Author: Martin Berge, Jr.

Sudan’s minister of investment inspired controversy on Sunday when he called on Khartoum to normalise relations with Israel.

The Secretary General of the Liberation and Justice Party , Tajul-Deen Niam has demanded the importance of engagement of all the Sudanese components in the campaign for the collection of arms in Darfur state and Kordufan that have started last week led by Vice President of the Republic, the Chairman of the Higher Committee for Collection of Firearms and Unlicensed Cars.

The Sudan government has warned of possible worst floods in 100 years in Khartoum and the surrounding areas.

The number of people killed by hunger in Besillia county in South Sudan’s Wau state has hit 27, an official said.

A South Sudanese human rights entity has backed calls to block members of the armed opposition faction (SPLM-IO) from the East African assembly, saying they were ineligible.

South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (dti) has funded the visit of the six-member group as part of the department’s efforts to increase trade and investments between South Africa and South Sudan.

As the people fleeing the South Sudan crisis continue to enter neighboring Uganda, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said a political solution is urgently needed to resolve the crisis.

When three rifle-toting men in army uniforms barged into Silvano Pitia’s supplies store this month, he became the latest victim of a crime wave that’s rocking South Sudan’s war-weary, hunger-stricken capital.

The spokesperson of the armed opposition faction (SPLM-IO) allied to South Sudan’s former first vice president Riek Machar has condemned a foiled attempt to kidnap one of their officials from the Ugandan capital, Kampala last week.

Juba refuses that UN-approved Regional Protection Forces be deployed to capital’s airport.