South Sudan is really feeling the effects of the war with Sudan. The newest Country has a very unstable economy due to the decrease in oil. Food is almost completely imported, due to lack of farms, and the trade wars is causing imported food to be too expensive for a citizen to afford it. “A third of the population is… Read more »
Harare (AFP) – At least 42 passengers were killed, Zimbabwe police said Friday, after a suspected gas cylinder exploded on a bus, with pictures showing the burnt-out wreckage of the vehicle. The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation published photographs of the destroyed vehicle on a highway between the South African border and the second city Bulawayo. “At the moment we know that… Read more »
The family of a South Sudanese army general allegedly claimed $470,000 in welfare payments from the Australian Government at the same time as they paid for a luxury Melbourne house with a $1.5 million cheque. The revelation comes from an affidavit sworn by Australian Federal Police agent Graham White as police try to keep a restraining order on a Narre… Read more »
The ongoing 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign has been a great success for Zimbabwe, but will this actually be the dawn of a new era for a team whose supporters have come to accept incessant heartache as a way of life? After collecting an improbable four points from the double-header against the Democratic Republic of Congo last month,… Read more »
NAIROBI — If a teacher in South Sudan wants to buy a chicken for dinner, he would have to save everything he earns for two full months — and it still wouldn’t be enough. Five years of intense civil warfare have decimated South Sudan’s economy and killed an estimated 380,000 people. A third of the population is displaced, every second person is… Read more »
Recently, a South Sudan Girl of the age of 16, was found being auctioned off on a Facebook post for marriage rights. The image attached to the post showed the girl with an expressionless face next to a shorter man that had a wide, disturbing smile. The post went up on October 25th, the caption has a smiley emoji, and… Read more »
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — Female lawyers in South Sudan are urging the government to shut down an online auction for marriage rights to a 16-year-old girl. Monica Adhiue, acting executive director for South Sudan’s National Alliance for Women Lawyers, calls the auction shocking and sad. “The practice is a gross human rights violation and violates the rights of a girl…. Read more »
(Bloomberg) — South Sudan’s optimism about restoring oil output to 350,000 barrels a day depends on the success of a recent peace deal and both are unlikely, according to Wood Mackenzie Ltd. Crude production fell by about two-thirds to 130,000 barrels per day as blocks were shut-in during a conflict that erupted in late 2013, after a dispute between President… Read more »
Forty-seven people were killed in Zimbabwe when two buses collided on a road between the capital Harare and the eastern town of Rusape. “We confirm 47 people have died in a road traffic accident at the 166-km peg along the Harare-Mutare highway,” police spokesman Paul Nyathi said. On Twitter, the state-run Herald newspaper said pictures from the scene were too graphic to… Read more »
Tens of thousands of South Sudanese cheered, paraded and danced around the grounds of the John Garang Memorial Park in the capital city of Juba last week, celebrating a fresh peace deal. It was a striking change of mood for a country that has seen little joy in the past five years, ripped apart by a civil war that has displaced… Read more »