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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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Sunday 21 August 2005
In patriarchal Sudan, where only men can file for divorce, more women are accepting prison time in exchange for a chance at a fresh start.
Aug 21, 2005 (Rumbek) — Crouched in a dank prison ward, Ding Maker admits she broke the law by (...)
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Tuesday 5 October 2010
By Manyang Mayom
October 4, 2010 (JUBA) — Prostitution in Southern Sudan is on the rise. Juba, the capital city of the semi-autonomous region and a territory belonging to the indigenous Bari tribe is hit by sexual workers and growing (...)
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Saturday 3 September 2005
By Amil Khan.
Sept 2, 2005 (Omdurman) — Brandishing spears and flags, around 1,500 Sudanese gathered at the site of the historic Battle of Omdurman on Friday to commemorate warriors who died trying to fend off British domination of (...)
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Tuesday 11 December 2007
December 10, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — When the punishing Sudanese heat cools in late afternoon, Hiba Jiha strips naked, wraps herself in a blanket and sits on top of a burning hole in the ground to smoke her skin to silky perfection. Piles (...)
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Saturday 25 February 2006
Feb 24, 2006 (MALAKAL) — A certain Mr Tombe was caught having an intimate relation with a goat belonging to a Mr Alifi at Hai Malakal — Upper Nile State, southern Sudan — on February 13. Tombe was ordered to pay the goat’s dowry and take (...)
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Wednesday 7 March 2012
March 6, 2012 (JUBA) – More than five people have been killed and more wounded over a land dispute in Juba. The incident pushed President Salva Kiir to deploy security forces to stop the violence and maintain security and calm in the (...)
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Thursday 6 October 2005
Oct 5, 2005 (KASSALA) — Seated at a low table, a young woman wrapped in a pale yellow robe pours coffee for her new husband from a round-bottomed clay jug known as a jabana, her smiling eyes downcast, gold bracelets jangling on her (...)
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Friday 8 February 2013
February 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The secretary general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N), Yasir Arman, has cautioned against Islamist movements saying they represent a threat to African diversity and called for the (...)
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Monday 9 April 2007
Opheera McDoom is the Reuters correspondent in Sudan where she was one of few resident foreigners when she began her assignment three years ago. In the following story, she describes the elaborate rituals that marked her wedding in (...)
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