Sudan and South Sudan will this week set a date to restart face-to-face peace talks after bitter border conflict and the missing of a UN deadline.
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/ 11 February 2012
South Sudan was admitted as a member of the Confederation of African Football, with a strong possibility of also joining Fifa in May.
The government of South Sudan will have to cope with serious shortages in many areas, despite its bountiful oil reserves.
Hours before south Sudan becomes independent, a mood of joyful expectation has swept through its capital, with crowds dancing in the streets.
As the country prepares for independence, the positive feeling is at odds with warnings by NGOs.
A contingent of South African soldiers is providing security for South Sudan’s independence day celebrations in Juba this weekend.
South Sudan’s declaration of independence on July 9 could end in one of three possible scenarios: A deal with North Sudan, a messy divorce or war.
Preparations for the celebration of South Sudan’s independence in Juba next week at a claimed cost of $90-million are continuing.
The UN deputy chief for human rights said the "utter devastation" she saw in Abyei served as a warning of the possible future of Sudan’s border area.
As fighting erupted on the Sudanese border, families fled as the army bombed the border town of Jau — displacing a further 31 700 people.
North and south Sudan have signed an agreement to demilitarise the disputed region of Abyei, says lead mediator and former SA president Thabo Mbeki.
When northern Sudanese troops seized the disputed border town of Abyei, it was a sign that the fragile six-year-old peace was teetering.
South Sudan, now an independent state, is facing a rise in conflict between militia groups which threaten the lives of civilians, a UN official says.
Southern Sudan’s Minister of Defence and a presidential adviser were among at least 23 people killed on Friday in a plane crash blamed on engine failure, officials said. ”Two engines failed and there was nothing the pilot could do,” First Vice-President Salva Kiir told a news conference.
Ugandan government officials quit peace talks on Friday after fugitive rebel leader Joseph Kony delayed signing a final deal, casting doubt over the fate of nearly two years of tortuous negotiations. The draft deal with Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army had been due to be signed on Thursday.
Elders from northern Uganda tried to meet fugitive rebel leader Joseph Kony on Friday to salvage long-running peace talks after he delayed signing a deal to end one of Africa’s longest wars. The draft agreement between Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army and the government appeared to be near collapse.
Uganda’s fugitive rebel chief Joseph Kony will sign a final peace deal with the government on the South Sudan-Democratic Republic of Congo border two days before an official ceremony, South Sudanese officials said on Friday. South Sudan’s Vice President Riek Machar has been chairing long-running negotiations between the two sides in Juba.
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/ 16 October 2007
Sudan’s president met former southern rebels on Tuesday for the first time since they withdrew their ministers from the government, triggering the country’s worst political crisis since a 2005 peace deal. Last week members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement withdrew from a coalition government, saying they wanted progress on key elements of the 2005 agreement.