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Author: Mayank Bubna

Unity State: Northerners in the South Want to Stay

Unity State: Northerners in the South Want to Stay
It’s easy to see the South’s expected vote for separation as a wholesale rejection of the North. But in day-to-day life in southern Sudan’s Unity state capital, northerners and southerners work alongside each other and share common values and mutual respect ...

Unity State: Security Fears Amid Referendum Hopes – Part 2

Unity State: Security Fears Amid Referendum Hopes – Part 2
This field dispatch, which is the second of two focusing on the destabilizing factors that exist within Unity state, examines the fears that remain of renewed attacks by SPLA breakaway officer Gatluak Gai ...

Bashir Visits South Sudan Ahead of Sunday’s Vote

South Sudan
Bashir Visits South Sudan Ahead of Sunday's Vote
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was Juba yesterday, delivering a conciliatory message to southerners who turned out in droves to bid him, as one spectator put it, "his last farwell." ...

Unity State: Security Fears Amid Referendum Hopes – Part 1

Unity State: Security Fears Amid Referendum Hopes – Part 1
This is the first of two field dispatches examining ongoing developments that threaten to destabilize Unity state, arguably one of the most strategic areas of South Sudan as it approaches a referendum ...

Registering Women for Sudan’s Referendum

Registering Women for Sudan's Referendum
As South Sudan prepares itself for the momentous January 9 referendum, the turnout of women voters was low in the initial days of registration, despite the high number of overall registrants ...