SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will provide US$12 million in humanitarian assistance to Sudan and the neighboring countries struggling with a yearlong conflict between rival military factions, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Choi Jai-chul, South Korean Ambassador to France, announced the plan Monday (local time) during an international humanitarian conference in Paris, [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean military aircraft carrying 28 nationals from war-ravaged Sudan arrived back home Tuesday, completing a perilous dayslong operation for their evacuation amid intensifying fighting between rival forces in the African nation. The KC-330 tanker transport plane touched down at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, just south of [...]
Washington, DC, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) today announced that it has partnered with the Vaccine Research Center (VRC), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), to manufacture prototype ChAd3 vectored Ebola Sudan and Marburg vaccines to be used for further clinical evaluation and outbreak preparedness and to potentially [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Sudan held a high-level policy consultation meeting on Thursday to discuss strengthening economic cooperation in the wake of the lifting of American sanctions on Sudan last year, the foreign ministry here said. Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs Yun Kang-hyeon welcomed the lifting of 20-year-old sanctions and discussed cooperation with Sudan’s Undersecretary Abdel-ghani Elnaim, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SsangYong Motor Co. said Friday it will resume exporting its vehicles to Sudan after eight years as the United States has lifted sanctions on the African country. SsangYong Motor plans to ship 2,400 units of models such as the Korando Sport sport-utility vehicle and the Korando Turismo van to [...]