera  

The current crisis to the transitional process could rapidly morph into another civil war. Since August 2015, the gravest challenge to the South Sudan transitional process and to the viability of the Transitional Government of National Unity is posed by President Salva Kiir’s recent appointment of General Taban Deng Gai as first vice president, replacing Riek Machar. Machar’s group could …

A look at South Sudan, a young country divided by civil war
8 years, 8 months ago

A look at South Sudan, a young country divided by civil war

Associated Press  

JOHANNESBURG — Renewed fighting between opposing army forces has raised fears of a return to civil war in South Sudan, which over the weekend marked its fifth anniversary of independence while panicked residents hid inside their homes. A look at the situation for the estimated 12 million people in the East African country: ___ A FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE Largely Christian …

South Sudan crisis: Renewed fighting in Juba
8 years, 8 months ago

South Sudan crisis: Renewed fighting in Juba

Al Jazeera  

Latest bout of violence comes despite UN calling rival factions to end fighting that has killed hundreds in recent days. Renewed clashes have broken out in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, despite calls by the UN Security Council for rival factions to “urgently end the fighting” that has engulfed the city in recent days. “Monday morning began much as Sunday …

South Sudan: independence movement gone wrong
9 years, 8 months ago

South Sudan: independence movement gone wrong

Al Jazeera  

Dr Mehari Taddele Maru is a scholar of peace and security, law and governance, and human rights and migration issues. In March of this year, the United Nations Security Council decided to impose sanctions on officials hindering the mediation process in support of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development – Plus mediation on South Sudan. The father of independence The Sudan …

South Sudan: A man-made catastrophe
9 years, 10 months ago

South Sudan: A man-made catastrophe

Al Jazeera  

Bentiu, South Sudan – Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced and an unknown number killed in renewed military onslaughts against rebels in parts of war-ravaged Unity State, according to survivors. Registering new arrivals In the last four weeks about 11,000 people have fled to the UN’s Bentiu “protection of civilians” camp, according to medical charity Doctors Without Borders, …

S Sudan conflict: Can Sudan play a role?
10 years, 9 months ago

S Sudan conflict: Can Sudan play a role?

Al Jazeera  

Nearly five months after fighting broke out in South Sudan on December 15, making sense of the conflict is still problematic. Sudan can play a positive role although this may be deterred by some factors, such as increasing internal problems, the international community’s claims about Sudan being regarded as a “party spoiler”, and ironically the very fact that Sudan doesn’t …

‘We must stand by the people of South Sudan’
11 years, 2 months ago

‘We must stand by the people of South Sudan’

Al Jazeera  

When South Sudan hosted its first investment conference on December 4 and 5, humanitarians were excited at the prospect that the country was on the right track for lifting its 12 million people out of poverty and want. We were also excited that the investment conference’s agenda chimed with our recently launched Strategic Response Plan for 2014-2016, which unveiled an …

South Sudan Becomes World's Newest Nation On Saturday
13 years, 8 months ago

South Sudan Becomes World's Newest Nation On Saturday

India TV News  

Juba/Kampala, Jul 8: After decades of brutal war which killed two million people, oil-rich South Sudan finally becomes independent from Sudan's Khartoum-ruled north tomorrow in an emotional celebration to be witnessed by a host of foreign dignitaries, including Vice President Hamid Ansari. South Sudan had reached a comprehensive peace agreement with North Sudan in 2005, brokered by US Secretary of …

South Sudan Prepares For Independence
13 years, 8 months ago

South Sudan Prepares For Independence

NPR  

Celebratory South Sudan Prepares For Independence Enlarge this image toggle caption Paul Banks/AFP/Getty Images Paul Banks/AFP/Getty Images It is not often the world welcomes a brand-new nation into its fold. Ahead of Saturday's independence festivities, traditional dancers, the national choir and South Sudan's military and other uniformed groups gathered together for a full dress rehearsal and flag-raising ceremony this week …

Independence Vote First Step For Southern Sudan
14 years, 2 months ago

Independence Vote First Step For Southern Sudan

NPR  

Independence Vote First Step For Southern Sudan Enlarge this image toggle caption Peter Martell/Getty Images Peter Martell/Getty Images The mood in Juba, the capital of Southern Sudan, is boisterous these days. Millions of people in Southern Sudan will begin voting Sunday on whether to split Africa's largest country in two and establish the world's next nation. Sponsor Message A visit …

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