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Banking on Chat: How AI Makes ‘Cents’ for Finance Companies

News, Newsbeat, Opinions, Press Releases, South Sudan

Nov 6, 2023 (SSNN) — The digital customer experience (CX) landscape is continually evolving, with AI playing an ever-growing role in helping businesses, including those in the finance sector, build their relationship with their customers, helping to set them apart from their competition. Conversational AI is a gamechanger for banks and financial institutions, enabling the complete reimagining of the digital […]

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Education Fund for African Students in Energy

Breaking News, East Africa, News, Newsbeat, Oil, Op-Eds, Press Releases, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan
Soldiers patrol an oil field in Paloug, in South Sudan's Upper Nile state(Photo Credit: Jared Ferrie/IPS)

The African Energy Chamber launches its annual Energy Scholarship Award under efforts to expand the participation of youth in energy JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 9, 2023/ — We are thrilled to announce the launch of the AEC African Energy Education Fund (www.EnergyChamber.org), an annual program aimed at supporting young individuals across Africa who are pursuing undergraduate studies in oil, gas and […]

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Sudan: Concrete UN Security Council Action Needed  African Council Members Should Take Leading Role in Ending Abuses

East Africa, News, Newsbeat, Press Releases, South Sudan, Sudan

For Immediate Release Nairobi, June 10, 2023(SSNN) – The United Nations Security Council should take stronger steps to reverse the rapidly deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in Sudan, Human Rights Watch said today. During the Security Council discussion on June 2, 2023 to renew the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), all council members, including the three African members, should support […]

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Fugitive South Sudan Bishop on the Run!

East Africa, Kenya, News, Newsbeat, Press Releases, Religion, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, World

April 1, 2023(SSNN) — A prominent South Sudanese Bishop of the Anglican Church of South Sudan(ACSS), Rt. Bishop Thomas Tut Gany of the Ayod Dioceses, has fled an arrest warrant from the South Sudanese authorities. According to South Sudan Police Services, Bishop Thomas Tut Gany, Founder and Executive Director of Christian Mission for Development(CMD), was charged on March 31st, 2023 […]

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Nigeria commits to pay off US$28.7m capital arrears in Shelter Afrique

Africa, Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, Nigeria, World

ayment to be made in four instalments starting January. Abuja, Nigeria, January 11, 2022: The Federal Republic of Nigeria has pledged to pay the full capital arrear of US$28.7m in Shelter Afrique, Nigeria’s Finance Minister Dr. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed disclosed at a meeting with Shelter Afrique Group Managing Director and CEO Mr. Andrew Chimphondah in Abuja. The Minister further disclosed […]

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Troika Statement on the Anniversary of the Juba Peace Agreement

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By OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON, Oct 3, 2021 (SSNN) — The United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway (the Troika) commend the Sudanese people as they celebrate the first anniversary of the signing of Juba Peace Agreement (JPA) on October 3, 2020.  This historic agreement responds to the Sudanese people’s calls for freedom, peace, and justice, especially from those affected […]

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South Sudan Revitalized Peace deal at a crossroad to collapse

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South Sudan President, Salva Kiir, and his First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, addressing the media in the capital, Juba(Photo credit: SSPPU)

Sep 24, 2021(SSNN) — South Sudan’s three-year-old peace deal is doomed to collapse unless the parties can settle disputes and create a unified army, the main opposition faction said on Wednesday. The accord signed in September 2018 calls for the reunification of all fighters involved in the civil conflict, but the process has been marred by delays. The peace deal signed […]

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K Denk releases a viral song Peter Gatdet in his latest album, Hope

Breaking News, Music, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan

Sep 19, 2021 — South Sudanese international, Koang Deng Kun Koang, popularly known by his stage name as K-Denk has released an emotional song, “Peter Gatdet” in memory of heroes who fought for the liberation of the Republic of South Sudan. The song, which was premiered on Youtube on September 16, was shot and launched in Alberta, Canada but K-Denk […]

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Kenya Ports Authority Awards Regional Port Users

Breaking News, Kenya, News, Newsbeat, Op-Eds, South Sudan, World

The 77 participants were drawn from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and DR Congo.  Mombasa, Kenya, Sep 19, 2021(SSNN) — Kenya Ports Authority held its second East Africa Maritime Awards EAMA 2020 ON September 17, 2021 in Kenya’s coastal City of Mombasa to recognize industry’s outstanding practices for Excellence, Sustainability, Training, Technology, Initiative, Personality and Leadership from the eastern Africa region. The Awards were […]

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South Sudan Council of Churches regrets a waste decade on the 10th Anniversary

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Members of South Sudan council of churches standing for a group photo(Photo credit: courtesy image)

Juba, South Sudan   July 9,2021 — While commemorating the 10th independence anniversary of South Sudan, religious leaders regret how the euphoria, hope, optimism and reign of sustainable peace with prosperity have been watered down the drain by a senseless violent conflict in just 10 years. According to a statement issued by the South Sudan Council of Churches and read […]

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Jagei Community Leader denounces election of Hon. Malual Tap

News, Newsbeat, South Sudan

Juba, South Sudan, June 7th, 2021(SSNN) — The Jagei  community association in Juba, South Sudan, has allegedly backtracked from its recent elections that installed Hon. Malual Tap Die, the Unity state minister of Finance, calling it illegal. In a statement received by our editorial team, the Jagei Community leadership calls on Jagei members in diaspora and South Sudanese at large […]

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BREAKING: Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua has died

Africa, Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, Nigeria, Religion, World
Nigerian Prophet TB. Joshua preaching(Photo credit: supplied)

June 5, 2021(SSNN) — The Nigerian popular pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua, popularly known as Prophet TB Joshua has died this evening in Lago, Nigeria at the age of 57. TB. Joshua, who was the founder of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) and Emmanuel TV station, died on Saturday evening shortly after finishing a church program with Emmanuel TV […]

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FULL INTERVIEW: President of Gawaar Global Community speaks on insecurity in Jonglei State and Greater Pibor

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Deng Elijah, president of the Gawaar Global Community and Chairperson of the Gawaar Community Association in Canada(Photo credit: supplied)

June 1, 2021(SSNN) — South Sudan News Now reached out to the president of Gawaar Global Community, Deng Elijah, to speak to the ongoing insecurity in Jonglei State and specifically the current tension between Ayod County and Pibor Administrative Area. The interview was as follow: Begin the interview…… Question: Mr. Deng Elijah, good morning, good afternoon or good evening: what […]

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Opinion: The R-ARCSS is Collapsing But SPLM-IO is winning!

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South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny attends the 32nd Extraordinary Summit of the IGAD heads of states in Addis Ababa on June 21, 2018. (Photo credit: YONAS TADESSE/AFP via Getty Images)

By Mak Banguot Gok (Makjohnson), June 1, 2021 (SSNN) — The ideal implementation of R-ARCSS is what almost all South Sudanese are understanding to be an implementation by the warring parties in Juba. Faithful commitment to the agreement by those well-known schemers of ethnocentrisms hardly exists, even when citizens are hearing the mere pronouncements, and the half-done installation of R-TGoNU […]

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Sudan Government welcomes the initiative over the final status of Abyei

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President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Sudan Delegation (photo credit: courtesy image)

Juba, South Sudan, May 27th, 2021 — South Sudan’s President H.E Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit issued a presidential decree two days ago appointing an ad hoc committee to engage in talks with Sudanese Transitional Government over the status of contested Abyei Administrative Area.  The formation of the committee comes a week after armed militia from Sudan’s Messiriya tribe allegedly backed […]

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UN Security Council must not lift South Sudan arms embargo until human rights benchmarks are met

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Members of South Sudan’s SSPDF singning in an unidentified area outside Juba, South Sudan, in January 2017 (Credit: Unknown)

May 17, 2021(SSNN) — Lifting the UN arms embargo on South Sudan could have dire consequences for human rights, Amnesty International warned today, ahead of a UN Security Council vote on 27 May to decide the future of the embargo. The Security Council must ensure a range of human rights benchmarks are met before the embargo can be lifted. These […]

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Indian Battalion Organizes Veterinary Camp in Kodok, Upper Nile State

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Veterinary team of INDBATT-1 briefing Kodok county commissioner, Mr. Joseph Aban(Photo credit: UNMISS/SSNN)

May 6, 2021(SSNN) — Indian Battalion based at Malakal in UNMISS effectively carried out 02 days veterinary aid camp and animal health awareness campaign to livestock owners at Kodok in South Sudan from 16 April to 17 April, 2021. Kodok, formally known as Shilluk Kingdom, is located at Western Nile in Upper Nile State. According to Lt. Col. Philip Varghese, […]

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UNMISS Peacekeepers Rescue UNMAS Contractors Following an Armed Ambush in Eastern Equatoria

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David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), briefs the Security Council(UN Photo/Loey Felipe)

By Samira Y Salifu, April 19, 2021(UNMISS) — 20 United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) workers were rescued by Rwandan peacekeepers and United Nations Mission Observers from UNMISS, after being ambushed in Longiro, an area some 58 kilometres north of Torit, Eastern Equatoria. They were part of a team from G4S Global contracted by UNMAS. “We found them shaken and […]

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EES governor Gen. Louis Lobong Lojore’s envoy attacked in Budi County

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Governor of Eastern Equatoria Lt. Gen. Louis Lobong Lojore(Photo credit: courtesy image)

March 30, 2021(SSNN) — The Eastern Equatoria State governor, Louis Lobong Lojore’s envoy was on Monday ambushed by a group of armed youth in Budi County as they were leaving the area after a peace mission. The governor narrowly survived the attack that left one of his bodyguards and a wife to the Division Commander killed in the ambush while […]

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South Sudan President receives African Peace Award 2021

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President Salva Kiir receiving African Peace Award 2021 presented to him by African Private Television Union(Photo credit: courtesy image)

March 27, 2021(SSNN) — South Sudan’s incumbent president, General Salva Kiir Mayardit, who has led his country through a brutal civil war for the last seven, has received an African Peace Award for this year 2021. According to the office of the president, His Excellency President Salva Kiir won the peace medal for his tireless efforts to bring peace and […]

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BREAKING NEWS: Tanzanian President John Magufuli has died.

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Tanzanian President John Magufuli waves as he attends a ceremony marking the country’s 58th independence anniversary in 2019(Photo credit: Stringer/AFP)

March 17, 2021(SSNN) — The Tanzania’s President, John Pombe Magufuli, has died of heart complications this evening in Dar es Salam, vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced on TV. Speaking on a live broadcast, the Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed that President Magufuli died this evening, March 17, 2021 at 6pm. Hassan confirmed that president Magufuli was hospitalized […]

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Progress and momentum as National Consultations on Solutions Initiative get underway in South Sudan

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IGAD, UNHCR and agencies holding a consultation workshop on durable solutions for refugees, IDPs and other vulnerable communities in South Sudan(Photo credit: UNHCR/ssnn)

Juba, South Sudan, March 16, 2021(SSNN)– The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), UNHCR, the Refugee Agency and partners, applaud progress toward lasting solutions for forcibly displaced persons as national consultations took place last week in Juba, South Sudan. The two day event successfully marked another milestone for South Sudan’s  implementation of the Sudan and South Sudan Solutions Initiative, under the auspices of […]

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Women celebrate IWD2021 by calling for 35% representation in the government

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Displaced women and children under a hot sun in South Sudan’s Maban County, where food shortages are causing tension. © UNHCR/P.Rulashe

March 8, 2021(SSNN) — As the world celebrates International Women’s Day with the theme ‘Choose to Challenge’, South Sudan women chose to challenge the issues facing women in leadership especially in the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on Conflict Resolution in South Sudan (R-ARCSS). These women focused on the clause on a clause that demands 35 percent representation of women […]

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SPLM-IO dismisses VP Taban Deng’s call to suspend the implementation of the peace agreement

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March 5, 2021(SSNN) — The SPLM-IO has dismissed Gen. Taban Deng Gai’s call to suspend the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement. Responding to Taban Group’s press release, Dut Majokdit, who is a member of the SPLM-IO National Council, said that the Vice-president is attempting to create another situation that is likely to jeopardize the implementation of the peace agreement. The […]

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Plane crash in Uror County of Jonglei State kills 10 people on board

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Images showing the scene of the incident and one of the pilots Captain Majur Malou of the South Sudan Supreme Airlines(Photo credit: supplied)

Mar 2, 2021(SSNN) — A South Sudan commercial plane crashed on Tuesday in the Pieri area of Uror County, Jonglei State killing all the ten people who were on board. According to some eyewitnesses, the plane which was carrying two crew members and nine passengers crashed immediately after takeoff from Pieri airstrip. Eyewitness Sebit Kuol says the aircraft took off […]

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Details on Ethiopian-Tigrayans contingent fighting at Juba International Airport

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Members of Tigrayan contigents who took blows at Juba International Airport following a fistfight that attempted to return them to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia(Photo credit: supplied)

Feb 23, 2021(SSNN) — A fistfight broke-out at Juba International Airport on Monday afternoon as the Tigrayans forces, who served in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan(UNMISS), refused to board a scheduled plane to return to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Speaking to media after the fistfight, the UN spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, explained that the argument began in the airport on […]

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Ethiopia: Invincible Defense Tech is an Effective Strategy to Combat Ethnic Tensions-Experts

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Military experts recommend the brain-based technology called Invincible Defense Technology (IDT) which incorporates practices of non-religious Transcendental Meditation® (TM®) to quell violence and bring about peace in the Horn of Africa Country,     Jan 30, 2021(SSNN) — While the ongoing Tigray conflict continues to be fueled by high ethnic tensions, there is available an ideal method to calm tensions, […]

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Pope urges South Sudanese leaders to renew peace process in Christmas message

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Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State, blessing South Sudan leaders recently in Vatican(Photo credit: Vatican/SSNN)

By Devin Watkins Dec 24, 2020(Nyamilepedia) — Pope Francis signs an ecumenical Christmas message to the political leaders of South Sudan, and urges them to make greater strides along the path of peace and service to the nation. Pope Francis has sent Christmas greetings to the political leaders of South Sudan once again this year. As with last year’s message, the […]

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UN agencies call for urgent humanitarian access to prevent hungers

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WFP's beneficiaries unload food items from vehicles at an unidentified distribution point (Photo: Supplied)

Dec 23, 2020(SSNN) — Three United Nations organizations are calling for immediate humanitarian access to parts of South Sudan’s Jonglei State and Pibor Administrative Area, where people have run out of food and are facing terrible levels of hunger. This call came following a new report of Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on Friday which put South Sudan on heightened […]

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Sudan: Security Forces Kill Protesters in Eastern Sudan

Africa, Breaking News, East Africa, News, Newsbeat, Sudan, Sudan
Sudanese protesters take to the streets against a worsening economic crisis and to demand justice for people killed during past demonstrations that toppled president Omar al-Bashir. AFP

Prosecute Killings, Prioritize Security Sector Reforms For Immediate Release Nairobi, Dec 21, 2020(SSNN) – Sudanese authorities used excessive force, including lethal force, against protesters on October 15, 2020, leading to the deaths of seven protesters, including a 16-year old boy, as well as a security official, Human Rights Watch said today. About 25 people were injured, most from bullet wounds. The protests […]

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Museveni lobbies U.S and U.K to help him push for elections in South Sudan

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Ugandan President H.E. Kaguta Museveni ...

Dec 8, 2020(SSNN) — President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has met and held discussions with the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) Special Envoys to Uganda about the situation in South Sudan. The US Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Natalie E. Brown was accompanied by the US Special Envoy for South Sudan H.E Stuart Symington IV to the meeting while the […]

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