Dear colleagues,
Holy Trinity Peace Village Kuron (HTPVK) is looking for two dedicated senior staff to join its management team in a remote part of Eastern Equatoria State near the borders of Jonglei State and Ethiopia on the road to Boma. We would be very grateful for your assistance in circulating the attached announcements to staff who might know colleagues suitable for these challenging positions.
I apologize for duplicate postings of these announcements.
Kuron Peace Village is a widely recognized model in successful peace building and in “taking the town to the people.” I have known and worked with the founder of the Peace Village, Bishop Paride Taban, for 37 years. Both of these positions are great opportunities for potential leaders in community development who will benefit immensely from sharing his experience and wisdom.
Applications should be e-mailed to the e-mail address in the attached announcements.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Ed Resor
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Two Senior Positions Kuron Peace Village – Programme Manager and Finance Administrator
Posted: April 5, 2012 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Jobs
In Sudan, a new strategy to censor the press
Posted: April 5, 2012 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Junub SudanTags: human-rights
By Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir/CPJ Guest Blogger
Sudanese authorities have a long history of closing newspapers and silencing journalists. But the government security agents who carry out official censorship have launched a new strategy this year that focuses on economic impoverishment–leaving newspapers more vulnerable than ever.
Agents of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) now raid printing presses and confiscate newspapers on grounds that publications are covering topics barred by the NISS. The agency’s red lines are numerous, changeable, and ungoverned by law or judicial order. The NISS demands, for example, that newspapers abstain from covering the International Criminal Court, government corruption, human rights violations, Darfur, the war in South Kordofan and Blue Nile, armed movements, and many other subjects.
In the past, the NISS would censor publications in advance by dispatching agents to newsrooms. Officers would read the newspaper in full and order articles be taken out and replaced. In many cases, they would reject the replacement articles too, and halt the printing of the newspaper entirely. The officers would oblige editors to sign a pledge not to publish the censored articles elsewhere, notably online.
The new goal: Censor newspapers and force them to incur heavy financial losses. Agents, for example, have confiscated copies of the newspaper Al-Maidan on several occasions, among them February 21, and March 13, 15, 17 and 18. The newspaper said it lost thousands in revenue each time the printed copies were confiscated. Al-Maidan Editor-in-Chief Madiha Abdullah said the newspaper pays for printing in advance with the expectation it will cover the expense through sales. But copies on these five dates never made it to newsstands and were instead hoarded at security offices.
On February 20, copies of Al-Ahdath and Al-Tayar were confiscated at their respective printing presses. Both publications incurred significant losses. On March 27 and 29, the NISS confiscated Al-Jarida copies at the printing press after the publication refused to suspend journalist Zuhair al-Siraj. In a statement, the management of the newspaper said it had received a phone call from the NISS conveying the agency’s wishes regarding al-Siraj, who had criticized the Sudanese government in an article. When Al-Jarida management requested the NISS put its wishes in writing, the agency refused.
The agency has taken direct action as well. On February 22, the NISS director general suspended publication of Al-Tayar indefinitely. A writer from Al-Tayar was arrested the same day. The newspaper resumed publication only after it had accepted NISS conditions.
It’s worth noting that the president of the National Council for Press and Publications, the government body officially charged with overseeing newspapers, said in an interview with a local news outlet that the NISS exercises full control over the press. Even his agency is powerless due to NISS encroachment.
This all comes at a time when government officials feel free to accuse journalists of treason and espionage, with pro-regime newspapers amplifying the accusations. With such attacks taking place and with security agents controlling what can be published, independent journalism in Sudan remains in great peril.
South Sudan Accusing Sudan of Building “illegal” Oil Pipeline to Steal South Sudan’s Oil within South Sudan
Posted: April 5, 2012 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in EconomyTags: south sudan, sudanese government
S. Sudan says Sudan tried to build “illegal” oil pipeline
By Hereward Holland
JUBA, April 5 | Thu Apr 5, 2012
(Reuters) – South Sudan accused Sudan of trying to build an “illegal” 25-km o il pipeline crossing the border towards the South’s oil fields, a day after talks to resolve a damaging oil dispute between the two sides were postponed.
A Sudanese government spokesman was not immediately available to comment.
The two former civil war foes have been locked in a bitter dispute over oil payments and other issues, and clashes in the ill-defined border region last week gave rise to concern they might blow up into a new war.
Landlocked South Sudan – which seceded from Sudan in July – shut down its entire 350,000 barrel per day oil production in January as part of the dispute, although crude oil brings in 98 percent of its state revenues.
South Sudan’s army “discovered an illegal pipeline that was being built by Sudan … This is oil piracy,” military spokesman Philip Aguer said by phone on Thursday, a day after South Sudan said it had shot down a Sudanese MiG-29 aircraft over South Sudan’s oil-producing Unity state.
It is not clear when the pipeline was built but Aguer said the army captured two earth excavators that were being used by a “foreign company” to help extend the pipeline towards Unity state.
Alleged photographs of the pipeline seen by Reuters showed a pipe of around 10-inch diameter lying on the black earth next to a shallow trench.
South Sudan broke away from Sudan after a referendum last year in which the South voted overwhelmingly for partition after almost 50 years of unbroken rebellion against Khartoum.
The division gave South Sudan about three quarters of the country’s oil production, but it must still use pipelines and other facilities running through Sudan to export it, and the two have failed to agree how much it should pay to do this.
South Sudan’s army briefly occupied an undefined portion of Heglig town last week before pulling out. Heglig oil field lies in a contested border region currently controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces and accounts for roughly half of Sudan’s 115,000 barrel per day oil output.
South Sudan previously accused Sudan of building another tie-in pipeline to Khartoum’s refineries with a capacity of 120,000 barrels per day.
Sudan and South Sudan routinely trade accusations of supporting insurgencies in each other’s territory. (Editing by Alexander Dziadosz and Tim Pearce)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/05/southsudan-pipeline-idUSL6E8F5AZV20120405
| Can China end conflict in the Sudans? CNN International By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Sudanese people flee the disputed oil-rich Abyei area on March 2, 2011, before the independence of South Sudan on July 9. (CNN) — If all had gone to plan, Sudan andSouth Sudan would have been neighbors co-existing in a … |
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| S. Sudan says Sudan tried to build “illegal” oil pipeline Reuters By Hereward Holland | JUBA, April 5 (Reuters) – South Sudan accused Sudan of trying to build an “illegal” 25-km o il pipeline crossing the border towards the South’s oil fields, a day after talks to resolve a damaging oil dispute between the two sides … |
| South Sudan and the War of 1812 Blogcritics.org (blog) At a Senate hearing in March, actor and Sudan activist George Clooney was asked about how to keep Americans, especially youth, engaged with the conflict and hunger in South Sudan. Can people here in the US feel a sustained connection to a country many … |
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| Obakki Fall 2012 Collection Inspired By South Sudan (VIDEO, PHOTOS) Huffington Post This year the company has focused its efforts and resources on relieving South Sudan from its water crisis. Treana Peake, Obakki’s founder and creative director, was drawn to the African country’s inspiring landscape and rich history both personally … |
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Witchcraft Will Save Africa, Not the Diaspora
Posted: April 5, 2012 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Socio-CulturalTags: Malaka, mind of Malaka
“”I saw an article online today detailing the harrowing tale of a 17 year old girl in Ghana who was forced to flee to a witch camp after being accused of “stealing the brains” of her classmates to get top marks in school. They said she was “impossibly bright” and that is was “impossible for one student to retain everything the teacher said”. Her accuser? A male classmate who abandoned his studies and returned to his village, accusing the girl of stealing his wits as it was revealed to him in a dream. After being threatened with violence, the girl fled to a witch camp in order to seek haven from her would-be attackers.””
via Witchcraft Will Save Africa, Not the Diaspora.
http://mindofmalaka.com/2012/04/05/witchcraft-will-save-africa-not-the-diaspora/
KENYA: Sudanese Influx Strains Kakuma Refugee Camp
Posted: April 5, 2012 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Junub SudanTags: northwestern kenya, refugee agency, south sudan
NAIROBI, 5 April 2012 (IRIN) – Over the past few weeks refugees fleeing violence in parts of Sudan and South Sudan have been arriving in Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya in large numbers, and aid agencies fear the camp’s capacity could soon be exceeded.
Kakuma was initially designed to accommodate 100,000 people, and currently accommodates some 91,000, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
“We have been seeing rising inflows of refugees since the violence began both in parts of Sudan and South Sudan, and we are following closely the situation in the two countries. Our worry is that Kakuma could reach its full capacity by June [2012], unless the violence is stopped,” Emanuel Nyabera, spokesperson for UNHCR, told IRIN.
An estimated 4,500 refugees have crossed into Kenya since the beginning of the year, many of them from South Sudan and Sudan, according to the UNHCR.
“Since the military clashes began, 500-800 refugees from both Sudan and South Sudan have been streaming into Kakuma every week over the last few weeks,” said Martin Pepela, refugee programme manager for local NGO Refugee Consortium of Kenya.
Providing shelter for the newly arriving refugees has been the greatest challenge. Many have been forced to stay at the camp’s reception area, Pepela told IRIN.
“There is no shelter for the newly arriving refugees and this has been a big challenge.”
New camp?
UNHCR has begun talks with the Kenyan government on the setting up of a new refugee camp capable of hosting 100,000 people. Nyabera said a site near Kakuma had already been identified.
However, negotiations between the government and UNHCR on an extension of the Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya took years to finalize, and officials say it might be a while before any new site in Kakuma is ready.
“Proposals have been made [for an alternative site] and once the host community agrees and the government approves, the whole process of preparing the site will begin but it will take time,” Omar Dhadho, head of protection at the department of refugee affairs within the Ministry of Immigration and Registration of Persons, told IRIN.
One source of refugees is South Sudan’s Jonglei State. At least 140,000 people have been affected by inter-ethnic conflict there, and some civilians have fled across the border to Kenya, according to aid workers.
Some of those now in Kakuma fled from South Kordofan and Blue Nile, Sudanese states on the border with South Sudan where rebels have been fighting government troops since July in the case of South Kordofan, and September in the case of Blue Nile. Earlier this month forces from both countries engaged in direct conflict. South Sudan has consistently denied Khartoum’s accusations that it is supporting the rebels across the border.
In all, some 140,000 civilians have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile, mostly to refugee sites in South Sudan.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95242/KENYA-Sudanese-influx-strains-Kakuma-refugee-camp
Hundreds of Sudanese flee to Kenya
By DAVID LOMURIA david.lomuria@gmail.com and KEVIN J. KELLEY in New York kevinjaykelley@gmail.com
IN SUMMARY
- Foreigners seek refuge at Turkana camp after escalation of violence in their countries
Hundreds of Sudanese are fleeing to Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana County amid intensified conflicts in their countries.
The number of refugees arriving in the camp, including those who had earlier been repatriated, has increased steadily after the escalation of violence in their countries.
Many of the refugees, who have arrived lately, said they were fleeing violence in South Sudan’s Jonglei state. (READ: More than 200 dead in South Sudan clashes: official)
Others have come from Sudan’s South Kordofan state, where the Sudanese army has been battling a rebel force for months.
More than 4,500 asylum seekers, three quarters of whom are Sudanese, have arrived at the Kakuma camp in northern Kenya so far this year, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
If the current rate of arrivals continues, Kakuma will reach its 100,000 capacity by June, according to Mr Guy Avognon, UNHCR’s coordinator for the camp, which is about 95km from Kenya’s border with South Sudan.
“We need to take urgent action to address this influx, including expanding camp settlement areas and increasing capacities and resources to assist these newcomers,” he said.
Kakuma, which was opened in 1992, was designed to hold 100,000 refugees.
Currently, there are 91,140 people in the camp. Somalis account for about half the figure, with Sudanese making up about one-third of the residents. The rest come from 10 other African countries.
“Some said they had walked for two-to-three months to get here, and left the elderly behind as they could not complete the arduous journey,” Mr Avognon said of the Sudanese.
According to Turkana West district commissioner Patrick Muiira, about 150 refugees arrive in the camp each day. Within the last two months, the camp has received over 2,000 refugees.
Mr Gabriel Manyok, who recently arrived in Kakuma, said they were forced to leave their home due to famine, raids and killings in South Sudan.
“This is a big problem in South Sudan but we are willing to return home as soon as it is peaceful,” he said.
Mr Muiira said they register refugees as they arrive in Kakuma and hand them over to about 15 humanitarian organisations operating in the camp.
Juba warns of return to total war as South Sudanese flee to Kakuma Refugee Camp
Posted Wednesday, April 4 2012
IN SUMMARY
- South Sudan says full-scale combat could erupt if attacks in Kordofan continue
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement has warned of a full-scale war if attacks on Kordofan state and the Blue Nile are not stopped.
The warning comes at a time when a steady stream of refugees from Sudan has been entering Kenya in the past three weeks following an outbreak of violence in South Kordofan/Nuba mountains.
The SPLM says since violence broke out in June 2011, there were 380,000 internally displaced people and 30,000 refugees in Yieda South Sudan.
This, therefore, means Kenya will continue receiving a flood of refugees should the clashes continue.
In a statement sent to UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council, the SPLM said Kenya, as the custodian of the 2005 peace agreement that led to the birth of the Republic of South Sudan, was expected to intervene and ensure tensions between Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan did not deteriorate into another full-scale war.
In such an eventuality, Kenya would bear the brunt of the fighting as refugees would stream into the country.
Sources at Kakuma refugee camp said there were many unregistered people who reported to the camp but left after a week or so.
“We see some refugees being brought into the camp but they disappear after a short while,” said the source.
Insecurity fears
Turkana West district commissioner Patrick Muriira said the laws that govern the handling of refugees in foreign nations prohibit the local authorities from blocking them from entering Kenya.
“We are well-informed about the influx of refugees into Kenya through Nadapal and other entry points. As the authority in place, we are expected to receive them,” said Mr Muriira.
The influx of refugees into Turkana has increased insecurity fears in the county, say local leaders.
Residents of Kakuma town have raised concerns over the huge number of unknown people entering the county.
A resident, Mr Samuel Imoit, said tension was rising over the large number of foreigners with no official word from the authorities.
“We were told the refugees had left but we are now seeing many more being brought into the camp.
“This poses a security threat to us in the county as anybody can just walk into Turkana without resistance from the authorities,” said Mr Imoit.
The rebellion in Southern Kordofan led by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North Sudan faction, and in the Blue Nile and Jonglei areas, could develop into a full-scale war if enough security measures are not taken by the international community to defuse the situation.
| South Sudanese Troupe to Perform Shakespeare in London Voice of America April 05, 2012 South Sudanese Troupe to Perform Shakespeare in London Hannah McNeish | Juba Wracked by decades of civil war and now trying to build a new nation from scratch, South Sudanhas been unable to put the arts at the top of its priority list. |
| Sudan, South Sudan reach no agreement UPI.com ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 5 (UPI) — Sudan and South Sudan failed to reach an agreement designed to end hostilities and lead to withdrawal of armed forces from each others’ territories. Meanwhile, South Sudan’s army said Wednesday it had shot down a … |
| Global oil production trouble – it’s not just Iran CNNMoney From South Sudan to Canada, over a million barrels of oil a day are not available to world markets. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — All the attention may be on a loss of oil from Iran these days, but production outages in a variety of spots worldwide is causing … |
| South Sudan: aid reaches thousands displaced in Abyei area Reuters AlertNet Since clashes broke out last year in Abyei, a border area claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, thousands of families have been forced to flee, abandoning their homes and belongings. Many ended up in remote villages around Agok town, where they were … |
| Country Set Have Own National Air Carrier AllAfrica.com By Matata Safi, 4 April 2012 Juba — The Republic of South Sudan is set to have its own national carrier if all goes as planned, a government official has announced. The deputy minister for Transport Hon. Mayom Kouc Malek said plans are at advanced … |
| South Sudan assures foreign ministry special envoy of taking care of India’s … Times of India NEW DELHI: While admitting that the decision to send a special envoy to South Sudan and Sudan to broker peace between the two nations was a policy departure for India, the government said on Wednesday that this had become unavoidable not just to … |
| KENYA: Sudanese influx strains Kakuma refugee camp IRINnews.org NAIROBI, 5 April 2012 (IRIN) – Over the past few weeks refugees fleeing violence in parts of Sudan and South Sudan have been arriving in Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya in large numbers, and aid agencies fear the camp’s capacity could soon be … |
| Israeli expulsion of Africans postponed Las Vegas Sun AP An Israeli court has ordered the government to halt the planned expulsion of thousands of migrants from South Sudan. In January, the government gave the migrants until March 31 to leave or face deportation. Under Thursday’s decision, the court … |
South Sudan accuses Sudan of new air strikes
Posted: April 5, 2012 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Junub SudanTags: sudanese army
Written by ReutersThursday, 05 April 2012
South Sudan accused Sudan of launching air strikes in the border region hours after the postponement of talks aimed at defusing the worst clashes since the South seceded.
The Sudanese army denied any attack.
The neighbours have fought repeatedly in the past few days along the poorly marked 1,800-km (1,200-mile) border, the worst direct confrontation since the South split away in July under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war.
Western nations fear the clashes could reignite a full-blown war between the mainly Muslim north and the Christian and animist South, with rival claims on oil resources a key part of the conflict, Reuters reports.
South Sudan’s top negotiator, Pagan Amum, said Sudanese MiG-29 jets bombed the garrison town of Panakuach in Unity state after talks sponsored by the African Union had been postponed with no deal signed and no indication of progress.
“One (jet) has been shot down in Panakuach. This is very clear, it’s war-mongering that made them not to sign,” he said.
Sudanese army spokesman Sawarmi Khalid Saad denied there had been an air strike or that a plane had been lost.
“Today it was quiet,” he said.
The charges came as talks between the two countries were postponed after Khartoum asked for more time to consider an African Union proposal to ease tensions.
The proposal called for an immediate cessation of hostilities, the withdrawal of armed forces from each other’s territories and preparations for a meeting of the two presidents.
Pagan told Reuters his country had accepted the proposal.
But Sudanese Defence Minister Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein told reporters on his return home that Khartoum needed more time to discuss the proposal.
He said Juba needed to stop supporting rebels in Sudan’s border states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile. Juba denies any support for rebels of the SPLM-North, which has been fighting the Sudanese army in the two states since last year.
Sudan analysts see little chance of any breakthrough in the talks after Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir called off an April 3 summit with his southern counterpart Salva Kiir following the violence.
Apart from marking their border, the two sides are also at odds over oil, the lifeline of both economies.
Juba inherited three quarters of Sudan’s output but failed to agree how much it should pay to export crude through Sudan.
In January, Sudan said it was taking southern oil in lieu of what it called unpaid transit fees. In response, Juba turned off the oil taps even though crude accounts for 98 percent of South Sudan’s state revenues.
South Sudan says it shoots down Sudanese jet The Associated Press By MICHAEL ONYIEGO, AP – 1 minute ago JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan says it shot down a Sudanese fighter jet Wednesday after two military planes dropped bombs around its oil fields, but Sudan denied it had lost such an aircraft. |
| Sudan Ethnically Cleanses Its Christians AINA (press release) According to an ENI report, the government of Sudan has declared that all whose “parents, grandparents or great grandparents [were] born in the South Sudan or [who] belong to any southern ethnic group” are no longer citizens of Sudan and must leave by … |
| Negotiations on Reducing Tensions between Sudan and South Sudan StarAfrica.com ABUJA, Nigeria, April 4, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The talks between Sudan andSouth Sudan, facilitated by the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP), preparatory to an extraordinary meeting of the Joint Political and … |
| South Sudan Says It Shot Down Sudan Jet Amid Clashes New York Times KAMPALA, Uganda — South Sudan said that it shot down a north Sudanese fighter jet in its territory on Wednesday, as the two national armies continue to clash in a dispute that international observers worry may be inching closer to war. |
| Mankatoans on a vision quest in South Sudan Mankato Free Press By Brian Ojanpa Free Press Staff Writer MANKATO — Chuol Yat’s humanitarian trip to his nativeSouth Sudan has enhanced the gift of sight for hundreds of his countrymen. The Mankatoan has returned from a six-month visit to the new African nation, … |
| South Sudan says it shot down Sudanese fighter jet as tensions escalate CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein speaks to the press upon his return from Ethiopia on April 4. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (CNN) — In a dangerous escalation of border violence, South Sudan accused rival Sudan of war … |
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| Ramciel’s survey as South Sudan new capital to complete in six months Sudan Tribune April 5, 2012 (JUBA) – The survey for the proposed new capital of South Sudan, Ramciel, is expected to be completed within the next six months, reports the official in charge of the project.South Sudan last year resolved to relocate the nation’s … |
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| Military spokesman: South Sudan shoots down a Sudanese military jet over South … 570 News South Sudan’s military said it shot down a Sudanese fighter jet Wednesday after two Sudanese military planes dropped bombs around South Sudanese oil fields. Military spokesman Col. Philip Aguer identified the downed plane as a Sudanese MiG-29 jet … |
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