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- Wednesday 27 January 2010
By Philip Thon Aleu
January 26, 2010 (BOR) – A religious leader in Bor, where modern weddings and church marriages are unpopular, says he is looking forward to "biblically covenanted" bonding to replace traditional union of couples. (...)
- Sunday 28 June 2009
By Manyang Mayom
June 26, 2009 (RUMBEK) - The Southern Sudanese musician Nyankol Mathiang reached Rumbek, the capital of Lakes state, on Thursday after her long trip from Australia via Khartoum. She was invited by the non-governmental (...)
- Thursday 22 April 2010
April 21, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese authorities have reportedly blocked users’ access to the YouTube site over a video posted this week showing electoral staff in East Sudan filling out the ballots and putting inside the boxes. (...)
- Monday 7 April 2008
By James Gatdet Dak
April 3, 2008 (Malakal) – The 32nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the Sudan which convened in Malakal from March 30 to April 2, 2008 resolved to re-unite the Church and decentralize its (...)
- Wednesday 13 February 2013
February 13, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Wednesday launched plans for compulsory civil registration at childbirth, in an attempt to count and account for every South Sudanese citizen.
The exercise was launched at a seminar in the (...)
- Wednesday 27 February 2008
February 26, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese justice today executed five men from Nile state in Khartoum rejecting demands to convert the death penalty sentences to prison sentences.
The executed men, from the village of al-Bouga, were (...)
- Sunday 16 September 2007
By Peter Reat Gatkuoth
September 15, 2007 — Polygamy is the practices of one man marrying more than one wife. Years ago, this practice of having more than one wife is very common in the whole continent of Africa, and some developing (...)
- Sunday 11 March 2007
March 10, 2007 (UNITED NATIONS) — A U.N. women’s forum urged the world on Friday to ban female genital mutilation and forced marriages.
The Commission on the Status of Women passed by consensus two resolutions on the issues following (...)
- Saturday 17 June 2006
June 16, 2006 (ADDIS ABABA) — The Africa Union on Friday urged its member states to put an end to the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), saying the ritual traumatised millions of girls and women on the continent.
"We should (...)
- Sunday 20 April 2008
By Isaac Vuni
April 19, 2008 (JUBA) — The arrangement for Installation of the Archbishop-Elect are completed as twenty Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) Bishops and their wives have already arrived in Juba, the chairman of (...)
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