As the South Sudanese people and the world remain in awe of the inspiring feet kissing and blessing of the nation’s leaders by Pope Francis, Sahara Energy Resources DMCC, Dubai has extended a $600 million facility to help boost resurgent hope for peace in the world’s youngest democracy.
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Pope Francis on Thursday knelt to kiss the feet of South Sudan’s previously warring leaders, in a dramatic gesture after an unprecedented retreat at the Vatican.
Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, signed on behalf of Nigeria while his counterpart from South Sudan, Nhial Deng Nhial signed for his country in Abuja on Thursday.
Leila Pakkala, UNICEF Regional Director in Eastern and Southern Africa, said this in a statement issued in Juba.
Gunmen have raped 125 women during a 10-day spree of violence in the Northern town of Bentiu in South Sudan.
The UN Security Council on Friday narrowly passed a measure aimed at stopping the flow of weapons to armed groups in South Sudan.
The Sudanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Ibrahim Bushra, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.
The contingent of 46 police officers was repatriated to Ghana on Wednesday, UNMISS said in a statement.
Bankole Adeoye, Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the African Union, told the News Agency of Nigeria the mission is a key agenda of the PSC for the month of April 2018 under the Chairmanship of Nigeria.
In a chat with the Vice President, Bro. Iginla spoke on issues bothering on investment and the need for foreign investors to come into the now peaceful South Sudan to invest.
Al-Bashir in a public address in Kosti town in the White Nile State alleged that the South Sudan Government was still not living up to the promises to stop backing and offering save haven to the Sudanese rebels.
“The Department of State today announces that it is implementing restrictions on the export of defense articles and defense services into South Sudan,” State Department spokeswoman, Heather Nauert, said in a statement.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme highlighted the extremely critical importance of humanitarian support for affected countries
The meeting is discussing the persistence of violent conflicts and crisis situations in some parts of the continent, upsurge of Internally Displaced Persons and refugees, climate change and its consequences as well as the issue of the derailment of national development programmes.
Francis had planned to go later this year to South Sudan, which has been hit by civil war, famine and a refugee crisis, but had to scrap the project for security reasons.
Presidential spokesman, Ateny Wek Ateny, told newsmen in Juba that President Salva Kiir extended the State of emergency to three more months in the northern states of Wau, Tonj, Gogrial and Aweil.
Cattle raiding have occurred for centuries in South Sudan and children are sometimes also abducted during raids to be used as domestic slaves.
“We would like to pass on our deepest condolences to the family, colleagues, and friends of Christopher Allen for their loss. His death while reporting on the conflict in South Sudan is a tragedy,” Head of UNMISS and Special Representative of the Secretary-General, David Shearer, said in a statement issued in Juba.
The resignation is seen as another blow to the government of Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, who has seen his cabinet’s approval ratings plunge following a series of scandals.
Social media accounts and a magazine interview in the names of two of the men suggested they had recently been fighting pro