• Heavy rain disrupts South Sudan’s World Cup debut

  Thursday 8 October 2015
  October 8, 2015 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s first ever participation in a World Cup qualifier prematurely ended when heavy rains halted play just after about 10 minutes in the capital, Juba. The match with Mauritania was in preparation for (...)

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• South Sudan refugee to run marathon in Olympic colours

  Sunday 22 July 2012
  July 21, 2012 (LONDON) - Guor Marial, a marathon runner born in what is now the Republic of South Sudan, will run in the London 2012 Olympics but not wearing the flag of the newly-independent country. Guor Marial, 28, runs along a (...)

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• Nigerian player dies in Sudan during game

  Sunday 7 March 2010
  March 6, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – A Nigerian player was declared dead in Sudan after falling during a league game, eyewitnesses said today. The 25 years old Nigerian born striker Endurance Edahor who plays for Al-Merreikh team collapsed (...)

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• S. Sudan defeats Equatorial Guinea in first continental game

  Sunday 6 September 2015
  September 5, 2015 (JUBA) – The South Sudanese national football team defeated Equatorial Guinea by a single goal in its first ever competitive match played Saturday. South Sudan national football team during a past tournament [©AFP] (...)

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• South Sudan’s first Olympic athlete captures imagination of London 2012

  Tuesday 14 August 2012
  By Tom Law August 13, 2012 (LONDON) - Guor Marial, South Sudan’s first Olympian, has not just inspired a generation, the theme of the London 2012 Games, but has become an inspiration for a whole nation as well as stateless people (...)

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• FIFA suspends Sudan football association

  Thursday 29 June 2017
  June 28, 2017 (KHARTOUM) - The International Federation of Football Associations, FIFA has decided to suspend the activities of the Sudan Football Association (SFA) starting from Friday. Fifa logo On 30 April 2017, a group backed (...)

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• S. Sudan football president reverses decision to quit

  Tuesday 13 December 2016
  December 12, 2016 (JUBA) – Head of South Sudan football association, Chubar Goc, reversed earlier announcement to quit over accusation of fraud, insisting he will not handover office on arrival to Juba on Monday. South Sudan Football (...)

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• Sudan’s Islamic Fiqh Council bans formation of womens soccer team

  Tuesday 24 January 2012
  January 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa (religious order) saying that it is forbidden for the country to create a womens soccer team, deeming it an immoral act. Yoanis Linares Reyes of Cuba’s (...)

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• Rumbek volleyball match won by Jamus team

  Thursday 25 June 2009
  By Manyang Mayom June 19, 2009 (RUMBEK) – Two rival volleyball teams faced off in Rumbek town last Friday evening, resulting in Jamus beating Zain at a score of 3 to 2. Jamus team hitting the ball, June 19, 2009 (photo M. Mayom) (...)

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• Warrap state buries former international basketball star in his ancestral village

  Tuesday 6 July 2010
  July 5, 2010, (ALEK) - The body of Manut Bol, an international basketball star, who died recently at the age of forty seven years in the United states of America, was finally laid to rest on Sunday in his ancestral home village of (...)

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