By Johan Eldebo April 06, 2014 (Nyamilepedia) — Columns of troops are marching off to war and around them young children play in the shell of a looted school. This is is the Upper Nile State, an area in South Sudan’s north-east devastated by a conflict increasingly fought along largely ethnic lines. Remote and hard…
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Nhial Deng sees ‘modest progress’ at Addis talks, suspended to 23 April
April 06, 2014 (RT) — The chief negotiator for the government of South Sudan says he is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about peace talks with the armed opposition led by Riek Machar, citing modest progress in some areas of discussion. Upon his arrival at Juba Airport today, chief negotiator Nhial Deng explained to journalists that the talks…
African trap: Global aid only enables South Sudan fighting
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 6, 2014 (Pittsburgh) — South Sudan, which has been independent since 2011 and has a population of 11 million, is in the process of dragging the United States and other nations into a trap. The South Sudanese, led by two tribes, the Dinka and the Nuer, continue to fight each other vigorously.…
