By Beek Mabior June 29, 2020 (SSNN) – Our country has been notoriously exhibited again and again as one of the most successful war-like nations on earth. Our beloved South Sudan has regrettably and sadly earned a disgraceful and violent reputation for over half a century starting from 1956 when our former United Sudan gained her independence after a shameful […]
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By Beek Mabior June 29, 2020 (SSNN) – Homosexuality is devilish and it is not part and parcel of South Sudan’s culture and I’d like to break my silence and express my condemnation, total rejection, and dissatisfaction on this very controversial subject in the world. As you’re all aware that South Sudan is a member of the UN and has […]
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June 27, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan former presidential affairs minister, Mayiik Ayii Deng has been denied a visa to return to the United States, where he holds citizenship, officials familiar with the matter told South Sudan News Now. The attempt by Mayiik to return to the United States comes weeks after his removal from the ministry by President Salva […]
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June 27, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has been urged by a local rights group to include church leaders in the committee which the head of state established last week to investigate the ongoing Jonglei ethnic violence. Kiir last week appointed James Wani Igga, the vice-president, as head of a committee for the investigation and finding […]
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June 27, 2020 (SSNN) – The National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has said that its candidate for governor of Jonglei state is unopposed within the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) denying reports that claims the group has given up on the race. This week, Dr. Lam Akol wrote to President Salva Kiir, asking him to […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – Members of South Sudan army’s military intelligence (MI) are detaining two siblings who transported victims of Jonglei ethnic violence to the country’s capital Juba, a family member has said. Aleer Deng Aleer, a brother to the two said in a statement on Thursday that the two men were arrested following their return from Panyagoor, Jonglei […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) has a plan B if President Salva Kiir Mayardit insists on allocating Jonglei state to the opposition consortium, a senior member of the Alliance has said. Wazir Michael Liah, the spokesman for the Federal Democratic Party (FDP) and a senior member of the SSOA, told South Sudan News Now that […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – The leader of South Sudan’s National Democratic Movement (NDM) and Secretary-General of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin, has urged President Salva Kiir to accept his nominee for Jonglei state governor. This comes as different emerge in the opposition consortium over which state should be allocated to the eight-member alliance after President […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – The African Union’s Executive Council will hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the dispute between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a diplomatic source told Ahram Online on Thursday. The source said that AU Executive Council members and representatives of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will attend the video […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the continent’s leaders to work for the development and distribution of an African-made vaccine for the deadly COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. Ramaphosa who is also the chairperson of the African Union said in remarks on Wednesday that the vaccine’s development in Africa would […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s organized forces are taking sides in the ongoing intercommunal violence which has been rising with an alarming rate in the country, the UN mission said. David Shearer, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and head of United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said in a briefing to the United Nations Security […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan parties to the revitalized peace agreement have come to another deadlock over when the state governments are formed, the South Sudan News Now has learned. President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny agreed last week to the allocation of states with Kiir’s group taking six states of Unity, Warrap, […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – The United States is working to remove Sudan from the list of state sponsor of terrorism, a top US diplomat said Wednesday. Michael Pompeo, the US secretary of state said during a press conference in Washington on Wednesday that a team of US diplomats was working along-side Sudan to remove the country from the designation […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan female artist, Mary Boyoi Gola, has been harassed by members of the country’s traffic police after a policeman asked Boyoi to pay an amount of SSP10, 000 for alleged violations of traffic police directives, two witnesses told South Sudan News Now. The first witness who identified himself as Juma said the incident took […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has reportedly cleared its over $9 million membership arrears at the African Union (AU) which the world’s youngest country has not paid for the last three years. Earlier this month, the AU sanctioned the country for failing to pay its membership arrears for a duration of three years. The South Sudan ambassador […]
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By Jackline Akuot Mangok June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – The rule of law is the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws’. In this case, the well-defined laws of South Sudan are; the Transitional Constitution, 2011, Islamic laws, Customary practices, and General international principles. Role of women in ensuring the functionality of […]
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June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior member of South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM/SPLA (IO), has died in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, relatives and friends have told South Sudan News Now. Brigadier General Gatluak Nhial Tut died in the Sudanese capital this week following a long sickness, according to a relative. “General Gatluak Nhial passed away in Khartoum […]
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June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Manawa Peter Gatkuoth Gual, has – on Tuesday – met a senior official of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) at his office in Juba, according to his office. Mr. Guang Cong, the United Nations Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General paid a visit to […]
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Juba 24, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has asked the Chinese government for a $12 million fee to settle membership fees because of which it was sanctioned by the African Union, a senior government official has said. Last week, the South Sudan ambassador to Addis Ababa and the country’s head of mission to the African Union, James Morgan, said […]
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By D. Benjamin Mabor June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – Last Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the principal parties to the R-ARCSS brought an end to a standstill on the allocation of States. This marked a comprehensive resolution of what appeared to have been a fear-inspired intransigence when the SPLM/A-IO leadership objected to the decision of the Presidency citing irrelevance in regard […]
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June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit has on Monday formed a fact-finding committee to probe the ongoing inter-communal violence in the country’s restive Jonglei state. The action by Kiir comes after months of revenge attacks between the Lou-Nuer and Murle community which has killed hundreds of people from both sides. In a decree readout on […]
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By Kuol Abraham Tong June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – I would like to thank the SPLM/SPLA for the consistency they have portrayed during the liberation struggle that has resulted into our independence and foundation of the principles that many of us were drawn to. The SPLM/SPLA waged the longest war in Africa that is the 21 years of struggle creating […]
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June 23, 2020 (SSNN) – The National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has said in a brief state this afternoon that it has nominated its secretary-general, Mahjuob Biel Turuk for the governorship of Jonglei state. The decision by the NDM follows a decision by President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar to divide […]
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June 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s Vice President Hussein Abdelbagi has this afternoon meet First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny following his return from Northern Bahr el Ghazal where he accompanied the body of his father who passed away last week. In a statement, Machar’s office said the two men, who also just recovered from COVID-19, the respiratory […]
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June 22, 2020 (SSNN) – The United States Ambassador to South Sudan, Thomas Hushek, has urged for the immediate reconstitution of the South Sudan parliament The call by the outgoing US envoy comes a few days after President Salva Kiir Mayardit and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny agreed to end the states deadlock which has been ongoing for a […]
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By Gatgong Koang Thany June 22, 2020 (SSNN) – First thing first, to those who think that they have a divine entitlement to think, decide and speak for and on behalf of everyone, on everything, every time, I want to tell you, NO! A BIG NO on this one, unlike in the past and with other situation, this time, we […]
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June 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has said that the African Union acted in violation of what it said is ‘principle of good faith,’ when it expelled a number of the country’s diplomats from a meeting in Addis Ababa earlier this week. On Monday, South Sudan diplomats at the AU were expelled from a meeting of the continental […]
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June 20, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan rights organization has welcomed the agreement between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny to bring to an end the issue of the states allocation which has been a sticking point in the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement. In a statement extended to South Sudan News […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and the leader of the SPLM-IO has ordered for the meeting of the organization’s two highest organs, the Political Bureau (PB) and the National Liberation Council (NLC). “The Chairman and Commander-in-Chief of SPLM/A-IO, Dr. Rick Machar Teny-Dhurgon would like to invite the members of SPLM/A-IO Political Bureau, National Liberation Council […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – Prominent South Sudan opposition leader and secretary-general of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin this evening met the First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny hours after welcoming a deal on the states reached by Machar and President Salva Kiir Mayardit. This afternoon, Dr. Lam who is also the chairperson of […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – Two senior members of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) have welcomed the decision by President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny to bring the states deadlock to an end. On Wednesday, Kiir and Machar met in J1 and resolved to end the four-month-old deadlock to an end by allocating […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of water resources and irrigation, Manawa Peter Gatkuoth, has this afternoon met the German ambassador to Juba, Manuel Muller, and the two discussed development in the field of water resources in the country, the ministry said in a statement. “The Minister Of Water Resources And Irrigation Hon. Manawa Peter Gatkuoth Met Today […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny said they only negotiated with President Salva Kiir, over the state dispute to only secure their share. This comes after the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) which is led by Josephine Lagu criticized the two main signatories of the revitalized peace agreement of […]
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