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News Digest Sudan: Floods, Oil Transit Fees, Cholera, Sudan/South Sudan Borders, Nile Dam Talks,…

Published every Monday, and updated daily through the week, our News Digest Sudan is a selected compilation of recent stories on various topics to keep an eye on, from grassroots groups, major NGOs and international media sources around the world. Available in English and/or French. If...

South Sudan Peace Deal with armed opposition groups fails to address corruption at root of conflict

In June we posted a news about the peace deal signed in Khartoum: after almost five years of a deadly civil war, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and South Sudan’s opposition leader Riek Machar met in Khartoum. Read our news: Salva Kiir and Riek Machar strike peace deal in Khartoum....

Salva Kiir and Riek Machar strike peace deal in Khartoum

After almost five years of a deadly civil war, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and South Sudan’s opposition leader Riek Machar meet in Khartoum on June 25, 2018, and it seems the two leaders reached compromises on a number of outstanding issues. Times Live wrote about this...

Soudan du Sud : les femmes manifestent pour la paix et contre les violences

Depuis l’indépendance du Soudan du Sud en 2011, le pays a connu de nombreux conflits, des famines et des déplacements de population. Résultat d’une guerre civile sanglante entre partisans du président Salva Kiir et ceux du vice-président Riek Machar. Et au coeur de ces...

How South Sudan’s elite looted its foreign reserves by Simona Foltyn

In 2016, The Sentry’s 2-year investigation ‘In South Sudan, war crimes shouldn’t pay’ revealed networks fueling one of the world’s deadliest conflict zones implicating President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar, international banks, arms dealers,...

The Sentry: ‘In South Sudan, war crimes shouldn’t pay’

Yesterday The Sentry‘s 2-year investigation revealed networks fueling one of the world’s deadliest conflict zones implicating President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar, international banks, arms dealers, multinational oil and mining companies. We live-tweeted the...

UN Secretary-General’s investigation, The Crisis in Abyei, Yemen: End child marriages

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: the report of the UN Secretary-General's investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic; The Crisis in Abyei, four months after the assassination of Kuol Deng Kuol; Yemen: End child...

Activists want Sudan leader arrested, Climate change denial, South Sudan

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Activists want Sudan leader arrested; Is the Season for Climate Change Denial Finally Over?; South Sudan: Army Making Ethnic Conflict Worse. - Activists want Sudan leader arrested - July 15, 2013 - Is the Season for...

Tara Oceans Polar Circle, Bashir and Kiir Meet, Reasons Not to Buy Fur

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Tara left on the Tara Oceans Polar Circle expedition in the Arctic on May 19th from Lorient in France; Bashir and Kiir Meet in Addis As Sudan Reportedly Demands Permission to Pursue Rebels; Winter may be...