September 20, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir says there is no need for continued fighting in the young nation, three years after his government signed a peace deal with rival factions. Kiir, his main political rival Riek Machar and other parties signed a revitalized peace agreement mediated by the regional bloc (IGAD) in September 2018 to end more than five years of civil war. An estimated more than 400,000 people were killed and millions displaced as a result of the (...) - News / SPLM/A In Opposition, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, Politics

September 19, 2021 (NIMULE) - South Sudan and neighbouring Uganda agreed and set up a joint cross-border committee to help fight COVID-19 pandemic in both countries. This was the outcome of a joint meeting held in Nimule town council on Thursday last week. The meeting was funded by the European Union-Intergovernmental Authority on development (EU-IGAD) COVID-19 response to health and social impacts. Several leaders from both countries, EU and IGAD officials attended the meeting. The (...) - News / Coronavirus, South Sudan, Uganda

September 19, 2021 (JUBA) - The South Sudanese government should urgently investigate an incident of which 50 South Sudanese reportedly drown while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. At least 50 South Sudanese immigrants reportedly died in the Mediterranean Sea while attempting to cross into Europe, according to a report released by Sudanese authorities last week. An additional 280 South Sudanese are receiving treatment in Italian hospitals, the report released by the Sudanese (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, Red Sea

September 19, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - A Kuwaiti delegation has arrived in the capital, Khartoum, to discuss Sudan's debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. Kuwait, which is Sudan's largest creditor from the non-Paris Club countries at $9.8 billion, had pledged to hold direct talks with Khartoum over the matter. On Sunday, Sudanese Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim and Abdullah Khalil Al-Musaibeh, the regional director of the Arab countries at the Kuwait Fund for (...) - News

September 18, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Ending the United Nations arms embargo on Sudan is one of the main goals of the Sudanese transitional government, said Foreign Minister Mariam al-Mahdi on Saturday. Speaking to reports in Khartoum about the diplomatic action of her ministry, al-Mahdi said the steady action of the Sudanese diplomacy after the ouster of the isolated repressive regime has led to reintegrate the country into the international institutions. However, she numbered three sectors on (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

September 18, 2021 (MOROBO/JUBA) - The opposition National Salvation Front (NAS) has dismissed social media reports that it's forces recently attacked a humanitarian convoy between Yei and Morobo counties. This attack, the hold-out group said in a statement, came at the time when the regime's forces are on offensive against it's forces in Yei and Kajo­ Keji areas. "As of now, NAS forces have withdrawn tactically to far locations; and at the same time, the area where the attack on humanitarian (...) - News / National Salvation Front (NAS), SPLA - SSPDF, Military

September 18, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The civilian component of the transitional government refused the use of force against the peaceful tribal protests rejecting the East Agreement and called for negotiations to settle the crisis. In a meeting held on Thursday, the Supreme Peace Council discussed the situation in eastern Sudan ahead of the closure of the roads linking the maritime ports on the Red Sea and the rest of the country. According to the Al-Sudani newspaper, the military component (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

September 17, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudanese youth are calling to protest saying they are alarmed by continued the arbitrary detention of the former governor of Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Kuel Aguer Kuel despite his worsening health conditions. In early August 2021, Security forces arrested Kuel days after he signed a petition for a mass protest to press President Salva Kiir and his first deputy to step down accusing them of failing to implement the revitalized peace agreement. In response to (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

September 17, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir has brokered a seat-sharing deal between the members of Other Political Parties (OPP) allowing their representation at the transitional parliament after months of bickering. Peter Mayen Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster told the Sudan Tribune late on Thursday that internal dispute over positions within the OPP has been resolved. He added that the President asked him to submit the list of parliamentary nominees, (...) - News

September 17, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - An eastern Sudan tribal group blocked the highway linking the main maritime ports on the Red Sea with the rest of the country to protest the government's refusal to cancel a peace deal signed last year. The supporters of the Hadandawa tribal leader Mohamed al-Amin Turk, who was also a leading local member of the dissolved National Congress Party of Omer al-Bashir rejects the «East Sudan Track» of the Juba Peace Agreement saying the groups that negotiated the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Democratic Transition in Sudan

September 16, 2021 (NEW YORK) - South Sudan is facing its highest levels of food insecurity since independence, a senior United Nations official disclosed. Addressing the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Reena Ghelani, the Director for Operations and Advocacy at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), said more than 60 per cent of the people in South Sudan are severely food insecure, against the backdrop of conflict, climate shocks, displacement, (...) - News / South Sudan, Famine, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

September 16, 2021 (JUBA) - A top United Nations official has warned that general elections in war-torn South Sudan could turn into a disaster, instead of a national turning point. Nicholas Haysom, the head of the UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said on Wednesday that electoral preparations should be conducted alongside constitutional making processes, citing the significance of both processes. He also cited lack of consensus on the exact life span of the transitional period of the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, South Sudan, Democracy - Elections

September 16, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok pledged to improve access to clean water and power to the displacement camps in Darfur. Hamdok on Thursday received Darfur Governor Minni Minnawi to discuss the support of the federal government to the Darfur states in the areas of water and infrastructure. Also, the meeting discussed providing basic services to the IDPs camps including health, education, clean water and power. The prime minister pledged to prioritize (...) - News

September 16, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan, on Thursday, welcomed a presidential statement by the Security Council calling for the resumption of talks to reach an agreement on the filling and operation of a giant dam that Ethiopia constructs on the Blue Nile. On Wednesday the Security Council adopted a presidential statement calling on Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to resume negotiations under the auspices of the African Union Chairperson on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in order to (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)

September 15, 2021 (KHARTOUM/NEW YORK) - United Nations Security Council on Wednesday called on the Blue Nile riparian countries to reach a binding agreement on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The call coincided with the arrival of Congolese Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula who handed over to his Sudanese counterpart Mariam al-Mahdi a document prepared by African Union experts ahead of the resumption of African Union-led negotiations. After (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)

September 15, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan's president Salva Kiir has declined a request to sack Humanitarian Affairs minister, Peter Mayen Majongdit, preferring dialogue among aggrieved parties. The call comes after members of Other Political Parties (OPP) and civil society groups, citing various reasons, asked the president to replace Mayen. A presidential source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Sudan Tribune that the South Sudanese leader does not want to be seen as interfering in (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, South Sudan

September 15, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok renewed calls for the integration of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Sudanese army together with the other armed groups. Last May, RSF General Commander and deputy vice-chairman Mohamed Hamdan Daglo «Hemetti» of the Sovereign Council rejected the merger of his 50,000 militiamen into the Sudan Armed Forces stressing they are not concerned by the security sector reform. The Constitutional Declaration governing (...) - News

September 15, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir is not the problem with the implementation of the 2018 revitalized peace agreement, a government official said. Speaking to Sudan Tribune on Wednesday, Presidential Affairs minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin blamed the slow implementation of the peace deal on the economic situation and «reluctance» by key members of international community to support the implementation of key provisions of the peace accord. “Let me tell you (...) - News / Politics, South Sudan

September 14, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese women are considerably affected by violence in the Darfur region and still underrepresented in the transitional government institutions, a Sudanese activist told the UN Security Council on Tuesday. Hala al-Karib, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, briefed the Council on the situation of women in Sudan after the ouster of the former repressive regime in April 2019. Al-Karbi who is actively involved in the (...) - News / Democratic Transition in Sudan

Statement by Ms Hala Al-Karib to the UN Security Council 14 September 2021 Madam President, Excellencies, My name is Hala Al-Karib and I am the Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA). SIHA is a feminist organization that advocates for the rights of grassroots women across Sudan, including in Darfur. Sudan today stands on the verge of mounting crises. The removal of Omar al-Bashir's regime in 2019 revealed a rotten structure that must be (...) - Press Releases

September 14, 2021 (JUBA) - A veteran South Sudanese politician has accused First Vice President, Riek Machar of lacking interest in the implementation of the revitalised peace agreement after last year's formation of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU). Peter Adwok Nyaba, a former Higher Education minister, wondered who would still be interested in the full implementation of the peace agreement after Machar joined the coalition government. “Who could have been more (...) - News / South Sudan, Politics, South Sudan peace process, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

September 13, 2021 (JUBA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) will suspend food assistance for more than 100,000 displaced people in parts of South Sudan for three months as part of a prioritization exercise driven by funding shortages this year. The agency said while generous contributions from donors have enabled it reach millions in need with lifesaving assistance, many vulnerable people living in crisis areas continue to suffer from the highest levels of food insecurity and cannot survive (...) - News / South Sudan, WFP - World Food Program

September 13, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan rejected four benchmarks proposed by the UN Secretary-General to the Security Council to assess the situation in Darfur before deciding on the lift of the weapon embargo on the western Sudan region. The UN Security Council Last February, requested the Secretary-General to assess the situation in Darfur and to recommend benchmarks that can serve for reviewing the individual sanctions and weapon embargo on Darfur imposed in March 2005. On 31 July, The (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

September 13, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan's Foreign Affairs minister, Mayiik Deng Ayii has called for collective responsibilities to accomplish priority areas of the government. The new minister was speaking at a reception held at the Foreign Affairs ministry's headquarters in the capital, Juba on Monday. Deng said the government's top agenda is to implement the peace agreement, besides promoting and protecting core values and interests. Such interests, he added, include national identity, (...) - News / South Sudan, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

September 13, 2021 (JUBA)- South Sudan's peace monitoring body (RJMEC) has warned that raging subnational conflicts in the countryside undermine implementation of the peace accord. Speaking during the third anniversary of the revitalized peace agreement signing, Charles Tai Gituai, the Interim Chairperson of RJMEC said it was time leaders to the agreement commit themselves to the full implementation of the peace deal, citing the frustration among citizens. “There is a sense of frustration (...) - News / Politics, South Sudan

September 13, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudanese Cabinet Affairs Minister has lambasted the international community, saying the country was lacking genuine friends but only those with the agenda of regime change. Minister Martin Elia Lomuro pointed to reluctance by key members of the international community to fund the implementation of the 2018 revitalized peace agreement. “Who says there are friends, perhaps in the region but in the international community, let me put it white and blank, we do (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

September 12, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese minister called on Saudi businessmen to put their money into the very much needed infrastructure investments among other economic activities to rebuild the national economy. A Sudanese-Saudi economic forum began in Khartoum on Sunday. The meeting, which is co-organised by the government of the two countries, aims to allow 45 Saudi public and private investors to better identify economic activities where they can inject their money. Speaking at the (...) - News / Foreign Investment, FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

September 12, 2021 (JUBA) - The need to expedite implementation of the security arrangements was top of the agenda at a meeting between the UN Under-Secretary-General, Jean-Pierre Lacroix and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir in the capital, Juba. "We discussed the situation regarding the efficient and effective implementation of the Revitalized Peace Agreement. We appreciated the efforts that have been made in this regard since the signing of the agreement and reiterated our support for (...) - News / South Sudan, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, UN - United Nations

September 12, 2021 (JUBA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said it secured $5.9 million to support humanitarian air operations in war-torn South Sudan. The European Union funds will be used to support the United Nations Humanitarian Air Services (UNHAS) and the WFP-led Logistics Cluster, a mechanism designed to ensure efficient and effective emergency response in South Sudan. WFP's country director for South Sudan, Matthew Hollingworth said UNHAS and the Logistics Cluster (...) - News / South Sudan

September 11, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - A holdout armed group in Darfur released a government «militiaman» captured in the Jebel Marra area seven months ago, according to a statement released on Saturday. Mohamed al-Nayer, Spokesman of the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid al-Nur (SLM-AW), said the prisoner of war was released due to his health conditions. The prisoner, Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussain Muqaddam Sabon had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross on (...) - News / Darfur Conflict, FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

September 11, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese and Indian navies conducted a joint maritime exercise in the Red Sea near the Sudanese coast, the two countries said on Saturday. Two Sudanese warships Abdelfadil Almaz and Almak-Nimr took part in the partnership exercise with the Indian Naval Ship Tabar on Friday 10 September. The exercise involved multiple activities covering a wide range of naval operations, including coordinated manoeuvring, replenishment at sea drills, helicopter operations, (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

September 10, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan's newly appointed foreign minister revealed on Friday that diplomats serving outside the country have not been paid for two years. President Salva Kiir on Thursday evening appointed Mayiik Ayii Deng as the new foreign and international cooperation minister, replacing Beatrice Khamis. Speaking during his acceptance speech of the new assignment Deng said guidance of the president will help over the challenges facing his ministry. “I acknowledge the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

September 10, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan and Sudan have pledged to strengthen bilateral cooperation and jointly maintain peace and stability in the region. Defence ministers of the two Sudan wrapped up two days of talks between delegations from the two countries on security cooperation, border and trade. Speaking to the media on Friday, South Sudan's Defence Minister Angelina Teny said the two delegations have agreed to elevate their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership of (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

September 10, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese Commission of Refugees (COR) confirmed Friday that 120 Ethiopian peacekeepers have applied for asylum in Sudan. In a statement released in Khartoum, the COR said Sudan is hosting over 80,000 Ethiopians who sought refuge in eastern Sudan after the eruption of war in the Tigray region in November 2020. Among these refugees, «there are 120 Ethiopian officers who were part of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Sudan,» further said the (...) - News / Ethiopia, FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

September 9, 2021 (JUBA) - The National Committee for the Final Status of Abyei in South Sudan rejected the replacement of Ethiopian forces before an agreement over the future of the disputed area. Last August, the United Nations approved Sudan's request to withdraw Ethiopian forces from Abyei, in the wake of strained relations between the two countries over the al-Fashaga area and the GERD. Jean Pierre Lacroix, Head of the UN Peacekeeping Department discussed with the Sudanese officials (...) - News / Abyei, FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY