June 13, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan vice-president, James Wani Igga has said this afternoon that he has recovered from the novel coronavirus. This makes him the last – of three – vice-presidents to beat the respiratory sickness which is also known as COVID-19 after Vice President Hussein Abdelbaggi and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny recovered last week. […]
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June 13, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, will not accept graduation of the necessary unified forces until the deadlock over the distribution of states is resolved, a senior government official has said Saturday. Kiir’s SPLM-IG and other armed groups – including the main armed opposition SPLM-IO led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny – […]
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June 13, 2020 (SSNN) — Ethiopia’s deputy army chief on Friday said his country will strongly defend itself and will not negotiate its sovereignty over the disputed $4.6 billion Nile dam that has caused tensions with Egypt, The New York Times reports. “Egyptians and the rest of the world know too well how we conduct war whenever it comes,” Gen. […]
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June 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the Commander in Chief of South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) has this afternoon appointed former SPLA-IO deputy chief of staff for administration, Gen. Koang Chuol Ranley, to a senior army position, according to a document obtained by South Sudan News Now. According to the document signed by […]
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June 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has summoned the country’s head of National Security Service’s Internal Security Bureau (ISB) General Akol Koor Kuc over a private airport opened in a village in Tonj North County, two senior officials said. Last week, the General Akol Koor opened a private airstrip in Awul village in Tonj North […]
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June 12, 2020 (SSNN) – The body of South Sudan army officer and President Salva Kiir’s relative lt. Col. Lual Akook (aka Lual Marine) has been flown to his home state of Warrap from the capital Juba, officials have said. Lual who died last week had opened fire a civilians in the capital’s neighborhood of Sherikat killing at least five […]
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June 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan economist and civil rights activist, Peter Biar Ajak, who was detained by the notorious national security service in South Sudan, has said that he was blacklisted following his release from detention this year. Biar was arrested in mid 2018 at Juba International Airport while boarding a plane for a Red Army function in […]
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June 12, 2020 (SSNN) – The British ambassador to South Sudan, Christopher Trott, has met the country’s minister of Defense Angelina Teny following her return to office this week after more than two weeks of quarantine. Mrs. Teny went to the quarantine in mid May after she and her husband – who is also the First Vice President – Dr. […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – Fighting has erupted in South Sudan’s Lakes state after a tribal commander declared his intention to join Kerbino Wol, a former national security detainee who formed a new rebel group last week. The fighting, residents said in Yirol, took place at Amokpiny, a village in Rumbek East County. One resident said the fighting erupted after […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – The paramount chief of Bor County, Alier Aluong, has died in the South Sudan capital Juba, relatives and close friends have told South Sudan News Now this afternoon. “This is to inform you that the Paramount Chief of Bor County, Alier Aluong has died in Juba this afternoon. He has been sick for the previous […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan lawmaker, Angok Arthur Akuien, who resigned last week from the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA), has reversed his decision saying it was rejected by the Vice President Taban Deng Gai. On June 1, 2020, Akuien said he was resigning from the parliament and was heading to his home without stating what had triggered […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan army said on Wednesday that it has postponed the graduation of the necessary unified forces, which is provided for in the revitalized peace agreement, over shortage of funds. Major. Gen. Lul Ruai Koang, the South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) spokesman said the Joint Defense Board (JDB), the body created by the revitalized […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – The European Union has blamed the escalation of intercommunal violence in the country on the delayment of the formation state governments which has been a sticking point in the negotiation between parties seeking to fully form the revitalized unity government. In recent months, intercommunal conflicts have dramatically increased in several parts of the country with […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has suspended the construction of the Juba-Bahr el- Ghazal high-way after rains washed away parts of it last month sparking criticism by social media activities, vice president has said. “The suspension does not mean the construction has stopped, but is to review the design of the road. So I call on the […]
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By Gatkuoth Kutei Chany June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – The fact that SPLM has two houses, the ‘owners and servants’ is likely scenario indisputable to deny given the situation to which the government is formed in South Sudan. Those who own the SPLM “take it all” and those who are servants continue to wash dishes and gets home with peanut; taking the […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been warned by a group of Bul intellectuals against plans to remove presidential advisor on security, Tutkew Gatluak Manime. This comes after reports that the president was planning to remove Tutkew after a group of community leaders from Bahr el-Ghazal and Warrap in particular complained that Tutkew was […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit has removed the undersecretary of the ministry of health Makur Koriom, according to a decree read out on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation. The reasons behind the sacking were not however mentioned but disagreements between the undersecretary and minister of health have grown in recent weeks leading up […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – The US embassy in South Sudan has urged the country’s transitional government of national unity to work in order to de-escalate ongoing intercommunal conflicts in several parts of the country. The US call comes as several South Sudan states in both Upper Nile and Bahr el-Ghazal flung into intercommunal fighting most of which is caused […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s first vice president and SPLM-IO chairman Dr. Riek Machar Teny has formed a fact-finding committee to investigate the circumstances in which a senior opposition commander was killed last week in Jonglei state. Last week, Brigadier General Mawich Bol was killed by a group of unknown armed civilians in Fangak county where he was […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s former army chief General Gabriel Jok Riak has reportedly been put under house arrest in connection with last week’s Sherikat incident in which a relative of President Salva Kiir Mayardit killed at least five innocent civilians, a senior national security officer has said. “The former Chief of Defense Forces General Gabriel Jok has […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – The first deputy governor of South Sudan Central Bank (SSCB) Maror Chier Rehan has died of COVID-19 in the Kenyan capital Nairobi after he was airlifted from South Sudan last week, a source in Juba with direct knowledge has said. Rehan reportedly succumbed into the virus after almost two weeks of battle at a private […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s national security chief, Gen. Akol Koor Kuc, has opened a private airport in a remote village in Tonj of the country’s Warrap state, sources with direct knowledge told South Sudan News Now. One security official who spoke from Juba said the construction of the airport begun in January this year and was complete […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – Sudanese militia commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abdel-Rahman, who is commonly known as Ali Kushayb, has surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) from the Central African Republic and has been transferred to The Hague where he is being detained and awaits trial. Kushayb is a senior Janjaweed commander who supported the Sudanese government against Darfur rebel groups during the Omar […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – Burundi’s outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza has died, the government of the central African nation announced in a statement posted on Twitter. “The government of the Republic of Burundi announced with great sadness … the unexpected death of his Excellency Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi,” the government said in a tweeted statement, adding he had died […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s ambassador to Brussels, Belgium, has died in Juba, a family member has said. He died at 64. Ambassador Jwokgwen Severio Yukwan Ayik reportedly died of COVID-19 in Juba where he has been stranded because of COVID-198 lockdown preventing him to return to his work destination. “It is true, ambassador Severio has died today. […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – The Troika Countries (United States, Britain and Norway) on Tuesday urged South Sudan parties to the revitalized peace agreement to form the state governments which it said has become a new challenge in the implementation of the revitalized peace deal. President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny in February formed the long-awaited […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan police has on Monday identified the killer of Captain Manyang Chol Manyang, a member of the presidential guards who was killed as results of last week’s fighting in Sherikat, and that preparation were being made to charge him, a police source said this afternoon. Manyang is a member of the South Sudan’s Presidential […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny has dispatched a team of aides to the UN protection of civilians site in Juba to de-escalate tensions following fighting inside the base over the weekend. The fighting over unknown reasons on Friday and Saturday left over 170 people injured. Speaking to South Sudan News […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan information minister and government spokesman Michael Makuei Lueth has finally returned to office after a battle with COVID-19 ended in his favor, the ministry of information said in a statement this afternoon. “The National Minister of Information, Communication Technology and Postal Services, Michael Makuei Lueth resumed his official duty on Tuesday,” it said […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – While I was writing these lines I was- and continue to be- full of sorrow over loss after loss of many people- all over the world in general and South Sudan in particular-due partly to Covid-19 and other causes. Some of the departed South Sudanese public figures were either friends or individuals I have worked […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and leader of the Sudans People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) Dr. Riek Machar will – this week – name a new deputy minister of interior after his aide Mabior Garang de’Mabior resigned. Mabior who is also the SPLM-IO chairperson of national committee for information and public relations resigned last […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – A Chinese diplomat has blamed what he said is a lack of proper drainage system for the destruction of Juba-Rumbek high-way two weeks after rains destroyed parts of the road which is being constructed. A Chinese company which is constructing the highway has been criticized for failing to deliver lasting service on the construction of […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit is reportedly planning to replace his long-time ally, presidential advisor on security, Tut Gatluak Manime, after a group of Greater Bahr El-Ghazal community leaders accused him of being behind attacks by armed Youth from Unity state on Warrap state. Gatluak was appointed in 2016 as the country’s presidential advisor […]
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