EAC urges end to S. Sudan war

>The South Sudan government, through the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), has extended an olive branch to rebel leader Riek Machar in a bid to end bloodshed in strife-torn South Sudan and want him “to return home”.

South Sudan. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir was expected to sign a peace deal yesterday, aimed at ending 20 months of civil war.

 The production level of local manufacturing firms and industries that export to South Sudan has dropped by nearly 60 per cent, Uganda Manufacturers Association (Uma) has revealed.

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The government yesterday directed seven wards here to negotiate with Ortello Business Cooperation (OBC), a luxury hunting company, to bring to an end a lonstanding land dispute between them.

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The war against preventable birth-related deaths of mothers cannot be won as long as the practice of child marriage continues, it has been explained.