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New Ideas: Where to for Turkey?

March 30, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

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,…

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A Clearer View of What Lies Behind Obama Administration Lifting of Sanctions on the Khartoum Regime

March 27, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

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…

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Internally Displaced Persons in Darfur: The invisible catastrophe, international complicity

March 19, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

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…

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Our Current Revolutionary Situation

March 14, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

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…

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Khartoum (Sudan) and the Peripheries: Where the Money Goes—and Where it Doesn’t Go

March 4, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

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…

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U.S. Congressman accuses Sudan of obstructing humanitarian access

March 3, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

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…

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Over 5 Million People are at Risks of Dying in South Sudan; Why the World is Silent?

February 23, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

By Dr. Gatluak Ter Thach* February 23, 2017 (SSNA) — The international media and regional media outlets are silent of seriously informing the world about manmade catastrophes in South Sudan. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), together with South Sudanese regime in Juba, have announced that a graved famine hit South Sudan, especially…

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Can South Sudan Survive Another Year of Civil War?

February 21, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

By Chap Phan February 21. 2017 (SSNA) — Many people, including this author, have expressed concerns many times about Juba’s regime inability to bring peace and show leadership in ending civil war. The regime has chosen to fight against the people with no victory in sight.  War has spread to the wider country since the…

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Khartoum Begins New Military Offensive in South Kordofan: A clear violation of terms laid down by Obama Administration for lifting of U.S. sanctions on Khartoum

February 21, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

By Eric Reeves February 21, 2017 (SSNA) — The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-North (SPLA/M-N) today reports that Khartoum has begun a new military offensive in South Kordofan: “Today morning, 21st February 2017, the Sudanese army and its allied militia started their dry season offensive around 6 am at Krongo Abdalla in Kadougli county, breaching the declared joint cease-fire,” reads a s statement…

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Quantifying Human Destruction and Suffering in Sudan: The grim calculus of international policies and politics

February 12, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

By Eric Reeves February 12, 2017 (SSNA) — Towards the end of her long chapter on the Rwanda genocide in “A Problem From Hell” (2002), Samantha Power renders a moment from this terrible international failure that has long haunted me. It is both unforgettable in its implications and points to far too much that is unforgivable. The…

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Gendered violence in Juba

February 6, 2017Analyses, Opinion, South Sudansouthsudannews

By Professor Simon E. Kulusika February 6, 2017 (SSNA) — Before explaining the meaning of the title of this article, it may help the reader in understanding what will be said later to know the person who is the writer of the article. Where he was born, the Kumam people of Soroti District of Uganda,…

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Who’s actually being governed in South Sudan

February 5, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

By Kuir ë Garang February 5, 2017 (SSNA) — There are many South Sudanese who talk of ‘public opinion’ or ‘popular view’; but how do you gauge that such a view is actually an unsolicited opinion which people hold without fear of retribution? In a nation where holding a contrary opinion is considered a national…

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Africa: A Continent of Hope

February 3, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

By António Guterres February 3, 2017 (SSNA) — Far too often, the world views Africa through the prism of problems. When I look to Africa, I see a continent of hope, promise and vast potential. I am committed to building on those strengths and establishing a higher platform of cooperation between the United Nations and…

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The Increasingly Ominous Fate of U.S. Sudan Policy under President Trump

February 3, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

By Eric Reeves February 3, 2017 (SSNA) — Among the myriad Executive Orders that President Trump has inherited from the Obama administration is one essentially lifting sanctions on the regime in Khartoum, Sudan.  During his last week in office Obama declared there had been sufficient “positive action over the past six months” by the very…

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New ideas: Israeli politics

February 2, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

By Dhano Obongo February 2, 2017 (SSNA) — In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. Then He made people and things became complicated.  At a crossroads of Eurasian and African peoples on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, God placed what was called a promised land inhabited by the descendants of a man…

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Trump bans Sudanese from entering to U.S territory

January 27, 2017Articles, Opinionsouthsudannews

By Eric Reeves January 28, 2017 (SSNA) — Here is a revealing glimpse into the kinds of indiscriminate, ignorant, ham-fisted policies that will follow from the incomprehensible election of an ignorant, vicious, and pathologically narcissistic man—surrounding himself with advisers who know how to echo him, and often know no more than this crudely uninformed but…

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