Old-fangak – The Mail & Guardian

/ 12 April 2005

NGO says armed groups still active in Sudan’s south

Armed groups are still mistreating people in southern Sudan, despite January’s peace agreement between the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army, a humanitarian group said on Monday. ”Civilians are subjected to excessive taxation when they enter and leave militia-held territory,” the group said.

By Staff Reporter

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Africa

/ 8 April 2005

Militia groups threaten new-found peace in Sudan

Militia groups in southern Sudan are threatening to wreck a fragile peace that has emerged nearly three months after Khartoum and the region’s main rebel force inked a deal to end 21 years of war, residents and aid workers said on Friday. About 30 such groups continue to terrorise Upper Nile state, collecting illegal taxes and abducting locals, they said.

By Bogonko Bosire