The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors announced 105 cases of injury at the 31 July Khartoum protests calling for peaceful co-existence, including a scattered gunshot wound, 11 protestors ran over, and 68 cases of tear gas related injury.The excessi…
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West Darfur activists: ‘Authorities detained 177 illegally’
The Defence Authority for West Darfur Detainees reported that the authorities has arbitrarily detained 177 people last week. The whereabouts of a large number of them are still to be determined.In a statement yesterday, the defence authority said it is…
Continue readingUror murder convict freed after paying blood money
A man who was arrested on Thursday last week for killing a policeman in Uror County in Jonglei State has been set free after he paid 100 cows as blood compensation to the deceased’s family.Sergeant Dama Yol was killed during an exchange of fire with an…
Continue readingLakes governor orders trial of jailed teachers
Lakes State Governor Gen. Rin Tueny Mabor has ordered the state minister of education to produce six teachers who had been transferred to Rumbek Central prison before a court of law, a local official said.The six teachers initially detained at the Pand…
Continue readingOpinion | President Kiir’s silence on Anyuak exit from GPAA causes more loss of lives and instability in Anywaa land
In March 2022, the Anywaa (Anyuak as other tribes called them) community of Pochalla wrote a petition to His Excellency Salva Kiir Mayardit, the President of the Republic of South Sudan, demanding exit from Greater Pibor Administrative Area. The reason…
Continue readingEmbattled ECSS Jonglei archbishop resumes work
The embattled Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan’s (ECSS) Jonglei Internal Province, Ruben Akurdit, arrived Saturday in Bor town where he resumed work months after his expulsion over security concerns.The ECSS in Jonglei split in August …
Continue readingSudan detects first monkeypox case
Sudan reported its first confirmed Monkeypox case, the country’s health ministry said.In a statement on Sunday, the Federal Ministry of Health said that the first case was detected in a 16-year student in West Darfur state and confirmed by the National…
Continue readingNormalcy returns to Mayom County after rebel attacks
A semblance of normalcy has returned to Mayom County in Unity State after last week’s multiple attacks by rebels loyal to Gen. Stephen Buay Rolnyang, a local official said.The information officer in Mayom County, Wuor Keah, told Radio Tamazuj Monday th…
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