May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s high-level taskforce has confirmed three more deaths of COVID-19, the disease associated with the novel coronavirus, and also announced that the country’s overall active cases have jumped to 236. More to follow!
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – Former deputy governor of South Sudan’s defunct Yei River state has died this morning with coronavirus, sources at Dr. John Garang Infectious Diseases Center have said. Yousta Baba Dima died after contracting the disease last week and was referred to Dr. John Garang Infectious Diseases Center after having been treated at a private hospital in […]
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May 14, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government threatened on Thursday to jail journalists over unethical reporting urging media houses to strictly desist from what it said is a non-professional reporting practices. In a statement this evening, South Sudan’s high-level taskforce said it “strongly denounces the wave of information and disinformation around COVID- 19 disease including publishing in social media, […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan coronavirus cases on Wednesday surpassed the 200 mark after the high-level Taskforce said nine (9) more people tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The high-level Taskforce said the latest positive tests were all of South Sudanese who were in contact with the people who tested positive for the virus […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – Days after easing measures, the high-level taskforce introduced to fight the coronavirus outbreak; South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit is now saying that he will impose total lockdown as cases in the world’s youngest nation closes to 200. The South Sudanese head of state disclosed this during a meeting via teleconference with leaders of the […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) — For the first time, COVID-19 has been confirmed in a crowded civilian protection camp in South Sudan’s capital, the United Nations confirmed on Tuesday, a worrying development in a country that’s one of the world’s least prepared for the virus’ spread. The U.N. is aware that the health ministry and World Health Organization have confirmed […]
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May 11, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has announced that it has reopened its airports to international and regional flights after almost two months of closure imposed by the spread of coronavirus. In late March, the high-level taskforce announced the closure of South Sudan’s airports both in the states and the capital Juba. The closure was part of measures […]
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May 11, 2020 (SSNN) – The Sudanese government said on Saturday that it was giving public sector employees a 10-day leave as the country is coping with surge in COVID-19 cases. Omar Manis, the Sudanese cabinet minister said in a statement on Saturday that he has been directed by the government to offer civil servants a leave for ten (10) […]
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May 11, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have closed to 200 after the country’s ministry of health said this evening that eighteen more people tested positive for the deadly virus. Yesterday, the government announced that 36 people – most of them South Sudanese – tested positive for the virus. The surge in cases came after President Salva Kiir […]
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May 10, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s national ministry of health on Sunday reported that 36 more people – most of whom are South Sudanese – tested positive for the novel coronavirus. This brings the overall number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 156. Speaking to reports on Sunday evening in Juba, Dr. Richard Lako, the Director General for Planning and […]
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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 09, 2020(SSNN) — The Republic of South Sudan approved at least one million US Dollar to be contributed in kind to African Union and Africa Center for Disease Control. According to Resolution No. 3 on Financial Contribution of the presidency, the Republic of South Sudan will contribute $750, 000.00 to the African Union and $250, 000 USD to the […]
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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 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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By Dimo Silva Aurelio, JUBA , SOUTH SUDAN, April 24, 2020(SSNN) —- The South Sudan High Level Taskforce for COVID-19 has extended the country’s partial lockdown until further notice. That means all schools and most shops will remain closed, as will South Sudan’s borders and Juba International Airport. The government was expected to lift the partial lockdown Monday, but at […]
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By GARANG A. MALAK, April 24, 2020(SSNN) — A United Nations employee in South Sudan is facing disciplinary action from the global body after he reportedly left the country despite being under quarantine over suspected Covid-19. The move followed revelations by South Sudan’s High-Level Taskforce on coronavirus which said the staffer had left the country under unclear circumstances, thus breaking […]
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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 12, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s deputy Minister of Interior, Hon. Mabior Garang de Mabior, urges his fellow politicians not to politicize residency of the internally displaced persons(IDPs) at their current UN-based protection sites in pretext of fighting for their health and safety from the Coronavirus. Hon. Mabior warns that COVID-19 is a Global Pandemic that people should take more […]
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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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March 25, 2020(SSNN) — A newly appointed Minister of Health, Hon. Elizabeth Acuei Yol Kuol, has gone viral on social media, especially on Facebook and Twitter, for what she calls “Kolorona Biruth” instead of Coronavirus or COVID-19 also known as the “Chinese virus”. As she speaks, the newly appointed minister, shows very little confidence and inexperience in her new role […]
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March 20, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from family members and aids of South Sudan Chief Justice, Chan Reech Madut, revealed that the Chief Justice could be among the first cases of Coronavirus in the world’s youngest nation. Speaking to South Sudan News Now correspondents, who reached out to family members in attempt to investigate earlier reports that the Chief Justice […]
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By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS(SSNN) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Monday for an immediate cease-fire in conflicts around the world to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. The U.N. chief said: “It is time to put armed conflict on lock-down and focus together on the true fight of our lives.” Guterres said the world faces “a common enemy — COVID-19” […]
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Monday May 13, 2019(SSNN) — Reports emerging from South Sudan’s Leer County confirm that more than 50 people have been hospitalized or affected in Leer County of Unity State after eating contaminated food that was recently distributed through the World Food Program. Blaming both the government of Salva Kiir and the World Food Program, residents from Leer, who spoke to […]
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Friday May 10th, 2019(SSNN) — South Sudan’s long serving Minister of Health, Dr. Riek Gai Kok, has allegedly submitted his “resignation letter” to the president, Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit. According to Press Secretariat of South Sudan’s President, who confirmed to have seen the alleged resignation letter, Dr. Riek Gai submitted his resignation letter citing the extrajudicial execution of his nephew, […]
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THE KISSING OF SOUTH SUDANESE LEADERS’ FEET BY POPE FRANCIS IS THE LAST ATTEMPT BY THE WORLD TO SOLVE SOUTH SUDANESE PROBLEMS WHICH COULD ONLY BE SOLVED BY SERVANT LEADERSHIP By Dr Isaac Ayii Ayii (PhD), April 17, 2019(SSNN) — The South Sudanese had garnered enough affection from the world over from the time immemorial despite the fact of our […]
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Trauma caused by years of conflict remain largely untreated with lack of mental care in South Sudan. By Joi Lee & Viktorija Mickute Nov 26, 2018(Nyamilepedia) —- “We define trauma as a wound. It is when something shocking or abnormal happens in your life, and it overwhelms you and you don’t know how to respond,” says Thor Riek, a 32-year-old South Sudanese. […]
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