Tag Archives: Central Equatoria

S. Sudan remains MSF’s top priority after 30 years of emergency response

By Unni Karunakara This year marks 30 years since Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) began providing medical care in the area that now makes up South Sudan. Our first project was in Yei in Central Equatoria in 1983, where we delivered … read more »

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Is all well in the teak forests of South Sudan?

By Aly Verjee Think of tropical hard wood – ebony, mahogany, teak – and you probably don’t think of South Sudan.  One of the country’s lesser-known natural resource superlatives is its relative abundance of forests.  Government figures suggest that there … read more »

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South Sudan: Land grabbing may soon be of the past

By Jacob K. Lupai Recently land grabbing in and around Juba has hit news headlines. The Citizen newspaper of Friday, January 25, 2013 – Vol.7. Issue No. 356 had as a lead news headline ‘Interior Ministry Orders Arrest of Land … read more »

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South Sudan: Letter to Central Equatoria

By Steven Wöndu A report by New Times of January 14th that the government of Central Equatoria plans to construct roads and distribute seeds and fertilizers breathed fresh air into my ears. Last year I published a complaint that the … read more »

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A radical approach needed in the national interest of South Sudan

By Jacob K. Lupai South Sudan, up until 9 July 2011, was an integral part of the Sudan. Precisely on the 9th July 2011 it became the independent Republic of South Sudan, the newest country on planet earth. What was … read more »

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South Sudan and the death penalty

By Jerome Starkey, Reuters JUBA, South Sudan — On Christmas Eve last year, a 27-year-old hospital porter from Central Equatoria drank himself into oblivion and woke up the next day in a police cell, accused of a double murder. Martin … read more »

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South Sudan: The mentality of me-first and its danger

By Zechariah Manyok Biar Why do you think, here in South Sudan, people standing in line waiting for their turn to exchange their money create second and third or more lines against the directives of officials operating the Exchange Forex … read more »

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South Sudan, rebels sign truce

Juba – South Sudan has signed a ceasefire with the largest of several rebel groups which threaten the stability of the world’s newest nation, the government said on Tuesday. The deal to integrate an estimated 1 800 guerilla fighters into … read more »

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S. Sudan‘s Chief Justice calls for speedy dispute resolution

The Chief Justice of the Republic of South Sudan (RoSS), Justice Chan Reec Madut, on Tuesday directed primary courts to apply an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system in its proceedings to speed up disposal of cases. JPEG – 34.2 kb … read more »

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South Sudan government to scale up HIV awareness campaign

Across the ten states of South Sudan 116,000 people have been affected by the incurable disease, according to the findings reported to the Council of Ministers on Friday by the region’s vice president, Riek Machar, who was also assisted South … read more »

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Sudan: Bashir not standing for re-election

Khartoum – Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will not stand at the next election as part of a package of reforms aimed at democratising the country, a senior official of the ruling party said on Monday. Bashir took power in … read more »

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South Sudan should have a prime minister after independence – SPLM-DC

he Sudan People Liberation Movement for Democratic Change (SPLM-DC) said Saturday that South Sudan, when it becomes independent in July, should have a prime minister as well as a president. Sudan’s South is currently writing a constitution ahead of its … read more »

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