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Juba — South Sudan's presidential advisor on Gender and Human Rights, Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior, has expressed urgent need to disarm the civil populations in her home state of Jonglei in order to achieve peace among rival communities. The presidential a
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A picture shows freshly-minted notes of the new South Sudan pound, which pictures the late South Sudanese independence leader John Garang, in Juba on July 18, 2011. View Photo »
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INTRODUCTION It is close to seven months since the Republic of South Sudan became independent. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 brought an end to the brutal civil war (1955-1972; 1983-2005) that engulfed Sudan before its independenc
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Post-Secession Sudan: Challenges and Opportunities – By Dr Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani
African Arguments
Since independence, the quest for a modern state has remained a central issue in Sudanese, and indeed African, politics. In Sudan, the conflict in the South has further compounded the efforts to realize independence and form a stable and functional state
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As we come ever closer to 2012, I thought I would examine Africa's recent struggles on its path to unity and a more prosperous region. Certainly, with 2011's cataclysmic changes taking place in North Africa, most of the African Union's attention has been
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A woman carries a South Sudan flag as she arrives at the John Garang Mouselium for the Independence Day celebrations in the capital Juba July 9, 2011. Tens of thousands of South Sudanese danced and cheered as their new country formally declared its... View Photo »
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Bor — A village in Jonglei was attacked on Saturday; one of numerous recent incidents of insecurity in the region which are seeing marked depopulation, according to a local chief. Panther Gai, the chief of Makuach payam (disctrict), Bor county, descried
About John Garang
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Dr John Garang de Mabior (June 23, 1945 – July 30, 2005) was the First Vice President of Sudan and former leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army. Full Article
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Southern Sudanese faithful pray at the base of a statute of the late rebel leader and first vice-president John Garang at the begining of a ceremony in southern Juba on July 09, 2011 to celebate South Sudan's independence from Sudan. South Sudan separated from Sudan to become the...
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