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Author: Nenad Marinkovic

Sudanese Leaders Trade Blame as Threat of War Rises

Sudanese Leaders Trade Blame as Threat of War Rises
Less than two hours after South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit concluded an address to the media and diplomatic core in Juba today, news broke out of yet another bombing by Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, on South Sudan territory, which Enough reported on earlier today. At the briefing, Salva Kiir warned over escalation of conflict in the bordering areas ...

Relations between Two Sudans Deteriorate as War Rhetoric Returns

South Sudan
Relations between Two Sudans Deteriorate as War Rhetoric Returns
Relations between Sudan and South Sudan have sunk to the lowest level since the South declared independence in July 2011. “We tell our brothers in the south that if they want peace, we want peace. If they want war, our army is there,” said Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in the Blue Nile capital of Damazine earlier this week in an event to declare the “liberation” of the former rebel stronghold of Kurmuk. Bashir’s remark about Khartoum’s readiness to return to war is troubling considering the regime’s recent tendency to choose armed force as the method for solving outstanding political disputes ...

Conflict in Blue Nile: Rebel Stronghold Falls to Sudan Army

Conflict in Blue Nile: Rebel Stronghold Falls to Sudan Army
Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, have taken control of the stronghold of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North, or SPLA-N, in Kurmuk town, near the Ethiopian border. The Sudanese government has long announced a military offensive to take over the SPLA-N’s main base in Blue Nile state. Tracking the build-up of heavy weaponry near Kurmuk, the Satellite Sentinel Project has also warned about an imminent attack on the town, stressing that this attack may “result in the use of indiscriminate and disproportionate force” against civilian population, by SAF and affiliated militia groups ...

Confronting Rebels, South Sudan Faces Key Test

South Sudan
Confronting Rebels, South Sudan Faces Key Test
Four months since independence, the South Sudan government is still attempting to exert control over its territory, warning militias are going to intensify attacks in the border states. At a press conference in Juba yesterday, government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin called for United Nations to increase presence of peacekeepers in affected areas to protect civilians ...

South Sudan Official: Govt to Fight Lord’s Resistance Army as Terrorists

South Sudan
South Sudan Official: Govt to Fight Lord’s Resistance Army as Terrorists
A South Sudan official has accused the North of providing support and training camps for the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, to enable cross-border attacks into South Sudan. At a press conference recently in Juba, the South Sudan minister of interior Alison Manani Magaya said that Sudan is looking for all possible ways of destabilizing South Sudan ...

Field Dispatch: Journey into Uncertainty

Field Dispatch: Journey into Uncertainty
Over 70,000 people are estimated to have been displaced in clashes between Sudanese Armed Forces, and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army-North in South Kordafan. Yida village is in the northernmost part of Unity State in South Sudan, around 11km from the border with the north, and is now home to around 10,000 people displaced from South Kordofan, but the displaced may need to move again ...

Field Dispatch: The Challenge of Tackling Terrorism in South Sudan

South Sudan
Field Dispatch: The Challenge of Tackling Terrorism in South Sudan
Within its first month of independence, South Sudan was named among the top five countries in the world where terrorist attacks are most likely to occur. Further attempts toward destabilization by militias are therefore imminent and are, in fact, likely still happening in the field ...

Daniel Kodi in South Kordofan: Peacemaker or traitor?

Daniel Kodi in South Kordofan: Peacemaker or traitor?
Amid calls for uniting opposition in northern Sudan with the goal of overthrowing the regime of Omar al-Bashir, one voice has begun to stick out from the usual opposition rhetoric. Daniel Kodi, governor of South Kordofan from 2007 to 2009 and SPLA commander, offers a different view on what should be done to bring peace to Sudan. He went public recently with comments that sounded conciliatory but that have also been interpreted as abetting the Khartoum government ...

Relations between Two Sudans Tied up in Economic Disputes

Relations between Two Sudans Tied up in Economic Disputes
The economies of both Sudan and South Sudan rely heavily on income from oil revenues. Therefore post-split negotiations on transitional economic and financial issues mediated by African Union High-Level Implementation Panel, or AUHIP, have been largely focused on reaching an agreement on this burning issue ...

Sudan: Governor in Border State Warns of Possible Escalation of Violence

Sudan: Governor in Border State Warns of Possible Escalation of Violence
With yet another Sudanese agreement dishonored, tensions between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, or SPLM-N, continue to rise in the country’s border states, and violence threatens to spread from South Kordofan to Blue Nile. Malik Agar, SPLM-N chairman who is also the governor of the Blue Nile state told the Enough Project in Juba that there were no attempts of disarmament by SAF on the ground but he anticipates such action, saying they “do not fear SAF and have a contingency plan in place.” ...