By Aman Dictor Mabior, June 4, 2020(SSNN) — I’ve lived in Juba for some times, and this is not the first time I’ve heard of Lual-Marine’s acts of impunity. Mr. Lual Aköök aka ‘Lual-Marine’ is known around Juba town as the privileged son of the president, Salva Kiir Mayar. Besides his strong physical resemblance with the president, he also comfortably […]
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June 4, 2020(SSNN) — The recent incident at “Sharikat-Bor” park has caused outraged as many South Sudanese mourned the death of five but as time goes by South Sudanese intellectuals and youth on social media found themselves exchanging tribal sentiments and heated debates over who should demand justice. Initially the issue was the used of unnecessary force on unarmed civilians […]
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By Latjor C. Gakah, June 3, 2020(SSNN) — Land is an asset which its value appreciates with time and that is the bottom line. Land grabbing is a judiciary debacle in South Sudan that is both silently claiming the lives of many innocent South Sudanese and leaving others homeless. The number of land grabbing cases depicts a full blown war […]
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By Justice Garang Sebit. June 3, 2020(SSNN) — Many South Sudanese, those outraged and observers alike, are still wondering if Col. Lual Marine, a nephew who is believed to be a biological son of President Salva Kiir Mayar, is actually dead. Lual is dead but his controversies are not dead. First, the question of who was Lual Marine and how […]
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Telar Deng 3rd. June 2020, Juba South Sudan, June 3, 2020(SSNN) — I met John Luk Jok in the mid 1970’s when he was working in Yirol as Range three Local government administrator and I was a student at Juba Commercial Senior Secondary School. We had a very good social and community relationship as John Luk Jok was fluent in […]
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June 3, 2020(SSNN) — The controversial unknown gunman, who killed five people and wounded eight others in what appeared to be another land-grabbing shooting in South Sudan capital, Juba, at the Sharikat-Bor Park has been fully identified.The suspect was initially identified as Lual Marine, Lual Akook Wol Kiir or Lual Salva Kiir. Lual has been in public light, mostly for […]
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Ensure Transparent Investigations, Focus on Highest Levels, For Immediate Release, Nairobi, Kenya. June 3, 2020(SSNN) — Sudan’s transitional government has yet to deliver justice to victims and families a year after more than 120 people were killed and hundreds injured and abused in a violent attack on protesters in Khartoum, Human Rights Watch said today. The government’s investigation committee is […]
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By Brown Akoon Yel Dut, Rummarial, June 2, 2020(SSNN) — Garang Malong Awan, who went to Nairobi two years ago and stayed there for his benefit had published a fake post on his Facebook wall status on May 31,2020 combating military professional Gen Akol Koor, who is presently serving as Director of National Security and Internal Security Breau in the […]
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By John Jur Chol Dhuol, June 1, 2020(SSNN) — With the current pandemic, South Sudan like any other country in the world has begun the year 2020 as a new decade that promises to be one of dreadful disruption in the world where South Sudan like other African countries is holding the weakest end of the stick in coping with […]
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Just for Fan, June 1, 2020(SSNN) — Your excellency, I learned with dismay that the position of the head of National Taskforce on COVID-19 has felt vacant again and your Vice President, Gen. Taban Deng Gai, who is the right successor in line, has refused to take up this position. We are not surprised at all to hear this, your […]
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By Wani Gore Kosa, May 27, 2020(SSNN) — Before I narrate how the above two crooks snatched into South Sudan National Youth Union, let me highlight the facts that both of them are non SPLM members. Both Tarir Makoi and Gola neither have SPLM registration identity cards nor participated in any SPLM activity. Tarir Makoi has never passed near any […]
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May 25, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former Deputy Defense Minister and Former Political Detainee, Dr. Majak D’Agoot, has tested positive to COVID-19. Announcing the event on Twitter, Dr. Majak said he was initially tested negative to COVID-19 earlier last week but the latest test results turned out positive. “This is to inform you that I did my 2nd Covid-19 test […]
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By Dak Buoth Riek-Gaak, May 25, 2020(SSNN) — I felt that a week cannot pass without me uttering a word on this sensitive matter of life and death of our people. On a matter of this magnitude, silence is not recommendable largely because it works in favour of the wrongdoers who are behind the attackers of the Lou Nuer one […]
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May 22, 2020(SSNN) — Briefing the international media on US response to combating COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, the US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Tibor Peter Nagy, said South Sudan is not helping the efforts to combat the global pandemic by failing to pay the salaries of health workers. Hon. Nagy was responding to a journalist, Carol, who states that […]
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May 21, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from South Sudan’s Pibor Administrative Area and corresponding reports from the national capital, Juba, revealed that youth from neighboring Murle tribe are seen crossing the Ethiopian highland allegedly to launch attacks on Akobo of Lou-nuer, South Sudan. A report from an Ethiopian journalist, Zoya Mengiste, confirmed that thousands of heavily armed Murle youth were […]
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May 21, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s incumbent, president Salva Kiir Mayardit, is secretly battling Coronavirus “behind closed doors”, a high profile insider reveals to South Sudan News Now. The confidential insider confirmed that president Salva Kiir tested positive, a day after his First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and 59 other government officials tested positive to COVID-19. The South […]
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By Dak Buoth Riek-Gaak, May 21, 2020(SSNN) — The South Sudanese citizenry became extremely nervous and worried on learning that nearly all members of the High Level Task Force (HLTF) contracted the covid-19 disease. This committee was formed and chaired by none other than President Kiir, and deputized by his immediate deputy, 1st vice President, Dr Riek Machar. Going by […]
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By Paul Ruot Bayoch Revenge: May 20, 2020(SSNN) — For how long shall you enslave and keep us captives in your ugly cycles? For how long shall you rob us of our joys and ambitions? For how long shall you be traumatizing us? For how long shall you make our mothers and sisters widows? For how long shall you […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — A cattle raid in South Sudan’s Mayom county of Bul-nuer, Unity State, that witnessed at least 17 death, among which 9 were soldiers, was reportedly led by a senior officer of the South Sudan Military Intelligence (MI). Confidential sources from South Sudan military headquarters, Bilpham-Juba, alleged that the recent attacks in Mayom county were led by […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — For the last few days, a few fake tweets, attributed to Dr. Lam Akol and Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, have gone viral on Facebook, WhatsaApp and Twitter, forcing Dr. Lam to go on twitter, leaving his alleged counterpart in the dark, to clear the air. The fake tweets, which some are dated to as far as […]
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This opinion article has been thoroughly edited to aid reading… By Mariak Madut Thiik Riiny, May 20, 2020(SSNN) — My fellow citizens of the Republic of South Sudan, I picked my phone today to write an article for the removal of the so-call Tutkew Gatluak Manime, the security advisor in the office of the president. I am a mere citizen […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — In a friendly letter written and signed by South Sudan’s incumbent president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, to his all-time rival and current First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, who contracted COVID-19, president Kiir prays for Machar and other members of the former High-level Taskforce to get well soon. Despite political differences that have hindered the implementations […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from South Sudan’s Uror county confirmed that the Murle youth, who attacked Lou-Nuer areas on Saturday, May 16, 2020, have incurred heavy losses in terms of lives, weapons and ammunitions. Speaking to South Sudan News Now correspondent in Pieri, South Sudan, James Mabor, a frontline journalist, confirmed that 748 dead bodies of Murle youth […]
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By Ajang Langar, May 20, 2020(SSNN) — It’s really absurd that recently a group of three men raped a young girl of 8 years in South Sudan. As we await their arrest, and conviction once their case is proved beyond reasonable doubt, I want to salute all those people that went to the streets to protest against rape and demand […]
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May 17, 2020(SSNN) — A South Sudanese youth group from the neighboring Duk county condemns the ongoing barbaric attacks in the neighboring Uror county and other Lou-nuer areas. The attacks, which have claimed many lives, burned down houses and abducted children and women, is believed to be carried out by Youth from Murle tribe of the recently established Greater Pibor […]
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By Duom Peter, May 17, 2020(Nyamilepedia) — South Sudan COVID-19 cases have risen in the last few days bringing the total to 290. Out of samples collected and tested, there were confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections among truck drivers. Uganda as of May 16, 2020, recorded 24 new COVID-19 cases from 2,044 samples of truck drivers. Majority are allegedly to be […]
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By Dr Isaac Ayii Ayii (PhD), May 16, 2020(SSNN) — Most of our African Countries are fighting coronaVirus with lootocrats, using rules of lock down only on the weak and the poor while COVID-19 suspects or patients and big fishes break rules of social or Physical distancing as they mingled with the population at their will, two things will […]
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May 16, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan youth from Lou-nuer, a sub-tribe of the second largest ethnic group in the country, in the neighboring Uganda condemns the recent attacks in Pieri, Pamai, Guanchat and other suburbs of Jonglei state’s Uror County. Speaking on behalf of Lou-nuer Student Association in Uganda, Pargol Reuben Gai Both, alleged that a heavily armed Murle youth […]
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May 16, 2020(SSNN) — In response to combat Coronavirus in South Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for the Refugees(UNHCR) has handed over at least three vehicles and beddings to South Sudan Ministry of Health. According to the Assistant External Relations Officer, Gift Friday Noah, of the UNHCR in South Sudan, the refugee agency in the world’s youngest nation has […]
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May 15, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, lost at least 7 officials between 4pm on May 13 and 10am on May 14, 2020 to what the High level Taskforce reported as “short illness” while threatening the media over biased reporting of the Coronavirus. Among the first highest ranking veterans who died on May 13, 2020 was Lt. […]
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One day you will be held accountable for every penny that has ever entered your pocket the wrong way. By Ajang Longar, May 13, 2020(SSNN) — The Republic of South Sudan was free from Corona virus until April 5th 2020 when she registered her first patient of Covid 19 who had travelled into the country on 28th Feb 2020 from […]
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By Dak Buoth Riek-Gaak, May 13th, 2020(SSNN) — I join the progressive and patriotic South Sudanese individuals, political and non-political organizations, vehemently denouncing the unreasonable delay and blatant violation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCISS). This agreement is now facing threats from the rogue stakeholders for no unjustified reasons. This Peace deal […]
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Updated: thoroughly edited by the editorial team to enhance readability By Brown Akoon Yel Dut, Rummarial, May 13, 2020(SSNN) — Generally and precisely speaking, the fundamental rudimentary truth that can be gained from reading this article is to understand the struggle of one or some of our phenomenal women in South Sudan. The narratives in this article are based on […]
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