أنقذت فرق الدفاع المدني في بلجرشي ستة أشخاص، بينهم امرأتان وطفل من أسرة واحدة احتجزوا في سيل وادي الجنابين خلال الأمطار الغزيرة التي هطلت على محافظات منطقة الباحة أمس الأول.
وأوضح المتحدث باسم الدفاع المدني في منطقة الباحة العقيد جمعان بن دايس (...)
South Sudan's information minister says the new nation is planning to move its capital from the bustling but crowded city of Juba to a town that offers ample room to expand, AP reported.
Marial Benjamin said Sunday that the government has secured (...)
South Sudan officially separated from Sudan and
proclaimed its independence in a ceremony in Juba on Saturday, dpa reported.
Parliamentary president James Wani Igga pronounced the declaration of independence in the capital. The Sudanese flag was (...)
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir called on north Sudan on Thursday to withdraw its forces from the disputed Abyei region but said there would be no war over the incursion and it would not derail independence.
Abyei was a key battleground in (...)
Awwal 03, 1432 H/Feb 06, 2011, SPA -- A mutiny by Sudanese troops refusing to leave the south ahead of its expected independence has spread through towns in an oil-producing state, with at least 50 people killed in the past four days, officials (...)
Sudan's north and south need a common authority to coordinate political and economic issues after a referendum on Jan. 9 which will likely see the south secede, Reuters quoted Sudan's former vice president as saying on Thursday.
Such a body would (...)
The chief negotiator for Southern Sudan on the upcoming independence referendum says postponing the vote is not an option.
Only five months remain until the south is supposed to vote, but preparations have fallen far behind due to a deadlock (...)
South Sudan swore in Salva Kiir as its first elected president today and the former rebel is likely to lead the semi-autonomous region to independence after a referendum in less than eight months, according to Reuters.
Kiir won the April election (...)
Salva Kiir was Friday sworn in as Southern
Sudan's first elected president following a resounding election
victory last month, according to dpa.
Kiir, head of the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement,
was already running the (...)
Violence in the wake of Sudanese
elections earlier this month has left at least eight people dead in
the southern Sudanese city of Malakal, dpa quoted the Sudan Tribune as reporting today.
The newspaper said that armed militants attacked the (...)
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said there are problems with the elections taking place in Sudan, but officials are working to correct them.
Carter also has welcomed the two-day extension of the vote announced by the Sudanese governments (...)