Meeting Southern Sudan’s former child soldiers

This post is written by Pernille Ironside, a child protection specialist for UNICEF, who serves as the organisation’s global focal point on the use and recruitment of children by armed forces and groups. She is currently based at UNICEF Headquarters in New York.

Soldiers to withdraw after shooting in Sudan

Soldiers caught up in fighting in Sudan’s oil town of Abyei have agreed to pull out of the settlement to ease tensions, local officials and UN officers said on Sunday.

South Sudan delegation participates in border workshop in UK

September 22, 2008 (LONDON) – Officials from southern Sudan government participated in a three day training workshop on strategies and tools for effective border management in the United Kingdom.

Western Equatoria becoming a breading ground for LRA

The Lost Ruthless Animals (LRA) of Joseph Kony formerly known in Uganda as the Lord’s Resistance Army has for the last few years undergone successions of changes which at the present makes it a real regional threat to the neighbouring countries of South Sudan, The Democratic Republic of Congo( DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR). But who cares about insecurities in these areas of the world as long as whatsoever happens here do not affect the core interests of the USA, Britain and France plus their tribalistic puppets in the leaderships of these former colonies.

Fresh fighting breaks out in Sudan North-South border region

There has been new reports of fighting between former southern Sudanese rebels and armed tribesman in the oil rich border region.The Al-Sahafa daily said that the deadly clashes broke out between the Sudan people Liberation Army (SPLA) and the cattle-herding Misseriya tribes around 20 kilometers east of the Heglig oil field.