This makes Juba, with its police, air connections and solid tarmac link to Uganda, a magnet.
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On Wednesday, a memorial service was held for the Indian peacekeepers at the Unmiss compound in Juba.
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The south has the bulk of the oil - and 98% of Juba's budget depends on it.
The government in Khartoum accuses South Sudan of backing the rebels - a claim denied by Juba.
The unanimously backed resolution calls on Khartoum and Juba to resume negotiations on disputed issues within two weeks.
They were headed for the safety of Juba, South Sudan's capital, a sign that renewed fighting is expected.
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Yau Yau first rebelled against Juba after he failed to win a parliamentary seat in the 2010 general elections.
There is grit in my teeth from the dust on Juba's dirt roads.
It fears that if it takes Juba while the government is still strong it would be vulnerable to counter-attack.
From what I understand, the death toll in Juba has been much lower.
Sudan's president invited Mr Kiir to Khartoum for further talks and he also addressed worshippers at a mosque in Juba.
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In Juba, New York and The Hague, interested parties are quietly exploring an alternative way out of the present impasse.
Billy Graham, in Lui near Juba in southern Sudan, where four American doctors have treated over 100, 000 patients since 1998.
The little aircraft has been flying a long loop out of Juba, the capital, over what will become the Bandingalo National Park.
"We hope the withdrawal will be orderly and that both sides will refrain from further military action, " he told reporters in Juba.
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CNN's Ben Brumfield in Atlanta and journalists Jared Ferrie in Juba, South Sudan, and Ishmail Kushkush in Khartoum, Sudan, contributed to this report.
In 2011 he accepted an amnesty offer by President Salva Kiir and returned to Juba where he was promoted to an SPLA general.
Relative to local incomes, Juba is the second most expensive city in the world in which to start a business, after Congo's Kinshasa.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was scheduled to travel to the southern capital of Juba earlier this month to meet with his counterpart Salva Kiir.
Khartoum has repeatedly denied having any ties to Yau Yau's rebels and counter-accuses Juba of supporting rebels in Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.
They have never agreed on the transit fees that Juba should pay Khartoum for pumping oil through its pipelines and using Sudan's oil export infrastructure.
With both sides digging in their heels, the peace talks, being mediated by the southern Sudanese in the town of Juba, seemed doomed to failure.
In a Policy Paper launched today in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, the UN agency documents the scale of educational deprivation across much of the country.
Returning to Juba from a visit to Abyei, the SPLM's Secretary General Pagan Amum said the situation in the border region was now calm, although still tense.
The town of Bor, half an hour by plane down the Nile from Juba, was once a busy trading post but now feels on a different planet.
The Danish Demining Group says that it still finds Chilean-made PM-1 bomblets throughout South Sudan, particularly in the areas between Juba, the capital, and the Ugandan border.
At age 11, Jal and a handful of other child soldiers broke from the main fighting force, escaping from the city of Juba to a town called Waat.
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"We were left with no choice but to suspend our direct bilateral talks with Sudan, " said Atif Kiir, the spokesman for Juba's delegation at the talks in Addis Ababa.
Neve, who is in Juba, said supply lines at refugee camps have been cut off and failure to get key supplies before the rains will lead to a humanitarian crisis.
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In February the Juba government cut off the oil in protest at high transit fees, depriving both countries of revenue they desperately need and helping to cause a global oil-price spike.
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