January 25, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The South Sudanese mediation presented a proposal to ensure a fair power-sharing between the armed groups that signed the Juba peace agreement with the Sudanese government on 3 October 2020. In line with the peace deal, the armed groups shall participate in the transitional government together with the Forces for Freedom and Changes and the military component. They should get 75 parliamentary seats and 25% of the 26 cabinet's portfolios. However, different (...) - News / Sudan, Peace talks with SPLM-N, Darfur groups, FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

The language autocratic dictators like Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and many others understand is an engagement in a massive nonviolent popular uprising like the one that took Omar Hassan Al-Bashir out of power and total revolutionary process of struggle, not a pseudo-democratic process they always rigged and manipulated. By Lul Gatkuoth Gatluak Date: January 20, 2021 The focus of this article is to denote the type of the transitional process, dictators like Yoweri Museveni understand and (...) - Comment & Analysis

January 24, 2021 (JUBA) - Indian peacekeepers in South Sudan have established a temporary operating base in Akoka area of Upper Nile state to protect civilians anticipated to be at risk of attacks. “Our aim is to make sure our Blue Helmets are agile and can respond swiftly in areas where conflict has the potential to flare up,” Lieutenant-General Shailesh Tinaikar, the force commander for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) was quoted saying. “So, we started designing our (...) - News / India, South Sudan, UNMISS - United Nations Mission in South Sudan, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

January 24, 2021 (KORMA) - The head of the Sudan Liberation Movement - Transitional Council (SLM-TC), Hadi Idris, announced the arrival of the movement's forces to the cantonment sites in North Darfur state, marking the start of the DDR process into the regular forces. The SLM-TC is one of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) groups that signed a peace agreement with the Sudanese government on October 3, 2019. "The movement's forces arrived in the Korma area that we chose for the (...) - News

January 24, 2021 (JUBA) - Indian peacekeepers in South Sudan have established a temporary operating base in Akoka area of Upper Nile state to protect civilians anticipated to be at risk of attacks. “Our aim is to make sure our Blue Helmets are agile and can respond swiftly in areas where conflict has the potential to flare up,” Lieutenant-General Shailesh Tinaikar, the force commander for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) was quoted saying. “So, we started designing our (...) - News / India, South Sudan, UNMISS - United Nations Mission in South Sudan

January 24, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan's Ministry of Petroleum has invited a shortlist of companies to bid for environmental audit of its oil fields. The audit, according to the Petroleum ministry, will cover current producing oil fields in Blocks 3 & 7, Blocks 1, 2 & 4 and Block 5A. The companies invited to bid include, Alamaya Eco-choice and CADG, Envage Associates Co Ltd, Bright Heritage & FISSAS studies, Panloy & SGS Belgium, Malaysia, Kenya Consult, CO WIAS Bridge (...) - News / South Sudan, Oil - Petroleum, Environment

January 23, 2021 (GADAREF) - Sudanese army troops patrolling the border came under mortar fire on Sunday from the Ethiopian federal army on the other side of the border. Both Sudan and Ethiopia declared that they did not want to enter into a war, but Khartoum rejected Addis Ababa's request to hold negotiations on the claimed border areas that Sudan sees an integral part of its territory. A Sudanese reconnaissance force coming from the Sudanese Abu Teyyour Mountains was subjected to mortar (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

January 23, 2020 (KHARTOUM) - Hundreds of people demonstrated in different areas in the Sudanese capital on Saturday to protest breadlines and fuel shortages. Hundreds of protesters marched in Al-Arbaeen Street of Omdurman and a number of neighbourhoods where they blocked roads and set fire in tires. Similar protests took place in the neighbourhoods near the centre de Khartoum North. The demonstrators chanted slogans against the economic plans of the transitional government and protested (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

January 23, 2021 (JUBA) – The Turkish aid agency (TIKA) on Friday donated materials for women to making sandals in South Sudan. The donation aimed at empowering women in the world's youngest nation. “We support humanitarian and developmental projects for the benefit of the people of South Sudan,” said Mustafa Kemal Akbulut, Turkey's deputy chief of mission for political and economic affairs. He said about 46 women in were trained on how to make sandals. “This project will empower women and (...) - News / South Sudan, Turkey, Women & Girls

January 23, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The Military Industry Corporation (MIC), a group of companies owned by the Sudanese army, on Saturday, said planning to expand its investments in agricultural and livestock projects. There are about 200 companies owned by the Sudanese army in Sudan, many of them working in vital economic sectors such as wheat milling, agriculture, the export of sesame and gum arabic crops, as well well as the import of electrical appliances. The Sudan News Agency reported (...) - News

January 21, 2021 (JUBA) - The United Nations has urged “zero tolerance” policy and called on all parties to prohibit the use of sexual violence and cease hostilities in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. In a statement issued Wednesday, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Pattern said there has been a high number of reported rapes in the capital, Mekelle and reports that some women are being forced by military elements to have sex in (...) - News

January 21, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The United Kingdom extended £40 million in aid to Sudan to support cash assistance program that targets poor families and pledged a bridge loan to clear arrears at the African Development Bank (AfDB). The Sudanese ministry of Finance and Economic Planning signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office that outlines London's support of Khartoum's structural economic reforms. The £40 million will finance the (...) - News / United Kingdom (UK) / Great Britain (GB), FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, Economy

January 21, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - West Darfur State approved on Thursday security plan to protect civilians after the bloody tribal violence that resulted in the death of 160 people and 215 others. Following the attacks of 16 January by armed Arab tribesmen on Krinding camp outside El-Geneina, the Sudanese government swiftly deployed troops in the in and outside the state capital but the violent incident continued to take place in several parts of the state. The West Darfur Governor Mohamed (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Darfur tribal clashes , West Darfur State

January 21, 2021 (NEW YORK) – The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is working with authorities to establish a temporary operating base in the greater Tonj area of Warrap State to reduce tensions and build confidence, a UN official said Thursday. The move comes amid reports of sporadic intercommunal conflict caused by cattle raiding in the Greater Tonj area of Warrap State. The incident reportedly led to deaths, injuries and displacement of the population. A spokesperson for (...) - News

January 21, 2021 (JUBA)- Simon Kun Puoch, former governor of Upper Nile, one of the 10 states in South Sudan, has called for calm following attacks in which several lives and properties were lost. In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune on Thursday, Puoch said at least 13 people were killed and several others sustained injuries during two separate attacks in Melut County, Upper Nile. The first attack, which took place on January 13, 2021, left five innocent civilians dead including a (...) - News / South Sudan, Upper Nile State, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

January 20, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, on Wednesday, urged the ruling coalition to submit the lists of nominees for the new cabinet ministers. Last Sunday, the Nominations Committee of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) said consultations underway with the National Umma Party (NUP) to finalize its nominees for several ministerial portfolios. Also, the South Sudanese mediation secretary-general Dhieu Matouk held a meeting with the Sudanese Revolutionary (...) - News / Democratic Transition in Sudan

January 21, 2021 (JUBA) – A South Sudanese civil society says it intends to conduct a survey of citizens' perception on the performance of the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (RTGoNU) formed in February last year. The survey, Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) said Thursday, runs from January 22-February 15 across the country. In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune, CEPO's executive director, Edmund Yakani said the exercise is intended to generate (...) - News / South Sudan, Governance & Civil Service, South Sudan Peace Implementation

January 20, 2020 (JUBA) – The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) had provided materials for poultry farmers and beekeepers in the South Sudanese capital, Juba. T?KA, in a statement, said it provided two solar powered incubators with a capacity of 500 eggs, 1,500 egg-laying chicken, chicken feed, waterers, and various vaccines to poultry farmers in cooperation with the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries of South Sudan and Support Peace Initiative Development Organization. (...) - News / Turkey, South Sudan, Agriculture

January 21, 2021 (KAMPALA) – The weeks leading up to Uganda's recently concluded elections were characterized by widespread violence and human rights abuses, a US-based rights body said. Human Rights Watch, in a statement issued on Thursday, said abuses included killings by the country's security forces, arrests and beatings of opposition supporters and journalists, disruption of opposition rallies as well as a nationwide shutdown of the internet. The authorities should ensure thorough (...) - News / Uganda, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, Politics

January 20, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Ethiopia dismissed statements by the head of the Sovereign Council about a bilateral agreement to deploy the Sudanese troops on the border before «the law enforcement operation in Tigray». On 16 January, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan disclosed he had agreed with the Ethiopian Prime Minister to close the Sudanese borders to prevent any infiltration to and from Sudan by the TPLF fighters. On his weekly press briefing on Wednesday, Ethiopian Foreign Ministry Spokesman (...) - News

January 20, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The newly-sworn in US president Joe Biden moved quickly to reverse immigration-related policies enacted by his predecessor Donald Trump including one impacting Sudanese citizens. A year ago, Trump issued a proclamation restricting entry partially or fully to nationals of six countries including Sudan on national security and public safety grounds. "Sudan generally does not comply with our identity-management performance metrics and presents a high risk, (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

By Mohamed Osman “It is the same as in the old days,” Adam Rojal, a coordinator in an internally displaced community in Sudan's Darfur region told me recently, describing ongoing violence from militias and government forces and the international community's decision to pull the UN's protection force from the region. I asked how it could be the same given that former president Omar al-Bashir, under whose watch Darfur had been the site of years of atrocities, had been ousted in 2019. “The abusive (...) - Comment & Analysis

January 20, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Three aid workers were killed during the recent revenge attacks on the residents of displacement camp outside the capital of West Darfur state, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator said. In a statement released on Wednesday the acting Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Babacar Cissé said that «three staff members of aid organizations, one with his family» were killed during the attack of 16 January. Cissé "stressed the necessity of safety and security (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, Darfur tribal clashes

January 19, 2020 (MOROBO) – The opposition National Salvation Front (NAS) has condemned all forms of violence, including the displacement of unarmed civilians, from villages in Maban county of South Sudan's Upper Nile state, urging the cessation of hostilities. At least seven people were killed and four others wounded in the Paloch area of Melut County in South Sudan's Upper Nile State when they were attacked by a group of armed men on Saturday. Some of the displaced civilians reportedly (...) - News / South Sudan, Upper Nile State, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

January 19, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Berlin will host a meeting for the Friends of Sudan group on January 28, said a German official who arrived in Khartoum to prepare for the meeting. Philipp Ackermann, the German Foreign Office's Director for the relations with the Middle East and North Africa met on Tuesday with the Sudanese Prime Minister to discuss the upcoming FOS meeting. Following the meeting, Akermann said that the meeting discussed the Sudanese economic situation and announced that his (...) - News

January 19, 2020 (JUBA) - South Sudan and Sudan have agreed to a draft agreement in which Sudan will offer training services to South Sudanese technical engineers. The deal, reached at a three-day meeting between their two countries, serves to facilitate the development of oil management skills in South Sudan as well as resume production in key oil fields. The agreement is motivated by both nations aiming to boost production to establish a post-COVID-19 and economic recovery. “The (...) - News

January 18, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Dozens of Sudanese protesters on Sunday burned the Israeli flag during a rally against Khartoum's recent signing of a deal on normalizing relations with the Jewish state. Demonstrators, AP reported, gathered outside the cabinet offices in Khartoum, chanting anti-Israel slogans and carrying banners reading, «normalization is betrayal» and «normalization is a crime.» On January 6, Sudan and the United States signed an accord that paves the way for normalizing (...) - News / Sudan, Israel, Diplomacy - International Relations

January 18, 2020 (JUBA) – South Sudan's president Salva Kiir has congratulated his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni upon his recent re-election in the general elections held last week. Museveni was declared the winner of the Ugandan presidential election held on January 14 with 58.64 per cent of total votes, defeating 10 other presidential candidates who contested. Kiir, in a statement issued on Monday, said Museveni's re-election demonstrated the “trust” people had in the country's ruling (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, Uganda

January 18, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Over 40 people are killed as a result of bloody confrontations between the Fallata and Rizeigat tribes in Al-Tawil area of Gereida locality, about 100 km south of the South Darfur State's capital Nyala on Monday The new inter-communal clashes took place after clashes between nomadic Arabs and internally displaced persons from the Massalit tribe in El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state where the death toll reached 129 people. The Governor of South (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Darfur tribal clashes , South Darfur State

January 18, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The United Nations Secretary-General said deeply concerned by the surge of tribal attacks in West Darfur and urged the Sudanese government to do the needful to stop the violence. Arab gunmen waged a revenge attack on a displacement camp outside El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur State after the murder of a member of their tribe by a resident of Krinding camp. "The Secretary-General calls on the Sudanese authorities to expend all efforts to de-escalate the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

January 17, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok affirmed on Sunday his government's commitment to implement the Juba Peace Agreement. Hamdok and the South Sudanese Chief Mediator Tut Gatluak discussed the implementation of the Juba peace agreement as the new transitional government has not been formed. «Hamdok affirmed the commitment of the transitional government to implement the Sudan Peace Agreement so that the citizen enjoys security and stability (...),» said a statement (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

January 17, 2021 (GADAREF) - Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) on Sunday handed over to the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) eight soldiers who were captured during border clashes between the two sides last December. The eight Sudanese militaries, seven soldiers and one officer, have been released after talks between the two sides, Sudanese army sources told the Sudan Tribune on Sunday. The handover took place in the border area near the Gallabat, said the military official without further (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Ethiopia

January 17, 2020 (KHARTOUM) - At least 83 people were killed in tribal revenge attacks in West Darfur State following the death of a man from an Arab clan in a quarrel with another from the Massalit group. In what seems like a repetition of the bloody attacks of December 2019, the argument between the two men occurred on Saturday near Krinding camp outside the state capital El-Geneina exactly like the first one. Following the murder, the perpetrator was apprehended and handed over to the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, West Darfur State

January 16, 2021 - (KHARTOUM) - The head of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, disclosed Saturday that he had agreed with the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to deploy the Sudanese troops to secure the borders between countries. On the first of November 2020, days before the attack of the Ethiopian federal army on the TPLF forces in Tigray region, al-Burhan travelled to Ethiopia together with Omer Gamar Eldin the Foreign Minister, Jamal Abdel Majeed the head of the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

January 16, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok expressed his government unlimited support for the armed forces to protect the Sudanese territories. Hamdok on Saturday addressed a meeting held at the Friendship Hall in Khartoum by the private sector to support the deployment of the armed forces on the eastern borders. He saluted the bravery of the soldiers who defend the Sudanese territory and guard the frontiers, stressing that the armed forces have a sacred duty, which is (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY