South Sudan President Salva Kiir named his new cabinet Wednesday after sacking his entire team last week, but has yet to appoint a vice president, a decree on state media read. …read more
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Two Ugandan journalists were freed in South Sudan on Wednesday after four nights in detention for filming in the capital Juba, the reporters said. …read more
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South Sudan’s security services have detained two Ugandan journalists who were filming in the capital Juba, officials said on Monday. …read more
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In response to the political crisis in South Sudan and the deeply troubling violence in Jonglei state, today the White House hosted NGOs and advocacy groups to discuss the situation and confer on how the United States – in concert with partners and allies around the world – can help end the violence and support South Sudan’s continued democratic development.
At the meeting, National Security Staff Senior Director for Development and Democracy Gayle Smith, Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights Steve Pomper, and I invited advocates and humanitarian workers to exchange information on the humanitarian and human rights crisis in Jonglei, and explore ways we can work together to raise awareness and address it.
A significant portion of the conversation focused on what the United States and its partners can do to address disturbing reports of human rights abuses, attacks on civilians, and ethnically motivated violence taking place in Jonglei, including reports that elements of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army have been complicit in the abuses.
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Sudanese rebels clashed with troops in North Kordofan Wednesday, both sides said, days before a Khartoum deadline to halt South Sudan’s oil exports over allegations it is backing the insurgents. …read more
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Heavily armed South Sudanese troops and police guarded key government institutions in the capital Juba Wednesday, as radio broadcasts called for calm after the president suspended his cabinet. …read more
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South Sudan says it will shut down its oil industry next week ahead of a deadline Sudan set for companies in its territory to stop receiving South Sudan’s crude. …read more
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A battle between warring ethnic groups in South Sudan saw thousands of men march to fight. …read more
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Britain has issued more than 3,000 licenses allowing the export of arms and military equipment to countries where the U.K. has concerns about human rights, according to a report from lawmakers published Wednesday.
The House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls said the combined value of the individual export licenses came to more than 12 billion pounds ($18.1 billion). It urged the government to exercise more caution in approving applications for the export of arms to countries with authoritarian regimes.
Britain’s Foreign Office has a list of 27 nations where the U.K. government has wide-ranging concerns about the human rights situation, including Myanmar, China, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya and Syria. According to the report, all but two of the 27 — North Korea and South Sudan — have valid export licenses in play. Among the countries of concern, the largest number of licenses were issued for exports to China, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
While it said many of the licenses were for items “not readily usable” for internal repression, the committees said a “surprisingly large” number of licenses were issued to exporters sending arms to countries where human rights are a concern.
The scale of the licenses “puts into stark relief the inherent conflict between the government’s arms exports and human rights policies,” said John Stanley, chairman of the committees.
“The committees adhere to their previous recommendation that the government should apply significantly more cautious judgments when considering arms export license applications for goods to authoritarian regimes ‘which might be used to facilitate internal repression’ in contravention of the government’s stated policy.”
In response to the report, the British government stressed it takes its export responsibilities “very seriously” and that it has “one of the most rigorous arms export control regimes,” under which licenses are not granted when there is deemed to be a risk that goods would be used for internal repression or to provoke or prolong conflict in the countries they are exported to.
The government added in a statement that all of the licenses highlighted in the committees’ report had been “fully assessed” against a range of strident criteria to ensure goods would not be used for internal repression, to provoke or prolong conflict within a country, used aggressively against another country or risk Britain’s national security.
The Committees on Arms Export Controls is made up of the House …read more
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Coffee maker Nespresso is to buy coffee from the poverty-wracked fledgling state of South Sudan to expand supplies from sustainable sources, brand frontman George Clooney said on Tuesday.
“There is a real opportunity here,” the Hollywood star told a press conference in Paris.
“There is only one product coming from South Sudan right now, that’s oil, and the problem of oil is that someone, a company, takes the oil from the ground, beneath the feet of the actual people who put there, put it in a pipeline… and they sell it,” he said.
“It doesn’t seem to trickle back down to the people.”
Clooney said the young state lacked roads and other infrastructure, and “a lot of work” was needed before it could export coffee.
But with big-business resources behind it, coffee could be “a real game-changing move,” he said.
A Nespresso spokesman said coffee plantations will be developed near the town of Yei, on the Boma Plateau, in the Imatong mountains and in eastern Equatoria state.
The goal is for the first South Sudan capsules to hit the market in 2015.
Nespresso — part of the Nestle agribusiness of Switzerland — has been under fire from green activists, who complain that its throwaway coffee capsules are wasteful.
Clooney said that he pitched for South Sudan to help its economy.
He has been to South Sudan several times and last year was arrested in Washington during a protest to draw attention to its humanitarian plight.
South Sudan split from Sudan on July 9, 2011 after its people voted overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum, part of a 2005 peace deal that ended one of Africa’s longest civil wars.
The region is oil-rich, grossly impoverished and wracked by corruption and conflict, according to campaigners.
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A United Nations official in South Sudan says 200 people have been wounded in ongoing clashes between rival tribes in the country’s largest state.
Toby Lanzer, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, issued a statement late Sunday that the most critically wounded were now being treated in the capital of Jonglei state, where there is a rebel insurgency against the central government.
South Sudan’s army spokesman, Col. Philip Aguer, said the Murle and Lou Nuer tribes constantly clash over cattle thefts, conflicts that date back to the colonial era.
Lanzer’s statement said violence in Pibor County in Jonglei caused thousands to flee into the bush.
Sudan, which celebrated its second independence anniversary last week, has been plagued by a border conflict with neighboring Sudan as well as tribal violence.
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From the air, the vast lands of South Sudan’s conflict-wracked Jonglei state look peaceful before the white plumes of smoke come into view: thatch huts still burning from an attack.
“There are houses on fire,” the captain of the small plane shouts, as he swoops down low towards billowing clouds of smoke spiralling from a thatch hut for a closer look.
Nearby, two grey circles — looking like the remains of giant cigarettes stubbed out in a village — are all that is left of homes already razed to the ground.
Just out of reach of the flames, around a dozen men in dark green uniforms scan the sky for the plane above.
Elsewhere, more than 100 men in similar green battledress form a snaking line through the bush, determinedly marching south.
Tit-for-tat cattle raids and reprisal killings are common in this grossly under-developed state, awash with guns left over from almost two decades of civil war.
But the latest upsurge in fighting that began around a week ago is of a different scale and nature. Local government officials have reported columns of hundreds — if not thousands — of gunmen in a tribal militia fighting their way towards the heartland of a rival community.
Lou Nuer gunmen from northern Jonglei are heading south towards Pibor, an area of their rivals, the Murle.
Pibor County Commissioner Joshua Konyi, speaking from the impoverished town earlier this week, said Murle civilians were fleeing ahead of the gunmen, fearing a repeat of previous such attacks.
South Sudan’s rebel-turned-official army has also been fighting in the region to crush a rebellion led by David Yau Yau, who comes from the Murle people, since 2010.
US State Department officials said this week they were “deeply disturbed by mounting reports of abuse of civilians, including targeted killings, rape (and) beatings.”
European ambassadors in Juba warned Saturday that the clashes risked spiralling into “outright ethnic conflict”.
From the air, flying over the thick green bush broken up by simmering swamps reflecting the fierce sun, signs of actual fighting are hard to see.
A few homesteads burn, while in other villages, conical straw and mud huts lie deserted.
Herds of cattle, upon which the people here depend for their livelihood, are nowhere to be seen — either hidden in surrounding bush or taken by advancing raiding parties.
This isolated and swampy state, about the size of Austria and Switzerland combined, has limited mud roads that are often impassable for months during heavy rains.
The latest clashes follows bitter fighting in May, when soldiers and other gunmen looted UN and aid agency stores in Pibor, including a key hospital.
Government officials in Lou Nuer areas in northern Jonglei deny that young men have set off to fight, but past clashes followed a similar pattern.
In Walgak, where Yau Yau’s rebels massacred over 100 people in February, local commissioner Koang Rambang Chol dismisses reports that the Lou Nuer youth have left.
“This is farming season,” he said, before adding only that perhaps “some of the youth will be patrolling the borders of our areas.”
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At least 200 people have been wounded in a week of bitter fighting in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the country said on Sunday.
“Some 200 casualties have arrived in Manyabol”, a remote village in the troubled eastern state of Jonglei, where militia gunmen from rival ethnic groups have been battling, UN humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan Tony Lanzer said in a statement.
Manyabol is only one settlement in a vast region affected by the fighting, raising concerns that the number injured or killed elsewhere in the impoverished state could be far higher.
No figures were given on any possible deaths, but Lanzer called on leaders “urgently to halt the cycle of violence that is leading to senseless loss of life and suffering amongst civilians.”
The UN were airlifting the most critically injured to Jonglei’s state capital Bor for medical treatment, where Doctors Without Borders (MSF – Medecins Sans Frontieres) are supporting the basic hospital.
“We’ve seen gunshot wounds and leg fractures,” MSF spokesman Martin Searle told AFP, adding that they had received 22 patients so far. “We’re expecting more.”
Tit-for-tat cattle raids and reprisal killings are common in this grossly under-developed state, awash with guns left over from almost two decades of civil war.
But the latest upsurge in fighting that began around a week ago is of a different scale and nature.
Local government officials have reported columns of hundreds — if not thousands — of gunmen in a tribal militia fighting their way towards the heartland of a rival community.
Lou Nuer gunmen from northern Jonglei are heading south towards Pibor, an area of their rivals, the Murle.
South Sudan’s rebel-turned-official army has also been fighting in the region to crush a rebellion led by David Yau Yau, who comes from the Murle people, since 2010.
US State Department officials said this week they were “deeply disturbed by mounting reports of abuse of civilians, including targeted killings, rape (and) beatings.”
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Officials in South Sudan say more than 20 people have been killed in clashes triggered by cattle rustling, including medical workers slaughtered in a rampage by security forces.
Officials said the killings began after raiders stole at least 750 cattle last weekend.
Felix Otuduha, a spokesman for Eastern Equatoria state, said Thursday that seven security forces, five cattle rustlers and two civilians died in a clash Monday.
Following that clash, the government sent 150 soldiers and police after the cattle raiders. David Mayo Nailo, a member of parliament, said the security forces, enraged by the thefts and violence, attacked a hospital, killing four medical staff and a patient. He said the soldiers then set fire to the hospital.
Most of South Sudan‘s internal clashes take place between rival tribes.
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Amnesty International says that Sudan‘s indiscriminate bombing of rebellious South Kordofan province is stoking a developing crisis by displacing thousands of people and disrupting crop planting. The human rights group says the situation is likely to get worse as food supplies dwindle and the rainy season cuts off roads, making relief missions impossible.
Amnesty International is urging the U.N. Security Council and African Union to take immediate steps to make Sudan halt the indiscriminate attacks and bring pressure to urgently open conflict-affected areas to humanitarian relief.
South Kordofan borders the new nation of South Sudan, which peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011. Many of South Kordofan‘s 1.1 million people are sympathetic to South Sudan and are in territory controlled by the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North.
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A new report says that Sudan has supplied weapons to rebels fighting South Sudan‘s government.
Sudan denies it is supporting rebels led by David Yau Yau, who is based in the restive Jonglei state. But the Small Arms Survey said it has evidence Sudan airdropped weapons to the rebels last year.
The Swiss group released its report Friday, three days before a joint Sudan-South Sudan committee meets to discuss the prickly issue of rebel groups based in both countries.
South Sudan‘s government spokesman accuses Sudan of supporting Yau Yau‘s rebellion to block South Sudan‘s plans to build an oil pipeline through Ethiopia. South Sudan currently transports its oil through Sudan‘s pipelines.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir made a visit to South Sudan Friday and denied his government is supporting Yau Yau.
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South Sudan‘s president says he and Sudan‘s president have agreed to a resumption of oil exports and border trade.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir traveled to South Sudan on Friday for the first time since the south peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir said the two presidents agreed to the free movement of people and goods across the border. Ten border points are to be opened.
Kiir said the two leaders will continue discussions on the contested region of Abyei, a sticking point between the two nations.
Bashir said he believed his visit signals the beginning of a normalization of relations between and strategic partnership between the two countries.
Officials from both countries will soon meet to discuss rebel groups based in the two nations.
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South Sudan‘s president says he and Sudan‘s president have agreed to a resumption of oil exports and border trade.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir traveled to South Sudan on Friday for the first time since the south peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir said the two presidents agreed to the free movement of people and goods across the border. Ten border points are to be opened.
Kiir said the two leaders will continue discussions on the contested region of Abyei, a sticking point between the two nations.
Bashir said he believed his visit signals the beginning of a normalization of relations between and strategic partnership between the two countries.
Officials from both countries will soon meet to discuss rebel groups based in the two nations.
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A government official says Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will travel to South Sudan on Friday.
The visit will be al-Bashir’s first to South Sudan since the country peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011.
South Sudan government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin said Thursday that the two heads of state want to prove to the world that the two countries plan to live peacefully together. Al-Bashir and South Sudan President Salva Kiir will discuss how to implement security agreements the two countries signed in September and the status of the contested region of Abyei.
Bashir had planned to travel to South Sudan in April 2012 but cancelled the visit after South Sudan‘s military seized the disputed oil-producing town of Heglig. The two leaders are likely to discuss their co-dependent oil industries.
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By Justin Loiseau, The Motley Fool
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2013 is expected to be the third consecutive year of weak growth in global oil demand, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) April Oil Market Report, a summary of which was released today.
The IEA highlighted what it anticipates will be the sharpest drop in European demand since 1985.
Worldwide, the IEA expects demand to increase by just 795,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2013. Countries outside the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are predicted to drive growth with an additional 1.28 million-bpd demand, but a 480,000-bpd drop in OECD consumption will offset almost 40% of that gain in demand. In Europe, demand is expected to drop by 340,000 bpd, the weakest level since 1985.
On the other side of demand, the IEA expects non-OPEC supplies to increase 1.1 million bpd, driven largely by renewed exports from South Sudan. Although the IEA‘s press release does not list 2013 expectations for OPEC oil supplies, it does note that March supplies dropped 140,000 bpd due to disruptions in Nigeria, Libya, and Iraq.
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