The body of a Chinese worker who fled a camp in Sudan when rebels attacked has been found, says China, while 29 kidnapped workers are still missing.

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LIKUANGOLE, SOUTH SUDAN — Nothing is intact in this town, save the memories. Every hut was burned to the ground. The only health clinic and the only school were torched. Hundreds were killed or injured. Thousands more fled. Read full article > >

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In South Sudan, a wave of tribal killings tests fragile independence

The Sudanese military said on Monday morning that it freed 14 kidnapped Chinese workers who were captured over the weekend by Sudanese rebels.

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Khartoum offers to release detained crude oil shipments belonging to South Sudan to help end a bitter dispute over transit fees.

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Oil production is suspended in South Sudan amid a dispute over how to share revenues with the government in Khartoum.

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South Sudan is only a few months old, and two members of its upstart press corps have already been briefly jailed.

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In South Sudan, a Rough Start to Press Freedom

JUBA, Sudan — Aid groups are mounting a “major emergency operation” in rural South Sudan after tribe-on-tribe violence sent tens of thousands of people fleeing and killed an unknown number of people, the U.N. said Saturday. The U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, Lise Grande, said aid groups are responding to a call for help from South Sudan’s central government after a column of 6,000 armed men from the Lou Nuer ethnic group marched into Pibor in Jonglei state to target the Murle community in late December and early January. Read full article > >

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UN: ‘Major emergency operation’ after tribe-on-tribe violence in S. Sudan touches 60,000

The UN begins an aid operation for South Sudan’s Jonglei state to help thousands displaced by recent clashes between ethnic groups.

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Critics say Lt. Gen. Muhammad Ahmed al-Dabi presided over the same kind of deadly and heavy-handed tactics in Sudan that the Arab League mission is seeking to curb in Syria.

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The UN has warned villagers in South Sudan to flee ahead of advancing Lou Nuer fighters, who are pursuing a deadly vendetta over cattle raids.

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South Sudan’s government says it is sending more troops and police to the town of Pibor, the scene of an outbreak of ethnic violence.

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Six-thousand fighters from the Lou Nuer tribe in South Sudan attack the town of Pibor, home to a rival tribe, a military spokesman says.

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Seventeen South Sudanese civilians are killed during air raids by Sudan’s military, an official tells the BBC, as relations continue to worsen following the south’s independence.

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NAIROBI – Sudanese armed forces said Sunday that they had killed an influential rebel leader in Darfur, Khalil Ibrahim, who once mounted a offensive that threatened Sudan’s capital. If true, Ibrahim’s death would represent a major setback to the eight-year-old rebellion in Sudan’s western region, and to the Justice and Equality Movement , which Ibrahim founded several years ago and developed into the most organized rebel force in Darfur. Read full article > >

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JUBA, South Sudan — At a restaurant along the River Nile offering crocodile and ostrich meat, officials of the world’s newest — and desperately destitute — nation hosted a lunch this month for Liu Guijin, China’s visiting envoy for African affairs. Liu’s visit to Juba, the dirt-track capital of South Sudan , which split from Sudan in July, came at a tense time: Sudan had just bombed a refugee camp, armed militias were mining roads, and troops were clashing in disputed border areas . Read full article > >

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Oil interests push China into Sudanese mire