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- Thursday 15 March 2012
March 14, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – A United States (US) official will travel to the Middle East in the coming weeks to seek the help of governments there in pressing Khartoum to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to rebel-held areas in (...)
- Sunday 15 April 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 14, 2012(ADDIS ABABA) - One of Ethiopia’s leading banking groups United Bank is poised to open its first branch outside Ethiopia in South Sudan’s capital Juba, according to a release from the bank.
The new (...)
- Wednesday 27 July 2011
July 26, 2011 (JUBA) – The Central Bank of South Sudan (CBSS) on Tuesday announced a new policy limiting conversion from Sudanese Pounds to new South Sudan Pounds after independence to one and a half months. New South Sudan pound (...)
- Wednesday 29 August 2012
August 28, 2012 (JUBA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has included South Sudan in a list of 72 low-income countries now eligible for concessional lending.
The IMF’s decision to include South Sudan was (...)
- Wednesday 9 November 2011
November 8, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The newly independent state of South Sudan managed to sell, via tender, a cargo of Nile Blend crude for December. It will load at the highest premium in at least four years and is fueled by fears of (...)
- Monday 4 February 2013
February 3, 2013 (JUBA) – An electronic payroll management system seeking to improve efficiency within South Sudan’s civil service has officially been launched by the country’s labour and public service ministry.
Implementation of the (...)
- Friday 19 October 2007
October 18, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s heavy industry group, Giad, plans to float shares in its automotive and metals units on exchanges in Dubai and Khartoum as it seeks to raise funds for expansion, a company official said.
"To expand (...)
- Thursday 14 February 2013
February 13, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Members from the Eastern Front (EF), a former rebel group who are part of the East Reconstruction and Development Fund (ERDF), unleashed a barrage of criticism at Khartoum, claiming that the latter has (...)
- Sunday 26 February 2012
By Ngor Arol Garang
February 25, 2012 (JUBA) - A South Sudanese opposition group has criticised austerity measures introduced by government to adjust to the loss of oil revenues, after the young country stopped exporting its oil (...)
- Wednesday 25 April 2012
April 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — The Chairman of Darfur’s Regional Authority, (RTA) Tijani el-Sissi on Tuesday warned that lack of money might lead to the collapse of the deal his group signed with Khartoum last year. Chairman of Darfur (...)
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