Juba

How Long Can We Wait for Kony's Signature?

Paddy Ankunda In his article "Peace is a strange phenomenon to Kony," published in the New Vision of September 24, Samuel Obura expressed his pessimism at the likelihood of Kony signing the Juba Peace agreement. He said:...

Arms race, uneasy peace in Sudan

In the south, the parliament voted to double its budget to cover military spending, and the north spent 20 percent of its budget on the military. Although the Arab-dominated government of Sudan and the semiautonomous region of...

Mubarak in first visit to south Sudan

JUBA: President Hosni Mubarak flew to the southern Sudanese capital Juba for the first time on Monday after discussing the Darfur crisis with President Omar Al-Beshir in Khartoum.Mubarak met with former southern rebel leader...

Uganda: Air Uganda Celebrates One Year, Target Expansion

Posted to the web 10 November 2008 Arthur Oyako Kampala Air Uganda has entered into partnership with Belgian Airline, SN Brussels to fly its passengers to European destinations. Under the agreement Air Uganda will also fly all...

Renewed doubts over Sudan census

JUBA, Nov 07, 2008 (AFP) - Sudan's first census in 15 years came under renewed scrutiny Friday as an official report highlighted a string of obstacles to the exercise in the semi-autonomous south. Early rains, an influx of...

Museveni Meets Machar on LRA Talks

Posted to the web 7 November 2008 Anthony Bugembe Kampala PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said he is ready to sign the final peace agreement between his Government and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Museveni made the...

Sudan military stock-piling?

Juba - "Victory is certain," reads the motto of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), above a Kalashnikov automatic rifle crossed with a spear. "We are turning ourselves from a guerrilla force to a regular army with...

SOUTH SUDAN: MEDIA: Battle on Two Fronts

JUBA, 03/11/08 (IPS) - South Sudanese media is under pressure to present a loyal front to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement government on the one hand and to toe the Sudanese government line on the other, both curtailing...

Floods displace thousands in Somalia

25 people have died and hundreds left homeless, after floods in south-western Gedo region displaced families around Bar-dhere. Inhabitants said the banks of Juba river flooded a number of villages in the town 580km South of...

Uganda: Chissano Seeks to Restart Peace-Talks

Posted to the web 4 November 2008 Henry Mukasa Kampala THE United Nations special envoy to Lord's Resistance Army-affected areas, Joachim Chissano, has convened a meeting in Kampala to restart the stalled Juba peace-talks. The...

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