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The commissioner of Twic County in Warrap State on Wednesday said that the security situation in his county is stable but worried that non-Dinka Ngok living in the Abyei area were being targeted after Anet clashes last week.

The oil-rich Abyei region lies on the border of Sudan and South Sudan. Despite arrangements for its future contained in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 between the al Bashir government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Sudan Crisis

Save the Children has relocated three staff from Agok in the Abyei Administrative Area, a contested territory between Sudan and South Sudan, following a violent attack on Friday 11 February, the aid agency said in a press release on Tuesday evening.

The governor of South Sudan’s Warrap state and leaders of the contested region of Abyei have regretted a clash in which more than 33 lives have been lost and several others wounded in a conflict over a territorial claim.

Residents in Akoc in Warrap State’s Twic County have not been spoiled by visitors from afar lately. In fact, heavy flooding has left them cut off from

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Residents in Akoc in Warrap State’s Twic County have not been spoiled by visitors from afar lately. In fact, heavy flooding has left them cut off from others for almost six months, with their humanitarian situation having deteriorated as a result. “It’s been relatively calm here over the last few months, so floods wreaking havoc […]

South Sudan has held a peace Olympics to help reconcile communities divided by conflict. The “Twic Olympics” this year marked its 20th anniversary, as Sheila Ponnie reports from Twic County in South Sudan.

Authorities in Warrap State's Gogriel East County are pursuing a suspected member of the South Sudan People’s Defense Force who reportedly killed two women with a knife and shot another man in Konglong Boma this morning before escaping; A presidential spokesman has condemned a recent statement made by U.S Senator Patrick Leahy calling on the South Sudan President Salva Kiir and First Vice Resident Riek Machar to step down; An education official in Twic County of South Sudan’s Warrap Stat...

Thousands of people are fleeing their villages in Kapoeta East County of South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State due to hunger; Local leaders and communities in Twic County of South Sudan’s Warrap State have welcomed the revival of the Twic Olympics. The games are aimed at promoting peace and unifying communities in the area; Members of the South Sudan Chollo (Shiluk) community living in Khartoum have welcomed a recent agreement that they say will enable them to go back to their ancestral la...