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YAMBIO, Feb 8 (Gurtong) – Bringing with them 21 years of experience in brick laying, concrete, roofing and furniture, the Ugandan New Life Housing and Construction Company is setting up an office in Yambio, Western Equatoria State.

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“These talks should be suspended in view of this very serious attack on our people,” said Duku on Monday, “I find it in very bad taste that these talks continue.”

Duku said 14 Kupera Payam youth, abducted in a first attack by some 70 to 100 armed men, have still not been returned.

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TORIT, Feb 4 (Gurtong) – The World Bank-driven Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) has failed to provide much needed new schools, said Francis Ben Ataba, Eastern Equatoria’s State Minister for Education, Science & Technology on Monday.

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JUBA, Feb 3 (Gurtong) – New trading routes between northern and South Sudan at Kiir Adem and from the new Abyei road will be opened to avoid looming hunger following the clashes along the north-south border said the Northern Bahr el Ghazal (NBEG) State Governor, Madut Biar.

Authorities in Wau have also told Gurtong that the violence over the Christmas period led to severe shortages in the capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal, also dependent on northern goods. Read more

WAU, Feb 3 (Gurtong) – Chairperson of El Daawa el Islamia Organization delegation in Greater Bahr el Ghazal, Deng Auer said Saturday that his organization is about to complete construction of one basic school and health center in Jur River County in Western Bahr el Ghazal State Read more

Juba, 3 February 2008 – The Northern State Governor Lt.Col Madut Biar held meeting with members of his State in Juba to brief them about the new developments in the State. He was accompanied by three members of his cabinet.

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BOR, Feb 1, (Gurtong) - The long-awaited Dr John Garang Institute of Science and
Technology celebrated its opening on Friday with 65 students already enrolled.
Lectures, beginning Monday, will prepare students for July tests that will
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RUMBEK, Jan 28 (Gurtong) – Because of fuel shortages linked to continuing post-election violence in Kenya, Radio Rumbek FM-98 has been off-air since Saturday for the first time since it began work almost a year ago. A few government cars are still fuelled but are standing by for emergency use only and lorries and public buses are stranded. Read more

BENTIU, Jan 28 ( Gurtong) – Not all soldiers from the northern Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) have left Unity State and those who have gone have not withdrawn as far as the 1956 border army officials from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) have told Gurtong.

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BENTIU, Jan 28 (Gurtong) – As part of state efforts to connect all of its counties to mobile telephone networks, Mobitel opened in Unity State’s Rubkoana County on the weekend.

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