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June 23rd 2019 (SSNN) – The Pan-African Legal Group has intensified its efforts to launch a pilot training programme aimed at improving oil sector by training South Sudan’s government officials on transparency and responsible governance. NJ Ayuk, the Chief Executive Officer of  Centurion Legal Group, emphasized the importance of promoting transparency and responsible governance in the Ministry of Petroleum, noting […]

June 23rd 2019 (SSNN) – Following a coup attempt that killed, Dr. Ampacho Mikonen, President of the Amhara Regional Government and His Excellency Eazy Wassie, Adviser to the Regional Government Office in Amhara, the Office of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister issued a press statement, condemning the planned coup and vowing to hold the perpetrators to account. “In the early evening of […]

June 18th 2019 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan government has agreed to a request by the main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by First Vice-President designate Dr. Riek Machar to increase the number of the VIP protection unit to something equal to an army division, army spokesman, General Lul Ruai, said. In South Sudan, an army infantry division is made up […]

June 18th 2019 (Nyamilepedia) – The leader of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), Gabriel Changson Chang, has relinquished power ending stalemate over who should lead the opposition umbrella, an opposition spokesman allied to him said Tuesday. Wazir Michael Liah, the spokesman for Federal Democratic Party (FDP) led by Changson told the Nyamilepedia in an exclusive interview that Changson made the […]

June 18th 2019 (SSNN) – A Renowned South Sudan state-TV journalist has passed away in the Ugandan capital Kampala, family and colleagues said. Shortly before his death, Kizito Oketo Modest was working for the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporations (SSBC). Family members and friends contacted by the South Sudan News Now said the award-wining journalist died following short illness. He […]

June 18th 2019 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s former Minister of Petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, who was dismissed from his 3–year old job last week has said his ministry is not a family company and that people should not be surprised that he had been replaced. This followed social media reactions by several critics who mocked Gatkuoth for having been at […]

June 9th 2019 (SSNN) – A top British diplomat to Sudan has urged the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) to immediately release three armed opposition leaders under the military detention. Last week, the military in Khartoum arrested the deputy chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N), Yasir Arman, the group’s Secretary General, Khamis Jalab and spokesman, Mabarak […]

April 27th 2019 (SSNN) – The ruling Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC) has denied reports that protests at coastal city of Port Sudan has affected the flow of South Sudan’s oil to the port. On Friday, local news outlets in Sudan reported that South Sudan’s oil flow has been affected by protests in Port Sudan with the protesters demanding its […]

April 25th 2019 (SSNN) – The head of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) Abdel Fatah al-Burhan rejected on Thursday the resignation of three of the council members, a senior military source from Khartoum said. On Wednesday, the council spokesman, al-Kabashi said in a statement that three members of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council have resigned. The resigning members includes Lieutenant General […]

April 24th 2019 (SSNN) – The commander of Sudan’s main paramilitary militia group, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is popularly known as Hemeti is planning to be the country’s number one man according to Western diplomats and opposition figures in Sudan quoted by Reuters. Once a right-hand man for ousted leader Omar al-Bashir, Dagalo was a central figure during the […]

April 24th 2019 (SSNN) – The African Union – meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo – on Tuesday issued a 60-day ultimatum to Sudan’s ruling military junta, Transitional Military Council (TMC), to handover power to the people to form their own government. The Cairo meeting was called for by the Egyptian President, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi who took the African Union […]

April 24th 2019 (SSNN) – Military judges in South Sudan trying detained army officer, Gen. Buay Rolnyang, for trying to rebel against the government and disobedience of orders from then SPLA General Headquarters, have found no evidence to back-up the charges, a South Sudan News Now journalist who witnessed the a sitting on Tuesday said. In a court sitting on […]

April 22nd (SSNN) – The head of the governing Sudanese Military Transitional Council (MTC) – Abdel Fattah Burhan – on Sunday confirmed that ex-president Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir along with leading figures of his regime were all being detained at the notorious Kober prison in Khartoum. This came after a week-long reports by local and some international media outlets that […]

April 22nd 2019 (SSNN) – Sudan’s protest organizer, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), on Sunday announced that it has suspended talks with the military over its failure to meet the protesters’ demands including handing over the government to the Sudanese people. Speaking during a rally at the centre of protest sit-in in front of the General Heaquaters of the Sudanese […]

April 17th 2019 (Nyamilepedia) – Unity state students in neighboring Uganda have issued a statement of condolence after the departure of General Peter Gatdet Yaka who died on Monday in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Relatives and close aides to Gen. Gatdet confirmed in a statement quoted by the Nyamilepedia on Monday night that Gatdet died of heart attack at a […]

April 17th 2019 (Nyamilepedia) – Sudan’s longest serving president, Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, who was ousted last week by the country’s military has been moved to Khartoum’s notorious Kober prison, the Reuters reported quoting two family sources. The Reuters quoted an unnamed source at Kober prison as saying al-Bashir is being held under tight security in solitary confinement. Al-Bashir who […]

April 16th 2019 (Nyamilepedia) – The main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by the country’s First Vice President designate, Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon, has released a condolence message following the death of prominent rebel military commander and de facto leader of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA). On Monday, relatives and close aides were quoted by Nyamilepedia as confirming the latest […]

April 16th 2019 (Nyamilepedia) – Prominent South Sudanese opposition leader and rebel commander, Gen. Peter Gatdet Yaka has passed away in the Sudanese capital Khartoum following a short illness, his aides and close relatives has confirmed. His former spokesman, Gatkuoth Mut Turoah was quoted by the Nyamilepedia as saying “Yes it’s true,  Gen. Gatdet died of heart attack in Khartoum […]

April 13th 2019 (SSNN) – The head of Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Service  (NSIS), Salah Abdella Ahmed Gosh has resigned on Friday, state media reported. The state-owned Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported that the newly appointed head of military council Abdel Fatah Marohan accepted Gosh’s resignation. The Sudanese army announced on Thursday the ouster and arrest of President Omar […]

April 12th 2019 (SSNN)  – South Sudan’s First Vice-President designate, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, called on Friday for extension of the pre-transitional period to six months during an interview with Reuters. Machar, the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO), in September last year signed a revitalized version of a 2015 peace agreement to end the ongoing […]

April 12th 2019 (SSNN) – Sudan’s Defense Minister and former First Vice-President, Awad Ibn Oauf has surprisingly resigned a day after taking oath as head of Sudan’s military council following the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir. “I – the head of the military council – announce I am giving up the post,” Ibn Auf said, adding he took the decision […]

April 12th 2019 (SSNN)  – International flights from and to Juba International Airport has been suspended after an imposition of closure of Sudan’s airspace following Thursday’s ouster of long-time serving President, Omar al-Bashir, sources have confirmed. On Thursday, Sudan’s defense minister, Gen. Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Oauf, who was also al-Bashir’s first deputy issued a statement announcing the ouster and […]

April 12th 2019 (SSNN)  – Sudan’s Military Council which ousted the country’s long-time serving President, Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, yesterday said on Friday that it will not hand over the former President to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Al-Bashir, who took power from a civilian government in a bloodless coup in 1989, is wanted by the ICC on charges of […]

April 11th 2019 (SSNN) – The Sudanese army has delayed issuing a statement it early said would be in the following movements, sources said. The delayment, one source said,  is attributed to disagreement within the army leadership over who can lead the military council until elections. “Now there are understandings over who can lead this transition. Some people within the […]

April 9th 2019 (SSNA) – An opposition official has claimed that Machar is free to go anywhere after he was allowed by the regional body, the IGAD,  to attend a spiritual meeting organized in the Vatican by Pope Francis. Machar’s is currently in the Sudanese capital Khartoum according to opposition officials closed to him saying they have not yet been […]