The United Nations (UN) has announced that it has temporarily suspended humanitarian services in the troubled eastern part of South Sudan after the killing of two local aid workers. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a statement on Wednesday said that workers of child rights organisation Plan International were
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A plane carrying Sudanese judges and injured people crashed on Thursday in the Darfur region of Sudan, according to the Sudanese Red Crescent. The Antonov plane was travelling from the city of El Geneina, located in the west of Sudan, near the border with Chad, to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The aircraft was transporting people
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South Sudan’s parliamentary speaker has resigned following lawmakers threatened to impeach him for blocking efforts to fight corruption and mismanagement, local media reported Monday. Anthony Lino Makana was accused by fellow MPs of failing to present auditor-general and anti-corruption reports to parliament and blocking lawmakers from summing ministers for questioning. He was also accused of
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