Oct 3, 2020(SSNN) — The Sudanese peace agreement, whose signing was delayed by rain this morning in the South Sudan capital, Juba, is officially signed by the government of Sudan and a coalition of armed oppositions under the banner of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (RSF), among others. The peace agreement has given Blue Nile, Southern Kordofan and Darfur self-autonomy during […]
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Oct 3, 2020(SSNN) — The office of President Salva Kiir has launched a new website to improve accessibility of presidency affairs, according to officials from the presidency. “The Office of the President has launched an official website for the Presidency on Friday the 2nd of October 2020, to make information regarding the activities of President Salva Kiir Mayardit easily accessible […]
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Oct 3, 2020(SSNN) — Mark Enei, a senior member of the ruling party SPLM has decided to quit his party in favour of the opposition party, SPLM/IO under the leadership of Dr. Riek Machar. In a letter seen by nyamilepedia, Mark Enei joined the opposition together with 48 others in favour of the revitalized peace agreement signed. “I Mark Anei […]
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Oct 3, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan cabinet of ministers has secured at least $88 millions in loans from the Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), according to the government spokesman and the Minister of Information, Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth. Briefing the media after a cabinet ministers meeting in the capital, Juba, the Minister of Information said the Council of Ministers has agreed […]
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Sep 29, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, met the African Union(AU) Ambassador to South Sudan, Professor Joram Bisworo, today in his office in the capital, Juba. According to Dr. Machar’s press officials, Dr. Joram Bisworo commended the First Vice President and the SPLM/A-IO leadership for their commitment to peace in the country. “The African […]
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By JULIO BRATHWAITE Sep 29, 2020(SSNN) — “I’m very proud to be a part of UNMISS,” says Captain Chunadevi Paudel, a peacekeeper from Nepal, upon receiving the United Nations medal for her commitment to the cause of durable peace across South Sudan. “I think what I have been most struck by are the people of South Sudan. They have been […]
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Sep 29, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from Kajo-Keji allege that a senior military officer of the SPLA in Opposition who defected recently from Kajo-Keji and mobilized offensives against the SPLA-IO forces has narrowly survived during the offensives he commanded this morning. According to the SPLA-IO sources in Kajo-Keji, Maj. Gen. Moses Lokujo Gabriel led offensives this morning around 6am; however, […]
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MACH SAMUEL, Sep 24, 2020(SSNN) — The South Sudan National Police Services in Greater Jonglei have received ten motorbikes from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan to improve their mobility and hence ability to protect civilians. The vehicles were donated to the peacekeeping mission by the South Korean government. “I can hardly believe it that I will no longer […]
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By OKELLO JAMES, UNMISS Press Release Sep 24, 2020(SSNN) — The Civil Society Network in Eastern Equatoria State is developing new strategies to secure additional funding and improve collaboration with state authorities. Their goal? To increase the number of civic engagement centres for smoother coordination of local activities. A two-day forum to discuss such strategies, recently organized by the United […]
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Sep 24, 2020(Nyamilepedia) — The relocation of power lines between the Mlolongo through the city center to James Gichuru to pave way for the Nairobi expressway have commenced and it will cost 1.08 billion Kenya shillings. According to the Kenya power director and CEO Bernard Ngugi, it is the Kenya National Highways that will foot the bill. The CEO said […]
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Sep 23, 2020(SSNN) — Members of South Sudan’s Internally Displaced community, the IDPs, who are speaking out, believe that the United Nations Mission in South Sudan(UNMISS) is doctoring its mandates in favor of Salva Kiir government to be able to raise more funding and expand its mission. A group of international displaced persons interviewed by South Sudan News Now (SSNN) […]
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Sep 23, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan incumbent, H.E.President Salva Kiir, received officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at his office in Juba. According to officials from the office of the president, President Kiir was briefed by the UNHCR officials on the commissioner’s comprehensive solution for South Sudan refugees in the region. “H.E.President Salva Kiir, recieved a […]
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By Garang Paul Malong Awan, Sep 22, 2020(SSNN) — On account of humiliation, the incident in Bor is not the first time for such inhuman to happen. Two years ago, three youths of Awiel origins were burnt alive by Akol Koor and institution, National Security, nothing was done about it, and the incident of 30 Awiel boys pick at the […]
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By Francis Banychieng Jor, Dear Rita Lopidia, Sep 22, 2020(SSNN) — Congratulations on receiving the USIP’s Women Building Peace Award, 2020. Through your zeal, commitment and passion for service you have exemplified the spirit of empathy and worked towards making the community a better place to live. I join your family, friends, the entire United States Institute of Peace fraternity, […]
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Sep 21, 2020(SSNN) — Joshua Dau diu has written a response to a letter that was apparently sent by Hon. Samson Oyay’s son purporting he had grabbed land. According to the Joshua Dau Diu, the letter that he had seen accused him of grabbing the Chollo land east of the Nile including Malakal town. In his response, he addressed several […]
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Sep 09, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir met the leaders of Sudan’s Revolutionary Front, representing Central, Eastern and Northern tracks in which each negotiation track tackles the grievances of a certain region in Sudan. Speaking to the media after the meeting, the representative of Central Sudan track, Dr. El Tom Haju said that they will sign a final […]
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September 4, 2020(SSNN) — An intra-ethnic fighting in South Sudan’s Unity State between the Bul-Nuer of Mayom county has left at least 12 people dead and more than 20 people wounded. Speaking on behalf of the South Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SSLM/A), Samuel Chan Mut Turoah, confirmed the report saying that the search for more casualties was ongoing at the time […]
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September 4, 2020(SSNN) — A high profile committee that was constituted by President Salva Kiir in June to investigate a shooting in Sherikat suburbs of South Sudan capital that led to killing of more than six people has released its findings today, Thursday September 3, 2020. The suspect behind the shooting that killed six unarmed civilians and wounded eight others […]
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September 3, 2020(SSNN) — A notorious South Sudanese militia commander, Major General Mathew Puljang, who has been commanding a parallel militia alongside South Sudan army under the command of President Salva Kiir has been arrested in the capital, Juba. According to the latest report from the Small Arms Survey, the Bul-Nuer politicians and generals are having their own internal power […]
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Opinion, By Aduol Majeeh Mayen, Sept 3, 2020(SSNN) — First of all, I would like to begin by making this introduction about the communities of Tonj North before diving into the new development that is currently happening in former Tonj State. Tonj has one of the largest communities in the country. The communities here are divided into three major divisions. […]
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August 29, 2020(SSNN) — A confidential document extended to South Sudan News Now reveals that South Sudan National Youth Union Chairperson, Mr. Gola Boyoi Gola, has ordered assassination of his court opponent in Juba, South Sudan. The letter explains that the South Sudan National Youth Union has a court case in the Supreme Court and based on the evidence, the […]
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Ratify UN Treaty, Investigate, Ensure Truth, Justice, and Healing By HRW, Nairobi, Kenya August 28, 2020(SSNN) – South Sudan should investigate the fate and whereabouts of scores of victims of enforced disappearances and those still missing from years of civil war, Human Rights Watch and Remembering the Ones We Lost said today. On August 30, the world marks the International Day of the Disappeared. Since […]
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August 27, 2020(SSNN) — Many villages in South Sudan, especially in Gawaar areas or Ayod county of Jonglei State, have been hit by a devastating flood that has destroyed houses and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Unlike anything witnessed here before, the ongoing flood, which was triggered by heavy tropical rains that caused the River Nile to overflow , […]
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August 23, 2020(SSNN) — A retired police Major General was killed this evening at South Sudan’s Sherikat suburbs where fatal shooting happened in June. Unlike the previous incidents that happened here, a soldier who was later identified as Apukic opened fire on a retired Major General few minutes to 7PM today. “The Maj. General was playing table game under a […]
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August 22, 2020(SSNN) — A senior member of South Sudan Central Bank has came forward to explain why South Sudan has ran out of hard currencies. Speaking to South Sudan News Now, the senior banker who identified himself as John, said the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Hon. Salvatore Garang should be held accountable for lack of foreign reserves […]
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By Dak Buoth, August 21, 2020(SSNN) — The African people on the continent and beyond have a common history and destiny. Our long and combative histories of liberations are characterized by armed struggles for self- determinations from bad colonial rules. Our aspirations are always alike. We long for a new and brave Africa free of corruption and negative foreign meddling. […]
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By Philip Ayuen Dot, Juba, South Sudan August 11, 2020(SSNN) — Biodiversity is the amount of variety of life on earth or in a certain country. This includes plants, animals and microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi. These are found in the different ecosystems such as oceans, savannah grasslands and forests. South Sudan has a rich biodiversity found in the […]
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August 11, 2020(SSNN) — When they say “youth are naive”, they mean it. In fact youth are the foolish majority. This is a fact that you will run into in any part of the world. A few years ago, I was crossing a busy street (Westbrooks Mall) on campus. I was being driven by a senior friend whose daughter […]
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August 08, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former lost boy, Peter Biar Ajak, who was detained for 18 months in South Sudan’s capital Juba, has gone viral on social media over the last one week after arriving in the United States but according to press secretary, Ateny Wek Ateny, Biar desperately needed the opportunity to gain entry into the US. Ateny […]
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August 5, 2020(SSNN) — Today, August 5, 2020, South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, met with the Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Hon. Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro, to determine how best the two could push other members of the governance cluster to come to the table to draft roles and responsibilities. Speaking after meeting Dr. Machar, the Minister […]
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By Gong John, August 2, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan chief justice has been recently caught directing the judge to sentence the journalist who has the case with the minister of finance and economic planning. This happened in the muduria court after the Minister of Finance and economic planning sealed a deal with South Sudan chief justice to wrongly convict Zechariah […]
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By Zechariah Makuach Maror, August 2, 2020(SSNN) — If I may ask these questions! What sets Mother Teresa and Bill Gates apart from the rest of the western world’s temperament? What makes Makiir Gai Thiep a popular businessman among South Sudanese business people? What makes a genuinely philanthropic gift, a person differences? Are there different emerging generous people in South […]
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By Gabriel Kuot Akok Dengdit August 2, 2020(SSNN) — On 30th July 2005, His Excellency the First Vice President of the Sudan TGoNU and the President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS), H.E. Dr. John Garang De Mabior died in a helicopter crash. As South Sudanese are commemorating their martyrs, I would love to seize this sad moment to […]
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