Sudan's NCP denies moves to register Islamic Movement
February 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Nafie Ali Nafie, the vice-chairman of Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP), has emphatically denied reports on plans by some Islamists to re-establish the currently dormant Islamic Movement (IM) as an independent political party.
South Sudan to reviews oil contracts after expelling PETRODAR chief
By Ngor Arol Garang
February 22,2012- (JUBA)- South Sudan on Wednesday said it has started reviewing all oil contracts signed by the government of neighboring Sudan before the region’s independence, one day after Juba expelled the head of a Chinese oil company.
UNAMID chief seeks to enlist Juba's help to promote Darfur peace accord
February 21, 2012 (JUBA) – The head of the African Union–United Nations mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Ibrahim Gambari met today with South Sudan President Salva Kiir to discuss with him ways to strengthen of the Darfur peace accord signed less than a year ago in the Arab Gulf state of Qatar.
Sudan's ruling party denies moves to register NIF
February 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Nafie Ali Nafie, the vice-chairman of Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP), has emphatically denied reports on plans by some Islamists to break away from his party and re-establish the currently dormant National Islamic Front (NIF) as an independent political party.
Darfur rebels & UNAMID confirm release all peacekeepers, but have two versions
February 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) released Sudanese interprets and a Yemeni police advisor, the rebels and the hybrid peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) confirmed on Tuesday.
Nafie shrugs off opposition boycott of constitution talks
February 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A ruling party official in Sudan has downplayed the decision of some opposition forces to boycott discussions on the country’s new constitution, saying it will not impact national consensus.
FILE - Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (R) with his advisor Nafie Ali Nafie in Khartoum on Nov.Head of Petrodar oil company expelled from South Sudan
February 21, 2012 (JUBA) – The government of South Sudan on Tuesday ordered Liu Yingcai, the head of the Chinese-Malaysian oil consortium Petrodar, to leave the country on the grounds of “non-cooperation”, a Southern official said.
Employees of the PETRODAR Operating Company, a Chinese-Malaysian oil consortium operating in South Sudan, await the arrival of ranking government officials at the Paloich airport in Melut County, South Sudan on Tuesday Feb.South Sudanese, please stop harassing aliens
By Isaiah Abraham
February 21, 2012 — After independence of South Sudan from the Republic of the Sudan six months ago, the people of the South (say some) have started to misbehave towards other non-South Sudanese or foreigners on the ground that they aren’t part of them. The tendency is building that aliens are slowly taking up opportunities when the locals should have been the one benefiting.
British court rules that disputed Sudanese oil should be unloaded in Japan
Wednesday 22, 2012 (JUBA/LONDON) - A British Court has ruled that an oil tanker carrying oil, which South Sudan claims was exported illegally by North Sudan, should be unloaded in Japan, shipping sources have told the Reuters news agency.
Since seceding from Sudan in July last year South Sudan has been unable to agree a new oil deal with Khartoum and last month stopped all production, accusing the north of siphoning off oil and seizing its oil in Port Sudan.
Students in conflict areas on Jonglei miss exams
February 21, 2012 (BOR) – Conflict over the last two months in South Sudan’s Jonglei State has meant that in Pibor, Uror, Akobo and some parts of Bor county, 14% of students have been unable to sit their exams, according to the state’s education minister Stephen Par Kuol.
Despite 24% of the 1,375 students who sat the exams in Jonglei failing to pass, the education minister was excited by the results.
