Southern Sudan News
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Locust swarms invaded crop-growing areas in northern Sudan in the last few days and more groups of the pest insects are likely to form, the United Nations said.
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More than 100 civilians and soldiers were killed on Feb. 8 by anti-government militia fighters and cattle raiders in Southern Sudan’s Jonglei state, according to State Governor Kuol Manyang and military spokesman Philip Aguer.
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A former Southern Sudan militia leader currently serving as a general in Sudan’s army began talks with the semi-autonomous region’s leader to switch sides ahead of an independence referendum next year.
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The authorities in Sudan’s northern and southern regions should pledge not to expel minorities if Southern Sudan votes to become an independent nation in a January referendum, Human Rights Watch said.
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Southern Sudan , a semi-autonomous region that pumps most of Sudan’s crude, accused the government in Khartoum of switching payments of oil revenue to domestic currency from dollars in violation of a 2005 peace accord.
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Southern Sudan , which is scheduled to hold a referendum in January on whether to secede from Sudan, is acquiring 10 Russian helicopters that give the semi- autonomous region its first aerial capability.
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Southern Sudan ’s efforts to rebuild its agriculture industry following a 21-year civil war is being undermined by Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army ransacking its most fertile farming area, the United Nations said.
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Southern Sudan’s leaders are ready to reach an agreement with the government in the north to resolve a dispute over control of the Abyei border region without holding a referendum planned for the area, a senior official said.
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The commission organizing Southern Sudan’s Jan. 9 independence referendum rejected a lawsuit seeking to halt the vote on the grounds that the committee violated the law, a spokesman said.
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Southern Sudan plans to release its own currency when it declares independence in July as the region establishes a financial system to manage its oil wealth.
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