South Sudan

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,...

Sudan’s use of paramilitaries and militias in internal armed conflicts (Small Arms Survey)

A new report from the Small Arms Survey’s Human Security Baseline Assessment (HSBA) project examines the history of Sudan’s militia strategy and the role of paramilitaries and militias in the country’s armed conflicts, notably in Darfur, South Kordofan, and Blue Nile. It also...

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...

NSA spying France, Haiti arrests lawyer, Saudi Women, #SudanRevolts and #Strike4Sudan

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: French Condemn Surveillance by NSA.; Haiti arrests key anti-corruption lawyer; Saudi Women Go For A Spin In Latest Challenge To Driving Ban; Sudan’s NCP warns against opposition calls for UN inquiry into protest killings;...

The Abyei Referendum to take place on October 27-29, 2013

Last month, Max Dana posted on her blog about the Abyei Referendum: Sudan wants is oil, South Sudan wants its people. You can also read this article on the MagkaSama Project here. The Abyei Referendum is approachaing: voting will begin on October 27 until October 29, and the results are...

Peacekeeping Helicopter attacked, No support for Abyei referendum, Indonesia, WWF…

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Peacekeeping Helicopter attacked in Congo; United States denies supporting Abyei unilateral referendum; Indonesia seeks to get back its manufacturing mojo; Setting a solar sail by WWF. - Congo-Kinshasa: Attack On...

Abyei Referendum: Sudan wants is oil, South Sudan wants its people, by Max Dana

The Abyei status referendum is a delayed referendum that was originally due to be held in 2011 in which the residents of Abyei can decide either to remain part of the Sudanese South Kordofan region or to become part of the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan. This is what you can learn...

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...

South Sudan: A Bittersweet Anniversary by Aguil Blunt

This week-end we mentioned the 2nd anniversary of South Sudan’s Independence on our latest Top Stories/Must Read. On this occasion, Aguil Blunt, who is an American-South Sudanese public health and development consultant, posted a very interesting article on Fair Observer. She points out...