tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68037095316283704542024-03-05T15:07:26.213-08:00 South SudanThe New Independent state after half century in war and still in crisis.. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger309125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-23877100239086959082018-04-28T08:35:00.001-07:002018-04-28T08:35:42.785-07:00Ethiopia, Sudan agree to deploy joint border force to stop rebels!<a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article65288">Ethiopia, Sudan agree to deploy joint border force - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan</a>: "April 27, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese and Ethiopian senior military officials discussed in Addis Ababa a bilateral defence protocol signed between the two countries and agreed to activate the joint border forces.<br />
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A road leading to Ethiopia-Sudan border (Photo Jamminglobal.com)<br />
The agreement was announced in Khartoum on Friday following the end of a two-day meeting in Addis Ababa between the military delegations chaired by the army chiefs of staff of the two neighbouring countries.<br />
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The two armies reaffirmed their readiness for full solidarity to ensure border security, exchange of information and curb uncontrolled groups, combating smuggling, human trafficking, arms and drugs trade, and transnational crimes, said a statement released by the official news agency SUNA.<br />
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"The two sides, also, agreed to activate and re-energize the joint border forces to maintain security and stability, as well as cooperation in the fields of joint training and exchange of experiences," said the statement.<br />
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"The military chiefs of staff of two countries signed the minutes of the meetings and recommendations ahead of its enforcement," it further stressed.<br />
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Last January following the deployment of Sudanese troops on the border with Eritrea, there were reports about the deployment of Ethiopian troops along the border with Eritrea from the Sudanese and Ethiopian sides.<br />
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Also, since several years Ethiopia and Sudan boosted security cooperation between the two countries. Khartoum handed over rebels and opposition activists to Ethiopia and Addis Ababa banned any rebel activity from the border area with Blue Nile state.<br />
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Last January, The Nile State and Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region agreed to deploy a joint border force to secure the border area and prevent goods and arms smuggling.<br />
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</dl><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">“You may recall that the IGAD [Intergovernmental Authority on Development] assembly of heads of state and government at its 31st extra-ordinary summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 12 June, 2017, decided to urgently convene a High-Level Revitalization Forum (HLRF) of the parties to the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (ARCSS), including estranged groups,” the letter signed by Ethiopia’s prime minister partly reads.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">In the 8 December letter addressed to Riek Machar, organizers of the meeting said they consider as key measures to restore a permanent ceasefire, full and inclusive implementation of the peace agreement and revise realistic timelines and implementation schedules towards democratic election at the end of the transitional period.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">The High-Level revitalization forum will kick off in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 18-22 December after the extraordinary session of the IGAD council of ministers due to take place from15-16 December.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">“Your Excellency, all participants to the HLRF will be representing their respective parties. Hence, I wish to kindly request you to delegate three (03) duly- authorized representatives of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-in opposition (SPLM-IO) who will participate in the forum. In this regard, I recommend that at least one of the delegates could be a woman”, further states the letter.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">“I strongly believe your Excellency that your wise leadership in this important initiative to revitalize the agreement on the resolution of the conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (ARCSS) is very critical,” it adds.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">The Ethiopian prime minister said in the letter that he was optimistic the armed opposition group will seize this historic opportunity to engage earnestly to revitalize the ARCSS, cease all forms of hostilities, end the conflicts and re-establish a firm foundation to building sustainable peace, stability and democracy in the war-torn nation.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">The Troika countries earlier called a conducive environment for the peace revitalization process and warned that sanctions would be imposed on those who violate the ceasefire and obstruct humanitarian assistance ahead of the IGAD-brokered peace forum.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">In June, a summit of IGAD heads of state and government decided to convene a meeting of the signatories of the South Sudan peace agreement to discuss ways to revitalize the peace implementation. During the June summit, it was agreed that all groups be included in the discussion aimed at restoring a permanent ceasefire.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">The South Sudanese government earlier warned that the revitalization forum by the regional bloc, which mediated the 2015 peace deal, should not be another platform for negotiations of the peace accord between the two factions to the conflict.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Over a million people have fled South Sudan since conflict erupted in December 2013 when President Kiir sacked Machar from the vice-presidency. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and nearly two million displaced in South Sudan’s worst violence since it seceded from Sudan in July 2011.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">(ST)</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-83488863195984650582017-10-09T01:47:00.001-07:002017-10-09T01:47:22.740-07:00South Sudan Armed Opposition Group Denies Recruiting Ethiopians | Ethiopian news<div class="recent-post-title" style="background: url("/content/images/title_pat.png") 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-color: rgb(33, 174, 243); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="south-sudan-armed-opposition-Ethiopia" src="https://www.ezega.com/userfiles/south-sudan-armed-opposition.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 270px; line-height: inherit; margin: 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 405px;" />October 8, 2017 - South Sudanese armed opposition dismissed reports that it was recruiting Ethiopian citizens from the Gambella region to engage in the armed conflict.<br /><br />
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“We would like to emphasize that we do not, under no circumstance, recruit anyone, even South Sudanese citizens to participate in the ongoing armed conflicts in South Sudanese. They do, however, join voluntarily,” Puok Buluang, the armed opposition’s director of information and public relations said in a statement.<br /><br />
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“Consequent upon this, how can we recruit foreigners if we do not enlist our own countrymen and women as Thoth Pal alleged,” he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The armed opposition official also appealed to regional leaders, the African Union, and the international communities at large not believe the reports.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Early this year, the Ethiopian government rubbished reports by some social media outlets that diplomatic relations between South Sudan and Ethiopia were worsening following a recent visit by South Sudanese president Salva Kiir to Egypt.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia currently hosts close to 300,000 South Sudanese refugees, most of whom fled after the conflict broke out in the world’s newest nation in December 2013, according to U.N estimates.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: Sudan Tribune</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-8000511500340582832017-08-14T01:26:00.002-07:002017-08-14T01:26:33.554-07:00South Sudan rebels say have retaken town near border with Ethiopia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudan's rebels on Saturday said they had wrested control of Pagak, their stronghold town near the country's border with Ethiopia, from government forces, a day after launching an offensive to drive them out.</div>
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Formerly controlled by the rebels, the town was captured by South Sudan's military five days ago but heavy fighting erupted on Friday with rebels vowing to retake it.</div>
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"We took control of Pagak...government forces are not in Pagak, we have pushed them out," rebel spokesman Lam Paul Gabriel told Reuters.</div>
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Dickson Gatluak Jock, spokesman for South Sudan's Vice President, Taban Deng Gai, denied the military had lost Pagak but said they had lost three soldiers in the fighting while four were wounded.</div>
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Gai is a former rebel but last year he defected to the government side and was handed the vice presidency job. His former rebel forces, who are now part of the government military, are the ones on the frontline in Pagak.</div>
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"We clashed with them (rebels) yesterday in Pagak but we are in full control of the area," he said.</div>
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Fighting had died down on Saturday, he said, but acknowledged the rebels "are not very far from our area."</div>
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Pagak is a major town on a road connecting South Sudan to Ethiopia. Rebel control of the town allows them easy cross-border movement and smuggling of weapons and other supplies from Ethiopia. The government is also eager to control it so that it can block rebel access to resources.</div>
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South Sudan descended into civil war in 2013, only two years after it won independence, when President Salva Kiir fired his deputy, Riek Machar, unleashing a conflict that has since splintered along multiple ethnic lines.</div>
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Machar has been under house arrest in South Africa since December as regional leaders try to bring about an end to the conflict. The rebels fighting government forces in South Sudan remain loyal to him.</div>
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Jock said the military had killed five rebels during Friday's fighting but the insurgents denied the claim.</div>
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They took it from us and we want to take it back," Gabriel said.</div><div data-reactid="35" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313132; font-family: freight-book, serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 89.7031px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We cannot say right now that we are in full control but we are going towards taking control."</div><div data-reactid="36" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313132; font-family: freight-book, serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 89.7031px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dickson Gatluak Jock, a spokesman for the forces of South Sudan's First Vice President Taban Deng Gai, confirmed that they were engaged in fighting.</div><div data-reactid="37" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313132; font-family: freight-book, serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 89.7031px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"At 5:00 am, SPLA-IO forces (loyal to the Juba government) came under heavy fire (from the rebels) in Pagak ... Their main aim was to drive out our forces from the strategic town of Pagak," he told Reuters.</div><div data-reactid="38" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313132; font-family: freight-book, serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 89.7031px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Sudan descended into civil war in 2013, only two years after it won independence, when President Salva Kiir fired his deputy, Riek Machar, unleashing a conflict that has since splintered along multiple ethnic lines.</div><div data-reactid="40" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313132; font-family: freight-book, serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 89.7031px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Machar has been under house arrest in South Africa since December as regional leaders try to bring about an end to the conflict. The rebels fighting government forces in South Sudan remain loyal to Machar.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313132; font-family: freight-book, serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 89.7031px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UNMISS, the U.N. peacekeeping force in South Sudan, told Reuters in an email the situation in Pagak was "extremely worrying" and urged all combatants to show restraint.</div><div class="Attribution_attribution_o4ojT" data-reactid="41" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: freight-book, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 35px 0px 0px 89.7031px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="Attribution_content_27_rw" data-reactid="42" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; 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font-family: "Poynter Serif RE", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: -0.3px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; min-height: 200px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ZANZIBAR, Tanzania — South Sudan's government forces have overtaken the rebel-held stronghold and opposition headquarters of Pagak, along the Ethiopian border, William Gatjiath Deng, spokesman for the opposition IO, told The Associated Press.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"They took the main town and our forces are now regrouping," said Deng, reached by phone.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Army spokesman Lul Ruai Koang did not confirm the reports saying that he's "not aware" of Pagak's takeover.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The rebels burned their military barracks before fleeing, to prevent government forces from being able to use the ammunition, according to residents.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"While this is a significant symbolic setback for the IO it remains to be seen whether the government can secure the position so deep in IO territory," said an aid worker familiar with the situation in Pagak, who insisted on anonymity for security reasons.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earlier this year the government declared a unilateral ceasefire, however there have been continued reports of government-led offensives into Maiwut and toward Pagak, including killings of civilians and burnings of houses.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In July, the United Nations reported that 25 aid workers were evacuated from Pagak due to attacks.</div><div class="inline-ad ad-mod dfp-ad-container grazers" data-appear-top-offset="300" id="zone-1-block-7-inline-body" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 0;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since South Sudan spiraled into civil war almost four years ago, Pagak has been the headquarters of the opposition rebels, led by former Vice President Riek Machar, who is in exile in South Africa. The IO rebels still hold territory in Panyijiar County in Unity state as well rural areas of Jonglei state and Akobo state, traditionally areas where South Sudan's Nuer people live.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-28890847469292621562017-08-05T06:35:00.001-07:002017-08-05T06:35:11.786-07:00Tensions with Sudan continue as Egypt’s foreign minister visits Khartoum | MadaMasr<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry commenced his official visit to Sudan on Wednesday, following a delay to the trip amid ongoing tensions.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The visit was set to take place on July 22, but was delayed as a result of “emergency engagements” in Shoukry’s schedule, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3iGrfNfHrw&feature=share" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; color: #00aeef; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px -2px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">according to </a></span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The agenda is to include discussions around the issues that have led to heightened tensions between the two countries, including questions of sovereignty over the Halayeb Triangle, which Egypt currently controls, and official stances on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.</span></div><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Renaissance Dam</span></h3><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Egypt’s tensions with Sudan over Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam were evident recently when Sudanese Information Minister Ahmed Belal expressed solidarity with Egyptian demands regarding its share of the Nile water share during an Arab information ministers’ meeting in Cairo on July 10.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Khartoum reprimanded Belal for his statements, which departed from Sudan’s official position on the matter and have been more congruent with the Ethiopian stance and that of other Nile Basin countries — who advocate for </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">contracting </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Egypt’s historical share of the water. Attempts to censor Belal angered Egypt, </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">according to a local Foreign Ministry source who spoke with Mada Masr on condition of anonymity.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The source adds that Shoukry’s visit is an attempt to distance Sudan from the spat between Cairo and Addis Ababa, and to relieve the former from the pressures being applied by Ethiopia and most other Nile Basin countries.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Cairo can’t get over what happened during the Nile Basin countries’ last meeting in Uganda in </span><a href="https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/07/03/feature/politics/upstream-politics-egypts-play-for-control-over-nile-present-and-future-at-uganda-summit/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; color: #00aeef; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px -2px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">June</span></a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, when Sudan agreed with them to reject Egypt’s proposal to host the next meeting,” the source says.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The issue culminated in Sudan leveling accusations Cairo does not want to achieve a <a href="https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/07/15/feature/politics/the-renaissance-dam-need-for-political-intervention-as-technical-negotiations-get-complicated/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; color: #00aeef; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px -2px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">technical resolution</a>, and only wants to express its complete rejection of the dam,” he adds.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Commenting on Egypt’s reaction, a Sudanese diplomat working in Cairo, speaking on condition of anonymity, says: “Our brothers in Egypt accuse us of failing to support them and their water concerns, but they do not give much attention to the water, economic or strategic interests that tie Sudan to the Nile Basin countries.”</span></div><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The border dispute</span></h3><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shoukry intends to deliver a “decisive message” to his Sudanese counterpart regarding the Halayeb Triangle, asserting that Egypt will stand firmly against any efforts to internationalize the dispute over the area, which lies on Egypt’s southern border between the towns of Halayeb, Shalateen and Abu Ramad.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In July, the Egyptian government </span><a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/1164406" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; color: #00aeef; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px -2px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">announced</span></a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> its intention to prove the triangle is Egyptian, either through developmental interventions to expand the population, or through increasing its security presence by deploying more patrols.</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;" /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to a second source in the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, also speaking on condition of anonymity, Cairo needs to send a clear message to Khartoum regarding the need to stop “breaches of sovereignty” by Sudanese forces in the region. The source asserted that Egypt would actively respond to any diplomatic measures taken by Sudan, including recent attempts to take the issue to the United Nations and the African Union. “We will not stand as spectators and we are very aware about what Sudan is doing,” he says.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Sudanese diplomat tells Mada Masr Sudan does not want to create problems with Egypt over the Halayeb triangle. “We have evidence that proves this area is Sudanese, and if you ask the residents themselves, they will say they are Sudanese. In any case, we are prepared to resort to international arbitration and accept the rulings, but Egypt is the one refusing this option in its efforts to enforce de facto control over the area.”</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A third Egyptian Foreign Ministry source closely following the Sudan issue tells Mada Masr that Sudan is escalating the matter, citing a message sent by the Sudanese government to the United Nations asking Cairo to agree to initiating international arbitration procedures. This step by Sudan, he says, followed a slew of others, such as an </span><a href="https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/05/17/news/u/sudanese-president-we-remain-patient-despite-egypts-occupation-of-halayeb-triangle/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; color: #00aeef; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px -2px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">official complaint</span></a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> lodged at the United Nations, and the deployment of Sudanese police forces to conduct searches inside the triangle.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Sudanese diplomat believes that Sudan can achieve sovereignty over the triangle through international arbitration, even if it takes a long time. He says there is a wide consensus over the Halayeb issue in Sudan, even between the government and the opposition.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, the third Foreign Ministry source asserts that the issue will be discussed but not negotiated during Shoukry’s visit, in response to a request from Sudan.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This means Shoukry will hear comments from the Sudanese side on the matter, but not make any decisions regarding the triangle. </span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is the possibility of bilateral cooperation through the framework of the unactivated Four Freedoms Agreement, signed by Egypt and Sudan in 2004. Sudan ultimately rejected the agreement, which would have permitted free movement, residence, work and ownership in both countries.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shoukry is expected to raise other contentious issues, including better border control between Egypt, Sudan and Libya to prevent the inflow of Libyan militants to Egypt through Sudan, according to the first Egyptian Foreign Ministry source.</span></div><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sudanese accusations</span></h3><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shoukry was aware ahead of the visit that </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Ghandour</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> would likely touch on several reasons why Sudan is displeased, according to the Sudanese diplomat, and is expecting to hear complaints about Egypt’s intervention in Sudan’s domestic affairs.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sudan has repeatedly accused Egypt of meddling in its affairs, which President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi disputed at the end of May. In early June, Ghandour met with Sisi in Cairo to discuss this and other points of contention.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sudan has also highlighted the treatment of Sudanese diplomats within some Arab organizations in which Egypt plays a leading role, including the General Secretariat of the Arab League and the Arab Women Organization, according to an Egyptian diplomat working in the Arab League.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Arab League diplomat adds that Sudanese officials know Egypt has used its presence at the United Nations Security Council against Sudan, and has always moved to </span><a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article62184" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; color: #00aeef; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px -2px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">block</span></a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the lifting of sanctions on Sudan, and accused the country of harboring terrorists.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Egypt doesn’t take into consideration the impact of its actions on public sentiment,” the Sudanese diplomat says. “Social media makes it obvious that Sudanese youth are angry at Egypt, an anger that should not be underestimated,” he adds. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is time, he says, to “reformulate the basis of the historical relationship between Egypt and Sudan, and to consider Sudanese views on bilateral and regional relationships more than before.”</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: pt_serifregular; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; 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line-height: 26px; padding: 15px 0px;">In line with agreement between the two nations, the Ethiopian military will build the roads that are expected to pass through restive regions in South Sudan.</div><div style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; padding: 15px 0px;">Morgan says the cost of the project will be covered by the Ethiopian government for now, with South Sudan paying its share in the future once its current troubles are over.</div><div style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; padding: 15px 0px;">South Sudan despite gaining independence in July 2011 from Sudan via a referendum has been embroiled in internecine conflict since December 2013.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-75570737094029016462017-06-11T07:41:00.001-07:002017-06-11T07:41:19.682-07:00Ethiopia, Egypt want UN to suspend al-Bashir's ICC arrest warrant | Africanews<div class="program--News programBlockHeader" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; display: inline-block; 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<div class="article-content__text article-content__left-column" style="box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05) 4px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; float: left; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px; padding-right: 12px; width: 735px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">Ethiopia and Egypt have called on the United Nations Security Council (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">UNSC</span>) to suspend International Criminal Court (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">ICC</span>) investigations against Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The call was made by top diplomats of the respective countries at the UN. Omar al-Bashir is wanted by the <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">ICC</span> on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The two diplomats were reacting to a report presented to the <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">UNSC</span> by the <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">ICC</span> prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, urging the council to expedite action on the situation in Sudan.</div><blockquote class="article-content__wrap-quote" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: -20px; padding: 20px 20px 24px;"><div class="article-content__quote" style="border-left: 6px solid rgb(231, 179, 34); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-top: -30px; padding-left: 20px;">The case against the president of Sudan is so weak, its continuation makes no sense, in fact, it will only damage the credibility of this council.</div></blockquote><a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article62677" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">The South Sudan Tribune </a>reports that the Ethiopian Ambassador to the UN, Tekeda Alemu expressed disappointment at how the <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">ICC</span> was conducting its activities.<br /><br />
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">“The Council should do its part, including by exerting pressure on armed movements to put an end to the suffering of the people of Darfur,” Alemu said whiles calling on rebel groups in the Dafur region to lay down their arms.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">“The case against the president of Sudan is so weak, its continuation makes no sense, in fact, it will only damage the credibility of this council. For the lack of action concerning the matter will be not consistent with the primary responsibility that the council has for the international peace and security,” he concluded.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">For his part, Egypt’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, reechoed the call for <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">ICC</span> proceedings against al-Bashir to be suspended.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">“The Court must be careful not to jeopardise peace and security on the African continent,” he is quoted to have said.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The war in Darfur is a major armed conflict in the region, it began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">SLM</span>) and Justice and Equality Movement (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">JEM</span>) rebel groups began fighting the government, which they accused of oppressing Darfur’s non-Arab population.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The ensuing clashes resulted in massive deaths and displacement, the reason for which the Sudanese leader, Omar al-Bashir is wanted by the <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">ICC</span> on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.</div></div></div></section></div></section>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-17486370011390957882017-05-27T01:41:00.001-07:002017-05-27T01:41:16.978-07:00S. Sudanese army killed 114 civilians in 6 months: UN - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan<div class="cartouche" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 14px;"><div class="surlignable"><h1 class="crayon article-titre-62511 " id="titreArticle" style="color: #a75314; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 22px;"><br /></h1></div></div><div class="ui-tabs ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" id="tabs" style="background: url("images/ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png") 50% 50% repeat-x rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; padding: 0.2em; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="ui-tabs-panel ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom" id="tabs-1" style="background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); outline: none; padding: 1em 1.4em;"><div class="article" style="outline: none;"><div class="surlignable" style="outline: none;"><div class="crayon article-texte-62511 texte entry-content" id="text" style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: none; text-align: justify;">May 20, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudanese government forces killed 114 civilians in Yei, a town located about 100 miles from the capital, Juba between July 2016 and January 2017, the United Nations said.<br /><br />
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</dl>The U.N, in a new report, also documented various crimes of rape, looting and torture, allegedly committed by government forces in and around Yei town.<br /><br />
"Attacks were committed with an alarming degree of brutality and, like elsewhere in the country, appeared to have an ethnic dimension," partly reads a section of the U.N investigation report.<br /><br />
Yei, a relatively peaceful region until mid-last year, has lately been experiencing lots of clashes between government forces and the armed opposition troops loyal to ex-First Vice President, Riek Machar.<br /><br />
The U.N investigations report also highlights various cases of sexual violence, including rape, allegedly committed by pro-government forces on women and young girls in and around the town of Yei.<br /><br />
"In view of the restrictions of access faced by (the UN), the number of documented cases may only be a fraction of those actually committed. Some of the human rights violations and abuses committed in and around Yei may amount to war crimes and/or crimes against humanity and warrant further investigation,” it says.<br /><br />
<strong>ARMY DENIES ALLEGATIONS</strong><br /><br />
South Sudan army spokesperson Colonel Santo Domic Chol has, however, dismissed the U.N report, describing it as “baseless”.<br /><br />
"This is not the first time the UN has accused the SPLA and tried to portray us as enemies of the people," Chol told <i>Reuters</i>.<br /><br />
“The SPLA is one of the biggest military institutions in the country and it accommodates people from different background and the whole SPLA cannot go out and rape citizens... so it has to be specific that we have seen two or three SPLA soldiers in such location committing such crimes,” he added.<br /><br />
The military official said President Salva Kiir ordered all army commanders in Yei to punish soldiers who committed gender-based violence.<br /><br />
<div style="outline: none;">Last week, two U.N agencies appealed to donors to step up support for people fleeing crisis-hit South Sudan as the $1.4 billion response plan remains 86 percent unfunded.</div>According to the U.N, the situation in war-torn South Sudan continues worsening, with a combination of conflict, drought and famine leading to further displacement and a rapid exodus of people fleeing one of the world’s most severe crises.<br /><br />
South Sudan has reportedly now become the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis with more than 1.8 million refugees, including one million children, having sought safety in Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR).<br /><br />
South Sudan has witnessed renewed clashes between forces loyal to South Sudan President Kiir and the armed opposition faction (SPLM-IO) backing the country’s former First Vice-President, in spite of the August 2015 peace deal.<br /><br />
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They will be conducted in northern Sudan (the Meroe area). The two nations agreed to the exercise last year. Saudi Arabian Typhoon and F-15 fighters will participate. The exercises are another indication that Sudan and Iran are no longer allies.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 25, 2017: South Sudan said it would agree to a ceasefire with rebels but the offer was rejected as a “non-starter” and mere propaganda. The government is facing mounting criticism for its failure to address the famine.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">Six aid workers were killed in an ambush in South Sudan as they were traveling from the capital, Juba, to the town of Pibor.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 25, 2017: The NMLC a Nuba rebel organization in South Kordofan has demanded the right to self-determination for the Nuba Mountain region. The NMLC said it supports dissolving the rebel movements’ current governing secretariat. Observers said this demand is tantamount to an NMLC withdrawal from the SPLM-N (the umbrella orgaization for nearly all South Sudan rebels). The NMLC said it lacks confidence in current SPLM-N leadership. The NMLC, however, does not control military operations. So far SPLM-N military officers in South Kordofan have not commented on the NMLC demand.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 23, 2017: The UN said South Sudan’s government must respond “to the needs of South Sudan’s people” and address the famine that is gripping the country. On February 20 the UN officially declared a famine in South Sudan and claimed that 100,000 people are currently starving. One million more people face starvation. Aid groups estimate that 4.9 million people in South Sudan will need “food related assistance.” All told from 40 to 50 percent of South Sudan’s population faces food shortages. The UN did not blame the government for causing the famine. In late February an American official called the food crisis in South Sudan “man-made.” That is largely true. The U.S. statement doesn’t explicitly blame the government. Rebel groups have also disrupted farming and they also steal food aid. However, several aid groups do say South Sudan’s government is largely responsible for the deteriorating situation. The government uses food as a weapon to depopulate and weaken areas controlled by the rebels. (Austin Bay)</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 22, 2017: A new Ethiopian general has assumed command of the UN peacekeepers for Abyei. This force of 5,326 troops was created in 2011 to monitor the disputed area (Abyei) and local civilians wnile protecting foreign workers. The workers include humanitarian aid workers and personnel working in Abyei’s oil fields.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">South Sudan rebels are threatening to arrest oil company workers in Upper Nile state. The threat came after the government signed a new exploration agreement for Block B3 on March 6. The South Sudan rebels control several oil fields in the state.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">Ugandan media claimed a South Sudanese military intelligence officer survived an assassination attempt in Uganda by disarming his attackers. South Sudanese police confirmed the attack and claimed the two would-be assassins were South Sudanese citizens unhappy with changes the South Sudan government has made.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 19, 2017: South Sudan’s Aweil state acknowledged that famine conditions in the area have forced several thousand people to flee north to refugee camps in Sudan. This is really the third wave of refugees to leave the region. Sudan’s Eastern Darfur state already has around 80,000 South Sudanese refugees. Medical aid workers in South Sudan recently reported that they are seeing an increasing number of cases of malnutrition among children.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 18, 2017: An Ethiopian diplomatic delegation has arrived in South Sudan’s capital to help South Sudan search for kidnapped Ethiopians who were seized by ethnic Murle raiders earlier this month. The victims (all children) are believed to be in South Sudan’s Boma state.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 17, 2017: The NSF, a rival to SPLM-IO (the main South Sudanese rebel group) continues to grow. General Faiz Ismail Futur announced that he has resigned from the SPLM-IO and joined the NSF. Futur had commanded SPLM-IO units in the Western Bahr al-Ghazal region. He said that the SPLM-IO had ignored conditions in his area and failed to supply his forces. He also criticized SPLM-IO leaders for practicing the same tribalism the government is accused of. The current SPLM-IO leader is a member of the Nuer tribe. The South Sudan president is a Dinka, which is South Sudan’s most numerous ethnic group while the Nuer are second largest. Futur called the SPLM-IO leader a dictator. The NSF is led by a general from the Equatoria region. NSF leaders has accuse SPLM-IO leaders of destroying South Sudan. Several other SPLM-IO leaders and military officers have left the organization and joined the NSF.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 15, 2017: Ethiopia reported that over a thousand South Sudanese gunmen have entered Ethiopia’s Glabella region March 12 and March 13 and killed 28 people while also abducting 43 children. South Sudan confirmed that and identified the raiders as Murle tribesmen. Ethiopia said some of the raiders were still inside Ethiopia and Ethiopian troops were pursuing them. A similar attack occurred last year and the Ethiopian Army entered South Sudan.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 14, 2017: The UN is investigating new reports of misbehavior in South Sudan. Both government and rebels have been accused of making unlawful arrests, torturing victims and committing rape.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">Chinese UN peacekeepers rescued seven UN civilian enokoyees who were trapped in a hotel in Yei River state. Fighting had erupted in Yei between the soldiers and rebels. The firefight was only 200 meters from the UN base in Yei where the peacekeepers were stationed. The Chinese peacekeepers left the base and brought the civilians back to the base without loss.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 13, 2017: Some foreign aid workers in the area claim that religious organizations like the Catholic Church have become the only functional civil institutions in South Sudan. The aid workers note that the Catholic Church is helping deliver food and other aid when the government has failed. Right now about 40 percent of South Sudan’s population is facing a serious food shortage. Foreign aid workers note that churches have a broader reach than even the UN, which tends to focus on certain specific areas. Churches do suffer attacks, but they also manage to negotiate local peace agreements which permit the distribution of aid. (Austin Bay)</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 12, 2017: In the northeast oil-producing region (Bich state) South Sudanese troops and rebels fought a battle that left at least 23 dead, including two rebel officers.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 9, 2017: The Cobra Faction in South Sudan has joined the NSF. The Cobra Faction signed a peace agreement with the government in 2014. The Cobra Faction still believes the government has been guilty of encouraging tribal fighting by supplying pro-government tribal factions with weapons and other support.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 8, 2017: Rebels are accusing a specific South Sudan government military unit of committing atrocities in Yei River state. This areas is near South Sudan’s border with Uganda and Congo (southwest of Juba). Rebels say the Matiang Anyoor unit is manned by ethnic Dinka soldiers and is supposed to be part of South Sudan’s army. In practice Matiang Anyoor operates more like an ethnic Dinka militia. The government denied that any of its troops had committed atrocities in Yei. Leaders of South Sudan’s Azande tribe are criticizing the government for favoring the Dinka tribe and promoting “Dinka domination.” The Azande claim that Dinka soldiers attacked them in Gbudue state (southwestern South Sudan) near the Congo border. Meanwhile, there are reports of more conflicts between the Dinkas and other tribes in Western Equatoria, Central Equatoria and Eastern Equatoria states. The Western Equatoria region is one of South Sudan’s most productive agricultural areas.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 2, 2017: A slow power struggle continues in Sudan where the government has a prime minister for the first time in 28 years. But the prime minister is an old face: First Vice-President Bakri Hassan Saleh, who is supposed to be responsible for reforming the government. That assignment was made by the president (Omar al-Bashir) who is really a dictator. Bashir and the political opposition have fundamental disagreements over the composition of the new government and what constitutes reform.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">March 1, 2017: Darfur SLM-MM rebels are demanding Sudan government officials indicted for committing war crimes in the Darfur region be arrested. Those indcited (for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide) include Omar al-Bashir and several of his key aides.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px auto 15px; width: 1438.34px;">February 28, 2017: Ethiopian security forces stopped an attack on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) complex. The GERD is on the Nile River near the Ethiopia-Sudan border. Security personnel intercepted 20 members of an Ethiopian rebel group. (Benishangul Gumez Peoples Liberation Movement) and killed 13 of them as they approached the dam. The other seven fled into Sudan where local police arrested them. The seven were then turned over to Ethiopia. Ethiopian authorities said the group had assembled in Eritrea and had orders to disrupt construction of the dam.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-63043717122998255242017-03-16T02:38:00.001-07:002017-03-16T02:38:02.721-07:00Ethiopia reports deadly raid by gunmen from South Sudan | Ethiopia News | Al Jazeera<br /><br />
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<div class="article-body" id="article-body" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 709.25px;"><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More than 1,000 gunmen from <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/south-sudan.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">South Sudan</a> have killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 children in neighbouring <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/ethiopia.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">Ethiopia</a>, according to a government official.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chol Chany, a regional government spokesman, said on Wednesday the raids occurred on Sunday and Monday in Gambella region's Gog and Jor areas, which border South Sudan's Boma region.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Murle bandits carried out the attack. They fled along with 43 children," Chany told Reuters news agency, using a term for a local ethnic group.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The [Ethiopian military] is pursuing them. The assailants haven't crossed over to South Sudan yet."</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to AP news agency, Mawien Makol Arik, spokesman for South Sudan's foreign ministry, was aware of fighting in Gambella.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He said Ethiopian troops have not crossed the border into South Sudan in pursuit of the accused attackers.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Al Jazeera's Catherine Soi, reporting from Kenya's Nairobi, said it was a challenge to get information from Gambella because it was a very remote area and telephone network was "very patchy".</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It is not really a surprise that we are hearing about the incident days later," she said.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She also said that such cross-border attacks were common, but the magnitude of the latest raids were raising concerns in Ethiopia.</div><div class="ReadMoreContentSeparator" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 207, 207); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(207, 207, 207); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 13px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/07/south-sudan-country-captured-armed-factions-160729120900669.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">READ MORE: South Sudan - A country captured by armed factions</a></div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The latest raids took place almost a year after similar attacks in the province's Jikawo and Lare areas, which border South Sudan's Upper Nile State.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then, more than 200 people died and about 160 children were kidnapped.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">About 100 children have managed to return to Ethiopia, but the rest remain in the kidnappers' hands, Chany said.</div><h2 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeueLTPro-Bd, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important; 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</dl>Col. William Gatjiath Deng says pro-government forces launched another attack on the position held by the SPLA-IO on Saturday morning.<br /><br />
“In response to this aggression, the gallant SPLA-IO forces under the command of Lt General Wang Chiok Koryom of SPLA-IO Sector Three (3) engaged the Juba regime soldiers just as they were leaving Yuai and pursued them towards Wariwar to the west Yuai,” he said in a statement.<br /><br />
It added, “At the time of this press, the gallant SPLA-IO forces have so far counted some fifty-three (53) bodies of dead and rotting Juba regime soldiers, including members of the Sudanese rebels, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and SPLM-North (SPLM-N)”.<br /><br />
He said, two militarily land cruisers mounted with BM12 and 14, each four barrels and a good number of light machine guns were seized in "good conditions".<br /><br />
“It should be recalled that the Juba regime is still trying its best in provoking a regional war. While the Juba regime has succeeded in luring Egyptian air force into bombing SPLA-IO positions in Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile States, the same regime is asking Ethiopia to counter Egyptian influence in South Sudan,” stressed Col. Deng.<br /><br />
However, the spokesperson for South Sudan army, Brig. Gen Lual Ruai Koang was not immediately available to react to the armed opposition’s claims.<br /><br />
An estimated 3.5 million people have been displaced by conflict in the country and 5 million are in urgent need of food due to conflict and economic instability, aid agencies said early last week.<br /><br />
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We are ‘not afraid’ of any country, be it within the region (Ethiopia) or beyond, i think our ambassador in Addis Ababa made it clear to them on Ethiopian Broadcasting Television that we do not have to explain anything on our diplomatic relations with other countries” said Atem Deng Makuac an official at the ministry of information in Juba</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This Comes just a day after the South Sudanese ambassador to Ethiopia was summoned on the national television the Ethiopian Broadcasting Cooperation (EBC) to explain president Kiir’s recent visit to Egypt and to dispel recent rumours that South Sudan and Egypt agreed on a “dirty deal” over Ethiopia’s building of a mega Dam on the river Nile.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The official said the government in Juba would not back down from any deal with the Egyptian government due to their long standing relations.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Other countries cannot force us to rethink our relations with Egypt, Egypt has supported South Sudan in many occasion, you know it, about their support for our irrigation system, no country in the region has done that, ok? Said Atem Deng Makuac a close aide to the information minister</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Atem said Egypt has offered opportunities to South Sudanese, he warned that Ethiopia cannot force or threaten South Sudan because the national interest of the country comes first above anything else.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“They have given scholarships, they are offering other security support now. We cannot be asked to stop cooperating with Egypt be it on the Nile water issues or whatever. Those who are not happy have to rethink” Atem Deng added.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">President Salva Kiir visited Egyptian capital last week in a surprise invitationn by his Egyptian counterpart Al Fatah Al-Sisi were they discussed bilateral relations and agreed to work together to support Egypt in it’s campaign on building dams on the Nile river. According to Middle-east news sources the two president’s of Egypt and South Sudan agreed on a “dirty deal” to block or sabotage Ethiopian plans to build a dam on the Nile river. (Nyamilepedia)</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-44385098463033614992017-01-24T09:38:00.001-08:002017-01-24T09:38:26.415-08:00Diplomatic row breaks out between South Sudan and Ethiopia | Radio Tamazuj<div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-main-image" style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, Verdana, "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><img alt="" class="imagecache imagecache-main-image imagecache-default imagecache-main-image_default" height="216" src="https://radiotamazuj.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/main-image/images/desalegn%20and%20kiir%20-%20Copy_3_0.JPG" style="border: 0px;" title="" width="540" /></div></div></div><h1 class="title" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, Verdana, "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;"></h1><div class="content" style="background-color: white; 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16th January 2017 - <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-easing-sanctions-on-sudan-erodes-us-leverage/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FDD Policy Brief</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-37d2b329-a849-42eb-360f-0c7b3d111a7c" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday </span><a href="https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl0707.aspx" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">eased sanctions</a> against Sudan based on improved behavior, and with the expectation that Sudan “sustains [the] positive actions it has taken over the last 6 months.” The move, which comes after months of rumors that Sudan would be removed entirely from the U.S. terrorism sponsors list, punts the six-month review to the Donald Trump administration.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-37d2b329-a849-42eb-360f-0c7b3d111a7c" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Treasury was quick to note that the move “will not impact Sudanese individuals or entities blocked pursuant to </span><a href="https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Documents/13400.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[executive order] 13400</a>,” which imposes sanctions on persons in connection with the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region. And the action did not address the role that Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, has reportedly played in <a href="http://www.voanews.com/a/sudan-warns-south-sudan-to-stop-supporting-rebels/3564486.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fomenting the civil war in South Sudan</a>, with both countries accusing the other of supporting the other’s rebels.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-37d2b329-a849-42eb-360f-0c7b3d111a7c" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Al-Bashir, it is also worth noting, still has a warrant out for his arrest at the </span><a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/darfur/albashir" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">International Criminal Court</a> for five counts of crimes against humanity, two counts of war crimes, and three counts of genocide.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-37d2b329-a849-42eb-360f-0c7b3d111a7c" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sudan also remains </span><a href="https://www.state.gov/j/ct/list/c14151.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">listed</a> by the State Department as a designated State Sponsor of Terrorism, and reports suggest that sanctions evasion, corruption, resource trafficking, and other <a href="https://thesentry.org/reports/sudan/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">illicit financial activity</a> are rife in the country.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-37d2b329-a849-42eb-360f-0c7b3d111a7c" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The “positive actions” cited by Treasury </span><a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/potential-benefits-of-easing-sudan-sanctions?utm_term=Read%20this%20article%20on%20our%20website.&utm_campaign=Potential%20Benefits%20of%20Easing%20Sudan%20Sanctions%20%28Bauer%20%7C%20Policy%20Alert%29&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email&cm_mmc=Act-On%20Software-_-email-_-Potential%20Benefits%20of%20Easing%20Sudan%20Sanctions%20%28Bauer%20%7C%20Policy%20Alert%29-_-Read%20this%20article%20on%20our%20website." style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reportedly</a> include Khartoum’s cutting ties with al-Qaeda, Iran, and Palestinian terrorist groups, and contributing to Saudi-led efforts against Iran-backed extremists in the region. Indeed, <a href="http://www.arabnews.com/node/1039151/saudi-arabia" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Saudi Arabia</a> reportedly played a significant role in convincing the Obama administration to ease sanctions against Sudan.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, unwinding U.S. sanctions for these positive steps without addressing the full range of Sudan’s illicit activities will pose challenges for the next administration. Specifically, it will erode U.S. leverage and make it more difficult for Washington to pressure Sudan for many of its continued destabilizing activities.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-37d2b329-a849-42eb-360f-0c7b3d111a7c" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indeed, Washington is likely to run into the same complications it is currently experiencing with Iran. The </span><a href="https://www.state.gov/e/eb/tfs/spi/iran/jcpoa/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action</a> of July 2015 relaxed sanctions on Iran in exchange for certain Iranian nuclear concessions. But Tehran’s support for terrorist groups, its backing of rogue states, and its human rights violations at home continue apace.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-37d2b329-a849-42eb-360f-0c7b3d111a7c" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To help maintain leverage, the Obama administration should have provided a limited general license to reward Khartoum for its cooperation in some areas, while keeping overall U.S. economic pressure intact.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is now upon the incoming Trump administration to assess Sudan’s malign activities before July 12, 2017 to determine whether Khartoum has earned the full easing of sanctions proscribed. But even more important will be its policy of whether “strategic unwinding” of sanctions is advisable with any actor, particularly when problematic behaviors still persist.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-37d2b329-a849-42eb-360f-0c7b3d111a7c" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, is vice president for research at Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/JSchanzer?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@JSchanzer.</a></span></em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-34097877250264267482017-01-11T01:16:00.001-08:002017-01-11T01:16:25.569-08:00South Sudanese President in Egypt for bilateral talks - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan<div class="cartouche" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 14px;"><div class="surlignable"><h1 class="crayon article-titre-61344 " id="titreArticle" style="color: #a75314; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 22px;">South Sudanese President in Egypt for bilateral talks</h1></div></div><div class="ui-tabs ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" id="tabs" style="background: url("//www.sudantribune.com/squelettes/smoothness/images/ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png") 50% 50% repeat-x rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; padding: 0.2em; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><ul class="ui-tabs-nav ui-helper-reset ui-helper-clearfix ui-widget-header ui-corner-all" style="background: url("//www.sudantribune.com/squelettes/smoothness/images/ui-bg_highlight-soft_75_cccccc_1x100.png") 50% 50% repeat-x rgb(204, 204, 204); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0px;"><li class="ui-state-default ui-corner-top ui-tabs-selected ui-state-active" style="background: url("//www.sudantribune.com/squelettes/smoothness/images/ui-bg_glass_65_ffffff_1x400.png") 50% 50% repeat-x rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0px !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); color: #212121; float: left; font-weight: 400; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0.2em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: relative; top: 1px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article61344#tabs-1" style="color: #212121; cursor: text; float: left; padding: 0.5em 1em; text-decoration: none;">Article</a></li>
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</dl>The visit comes barely a month after the Egyptian president visited Uganda, resulting into the unannounced visit to South Sudan by Ugandan leader, Yoweri Museveni.<br /><br />
South Sudan’s Presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny told reporters that Kiir’s visit would take two days during which the two leaders and their cabinet ministers would hold discussions in relation to bilateral ties between the two countries.<br /><br />
“The President of the Republic Salva Kiir Mayardit and the accompanying delegation left Juba for Cario, Arab Republic of Egypt this morning in response to the invitation extended to him by his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatah El- Sisi," said Ateny.<br /><br />
He added, "President Salva Kiir will also be extending his country appreciation of the role played by Egypt in supporting South Sudan in the UNSC, and the role of Egypt in offering education to many South Sudanese’ generations since when it was part of the Sudan.<br /><br />
President Kiir is also expected to extend a similar invitation to his Egyptian counterpart.<br /><br />
Critics claim the three leaders agreed to open training camps for Sudanese armed opposition at Uganda-South Sudan border with the view to topple Sudanese government for supporting construction of a dam by Ethiopian government on River Nile.<br /><br />
This deal, according to security sources, resulted in dispatching more than big trucks full of Ugandan troops heading to South Sudan. 20 trucks, unconfirmed reports say, claimed entered Nimule through Elgu, and eighteen trucks via Ajdumani to Kajokeji.<br /><br />
The stated mission is to pursue the armed opposition figures and to clear out rebellion around South Sudan border with Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, though the Uganda government blackmail the people in the region that they are pursuing Uganda Armed oppositions in Northern Uganda , Eastern Uganda and West Nile as a mere political propaganda, a source told <i>Sudan Tribune</i> on Monday.<br /><br />
The visit of President Abdullah Fatah Sisi of Egypt to Uganda last month follow by unofficial visit of president Museveni to Juba three days after Egypt President visited to Uganda, in which President Museveni during a closed door meeting with President Salva Kiir, conveyed the message that he and Egyptian leader to open up a training camp at border with his country.<br /><br />
The Kampala and Juba meetings resolved to provide a support to Sudanese and Ethiopian Armed oppositions. This will involve training and providing weapons to SPLM-North, Darfur Rebels both with Military Equipment and full logistics including Finance. Egypt will supply Uganda then South Sudan will be the corridors to supply the equipment to the SPLM-North, Darfur Rebels and Ethiopian Armed opposition.<br /><br />
These military Training camps have will be opened along South Sudan border with Uganda and Congo border. The reason behind is that they want to use Congo Central Africa corridors to launch attack on Sudanese government than using South Sudan Border. The training Camps will be around Mofok and around Lasu.<br /><br />
This will be making it o easier for transportation of the Equipment by land because by air it will be difficult because South Sudan air-space is under the control of Sudan, a security source who did not want to be identified told <i>Sudan Tribune</i> on Monday.<br /><br />
The source further alleged that the Egyptian government had sent 58 senior military commanders to South Sudan through Uganda to access the ground for training for SPLA, Sudanese and Ethiopian rebels. The commanders, he added, are from different military units, armor, artillery, air-defense and central military intelligence.<br /><br />
“Government of Egypt has a plan to topple both the government of Sudan and Ethiopia because the of Dam that Egyptians have contested before and rejected it not to be built, but Sudan and Ethiopia decided to go ahead and they have built the Dam which affect Egypt. The second issue is the contested Area in the eastern part of Sudan bordering Egypt (Halayib). Egypt is claiming that the area and Sudan continues to claim the area also. This is what is happening in the region”, explained the source.<br /><br />
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Photo: Radio Tamazuj/File" class="size-medium wp-image-6168" height="137" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://www.southsudannewsagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Taban-Deng-Gai-300x137.jpg" srcset="http://www.southsudannewsagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Taban-Deng-Gai-300x137.jpg 300w, http://www.southsudannewsagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Taban-Deng-Gai-768x350.jpg 768w, http://www.southsudannewsagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Taban-Deng-Gai-1024x466.jpg 1024w, http://www.southsudannewsagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Taban-Deng-Gai-600x273.jpg 600w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.6; padding: 12px 16px; width: calc(100% - 10px);">South Sudan FVP Gai. Photo: Radio Tamazuj/File</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Addis Ababa/Khartoum, December 2, 2016 (SSNA) —</span> South Sudanese First Vice president Taban Deng Gai says governments of Ethiopia and Sudan agree with South Sudan to ban rebel leader Dr. Riek Machar from traveling in East African region, suggesting that Khartoum and Addis Ababa agreed to Juba’s request to isolate the armed opposition leader from their countries.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">On November 23, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">South Sudan News Agency</em> (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">SSNA</em>) obtained a <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UcyI2WjO_E" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cc2200; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, border, color, opacity, transform;">video</a></span> in which FVP Gai lashing out at Machar, calling him a “negative person” who has been rejected by the region and perhaps the whole African continent.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">Gai, who speaks both in English and Arabic in the audiovisual, declares that the rebel chief was first told by the government of South Africa not to travel outside South Africa because nobody wants him in East Africa and that he is safe in the Republic of South Africa. Gai also said the former First Vice President was initially given a fake visa by an individual in Nigeria and that when the Nigerian government learned about the illegal visa, it went ahead and cancelled it, adding Nigeria is still investigating who gave Machar the visa.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The FVP mocks the rebel chief by telling the seemingly anxious audience that Machar is using the passport for the First Vice president and questions who is the legitimate FVP of South Sudan. He suggests that the armed opposition head should stop calling himself the legitimate FVP of the Republic of South Sudan because he was dismissed by the SPLM-IO, adding that Dr. Machar was also relieved from his FVP post by President Salva kiir. Gai even told the listeners that an experienced lawyer who can legally explain the legitimacy of First Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan was in attendance.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">Mr. Gai told his audience that Dr. Machar was asked by the Ethiopian government to choose where he should go because Addis Ababa does not want him and believes his presence in South Sudan would amounts to crisis or escalation of the ongoing civil war.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">“When he arrived in Addis, he was told, friend, you have nowhere to go because your visa to Nigeria has been canceled by the Nigerian authorities therefore we will not take you to Nigeria,” Gai said.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">“So tell us where you would like to go from here? He said he would go to Pagak, South Sudan. The Ethiopian authorities told him no, because your intention of going to Pagak means crisis, means fighting, and so we are not going to allow this,” he asserted.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">Mr. Gai also claims in the video that Machar asked Ethiopia authorities to be allowed to go to Sudan and that Addis Ababa told him they cannot do it because the rebel leader has no entry visa to Khartoum.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">At one point, Gai appears bothered by what he believes “uncivilized Ethiopians” allowed Machar to board a plane to Sudan.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">“So, the uncivilized Ethiopians allowed him to board a plane to Khartoum, Sudan,” Gai protests.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">“When he arrived in Khartoum, the Sudanese told him you have no resident in Khartoum. We don’t want you in Khartoum. They delayed the Ethiopian Airlines and told the Airlines that they should take this man [Machar] back to where you brought him from,” he continues.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">Gai further explains that Ethiopian government contacted them after Machar was allegedly rejected by the Sudanese government. He assures the listeners that the rebel chief is free to come to Juba but he is not the First Vice President.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">“He returned to Addis, Ethiopia. Upon arrival, the Ethiopians contacted us and said this person has nowhere or place to go to. We say ok! He is a south Sudanese. Let him choose including coming to Juba.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">“Okay! He was supposed to come, by the way. He was supposed to come. He was supposed to come and stays like you. He would have not been taken to jail. But, he is not the FVP. He would have come and stay. If he was a strong man and an intelligence person who know how, he would have come to us,” Gai stated.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">Gai further claims Machar demanded to talk to Sudan’s Bakari but his request was denied and told by Khartoum that his problem is a responsibility of the Sudanese Security and Immigration authorities not Bakari, adding that Machar negotiated with Sudan for four (4) hours and was eventually told by the Khartoum that he is not needed in Sudan.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The South Sudan’s First Vice President even alleged that Ethiopia government found one of Machar’s bodyguards with Ethiopian passport and the body guard was then asked by Ethiopian authorities to abandon Machar because the guard is an Ethiopian not South Sudanese. Gai also said the rebel leader didn’t sleep for two days because of issues surrounding his East Africa tour.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">SSNA</em> understands that between November 19 and November 20, Dr. Machar experienced entry visa problems in Addis Ababa, which ultimately led Ethiopian immigration authorities to ask him to go back to South Africa and follow proper visa procedures there before returning to Ethiopia. A senior rebel official later <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.southsudannewsagency.com/index.php/2016/11/22/rebel-official-blasts-false-reports-machar-deportation-south-africa/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cc2200; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, border, color, opacity, transform;">told</a></span> the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">SSNA</em> that the rebel leadership blames itself for Machar’s visa difficulty because the SPLM-IO’s protocol office did not follow proper channels with the Ethiopian Immigration body, dismissing deportation claims as “false reports” and “over-exaggerated piece of information.” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The South Sudan News Agency </em>confirmed that Machar voluntarily choose to go back to South Africa after failed attempts to get an entry visa at the Bole International Airport.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The rebel leader fled Juba in July after government troops tried to assassinate him. Kiir later replaced him with Mr. Gai as the First Vice president.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The SPLM-IO says Gai betrayed the armed opposition simply because Machar refused to appoint him minister of petroleum, adding that he should not call himself SPLM-IO leader since he was dismissed from the party before Kiir appointed him.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">SSNA</em> has contacted officials at Ethiopian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and Sudanese government through email and phone for comment but hasn’t received a response.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Secret arms deal between Ethiopia and South Sudan</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">A leaked document which the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">South Sudan News Agency</em> cannot independently verify reveals secret arms deal between Ethiopia and South Sudan. The document bears signature of Lt. Col. Solomon Tor Kang who identify himself as Deputy Defense Attaché. The contract discloses that Addis Ababa sold a total of two million, nine hundred and ten thousand, and one hundred and seventy four (2,910,174) ammunition to Juba. The total sale includes 1,821,600 7.62x54mm PKM ammunition, 1,040,000 7.62x39mm AKM ammunition, 20,000 RGD-5 Hand Grenade, 610 122mm ammunition, 20,000 Rocket 107mm HE, and 7,964 60mm Mortar ammunition.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">The document dated November 25, 2016, also says South Sudan national army (SPLA) agrees to pay $55,000 dollars to Ethiopia’s Ministry of National Defense, adding that the money covers transporting ammunition from Ethiopia’s stores to Ethiopia’s air force base located in Debreziet town.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">The <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">SSNA</em> is still investigating the authenticity and actual cost of the alleged arms deal.</div></div></section>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-11709559543963478082016-11-22T01:49:00.001-08:002016-11-22T01:49:38.602-08:00S. Sudan rebel leader stopped in Ethiopia, returns to South Africa - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on SudanS. Sudan rebel leader stopped in Ethiopia, returns to South Africa<br />
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November 21, 2016 (JUBA) –The leader of South Sudan’s armed opposition faction (SPLM-IO), Riek Machar has been prevented from entering Ethiopia and was forced to return to South Africa, SPLM-IO officials told Sudan Tribune on Monday.<br />
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South Sudan’s FVP, Riek Machar, departing from Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa to Pretoria, South Africa, 14 February 2016 (SPLM-IO courtesy photo)<br />
A senior rebel officials said Machar was stopped by the Ethiopian authorities upon his arrival from South Africa at Bole International Airport in Ethiopia and forced later to board another flight back to Johannesburg.<br />
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The rebel official, who preferred anonymity, said the rebel leader was heading to the SPLM-IO headquarters in Pagak near the Ethiopian border.<br />
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Machar was detained at the airport in Addis Ababa for four and half hours and was later advised either to board back to South Africa or risk being deportation to Juba,’’.<br />
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Last October, the deposed first vice president left Khartoum to South Africa to for medical treatment. He had arrived to Khartoum from the Democratic republic of Congo after clashes in Juba between his troops Juba<br />
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The Security Council members are considering a draft resolution to impose an arms embargo and additional targeted sanctions that could be brought to a vote as early as this week. The Associate Press disclosed that the U.S. proposed to impose travel bans on Machar and freeze his assets.<br />
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Washington blamed him for issuing a statement on 25 September 2016 declaring war on President Salva Kiir’s government following a meeting held in the Sudanese capital.<br />
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Several sources from the armed opposition reached by the Sudan Tribune said their leader was safe, but declined to disclose his whereabouts.<br />
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Some officials claim Machar crossed into South Sudan, while others said the rebel leader returned safely back to South Africa.<br />
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Thomas Magok Chuol, SPLM-IO representative to Uganda confirmed to Sudan Tribune that Machar had indeed returned back to South Africa.<br />
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“Yes, it is true Dr. Riek Machar has been told upon his arrival in Ethiopia to return to South Africa. It is not yet known the reason behind the decision,” he said.<br />
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</dl>Dut Makur Mapur, a representative of the students claimed their acting ambassador, Darious Garang ordered for their arrest.<br /><br />
The affected students were from the universities of Mekelle, Bardar, Jimma, Awasa and Technical Vocational Training Institute (TVET).<br /><br />
"There are two groups of students from South Sudan to Ethiopia, the first group was from 2012/ 2013 comprising of 23 students doing different departments in Mekelle university and the second group from 2014/ 2015 comprising of some students to Bardar, Jimma, Mekelle and Awasa universities and the target group is in technical vocational training institute known as TVET," said Dut.<br /><br />
The students are entitled to $100 monthly and a round ticket at the end of the academic year from South Sudan government.<br /><br />
"Up to now, we have almost four years without receiving our stipend, the same is true for the second group. They haven’t received [their stipend] for two and half years," stressed Dut.<br /><br />
The students’ representative called on South Sudan government to instruct its acting ambassador to avoid mistreating them over their rights.<br /><br />
“I condemned that act and I urge immediate release and solution to their problems. I call upon the government to act wisely and instruct ambassador Darious Garang to get a better solution," said Dut.</div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-52338438557877805932016-10-31T01:25:00.001-07:002016-10-31T01:25:49.026-07:00Sudan and Ethiopia sign security cooperation agreement - Sudan Tribune:<div class="cartouche" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 14px;"><div class="surlignable"><h1 class="crayon article-titre-60685 " id="titreArticle" style="color: #a75314; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 22px;"></h1></div></div><div class="ui-tabs ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" id="tabs" style="background: url("//www.sudantribune.com/squelettes/smoothness/images/ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png") 50% 50% repeat-x rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; padding: 0.2em; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="ui-tabs-panel ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom" id="tabs-1" style="background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 1em 1.4em;"><div class="article"><div class="surlignable"><div class="crayon article-texte-60685 texte entry-content" id="text" style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="spip_document_19083 spip_documents spip_documents_center" style="clear: both; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 1em auto; text-align: center; width: 528.75px;"><img alt="Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn (L) meets with Sudan's President Omer al-Bashir at the Presidential Palace in Khartoum on December 3, 2013 (AFP Photo)" src="http://www.sudantribune.com/local/cache-vignettes/L500xH286/ethiopian_prime_minister_hailemariam_desalegn_l_meets_with_sudan_s_president_omer_al-bashir_at_the_presidential_palace_in_khartoum_on_december_3_2013_afp-97585.jpg?1477772957" height="286" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn (L) meets with Sudan's President Omer al-Bashir at the Presidential Palace in Khartoum on December 3, 2013 (AFP Photo)" width="500" /></span><br /><br />
October 29, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan and Ethiopia Saturday have signed in Addis Ababa a memorandum of understanding providing to enhance joint security and military cooperation between the two neighbouring countries to fight terrorism.<br /><br />
The signing ceremony took place on the sidelines of the meetings of the Joint Ethiopian Sudanese Higher Military Committee chaired by Sudan Defence Awad bin Auf and his Ethiopian counterpart Siraj Fegessa.<br /><br />
The agreement was signed by the head of the General Staff of the Sudanese army Lt. Gen. Imad al-Din Adawi and his Ethiopian counterpart, General Samora Mohamed Younis.<br /><br />
The Sudanese defence minister reiterated the importance of military and security cooperation between the two countries "to counter terrorism in all its forms".<br /><br />
"The signed memorandum of understanding provides to secure the borders, the exchange of criminals, and prevent any hostile activity to the two countries, especially from the anti-peace groups," he said in statements reported by the Ethiopian TV after the signing ceremony.<br /><br />
The terms "anti-peace" and "terrorism" are used in the two countries to describe rebel groups .<br /><br />
From his side, Minister Fegessa stressed the desire of the two countries to work together to combat terrorist activities on the common border.<br /><br />
"The two countries also stressed the need to develop the capacity of the joint defence forces," he said, adding that Khartoum and Addis Ababa were able to stop cross-border crimes through coordination and cooperation.<br /><br />
Last March during the 14th meeting of the joint Sudanese Ethiopian technical committee in Khartoum, Sudan proposed to deploy joint border units on the border between the two countries.<br /><br />
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October 28, 2016 (JUBA) - leaders of Ethiopia and South Sudan have signed a series of cooperation agreements on Friday, including a security arrangement to stop hosting armed opposition groups in their respective countries.<br /><br />
The deal per a communiqué signed at the presidential palace in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, on Friday between President Salva Kiir and his visiting Ethiopian counter-part, Hailemariam Desalegn, calls on Ethiopia not to support armed groups, probably targeting members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) under the leadership of the controversially ousted former First Vice President, Riek Machar.<br /><br />
Ethiopia hosted and led the mediation of the the peace process between Kiir and Machar which was signed in August last year to end 21 months of civil war, but which implementation has been disrupted by the recent renewal of violent conflict between the two factions in July in Juba, resuming the war.<br /><br />
In his statement, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, has reiterated the commitment of his administration and the people of his country to help in the implementation of the peace agreement, saying he would want to see a peaceful and prosperous South Sudan.<br /><br />
“We are very keen to see South Sudan be a peaceful country and a prosperous country... because we believe that the South Sudanese people have suffered enough for half a century and peace should prevail in South Sudan,” Prime Minister Desalegn said.<br /><br />
“We will not support an armed struggling group or anyone who opts for path of war and therefore we will not allow any armed movement which is detracting from peace in our region both in Ethiopia and South Sudan and will cooperate in a strong army-to-army cooperation where the president has agreed to send his chief of staff quickly to Addis Ababa and they will agree on the common cooperation of making our borders and also inland secure,” he said, while speaking to the media in Juba alongside South Sudanese President Kiir.<br /><br />
During the one day visit to Juba, Ethiopian Prime Minister, Deselagn, also addressed the Transitional National Legislative Assembly and reiterated his country’s support to peace in South Sudan in addition to a few economic and infrastructural agreements the two nations want to jointly implement.<br /><br />
Other agreements signed include five roads construction project - with Ethiopia funding two highways through a loan to South Sudan. Oil agreement and trading was another area of agreements signed by respective ministers of both countries.<br /><br />
President Kiir on his part said he was happy with the agreement with Ethiopia on security and development projects, saying he was hoping to see change coming.<br /><br />
"We will be vigilant always to review all the agreements for the benefit of the two countries and we are hopeful that things will change," said Kiir.<br /><br />
The agreement would deny hosting or support of Machar and his faction, implying that the Ethiopian government would recognize the current setup in Juba after the 8 July violence which kicked out Machar from the capital.<br /><br />
<strong>SPLM-IO DOWNPLAYS DEAL</strong><br /><br />
Machar’s spokesperson James Gatdet Dak, said the SPLM-IO and its army, the SPLA-IO, are both intact inside South Sudan and will use all means necessary, including peaceful dialogue and revival of the peace deal and the right to self-defence through popular armed resistance, to save the country from the “failed anti-peace regime” of President Kiir.<br /><br />
He further dismissed claims that their armed opposition and its leadership has been isolated in the region, saying what is happening is a temporary misunderstanding by some leaders which will be sorted out in time through engagement.<br /><br />
Some IGAD leaders who have not yet met Machar after he escaped the assassination in Juba, he said, may still want to hear from him in a face-to-face engagement before they could have a better picture of the situation.<br /><br />
Dak, said there seemed to be misunderstanding among some leaders of IGAD, saying some of them were reneging on their communiqué of last August which called for reinstatement of Machar as First Vice President and the implementation of the agreement once a regional force is deployed.<br /><br />
However, he said Machar will be consulting with such leaders in order to clear the air by telling his side of the story of what transpired in Juba and to undo the “lies” told by the regime in Juba.<br /><br />
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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Around seven flower farms have been affected - some burnt to the ground, others partially vandalised during attacks that took place Monday to Wednesday," the Ethiopian Horticultural Producers and Exporters Association said in a statement emailed to Reuters. No injuries have been reported from the attacks.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The list of firms included Esmeralda Farms BV of the Netherlands, Italian owned-Alfano Fiori, Indian firm Fontana Flowers PLC, and others operated and owned by investors from Israel, Belgium and the Middle East, it added.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All plots are close to Bahir Dar, the Amhara regional capital. "Details are still being gathered. The scope of damage requires further investigation," the statement said.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tensions have been rumbling for two decades over the status of Wolkayt district, a stretch of land that protesters from Amhara say was illegally incorporated into the neighbouring Tigray region to the north.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Though demonstrators have behaved mainly peacefully, there have been incidents where government officials and civilians perceived to be associated with the government have been attacked by protesters.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A spokeswoman for Flora Holland, the world's largest flower auction based in the Dutch city of Aalsmeer, said that growers were assessing the damage from the attacks.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The scope of the damage differs greatly from business to business," Elizabeth Palandeng said, but she did not believe it would lead to a long-term problem with deliveries.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hardest hit appeared to be a Dutch company, Esmeralda, which said in a statement that 10 million euros worth of investments "went up in smoke" in an attack on its farm on Sept. 29.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The African flower industry has grown quickly in recent years, with Kenya and Ethiopia together providing about 65 percent of the Dutch auction's total.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Any sign of unrest is closely watched in Ethiopia, an important Horn of Africa ally of the West against Islamist militants in neighbouring Somalia, and an economic power seen as a centre of relative stability in a combustible region.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earlier this week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said his administration would carry out "deep-rooted" reforms and pledged to address grievances, though he warned of measures if protests escalated into violence.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803709531628370454.post-51461235267441710482016-09-03T09:22:00.001-07:002016-09-03T09:22:32.083-07:00South Sudan opposition diplomat defects to government - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan<div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> A South Sudan opposition diplomat in Ethiopia on Friday declared his defection to join president Salva Kiir led government in Juba.</div><dl class="spip_document_17642 spip_documents spip_documents_right" style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: center;"><dt><img alt="JPEG - 76.6 kb" src="http://www.sudantribune.com/local/cache-vignettes/L347xH260/the_south_sudan_embassy_in_ethiopia-18b97.jpg" height="260" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="347" /></dt>
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</dl><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">David Dang, who had been serving as Deputy representative of the SPLM-IO mission office in Ethiopia says he has resigned from his position, arguing that the leader of the armed opposition group, Riek Machar, has failed to lead the movement.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">"Machar has no vision, he is running the SPLM-IO like his own property, as a result I am no longer supporter of Dr. Riek Machar" David told <i>Sudan Tribune</i> on Friday.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">David’s defection comes weeks after few opposition officials including Taban Deng, close aide of Machar and former SPLM-IO head negotiator defected to government to take the officie of the first vice president , replacing boss Machar.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">David further said that he is now on wards the supporter of Taban Deng who also is chairman of the SPLM/A-IO splinter faction .</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">"Furthermore Gen. Taban Deng Gai knows what it takes to be a leader," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">David called on all people of South Sudan and particularly on Greater Nuer community to follow his move and join the leadership of Taban.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">He said Taban is the right leader to implement the peace agreement brokered by the regional bloc, IGAD and to save South Sudan from sliding back into a bloodshed.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">"If you want peace to prevail in South Sudan, please come and join the First Vice President, Taban Deng Gai who is ready to implement the peace deal," David said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">He added that the peace agreement signed in August last year is the only binding document which could stop the suffering of the people.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">"Our people don’t deserve to be in the IDPs camps this too long in their own country; our children don’t deserve to grow in refugee camps without going to school" he added.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">David Dang, switch sides to join the SPLM-IO, under leader ship of Riek Machar, in November 2014, while he was then serving as deputy head of mission of South Sudan Embassy in Ethiopia.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">David, ethnic Nuer, then accused the ethnically Dinka dominated Kiir’s government of creating climate of fear at South Sudan embassies across the world to systematically force the Nuer diplomats abandon their posts.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0