South Sudan: BREAKING NEWS, media & analyses
August 25, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took off on the first official direct Tel Aviv-Khartoum flight on Tuesday morning, a day after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Video released by the US embassy in Jerusalem showed an official greeting Pompeo, as he walked up the steps into his plane, saying “You are now […]
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August 20, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) faction under the leadership of General Abdel Aziz Adam al-Hilu has withdrawn from peace talks in Juba today in opposition to the leadership of General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo to the Sudanese government delegation, sources have said. “We have withdrawn this morning from the peace talks. What we want is […]
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August 20, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Sudan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman was fired on Wednesday, a day after he sparked a diplomatic flurry by publicly disclosing normalization talks with Israel, apparently without authorization. The official Sudanese News Agency reported that the acting foreign minister “issued a decision relieving Haidar Badawi Sadiq of his position.” Haidar Badawi Sadiq told Sky News Arabia on […]
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August 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The United States Treasury Department announced on Tuesday the lifting of restrictions on Americans’ financial dealings with Sudan. “US persons are no longer prohibited from engaging in transactions with respect to Sudan or the Government of Sudan that were previously prohibited by the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations,” a treasury statement read. However, it kept Sudan on […]
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August 11, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A column of about 70 armed vehicles belonging to Sudan’s Janjaweed fighters moved towards the key strategic Mediterranean city of Sirte in support of General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday. Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) earlier said it intends to recapture Sirte, a gateway to Libya’s main oil […]
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August 10, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The trial of Sudan’s ousted ex-president Omar Al-Bashir was delayed Monday at the request of his defense, a prosecution lawyer said. The trial of Bashir over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago, as well as of 27 other defendants, opened with a brief hearing in July. The second […]
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August 4, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan government has said that relations have improved with the government of Sudan since the removal of President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir in a nation-wide protest in 2019. The comments were made by the undersecretary of the ministry of health Awou Daniel Chuang during an exclusive interview with S&P Global Platts in the capital […]
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August 1, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A dam in Sudan’s Blue Nile state has collapsed and destroyed around 600 houses, officials quoted by local media in Sudan have said. “Over 600 houses in the neighborhoods of Bout town in Blue Nile State have been destroyed due to a sudden collapse of Bout dam which is used to store around 5 million […]
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June 9, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A Sudanese war criminal has been arrested and taken to The Hague after surrendering to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Central African Republic where he has been hiding since the ouster of former President Omar al-Bashir last year. Ali Muhammad Ali Abdel-Rahman, who is commonly known as Ali Kushayb, was a senior Janjaweed commander who supported […]
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June 2, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Yassin Ibrahim, a retired army general, was sworn in Tuesday as Sudan’s new defense minister after his predecessor died in March, state media reported. Ibrahim, 62, replaces General Jamal eldin Omar who died of an unspecified illness while in neighboring South Sudan for peace talks with the country’s main rebel groups. His appointment came a […]
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