June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLA-IO, is saying that an attack by South Sudan’s army on its base in Western Equatoria state has left a senior officer and at least ten (10) soldiers dead. The attack, one SPLA-IO officer said, took place on Wednesday in Tambura County after a joint attack by the South […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit will appoint state governors next week as parties are now preparing to submit names of respective nominees, a senior government official said today. Information minister Michael Makuei Lueth told South Sudan News Now from Juba this morning that President Salva Kiir Mayardit is waiting for the list of SPLM-IO […]
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By Lul Gatkuoth Gatluak June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – The stalemate between Egypt and Ethiopia over the project of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam is now being exaggerated in Social Media. In the past three weeks, last week of May and the first two weeks of June, one of the pressing newscast has been the establishment of the Egyptian Army Base […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan holdout opposition group has condemned the killing of civilians by unknown armed men in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state in an ambush which has so far said to have killed around six people. The People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) led by Dr. Hakim Dario said in a statement extended to South Sudan News […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan diplomats have been kicked out of an African Union (AU) meeting over failure by the world’s youngest country to pay membership fees to the continental body for three consecutive years, the South Sudan mission to the AU said. The South Sudan embassy in Addis Ababa and the country’s mission to the African Union […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – Kenya has won the UN Security Council seat after beating Djibouti in a second round of voting Thursday. The contest between Kenya and Djibouti headed to the second round of voting Thursday after the first phase saw Nairobi’s victory insufficient to win the UN seat. With 191 of 193 countries voting, Kenya scored 129 votes, beating […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – Outgoing Sudanese and United States ambassadors to Juba this afternoon visited South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and informed him that their mission was ending soon, a spokesman for Machar said. James Gatdet Dak, the official spokesman for the SPLM-IO leader said those who paid a visit to Machar include the US […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit will reconsider his decision to give Jonglei state to the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) and will instead give it to Other Political Parties (OPP) led by Peter Mayen should SSOA leader continue to reject the state, a senior government official said. This comes after the opposition consortium said […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – Maj. Gen. Evariste Ndayishimiye on Thursday was sworn in as the new president of Burundi for a seven-year term in office, renewable once. The swearing-in ceremony before Burundi’s Constitutional Court took place at the Ingoma Stadium in the administrative capital Gitega. It followed the ruling of the same court which upheld Ndayishimiye as the winner […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s press secretary Ateny Wek Ateny has said that the world’s youngest country will not seek the permission of anyone to build a dam along the Nile saying the country will only do so in line with region water agreements. Ateny was reacting to a social media report in which he […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – The South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) has rejected yesterday’s consensus by president Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar on the allocation of states. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday in Juba, minister for presidential affairs Nhial Deng Nhial said the parties have reached an agreement and decided to allocate six states to the […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has refused to hand over the body of Kerbino Wol, the opposition leader who was killed last week by the army in the country’s Lakes state, a family member has said. Wol – a prominent businessman and former National Security officer who formed a rebel group against President Salva Kiir Mayardit on […]
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June 17, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has this evening issued a republican order restructuring the peace oversight committee which he formed in late March this year. The National Transitional Committee had replaced a previously body, known as National Pre-transitional Committee (NPTC) Previously, membership of the National Transitional Committee that is headed by Tutkew Gatluak, the […]
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June 17, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, has confirmed this afternoon that a deal had been reached by President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny on the allocation of the state. This morning, the minister of presidential affairs Nhial Deng Nhial said in a statement that Kiir and Machar reached […]
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June 17, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, and SPLM-IO leader and First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, have finally agreed to the allocation of the states, bringing an end to months-long deadlock on the thorny matter. Speaking to journalists at the state house J1 this afternoon, presidential affairs minister, Nhial Deng Nhial, said the agreement […]
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June 17, 2020 (SSNN) – A planned meeting between South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his first deputy Dr. Riek Machar Teny who is also the chairperson of the SPLM-IO has been aborted, a senior government official said today. The meeting was called upon by the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi last week to bring together the former South […]
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June 17, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan government soldier has reportedly killed an internally displaced person who was returning to the UN protection of civilian’s site in the country’s capital Juba, an IDP told South Sudan News Now today. The incident, the IDP who requested not to be named said, occurred on Monday evening when the unidentified man was […]
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June 17, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s Vice President James Wani Igga has today, Wednesday, returned to his office following three-week COVID-19 quarantine. Igga was tested positive for COVID-19; the respiratory sickness caused by the novel coronavirus, in late May and said he was going into quarantine along with a few members of his family and staff members. “I was […]
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June 17, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday launched a funding appeal worth 390 million U.S. dollars to boost response to COVID-19 pandemic in South Sudan. Alain Noudehou, the humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, said the latest funding appeal will help provide assistance to 7.4 million people by the end […]
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June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has for the first time since his return from quarantine chaired a cabinet meeting of the governance cluster in the revitalized unity government. Machar tested positive for COVID-19 in May last month and has been on quarantine until last week when he was confirmed to have […]
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June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior South Sudan government official has claimed that civilians in the world’s youngest country have more arms at their disposal more than the members of the organized forces. South Sudan’s deputy minister of foreign affairs Deng Dau blamed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) arms embargo for what he said is a shortage of […]
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June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has reportedly dispatched a high-level delegation to the neighboring Uganda to meet the country’s president and its military chief. This comes after reports that President Salva Kiir Mayardit and main armed opposition leader and now First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny were invited to the Egyptian capital Cairo […]
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June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has been told by a local human rights watchdog to protect children against harmful practices in the country. The Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA), a Juba-based rights organization, urged the government in a statement extended to South Sudan News Now to respect its commitment of protecting the children when it signed […]
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June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of health Madam Elizabeth Achuei has fired back at senior SPLM member Daniel Awet Akot and said the ministry of health needs doctors and not politicians. This comes a few days after Daniel Awet Akot, a former deputy speaker of the South Sudan’s parliament and a senior member of the Sudan People’s […]
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By Noah Issa Philip June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Your Excellency, with due regard and rectitude to you and your colleagues, I hope this letter will find you although you and your wife and other colleagues are battling with COVID-19 pandemic, it’s my hope and prayers to see you and other colleagues of yours to be healthy again as the […]
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By Deng Mangok Ayuel June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Tribalism, understood as “groupness” or “group affiliation,” is rooted in human psychology. Everyone, everywhere, has tribal instincts and belongs to any tribe. However, these instincts don’t operate in the same way. When people talk of tribalism, they often think in binary terms—two groups, two tribes with different social and cultural norms. […]
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June 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan army has reportedly killed businessman turned-rebel leader, Kerbino Wol, during clashes in the country’s Lakes state after a four-day-long battle between a handful of his forces – mostly civilians – and the army. Sources said from Yirol that Kerbino was exactly killed at Ayen Mayar[dit] village in Amukpiny in Rumbek East county after […]
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June 15, 2020 (SSNN) — A Lebanese man contracted by South Sudan’s COVID-19 taskforce in the fight against the novel coronavirus has fled the country with $3 million, a senior government official has said. The government official who spoke to South Sudan News Now on condition of anonymity said the contractor who he identified as Feraj was given $3 million […]
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June 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, and First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, are preparing for a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo next week in a talk that will be hosted by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a senior government official has said. The meeting, the senior government official said, will discuss the implementation […]
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June 15, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has today, Monday, returned to work after one month since he announced that he has been infected with COVID-19, his office said this morning. In mid May, Machar announced that he and his wife Angelina Teny, who is also the country’s minister of defense, were tested […]
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June 15, 2020 (SSNN) – The national employees of the Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC) are back on strike after the management of the oil consortium failed to fulfill promises made earlier this year for better working, health and financial conditions, a employee who is also on the strike to South Sudan News Now this morning told from Bentiu. In […]
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June 14, 2020 (SSNN) – World over, very few people would suggest to take their own lives. They say Death has no Friend, but in South Sudan, the reverse seems true. There are those who are friends with death. When you are living, and doing your things, your work, ideas would be opposed and fought. Today, you are a friend […]
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By Ayuen John June 14, 2020 (SSNN) – My dear country men and women – especially the resilient youth of South Sudan who are subsisting with hardship of numerous predicaments and pandemic within the country and abroad. I humbly salute you in the name of our beloved nation. Indeed some of the youth may wonder about the question put forward […]
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