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  • National unity a project for each and every South Sudanese

    By Jacob K. LupaiMay 21, 2013 - South Sudan has just attained independence from an imposed unity that had failed miserably to take into account the objective realities on the ground. In the old Sudan people did not take national unity as a project for each and every Sudanese. Greed and insensitivity preoccupied people's minds and the result was the breakup of Sudan into two independent ...

  • Kagame Cup Draws Set for Today in Khartoum

    THE Council of East and Central Africa football Association (Cecafa) is set to hold the draw for this year's Kagame Cup Club Championship on Tuesday in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. After holding a final inspection in Darfur and Gordofan on Sunday and Monday, the regional tournament has been cleared to be hosted in the two states from June 18 to July 2. Speaking to Times Sport yesterday, ...

  • Red Cross Red Crescent Appeals for 3.7 Million Swiss Francs As Needs Intensify in Sudan

    As conflict, natural disasters, epidemic outbreaks and chronic food insecurity continue to plague Sudan, millions of people have been forced to leave their homes, making them more vulnerable and in critical need of humanitarian assistance. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has launched an emergency appeal for more than 3.7 million Swiss francs (3.8 ...

  • Foreign State Minister receives Sudanese Ambassador

    Manama, May 21 (BNA) -- State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ghanim bin Fadhl Al-Buainin received today the Sudanese Ambassador to Bahrain Abdulla Ahmed Othman. During the meeting, the State Minister welcomed the Sudanese Ambassador, reviewed the distinguished bilateral relations between both countries in various fields, affirming the Kingdom's keenness on expanding cooperation, and ...

  • Lebanese farmland firm to invest up to $800 million in Sudan

    Tue May 21, 2013 7:32am EDT * Arab firms lease farmland in Sudan to secure food for Gulf * Lebanon's GLB to invest up to $800 million in Sudan By Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM, May 21 (Reuters) - Lebanese farmland investor GLB Invest plans to invest up to $800 million in Sudan to produce animal feed to be sold to Saudi Arabia, its president said on Tuesday. Arab investors have launched farmland and ...

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Fiend Without a Face [DVD]

Fiend Without a Face [DVD]

Fiend Without a Face is considered by many to be the best movie of the brief, five-year outpouring of science-fiction/horror hybrids in Great Britain in the late 1950s. Although shot on a tight budget, Fiend is a well-crafted and generally suspenseful genre flick that has held up surprisingly well, despite its sometimes dated dialogue and reliance on Cold War-era paranoia and fe ... ...

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  • IDPs Attacked in South Darfur En Route to Dereige Camp

    Khartoum - Displaced civilians on their way to Dereige camp in South Darfur were attacked by an unidentified armed group on 16 May, according to UK-based advocacy group the Sudan Social Development Organisation (SUDO). In a statement, SUDO UK says members of the armed gang threatened to kill their civilian hostages unless a 6,000 Sudanese pound ransom was paid. The group were en route from ...

  • Sudans Council of States Suspends Sessions to Push for Military Mobilisation

    Khartoum - Sudan's Council of States has decided to suspend its sessions in order to enable its members to head to their constituencies and lead a mobilisation campaign in support of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in its ongoing battle with rebel groups which have stepped up their military activities in recent months. The head of the Council, Adam Hamid Musa, said that Sudan's national ...

  • S. Sudan Army Says It Recaptured Town From Yau Yau Rebels

    Bor - The South Sudanese army (SPLA) says it has retaken control of an area previously held by rebels in the remote Boma town in Jonglei state. Army spokesperson Phillip Aguer told Sudan Tribune on Saturday that the SPLA had restored law and order in the town, which had been under the control of David Yau Yau-led forces for days. "The SPLA has restored law and order in Boma town. The SPLA ...

  • South Sudan Juba Summons Chinese Ambassador Over Oil Blockage

    Juba - South Sudan on Monday summoned the Chinese ambassador to Juba to complain over an alleged blockage of the flow of its oil to international markets through Sudanese territory, government sources have said. Chinese companies dominate the South Sudanese oil industry having been welcomed into Sudan before the South seceded from the north in 2011 taking with 75% of the country's 500,000 ...

  • Ban Ki-Moon Condemns Abyei Killings Calls for Calm

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon condemned Abyei killings and called for calm after the Ngok Dinka chief Kual Deng Majok and the Ethiopian peacekeeper died in an "attack" by a Misseriya tribesman in the region on Saturday. Ban Ki-moon said he "strongly condemns" the killings, and urged both tribes as well as the governments of Sudan and South Sudan to "avoid any ...

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