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Aweil: striking health staff resume work More than 400 health workers who have been on strike in Aweil town of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State since Tuesday have resumed work after reaching an agreement with state authorities. The health workers, including doctors, nurses, midwives and lab technicians, went on strike to protest against the taxation of their payments through the National Social Insurance Fund (NSIF). They are staff members of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) which runs the main ho...

Former Aweil education minister dies Angelo Atak Akol, 69, the former minister of education in the government of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State died on Wednesday night, the education ministry said in a statement earlier today.  The deceased, an eminent educationist in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, attended a wedding party at South Sudan Hotel in Aweil on Wednesday night before heading home and developing health complications that later claimed his life.  It is reported that on reaching home, Angelo...