South Sudan: Juba downplays significance of Machar alleged UK Visit, as rebels deny Photo taken on July 14, 2011 shows Riek Machar, then Vice-President of South Sudan, speaking before the United Nations General Assembly. AFP FILE PHOTO February 22, 2014 (JUBA) – South Sudan on Saturday downplayed the significance of the alleged visit of its…
Regional interests shaping South Sudan war
By BARBARA AMONG Special Correspondent IGAD head of states (Hiiraan). February 23, 2014[EA] — Renewed fighting between forces loyal to South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar is making nonsense of the ceasefire agreement reached in Addis Ababa last month, as it threatens to drag in more regional players. The fresh…
Uganda to deploy troops in CAR as it withdraws from South Sudan
By JULIUS BARIGABA The EastAfrican Bodies of the Ugandan soldiers returned home in coffins as Uganda prepares UPDF for a mission in CAR, 2014, past file. February 22, 2014 [The East African] — Uganda, which recently agreed to withdraw a section of its army from South Sudan under pressure from the United States and Igad,…
