Urgent help needed for '500,000' South Sudan returnees
URGENT support is needed for tens of thousands of returning South Sudanese if a humanitarian crisis is to be avoided in the world's newest state, warns child rights organisation Plan International.
OpenNet: Global Internet filtering in 2012 at a glance
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has been documenting Internet filtering globally since 2003. Since that time, the number of countries found to be engaging in the censorship of online content has increased dramatically. While early reports of Internet filtering only identified a small handful of authoritarian countries engaged in the practice, the number has since grown to the extent that the practice can now be considered a pervasive global norm.
UN's Ban pleads for Sudan, S.Sudan to leave Abyei
Analysts fear full-blown Sudan-South Sudan war
U.N. reports air strike in Sudan's Darfur region
An aircraft apparently dropped bomb that almost hit village in North Darfur, spokeswomen for African Union/U.N. peacekeepers UNAMID says
Shoppers grumble as South Sudan oil shutdown drags on
"There have been increases in the prices for things like eggs, even onions, everything," says Amburose Gift, a Ugandan worker who moved to South Sudan three years ago