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South Sudan lawmakers may vote to secede: Official

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Southern Sudan's parliament may vote to secede from the Khartoum-based north if an independence reference scheduled for January is delayed, a former top Southern Sudan official said Thursday.

American Envoy Scott Gration Visits Lakes State in Sudan

The American Special Envoy to Sudan General Scott Gration early this week paid a visit to Lakes State for the first time since his appointment by the American government last year.Gration made the visit as part of his familiarisation tour to Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Western Bahr el Ghazal states

Is Being Gay A White, European Thing?

1937: Melville Herskovits, later the seminal author behind The Myth of the Negro Past, discovers that the Nuer society in Sudan recognizes woman-woman marriages, where an infertile woman divorces her husband, finds another woman to be her wife, and then finds a man to impregnate her wife.

The forgotten land, Terekeka County in South Sudan

Any residual effects of development trickling out of the booming Southern Sudanese capital of Juba seem to have avoided Terekeka County, Central Equatoria State, located only 51 miles away.

Home to the Mundari tribe, Terekeka ("the forgotten" in local dialect) continues to suffer high illiteracy levels, poor roads, dilapidated buildings and rife insecurity.

South Sudan MP: No reconciliation without conceding wrongs

Juba (Borglobe) -- A member of parliament in southern Sudan Legislative Assembly has argued that reconciliation between the north and south could not be achie