By Luk Kuth Dak April 13, 2017 (SSNA) — As very many of you may recall that in the early 80’s that I served as Press Secretary to then Governor of the Greater Upper Nile Region, Mr. Daniel Koat Mathews, better as D.K. Mathews. Governor Mathews ( an engineer by training) asked me a few…
By Riang Y. Z. Nyak April 9, 2017 (SSNA) — In its Issue of April 1-7, 2017, The East African published an opinion piece penned by Charles Onyango-Obbo. The title of the piece was If Kiir wears dark glasses indoors, the end is nigh. The opinion of the author expressed in this piece was partly…
It is nearly a year since our Woredas came under attacked by well-armed South Sudanese Murles By Duach R. Mach April 9, 2017 (SSNA) — Cross- border abductions of Ethiopian children has been an ongoing issue. Nine Ethiopian villages were attacked by Murles from South Sudan, searching for young children ranging from the ages of…
By Eric Reeves April 4, 2017 (SSNA) — Impending famine in South Sudan is major news, and has been reported in appropriately urgent fashion, including several recent stories in the New York Times, as well as by a number of other important news organizations. South Sudan has a population of approximately 12 million. Almost entirely unreported are the many…
By Ambassador Dhano Obongo March 30, 2017 (SSNA) — Turkey’s relations with the European Union (EU) are observed not only in Europe, Africa, and Turkey but the entire Arab/Muslim world has become attentive to what has been presumed a developing affiliation. Turkey’s eligibility for EU membership has been substantiated collectively by EU leaders in 1989,…
By Eric Reeves March 27, 2017 (SSNA) — If we needed any confirmation of the supremely callous quid pro quo between Khartoum and the U.S intelligence community under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, it comes today in the form of a dispatch from Sudan Tribune (see below). The dispatch confirms that the Obama administration, during its last…
By Eric Reeves Darfur Basics March 19, 2017 (SSNA) — There are many elements to the current critically dangerous situation on the ground in Darfur: [1] Rampant insecurity, increasingly created by irregular and unchecked Arab militia forces; [2] Denial of humanitarian access (to perhaps 30 percent of the population in need according to some humanitarian estimates); the needy population is estimated to…
By Riang Y. Z. Nyak March 14, 2017 (SSNA) — Recent developments in South Sudan are truly indicative of a situation that has become obvious to many in the course of the last three years of the war. Since the four-day battles in Juba in July 2016, a number of people have come up with…
By Eric Reeves March 4, 2017 (SSNA) — A series of recent dispatches from Sudan Tribune and Radio Dabanga make painfully clear the consequences of gross mismanagement of the Sudanese economy by the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime, which retains its monopolistic hold on national wealth and power despite the absurdly factitious “new government” announced by President (and…
March 3, 2017 (SSNA) — Last January, former President Barack Obama eased the 19-year economic and trade sanctions on Sudan. The decision came as a response to the collaboration of the Sudanese government in the fight against terrorism, denying safe haven to the South Sudanese rebels and, improving humanitarian access to people in need. This…