Jacob Zuma & Top Judges Meet Over Failure To Arrest Sudan’s Al-Bashir
SOUTH Africa’s president and its top judge are to meet to try to resolve an intensifying row between the government and the judiciary over the state’s failure to detain Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir last month. Government officials say judges are biased against the state and the ruling ANC has said some were driven to […]
From ‘Lost Boy’ refugee to South Sudan minister
Valentino Achak Deng was once a “Lost Boy”, a small, frightened child who walked for months across what is now South Sudan to flee a brutal war, narrowly escaping becoming another casualty of the conflict. He lived in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, getting the education he had missed on his terrifying journey, before […]
S. Sudan army accused of destroying livestock and grain of rebels
Government militia are accused of destroying livestock and grain in Unity state, forcing up to 500 refugees a day to seek shelter at a UN camp. The scorched-earth strategy raises the risk of famine in one of the world’s poorest nations. After government troops overran his camp in June, opposition fighter John Tap fled to […]
‘Don’t Try to Make Me Feel Bad Because I Am Blue Black’ – Model Nykhor Paul
Sudanese model Nykhor Paul has posted a scathing criticism of make-up artists who fail to cater to dark-skinned models. In a post to photo-sharing platform Instagram, she wrote: “Please don’t take this the wrong way but it’s time you people get your shit right when it comes to our complexion! Why do I have to […]
Cholera Kills 32 in South Sudan, Education Key to Stemming Outbreak
A cholera outbreak in war-torn South Sudan has killed at least 32 people, a fifth of them children under five, and schools have a major role to play in stemming the spread of the disease, the United Nations said on Tuesday. More than 700 cholera cases have been reported in the capital Juba and Bor, […]
White Nile State Witnesses Large Influx of South Sudanese Refugees
The Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) said that 3,000 South Sudanese families have recently arrived in Sudan’s White Nile state bringing the total number of refugees from the newborn country in the state 84,000 refugees. SRCS executive director in White Nile, Osama Osman, said that 3,197 families have arrived in the seven cantonment sites in […]
Africans seeking to go to Europe pass through Ethiopia
The mood in the border town of Metema these days is quiet and watchful.Dozens of houses on the hot, dusty main road that stretches from Ethiopia into Sudan look like they have been hastily closed. Guards grimly patrol the border, stopping anyone who looks like an illegal migrant. The nightclubs and bars are emptier than […]
UN imposes sanctions on South Sudan generals for fuelling conflict
The UN Security Council has imposed sanctions on six generals accused of fuelling conflict in South Sudan. The generals, three from each side of the conflict, will face global travel bans and asset freezes. On Monday, a UN report alleged that government troops had gang-raped and burned alive women and girls in the oil-rich Unity […]
UN: South Sudan army raped girls and burned them alive
The UN has accused South Sudan’s army of raping and then burning girls alive inside their homes during its recent campaign, a report by its mission in the country said. The statement, published on Tuesday, warned the recent upsurge in fighting had been marked by a “new brutality and intensity”. “The scope and level of […]
South Sudanese Girls Reject Sanitary Pads
Although sanitary pads are designed to enhance a woman’s hygiene during menstruation periods, South Sudanese adolescent girls in refugee camps in Adjumani district have rejected them. As Clara Dradrimo, a senior woman teacher at Alere refugee settlement primary school, explained, many refugee school girls continue to dodge school during menstruation periods. “[Initially] We thought their […]
