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According to latest figures by Research and Markets, a think-tank, spending on the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) stood at US$3.308bn in 2010 and is expected to rise to US$3.923bn in 2011, amounting to 22.2% of GDP.
The Sudanese air force consists of 61 combat capable aircraft, as well as Russian-built Divina 2 anti-aircraft missiles, according to the 2012 edition of the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ The Military Balance”.
Sudan’s Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein (R) speaks during joint news conference with his South Sudanese counterpart John Kong Nyuon in Khartoum September 18, 2011. (Reuters)
Al Jazeera | Sudan declares emergency on border with south | 29 April 2012
Al Jazeera English | On the frontline with South Sudan’s army | 27 April 2012
Al Jazeera | South Sudanese troops ’advance’ on Heglig | 25 April 2012
Al Jazeera English | Sudanese jets attack oil pipeline | 5 April 2012
Al Jazeera crew forced to take cover, as South Sudan claims to have shot down one of planes which carried out raid. Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri reports from on the Sudan-South Sudan border.
Monday 20 December 2010 By Steve Paterno
December 19, 2010 — In a show of air power and act of provocations, Khartoum regime is currently carrying out intermittent air raids into South Sudan territory. These raids come a head of a referendum vote—the exercise, (...)
Tuesday 12 February 2013 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
February 11, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Twenty South Sudanese police cadets have started scholarships at an Ethiopian military academy in an effort to improve the professionalism of the force which is regularly (...)
Friday 27 July 2012 July 26, 2012 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan People’s Liberation Movement- North’s (SPLM-N) Secretary General, Yasir Arman denied holding political talks with the Sudanese government and accused Khartoum of politicising their humanitarian (...)
Sunday 22 April 2012 April 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s presidential assistant, Nafie Ali Nafie, has accused South Sudan’s government of deceiving its people by saying that its army withdrew from Heglig. FILE PHOTO - Nafie Ali Nafie
Oil-producing area of (...)
Monday 12 September 2011 By Justin Ambago Ramba
September 12, 2011 — One feels that it’s time we address the weakness in the apparatus foreseeing the public security in what has now become the Republic of South Sudan. It was and continues to be the main reason (...)
Saturday 5 May 2012 May 4, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese president Omer Al-Bashir paid an unannounced visit on Friday to Talodi town in the country’s war-battered region of South Kordofan.
In an address at Talodi’s military base, Al-Bashir hailed Sudanese (...)
Wednesday 11 August 2010 August 10, 2010 (BOR/KHARTOUM) — South Sudan said it has impounded a Khartoum-destined cargo helicopter carrying men loyal to George Athor, the man behind a rebellion against the government of the semi-autonomous region. The ruling (...)
Friday 22 May 2009 May 21, 2009 (PHNOM PENH) – Cambodia, one of the world’s most heavily mined countries, is sending 52 soldiers to replace some members of its group who take part in landmines clearence in southern Sudan, defence officials said on (...)
Friday 24 February 2012 February 23, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit has appointed a fifteen member committee to decide on the austerity measures needed to keep the nascent government functioning after loosing 98% of its income (...)
Sunday 27 February 2011 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
February 26, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopian and Kenyan joint forces have arrested at least 120 Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) fighters in a crackdown near the East African countries common border.
Earlier in November (...)
The Invasion of Abyei: two years of more agony 2013-05-20 05:39:13 By Luka Biong Deng
May 19, 2013 - On 21st May 2013, the people of Abyei have spent two years of more agony and they will remember again the sad memories of how their lives and livelihoods were (...)
The better approach to reconciliation2013-05-17 06:07:06 By Zechariah Manyok Biar
May 16, 2013 - Some of you who might have read my previous articles know that I promised some weeks ago to write separately on the topic of peace and reconciliation that (...)
OIL: is it a curse or a blessing in South Sudan?2013-05-17 06:04:54 By Jacob K. Lupai
May 16, 2013 - In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern Sudan there was euphoria that poverty would be a thing of the past, replaced by a high (...)
Wau Dialogue W. Bahr el-Ghazal state 13-15 May 20132013-05-13 14:41:35 South Sudan Law Society
13th-April-2013
Citizen of Western Bhar el-Ghazal State calls for limitations of President Powers and the Independence of Executive, Legislature and Judiciary and (...)
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom2013-05-04 10:53:49 Human Rights Watch
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom
Newspapers, Other Media Censored, Confiscated, Shut Down
MAY 3, 2013
(Nairobi) – Sudan should immediately stop censoring (...)
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom2013-05-03 03:23:16 Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom
New York, May 2, 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the (...)
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The Invasion of Abyei: two years of more agony 2013-05-20 05:39:13 By Luka Biong Deng May 19, 2013 - On 21st May 2013, the people of Abyei have spent two years of more agony and they will remember again the sad memories of how their lives and livelihoods were (...)
The better approach to reconciliation 2013-05-17 06:07:06 By Zechariah Manyok Biar May 16, 2013 - Some of you who might have read my previous articles know that I promised some weeks ago to write separately on the topic of peace and reconciliation that (...)
OIL: is it a curse or a blessing in South Sudan? 2013-05-17 06:04:54 By Jacob K. Lupai May 16, 2013 - In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern Sudan there was euphoria that poverty would be a thing of the past, replaced by a high (...)
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