- Press Releases
06 July - Demobilisation of SPLA combatants kicks off in Kauda
The Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programme in Sudan, under which 180,000 combatants from the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) are to be demobilised and reintegrated…
Referendum discussed in Upper Nile
To ensure full cooperation between Upper Nile State authorities and UNMIS in conducting Southern Sudan's upcoming referendum, representatives of the two bodies met in Malakal on 7 July. [Scheduled for 9 January 2011, the…
Basketball player rehabilitates school
A professional basketball player who fled to Britain with his family during Sudan's civil war has returned home to rehabilitate a school in Udichi payam (township), Western Bahr El-Ghazal State. The 25-year-old former refugee…
Malakal SSDDR get new office
The Malakal Southern Sudan Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Commission (SSDDRC) recently moved into a new nine-room office donated by UNMIS. During the handover ceremony on 12 July, UNMIS Human Rights Officer…
Rumbek ex-combatants demobilized
The joint South Sudan Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (SSDDRC) and integrated UN DDR team demobilized the last 29 of 3,675 ex-combatants in Rumbek, Lakes State, on 9 July. "The whole team were very…
Yei association wins AIDS award
A Sudanese women's non-governmental organization -- Widows, Orphans and People Living with HIV/Aids (WOPHA) – is one of 25 community-based bodies to win the coveted Red Ribbon Award for its work in reducing the spread and…
Trumpets, drums and copper sheets
As a part-time English-language newscaster for South Sudan Radio at its studios in the city of Wau, Emmanuel Ujang is thoroughly acquainted with the scope and penetration of modern mass media. But the 26-year-old native of…
Revamping postal services
While the internet has laid siege to postal services in many countries, the sector remains vital in Sudan, where less than 10 per cent of the population are online. With infrastructure and a functional system in place, the…
High-tech in health
The health sector in Southern Sudan is going high-tech. A $2.2 million investment in computers, satellites and electricity generators by the Ministry of Health of the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) should…
- Press Releases
19 July- UNMIS Held Initial Consultative meeting with the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission Today
Khartoum, 19 July. UNMIS held today its initial introductory meeting with the recently formed Southern Sudan Referendum Commission as a whole at the Mission's Headquarters in Khartoum. The meeting was attended by the…
Border States pledge to work together
Representatives of Sudan's north-south border states concluded a two-day conference on peaceful co-existence among their communities in Aweil, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, on 15 July. Mainly focusing on security and…
Akobo flooding kills two, destroys 133 homes
Severe flooding in Akobo County, Jonglei State, has caused the deaths of two people and destroyed 133 households, according to the report of a humanitarian team that visited the Walgak area. Compiled jointly by the World Food…