November 16, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - The Rapid Support Forces announced on they will sue anyone who fraudulently claims to be a member of its forces or uses their emblem. In a statement issued on Saturday, SRF spokesman Brigadier Jamal Juma said that there is a campaign targeting the government militia forces and its leadership. «Activists disseminated through social media pictures of sugar and lentil sacks bearing the name and logo of the RSF and written on it 'distributed free of charge'» Juma (...) - News

November 16, 2019 (WASHINGTON) – Regional bodies and the international community should exert maximum pressure on South Sudan's warring parties to ensure they implement the peace agreement, a US-based advocacy group said. In a statement, The Sentry, an investigative arm of Enough Project said there should be a campaign tied to explicit benchmarks that will unleash serious consequences for leaders who obstruct and do not implement the accord. “The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, South Sudan

November 16, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Finance and Economic Planning Minister Ibrahim al-Badawi on Saturday said plans to reform the banking sector and rehabilitate it to support economic reforms in the country during the transitional period. Addressing an event organized by the Sudanese Banks Union on the banking sector and the economic reform for the transitional period, Badawi stressed on the need to conduct a deep analysis to address the current situation and the macroeconomic situation in the (...) - News

November 16, 2019 (JUBA) – The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Health ministry, the UN Children Fund (UNICEF) and MedAir are immunizing 144, 033 people against cholera in Renk, a county bordering Blue Nile state in Sudan to mitigate the risks of cholera outbreak. In September, a cholera outbreak was declared in Sudan with at least 278 cases, including 8 deaths, reported by October 12. The affected states, WHO said, included Blue Nile and Sennar bordering Ethiopia (...) - News

November 17, 2019 (JUBA) – More than 200,000 children are have fled their homes in South Sudan due to heavy rains which started in July, Save the Children said Friday. “The floods in South Sudan have reached crisis point and children and their families are in urgent need of support," said Rama Hansraj, Save the Children's Country Director. “The communities affected are already some of the most vulnerable in the country,” he further added. An estimated over 900,000 people are reportedly (...) - News / South Sudan, Floods | Flooding

November 16, 2019 (ADDIS ABBA) - Moussa Faki, head of the African Union Commission discussed with the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) the ongoing preparation for the resumption of the talks for peace in Sudan. The SRF leadership is in Addis Ababa for a two-meeting with Donald Booth US Special Envoy to Sudan as they will resume a multiple track process in Juba for peace in Sudan. "We had a very cordial and constructive with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission who expressed (...) - News / Sudan, Peace talks with SPLM-N, Darfur groups, FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

November 15, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - US Special Envoy for South Sudan Donald Booth and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) will discuss the peace talks in Sudan and Washington role in the process. The meeting takes place a few days before the resumption of peace talks in the South Sudanese capital on 21 November after the signing of a declaration of principle on 21 October 2019. SRF Spokesman Osama Said announced that a meeting with Booth will take place in Addis Ababa on Saturday to discuss (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

November 15, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Darfur displaced civilians said the security situation has not changed despite the regime change in Sudan accusing the government militias of continuing attacks and violations of human rights. On 13 November 2019, the Chair of the Sudan Sanctions Committee, Joanna Wronecka visited Hamedia camp in Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur State. In a statement released on Friday, the IDPs spokesman at the camp Shafei Abdel Karim said they told the visiting (...) - News

November 15, 2019 (WASHINGTON) - A bipartisan group of senators have called on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to urgently appointed a special envoy to South Sudan to follow closely the stalled implementation of the peace agreement. The call was made by Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Chris Coons (D-DE), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Ed Markey (D-MA), and John Boozman (R-AR), in a letter sent to Pompeo on 13 November. "The Senators highlighted the pressing need to appoint a (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

November 15, 2019 (WASHINGTON) - Tibor Nagy, U.S. top diplomat for Africa reiterated that Washington is seriously reassessing its relationship with the South Sudanese government and questioning their aptness of its leaders to conduct the country after their failure to form the unity government for the second time. Washington has strongly criticized the agreement in Entebbe on 11 November between President Salva Kiir and his main peace partner Riek Machar to postpone the formation of the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

November 14, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said they are discussing with Sudan ways to help Sudan to acquire adequate donor assistance to achieve reforms. Upon his return from Washington on 31 October, Sudan Finance Minister Ibrahim al-Badawi said he had a meeting with the FMI and World Bank officials on the rehabilitation of the Sudanese economy as the Friends of Sudan group will fund the country's budget for 2020. Gerry Rice the IMF Spokesperson told reporters (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

November 14, 2019 (JUBA) -The United States Government, through its aid arm (USAID) is providing $92.5 million in humanitarian assistance to help people affected by ongoing conflict and food insecurity in war-hit South Sudan. The money, USAID said in a statement, will also cater for an estimated 908,000 people affected by severe flooding in the country in recent months. “Floods have exacerbated conditions that were already very precarious for more than 900,000 people in South Sudan,” (...) - News / South Sudan, United States (US), Humanitarian

November 14, 2019 (JUBA) – The British ambassador to South Sudan, Chris Trott has lauded the important work so far accomplished by the country's national dialogue steering committee over the past two years. Trott paid a courtesy call on Tuesday to the National Dialogue Steering Committee co-chair, Angelo Beda to discuss progress in the dialogue process. “They laid emphasis on the popular consultations, both at the grassroots and regional levels. Issues including land reforms, governance (...) - News / South Sudan, United Kingdom (UK) / Great Britain (GB), FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

November 14, 2019 (JUBA) – The British ambassador to South Sudan, Chris Trott has lauded the important work so far accomplished by the country's national dialogue steering committee over the past two years. Trott paid a courtesy call on Tuesday to the National Dialogue Steering Committee co-chair, Angelo Beda to discuss progress in the dialogue process. “They laid emphasis on the popular consultations, both at the grassroots and regional levels. Issues including land reforms, governance (...) - News / South Sudan, United Kingdom (UK) / Great Britain (GB)

November 14, 2019 (NEW YORK) - The United Nations Security Council on Thursday renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping mission Abyei for six months till May 15, 2020. Security Council Resolution 2497, which was unanimously supported by members, also decides to extend the peacekeepers' mandate modification till May 15, 2020. The Security Council first modified the mandate of the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in December 2011 to add tasks of supporting a Joint Border (...) - News / UNISFA - United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei , Abyei

November 14, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Foreign Minister Asma Mohamed Abdallah on Monday discussed with US Special Envoy to Sudan Donald Booth bilateral dialogue to normalize relations and Sudan's lifting from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST). After long hesitation, Washington decided last October to rescind Sudan designation as SST in support of the revolution that led to the collapse of the al-Bashir regime. However, American officials have not agreed with the Sudanese government on (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Sudan, Sanctions on Sudan

November 13, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday denied reports that Abdallah Hamdouk had resigned and described it as a «malicious rumour». In a press conference on Wednesday, Mubarak al-Fadil, head of the Umma Party said he expected Hamdouk's resignation as a result of a difference on economic reforms between him and the left factions in the ruling coalition of Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC). Fadil who had been rejected by the Communist Pary when he asked (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

November 13, 2019 (JUBA) – The national women team of South Sudan will participate in the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) Senior Women's Challenge Cup due in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. “The South Sudan Football Association (SSFA) has confirmed that they will for the first time enter a team in the 2019 CECAFA Senior Women's Challenge Cup,” partly reads a statement on South Sudan Football Association's website. South Sudan has been placed in group A, which (...) - News / Tanzania, Sport

November 13, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - During a meeting with the U.S. Envoy to Sudan Donald Booth, Sudanese Defence Minister Jamal Ibrahim reaffirmed the strong coordination between military and civilian components of the transitional government. Booth who is currently visiting Khartoum was briefed by the Sudanese minister on the reforms undertaken by the Sudanese government after the revolution of December, said the official news agency SUNA. Ibrahim “affirmed the unparalleled coordination among (...) - News

November 12, 2019 (JUBA) – A total of 190,455 civilians were seeking safety in six Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites located on the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) base as of 7 Nov. 2019, the world body revealed. The figure, UNMISS said, includes the 117,767 in Bentiu, 26,359 in Malakal, 29,702 in Juba UN House, 1,931 in Bor, and 14,696 in the area which is adjacent to its base in Wau. Last month, the head of UNMISS, David Shearer said the mission drafted a report together (...) - News

November 12, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani Tuesday has rejected calls to extradite ousted Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The International Criminal Court in The Hague issued two arrest warrants in 2009 and 2010 for al-Bashir who is indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Darfur. DUP leading member Ali al-Sayed told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday that his party (...) - News

November 12, 2019 (JUBA) – Renowned Nigerian prophet T.B Joshua has appealed to South Sudanese leaders and citizens to overcome their differences and develop the war-torn nation. The cleric was speaking on Tuesday during which he met President Salva Kiir at State House in the capital, Juba and prayed for the country. “Time has come for us to put our differences behind us,” Joshua told thousands in his message televised on the state-owned television (SSBC). “This is the voice of God. Our (...) - News / Uganda, Nigeria, Religion

November 12, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's prosecutor general has issued arrest warrants against those individuals involved in the Islamist coup d'etat that brought general al-Bashir to power thirty years ago, including the leader of a splinter group from al-Bashir's party Sudan's Freedom and Change Forces (FFC) on Tuesday announced that the criminal prosecution continues its proceedings against the authors of the 30 June 1989 coup d'état, including leaders of the Popular Congress Party (PCP) which (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

By Dr Jacob K. Lupai* Introduction Federalism is seen as a constitutional arrangement for dividing power between different levels of government so that federated states, regions or provinces can enjoy substantial autonomy over certain policy areas while at the same time sharing power over other areas. It is a means of ensuring peace, unity, stability and development for prosperity in countries that have territorially concentrated differences of identity, ethnicity, culture and language. (...) - Comment & Analysis

November 11, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - The European Commission announced a €55 million aid for Sudan in support of the help vulnerable people caught in humanitarian crises, said statement released on Monday. The announcement of the humanitarian assistance came at the end of a meeting with the Sudanese prime minister who discussed with the European Union foreign ministers ways to support the transition in Sudan. “As the living conditions of millions in Sudan are being strained by the multiple crises (...) - News / Europe

November 11, 2019 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Council of Ministers has ordered all the South Sudanese military forces to immediately vacate civilian centres and populated areas. The Council, in a communiqué of the 69th Extra-ordinary Session on the situation in South Sudan on Sunday, said they have noted with concern that some civilian centres are still being occupied by the South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF) and armed opposition forces (...) - News / South Sudan, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), South Sudan Peace Implementation

November 11, 2019 (NEW YORK) - The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has welcomed the decision of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Council of Ministers to extend the pre-transitional period in South Sudan for an additional 100 days. The Secretary-General, his deputy spokesperson said, urged the parties to use this extension to make further progress on critical benchmarks, including security arrangements and the number and boundaries of states, to (...) - News / South Sudan, Politics, UN - United Nations

November 11, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Ali al-Haj Secretary-General of the Islamist Popular Congress Party (PCP) on Monday voiced his party's support for the handover of ousted President Omer al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC). «Since the time of its late founder, Hassan al-Turabi, the Party has demanded that Bashir surrender himself to the Court and respond to the charges directed against him of responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide,» al-Haj told a (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

November 10, 2019 (WASHINGTON) - The Presbyterian Church in the United States is to provide support to partner organizations working to help thousands of people affected by floods in South Sudan. The Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is reportedly working with the Presbyterian Relief and Development Agency (PRDA), an arm of the Presbyterian Church of South Sudan, to provide food and non-food items as well as assistance with shelter. “More than 800,000 people that have been affected by (...) - News / Floods | Flooding, South Sudan

November 11, 2019 (JUBA) – South Sudan's President Salva Kiir accepted the extension of the pre-transitional period last week to prevent a return to another civil war, a presidential aide said. Speaking at a thanksgiving ceremony organized by the Greater Acholi community in the capital, Juba on Sunday, the presidential spokesperson, Ateny Wek Ateny said the South Sudan leader acted to avoid outbreak of violence. The occasion was held to honour Paul Ongee, the newly appointed chief (...) - News / South Sudan, FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

November 11, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - The SPLM-North led by Malik Agar has decided to send a women's goodwill delegation to promote peace in Khartoum and to meet women groups, the transitional authority, the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC). In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune on Monday, Badr al-Din Musa SPLM-N Agar Spokesman said the delegation will be composed of 20 women from the liberated and asylum areas. He added the decision to send the women delegation was taken by the ongoing (...) - News

November 10, 2019 (JUBA) - The IGAD Council of Ministers Sunday called on the guarantors and the South Sudanese parties to operationalize the new Mechanism to agreed in Entebbe to control the implementation of the pending tasks. A tripartite summit held in Entebbe on 7 November, including leaders of Uganda, South Sudan and Sudan and attended by SPLM-IO leader and Kenya's special envoy agreed to extend the pre-transitional period for 100 days and to form a mechanism to supervise the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, South Sudan, South Sudan Peace Implementation

November 9, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan is facing «difficult conditions», said the head of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan before to stress their readiness to protect the Revolution and confront those who try to abort it. «We are ready to protect the revolution that came out for the sake of Sudanese people, to provide a decent living and fight corruption,» Burhan told a crowd in Shendi town of the River Nile state. «We will give our souls to preserve the cohesion of the country,» (...) - News

November 9, 2019 (ABU DHABI) - Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for economic development aid,, has allocated AED37 million (about US$10 million) towards a strategic healthcare project in Juba, South Sudan. The 60-bed hospital, located in Gudele, will reportedly cater for residents of Juba and adjacent areas, meeting growing demand and evolving needs. The project, official said, comprises the construction of a new building that includes clinics, (...) - News / South Sudan

November 9, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - National Umma Party (NUP) leader Sadiq al-Mahdi has announced his party's unwavering support for the transitional government but warned that the magnitude of the tasks could lead to call for general elections in the country. In a speech delivered on the occasion of the birth of the Prophet Mohammad on Saturday, al-Mahdi criticized some of NUP's allied political forces in the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC). He further stressed that the deposed regime (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY