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December 13, 2019 (WASHINGTON - Two U.S. groups have called to accelerate the ongoing process for delisting Sudan from the State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST) list but called for targeted sanctions on those who might obstruct peace and democratic reforms. In a joint statement issued on Friday, the U.S. watchdog group The Sentry and U.S. advocacy group Enough Project said that "The time has come to remove Sudan" from the SST and the Trump administration "should accelerate its ongoing process".

December 13, 2019 (WASHINGTON) - The head of UN Security Council sanctions committee called to explore ways allowing to use the sanctions as a means to support the largely normalized situation in Darfur. Joanna Wronecka briefed the Security Council on Thursday about the finding of her recent visit to Khartoum and Darfur from 11 to 14 November, where she met with the government officials and IDPs representatives. The transitional government and armed groups in the country have agreed on a (...). -. /

December 12, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok Thursday formed a high emergency committee to ensure the success of the winter season in the Gezira scheme and Managil extension in central Sudan. The decision comes 24 hours after a demand by the FFC to sack the agriculture minister who was accused of by the farmers of causing the failure of the agricultural season for wheat. The channels were not opened to allow the flow of water into the tenants of the Gezira Scheme, said a (...). -

December 12, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese government negotiating team, Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) and the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) held a meeting on the contentious issues in Juba. The SRF rejects the formation of the transitional parliament and appointment of state governors before to sign a peace agreement. For its part, the FFC ruling coalition point to the need to consolidate the transitional institutions and pledged to keeps an agreed number of parliamentary seats (...). -. /

December 12, 2019 (JUBA) - The mediation team in South Sudan said Thursday that negotiations between the Sudanese government and the SPLM-North led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu will be suspended until Saturday for technical reasons. The SPLM-N al-Hilu hold separate talks with the Sudanese government and refused calls by Malik Agar's faction for a joint delegation as the two groups would negotiate the issues of the Two Areas: Blue Nile State and South Kordofan State. Last month, the discussions on (...). -. /

December 12, 2019 (ROME/JUBA) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said it is in a race against time to mobilize vital funds to feed millions of people in South Sudan as hunger advances on a population that is in dire need of humanitarian assistance. The agency, in a statement issued Thursday, said catastrophic flooding in recent months is pushing the country and its people towards a precipice amid the country's intense political instability. According to forecasts from the last (...). -

December 12, 2019 (JUBA) – At least $1.5 billion is needed to reach 5.6 million people with urgent life-saving assistance, the South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan for 2020 has indicated. The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, Alain Noudéhou said despite the period of relative stability since the signing of the peace agreement in 2018, humanitarian needs remain high. Some 7.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance or protection and 3.7 million are (...). -

December 12, 2019 (WASHINGTON) – The United States on Thursday announced it will implement visa restrictions against individuals who undermine or impede the ongoing peace process in South Sudan. Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State said the move comes as the US re-evaluates its bilateral relationship with South Sudan government. "Such visa restrictions could include immediate family members of these individuals," he said in a statement issued on December 12. Albeit the statement did not (...). -. /. ,

By Alhadi A. Khalifa. The enactment of the law of dismantling the regime of Omar Albashir on 28 November 2019 represents a turning point in the march of the Sudanese revolution given its implications to the future of Sudan. The law provides for the dissolution of the National Congress Party (NCP) of the deposed dictator and for the removal of the same from the list of forces that will take part in the formation of the political landscape. It also bans the regime and NCP figures from (...). -

December 12, 2019 (KHARTOUM) – A prominent leading member of the ruling coalition Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) in Sudan has disclosed their intention to request the sack of the Minister of Agriculture, who has been appointed three months ago. Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) figure Siddiq Youssef who is a member of the Central Council of the ruling coalition, said they would request Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok to relieve the Minister of Agriculture, Issa Osman Sharif of his (...). -

December 11, 2019 (JUBA) - The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) announced its rejection of the participation of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) in the Juba process for peace in Sudan. FFC officials said they would travel to Juba to discuss with the SRF the sticky issues of the appointment of governors and the formation of the transitional legislative assembly pointing that they are pressed by their bases to change the military governors. For their part, the rebel umbrella says (...). -

December 11, 2019 (JUBA) – A Sudanese official on Wednesday urged the warring parties in South Sudan to implement all the outstanding issues impeding formation of a coalition government. Speaking to journalists in the capital, Juba, deputy head of the Sudan Sovereign Council, Mohamed Hamdan Daqlu said time was running out and the 100 days extension of the pre-transitional period would soon come to an end when pending tasks are unresolved. "This meeting is part of the previous meetings.

December 11, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - The United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway (Troika countries) Wednesday welcomed the resumption of peace talks and called for pragmatism and realism from the parties to the process. Sudanese transitional government and armed groups of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North led by Abdel Aziz l-Hilu (SPLM-N al-Hilu) resumed peace talks in Juba on 10 December. The process initially had to be concluded on 14 (...). -

December 11, 2019 (JUBA) – South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and his main rival Riek Machar are scheduled to meet members of the security committee to review progress on the implementation of the security arrangements, a presidential aide disclosed on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters in the capital, Juba, the presidential adviser on security affairs, Tut Gatluak said the two leaders met on Wednesday and discussed the implementation of the pending tasks hindering implementation of the peace (...). -

December 11, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - In a meeting held in Khartoum Wednesday, the Friends of Sudan (FOS) voiced their support to the civilian-led government and pledged to hold a donor conference next April to make concrete financial contributions. The FOS group has been created by the United States a month after the collapse of the al-Bashir regime to support the protesters' demand for a civilian-led transitional authority and to bring the military council to hand over power to the opposition (...). -. /

December 11, 2019 (TORIT) - Lack of basic services in neighbouring countries has forced 83,572 South Sudan refugees to return home, South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission or (SSRRC) said. John Odongi, the SSRRC boss in Torit state, said the refugees were experiencing cuts in food rations and poor conditions in the camps. He said majority of the returnees hailed from Magwi county in Torit. "The people who came from the refugee camp they are getting integrated to their own (...). -

December 11, 2019 (KHARTOUM) – The National Umma Party (NUP) led by Sadiq al-Mahdi, condemned calls by activists affiliated with the National Congress Party (NCP) of the ousted President Omer al-Bashir, to demonstrate against the recently passed law, banning the activities of the former ruling party. Supporters of the former regime are disseminating calls through the social media for demonstrations to be held on December 14.

December 10, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - The country's chief prosecutor on Tuesday summoned the ousted President Omer al-Bashir, to investigate a complaint against the perpetrators of the June 30, 1989 coup. Last November the criminal prosecution launched the investigation into the 1989 coup and ordered to arrest all members of the military command council of the coup. Omer al-Bashir who is already in jail was chosen by the National Islamic Front of Hassan al-Turabi to head the coup which paved the (...). -

December 10, 2019 (JUBA) - The head of the transitional government negotiating delegation Tuesday stressed their commitment to achieving peace and adding they would not disappoint those looking for an agreement that addresses the root causes of the conflicts. As scheduled, delegations of the government and the armed groups took part in the opening session of the third round of peace negotiations in Juba on Tuesday to reach a peace agreement in Darfur and the Two Areas. The government and (...). -. /

December 11, 2019 (WASHINGTON) – The United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on five South Sudanese officials, it says, were responsible for the abductions and likely murders of two human rights activists in 2017. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the OFAC said that South Sudan government repeatedly used extrajudicial killings to silence dissent, limit freedom of speech and the press, and enforce the political status quo. "Its (...). -. /. ,. ,

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