A roundup of a few key stories from the last week on political issues in Sudan and South Sudan:
South Sudan rebels accept presence of Ugandan troops to keep peace (Reuters, 22 August 2014) – South Sudan rebels have agreed to let Uganda maintain its forces on South Sudanese soil until a regional body deploys a peace keeping force, a spokesman for the Ugandan government told Reuters on Friday.
South Sudan aims to censor Catholic church radio (Radio Tamazuj, 21 August 2014) – South Sudan’s government will not allow the Catholic Church to operate a radio station in the national capital unless it censors its programmes and clarifies its role, according to media officials in Juba.
DUP leader, SRF rebels discuss Paris Declaration (Sudan Tribune, 23 August 2014) – The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani, met in the British capital for the first time with a delegation from the rebel Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) which briefed him on the Paris Declaration.
INTERVIEW: Sudan says peace in conflict zones could be reached through national dialogue (Sudan Tribune, 22 August 2014) – Sudanese presidential assistant Ibrahim Ghandour said that the African Union (AU) chief mediator Thabo Mbeki will seek to bring rebel groups on board the national dialogue process which would discuss among other things, ways to end the wars in the Blue Nile, South Kordofan and Darfur should they fail to reach separate peace agreements with them.
Sudan’s regime rejects Paris Declaration, Umma Party responds (Radio Dabanga, 20 August 2014) – The Political Secretary of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) on Monday justified his party’s rejection of the Declaration on the basis that it was formulated on foreign ground.
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