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18 hrs ago | AlertNet

Sudans defuse row over rebel support, promise more talks

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, South Sudan

Yesterday | AlertNet

UNHCR prepositioning aid for Darfur refugees in Tissi ahead of rains in eastern Chad

UNHCR is prepositioning aid for tens of thousands of Darfur refugees in eastern Chad amid fears heavy rains will cut off access to the group.

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Yesterday | Gadling

New Long Distance Hiking Trail To Open In Africa

If you've already crossed the Appalachian Trail off your bucket list, hiked the length of New Zealand along the Te Araroa and walked through the Alps on the Haute Route , then I may have found your next big adventure: a new long-distance hiking trail set to open in Africa early next year that will give adventurous travelers an opportunity to follow ... (more)

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Thu May 16, 2013

Sudan Tribune

JEM and its internal conflict with Bashar's splinter group

May 15, 2013: Last week's armed confrontation between JEM and its splinter group of the late Mohamed Bashar has attracted wide attention in the international media.

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Sudan Tribune

World's leading beauty pageants coming to Juba soon

Some of the world's leading beauty pageants from a number of countries in Asia, America, Europe, Middle East and Africa are expected to visit Juba next month in response to an invitation by their South Sudanese counterpart, Atong Ajak De Mach.

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Sudan Tribune

Bahr el Ghazal governors 'at odds' over support to presidential aspirants

Governors from Greater Bahr el Ghazal states are at odds over who to support for South Sudan's presidency, highlighting the internal differences within the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement in the run up to the 2015 general elections.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, South Sudan, Salva Kiir,

Sudan Tribune

Sudanese capital is safe from rebel attacks, says governor

The governor of Khartoum, Abdel-Rahman al-Khidir, asserted today that the Sudanese capital is safe amid growing concern among officials and residents of an imminent attack by rebels from the Sudan Revolutionary Front .

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Sudan Tribune

Khartoum-Juba talks on rebel support end without agreement: sources

A joint meeting that took place yesterday in Khartoum between military intelligence teams from north and south Sudan has failed to reach an agreement on the thorny issue of harboring and supporting rebel groups in both countries.

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Wed May 15, 2013

South China Morning Post

Strauss-Kahn gives South Sudan some 'special attention'

After some time out of the limelight following his spectacular fall from grace in 2011, former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resurfaced in unusual circumstances.

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Sudan Tribune

Sudanese opposition leaders hold Khartoum responsible for death of Abyei chief

A group of Sudanese opposition politicians visiting neighboring South Sudan have accused Khartoum of complicity in the May 5 killing of the paramount chief of the contested border region of Abyei, Kuol Deng Kuol, who was murdered by Arab nomads from the Misseriya tribe, while he was travelling in a United Nations convoy.

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Sudan Tribune

S. Sudan's Jonglei based Yauyau rebel claims cordoning Pibor town

A rebel group fighting in South Sudan's Jonglei State on Tuesday claimed to have laid a siege on Pibor town, highlighting the level of their activities in the area have reached in recent days.

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Sudan Tribune

Lakes: 4 suspects arrested over road ambush

Four people have been arrested in connection with last week's highway robbery incident, in which a senior South Sudan army official was injured in Lakes state.

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Tue May 14, 2013

AllAfrica.com

Sudan: South Sudan's President to Visit Sudan Oil Exportation Launch

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit will visit Sudan on Wednesday to launch the exportation of his country's oil from Port-Sudan, Khartoum's Almeghar Al-Siasi daily reported Sunday.

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Reuters

Ex-IMF boss Strauss-Kahn attends South Sudan bank opening

Dominique Strauss-Kahn helped to open a new bank in the world's youngest nation, South Sudan, on Tuesday, a low-key return to the international stage for the former IMF chief brought down by a sex scandal.

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AllAfrica.com

South Sudan: South Sudan Diplomat "Injured" in Dubai Fracas

South Sudan's Foreign Affairs ministry is investigating circumstances under which one of its senior diplomats, en-route to Pakistan from Juba, sustained "multiple fractures" in Dubai.

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People's Daily Online

Six Chinese peacekeeping nurses win 'Special Contribution Award for Nursing'

The Wau Base of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan held a ceremony in the barracks of the Chinese peacekeeping medical detachment to South Sudan on the morning of May 10, 2013 to commemorate the 102nd anniversary of the International Nurses' Day and present six nurses of the detachment including Zou Yuzheng with the "Special Contribution ... (more)

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Voice of America

Yau Yau Says Rebels Fighting for Separate State

United Nations troops protect civilians in Jonglei state, where David Yau Yau's rebels claim to be on the verge of taking Pibor town and preparing to send troops to attack the state capital, Bor.

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Mon May 13, 2013

AllAfrica.com

Sudan: Sudan Forms 'Strategic Battalion' to Defend Capital

The opposition National Consensus Forces described Khartoum's announcement to form a special "strategic battalion" to counter a possible attack of the rebel Sudan Revolutionary Front on Khartoum, as "a serious threat to the homeland and the lives and safety of citizens". Kamal Omer Abdel Salam, Secretary of Information and spokesman of the National ... (more)

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AllAfrica.com

Sudan: S Darfur Camps Receive 1,500 New Displaced Families

About 1500 newly displaced families from the areas of Tabaldia and Abu Jabra fled to Girayda after militias attacked the two areas last week.

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The New Zealand Herald

Gran honoured for warzone work

A Gisborne grandmother awarded the highest international honour for nurses says she relishes her work in the world's war and disaster zones - but it does worry her mum.

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