May 10, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations has blamed South Sudan’s increased inter-communal violence on the delayed formation of state governments by the parties to revitalized peace agreement urging the country’s leaders to complete the outstanding tasks in the 2018 peace deal in order to bring lasting peace in the war-torn nation. The United Nations leadership in South Sudan […]
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By Wesley Kosa May 10, 2020 (SSNN) — The recent movement of large herds of cattle across South Sudan had never been the case during the colonial era and after the independence of Sudan. Indeed, the cattle rustling have always been there but it was confined among cattle keepers only. Majority of people in Equatorians are farmers, and farming is […]
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By Duol Malow Jamlah May 10, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan politicians took up the responsibility to deliberately fight the global pandemic. One challenge, however, the South Sudan political team took the challenge over themselves and forgot to include the most important health constituent in the country, the South Sudan Doctors’ Union (SSDU) With this, I don’t think it carries […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has been asked by a group of intellectuals from Jonglei state to create another administrative area there. This came after the presidency issued a communique in which it said Jonglei state, alongside Western Bahr el-Ghazal and Western Equatoria, will be allocated to the SPLM-IO as part of a provision […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayatdit, has exhausted all his patience allowing his first deputy and SPLM-IO chairman, Dr. Riek Machar, make important decisions, a close aide to Kiir said Saturday. This comes a day after a plan by president Kiir to divide states between the parties to the revitalized peace agreement was rejected […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Said Bandas, the deputy chairperson of the SPLM-IO Youth League, said in a video he posted on his Facebook timeline that he was among a group of 30 people who tested positive for the virus on […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, has hinted at accepting a plan by president Salva Kiir to divide the states, calls for compromises and reiterates his commitment to the revitalized peace agreement. On Thursday the Minister in the office of President Salva Kiir, Hon. Mayiik Ayii Deng, said that the parties had […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases on Friday jumped to 120 following the announcement by the ministry of health this afternoon that thirty (3) more people have tested positive for the virus. The latest development has raised fears of a rapid spread of the virus as President Salva Kiir Mayardit ordered on Thursday that measures put in […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) – The UN Refugee Agency in South Sudan has said that it commends the unity government in the country for continuing to welcome people seeking refuge from the Democratic Republic of Congo and stands in solidarity with the South Sudanese government. UNHCR commends the Transitional Government of National Unity for its continued generosity to allow people […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has rejected a decision by president Salva Kiir’s office claiming that the parties have agreed to the allocation of states. The opposition group said it was surprised by the presidency statement because the matter was not resolved based on the revitalized peace agreement. […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s SPLM-IO has condemned a decision by President Salva Kiir claiming that the parties collegially reached an agreement on the allocation of states as provided for in the revitalized peace agreement. The presidency issued a communiqué on Thursday saying Kiir and Machar had reached an agreement on the allocation of state governors. The statement […]
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By Emmanuel Migi May 7, 2020 (SSNN) — With all predictions, indeed 21st century has been dominated by fear and uncertainty about population growth in the World particularly in the developing countries; citing Africa’s continent to witness a surge of the World Population Growth by 26% or 2.5 billion by 2050 and by 39% or 4.5 billion by 2100. These […]
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May 7, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan Coronavirus cases has rose to 90 after the ministry of health said sixteen (16) people have tested positive for the virus. This is the third day a high rise is recorded in South Sudan fter 28 people, last week, and 16 yesterday, tested positive for the virus. In a statement, Machar’s office said […]
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May 7, 2020 (SSNN) — A South Sudan rights group has condemned the ongoing renewal of fighting in the country’s Central Equatoria state urging the parties to find a peaceful mean of resolving their disputes. This comes after reports that the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) and SPLA-IO launched fresh attacks against holdout opposition groups in parts of Central […]
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May 7, 2020 (SSNN) — Members of the incumbent Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) from across South Sudan’s Greater Equatoria states on Thursday met the country’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, his office said. James Gatdet Dak, the Press Secretary at Machar’s office said in a statement that the delegation discussed range of issues including the the implementation of […]
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May 7, 2020 (SSNN) — Four South Sudan government soldiers have been killed after rebel forces said a joint attack on their bases by the army and SPLA-IO was repulsed on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. Suba Samuel Manase NAS Spokesman accused the South Sudan People’s Defence Force (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’ s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA IO) of […]
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May 1, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has been urged to renew South Sudan’s arms embargo which was imposed on the world’s youngest nation in July 2018 months before a peace agreement to end the seven-year-old conflict could be signed. Deprose Muchena, the Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa said if the African Union […]
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May 1, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s coronavirus cases on Friday jumped to forty-five (45) after ten more people who had contact with a number of the 34 cases tested positive, according to the coronavirus taskforce. “Out of the 10 cases, two are truck drivers who were stopped at Nimule border. Two other cases are domestic travelers who were planning […]
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April 30, 2020 (SSNN) – A $40 million grant from the World Bank’s International Development Association will fund a two and half years Project to provide income support to nearly 430,000 low income South Sudanese. The Project will be implemented by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in South Sudan. UNOPS will deliver the South Sudan Safety Net […]
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April 18, 2020 (SSNN) — An opposition envoy in the Egyptian capital Cairo allied to South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar has disowned a group of 100 members who said they were defecting to join President Salva Kiir on Thursday calling them “refugees” without political activities. Two days ago, around 100 people who said they […]
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April 16, 2020 (SSNN) — Senior members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny have declared their intention to abandon the movement and joined the SPLM-IG of President Salva Kiir. This comes after the defection of SPLA-IO deputy chief of staff General Koang Chuol Ranley in March to President […]
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April 15, 2020 (SSNN) — Veteran South Sudanese politician and SPLM-IO figure Edward Lino Wuor Abyei has died this afternoon in the Indian city of Bangalore a long battle with unidentified sickness, family members and close sources said. One family source said from Nairobi that Abyei died this afternoon at a hospital in India. The family source however did not […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — A deadly attack on a village South East of the disputed region of Abyei on Monday has killed at least four people and also resulted in the abduction of two children, the chief administrator for Abyei at South Sudan presidency said. Kuol Alor Kuol said the attack occured during the early hours of Monday at […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s high-level taskforce on coronavirus has urged all citizens to refrain from planned xenophobic attacks against Covid-19 patients, warning that those caught will be punished according to the law. Addressing journalists on Saturday in Juba after its 17th meeting, Dr Makur Koriom, the taskforce’s spokesperson, said the team had received online hate speech messages […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) said on Sunday that the ongoing crisis imposed by the coronavirus will affect the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement signed in 2018 and which brought about the current unity government between the signatories. IGAD Special Envoy for South Sudan, Ismail Wais, said restrictions and interruption of activities are […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has suspended interstate movement as part of its efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the country’s first vice president Dr. Riek Machar announced. Machar who is also the deputy chairperson of the coronavirus taskforce said passenger planes, and vehicles are not allowed to travel to and from the states […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — Former South Sudan justice minister, Paulino Manawila, has died this evening, government spokesman and information minister Michael Makuei Lueth said. Manawila, Makuei said, died at the Juba Medical Complex at around 4:45 PM where he was rushed after suffering a heart rupture after doctors couldn’t help him. However, sources close to the country’s longest serving […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared an outbreak of yellow fever in the southern part of South Sudan. The UN health agency said, in a statement, that two cases were identified in Kajo-keji, a region bordering Uganda, where an outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic disease was detected early this year. WHO warned that the […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin is awaiting a response from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on a complaint it raised over the allocation of parliamentary seats within the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA). Based on the revitalized peace deal, the alliance which comprise of the NDM and […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudanese students studying on private admission in Egypt are pleading to their government back home to reconsider its decision which they said was favoring those on government scholarship and add them to the coronavirus funds provided by the government. Last month, the coronavirus taskforce allocated $3 million to South Sudanese students studying on government […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — Fighting between South Sudan and the SPLA-IO has intensified in the country’s Upper Nile state with a dozens of soldiers being killed as result, a spokesman from the armed movement, now a part of the coalition government said. “The Office of the Military Spokesman for Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) would like to […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been warned by the regional body, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which mediated the revitalized peace agreement, over unilateral actions which may derail the implementation of the revitalized peace deal. This comes weeks after the South Sudanese head of state appointed the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Petroleum, […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has threatened to arrest people who had contact with the confirmed four cases of COVID-19 and are refusing to give blood samples to the ministry of health for testing. The coronavirus taskforce said this evening in a statement that some of the people who had contact with the confirmed coronavirus cases are […]
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