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 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that the country’s leaders – including himself – have not lived to the liberation struggle promises saying he would be ashamed if he met the fallen heroes today. Kiir made the remarks during a speech on the eve of the 37 anniversary of the SPLM/SPLA formation. Below […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – The vice chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo has warned unnamed individuals of conspiracy to relocate his forces outside the capital Khartoum. The powerful militia commander said, during a press conference after visiting wounded soldiers at a Khartoum hospital, that there were conspiracies to move out the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) […]
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – The Bentiu community in Kenya has expressed shock after the surprise demise of a senior army general on Wednesday hailing him for his role in the Liberation struggle. On Wednesday, Lieutenant General Liah Diu Deng, a senior army officer and former director of Unity state’s prison service, passed on in the Sudanese capital Khartoum where […]
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s National Salvation Front (NAS) led by former deputy chief of staff of the army General Thomas Cirilo Swaka has denied that it kidnapped eight SPLA-IO officers saying the main armed opposition group did that to its own officers. SPLA-IO deputy spokesman, Col. Lam Paul Gabriel, said in a statement yesterday that eight officers […]
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May 15, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, lost at least 7 officials between 4pm on May 13 and 10am on May 14, 2020 to what the High level Taskforce reported as “short illness” while threatening the media over biased reporting of the Coronavirus. Among the first highest ranking veterans who died on May 13, 2020 was Lt. […]
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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 14, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has – for the first time – confirmed its first death as a direct result of the novel coronavirus. The ministry of health making the announcement this evening also said 28 more people have tested positive for the virus. This, the ministry of health said, brings the number of those infected with […]
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May 14, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan rebels have abducted eight senior military officers of the main armed opposition group, SPLM/SPLA (IO) after fighting escalated in the country’s Central Equatoria state, a spokesman said Thursday. Col. Lam Paul Gabriel, the deputy SPLA-IO spokesman and the press secretary at the minister of defense’s office said two Generals were abducted along with […]
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May 14, 2020 (SSNN) – Two South Sudan doctors among those fighting the coronavirus pandemic has said the the government of president Salva Kiir is not reporting deaths coming as direct results of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, infection. One doctor at South Sudan’s Juba military hospital who has been handling coronavirus patients said in an exclusive interview with […]
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May 14, 2020 (SSNN) – Former South Sudan military chief Marial Nuor has died of coronavirus in the capital Juba this afternoon, a close military official said. “General Marial died this morning. He got infected with coronavirus last week. He was being treated at Lou Clinic here in Juba and when his situation got worse, he was taken to military […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan senior army officer Gen. John Madeng Gatduel died on Wednesday after contracting the COVID-19, the sickness caused by the novel coronavirus, according to family members and close friends. Gen. Madeng, a highly respected and learned South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) officer, contracted the virus last week after coming into contact with some […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – The chairperson of South Sudan’s Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (R-JMEC), Amb. Augostino Njoroge, has sided with the SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar saying President Kiir violated the revitalized peace deal last week by deciding to distribute the states to the parties. Kiir who is a party to the 2018 over the weekend unilaterally […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – Another senior South Sudan army commander has died in the capital Juba on Wednesday, military officials said. Gen. John Madeng Gatduel’s death came hours after General Liah Diu Deng, a respected army commander in Unity state, died in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. According to military sources in the capital, Gen. Madeng, passed away at 8pm […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior South Sudan army general has passed away today in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, officials allid to vice-president Taban Deng Gai said Wednesday. Deng Machar Tot, a senior member of the defunct SPLM-IO faction led by Vice-President Taban Deng Gai confirmed to South Sudan News Now from the Egyptian capital Cairo that Lieutenant General […]
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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) – South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) has suspended the construction of a new detention facility at Luri, an area outside Juba where President Salva Kiir’s cattle farm is based, over shortage of funds. Quoting an unnamed national security officer, the independent Nyamilepedia reported last April that the South Sudan notorious security body was planning to […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – Three people have been killed and five others have been injured during an ambush in Central Equatoria state’s Yei River County, government officials there said. A Yei county official who spoke exclusively to South Sudan News Now (SSNN) said the incident happened just three miles outside Yei town. He said the incident took place at […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – The controversial South Sudan National Youth Union (SSNYU) chairman Gola Boyoi Gola has this afternoon met the country’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny. A statement from Machar’s office said the two discussed the role played by the youth body in the country as well as it activities in the fight […]
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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) – A senior aide to South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Wednesday blasted critics of the SPLM-IO role in the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement. James Gatdet Dak, the press secretary at Machar’s office said critics were blaming the SPLM-IO with the misperception that the group should lonely carry out reforms […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has been urged by a local watchdog to investigate the country’s minister of finance for corruption after documents surface on social media exposing widespread misuse of public funds. Last week, finance minister Salvatore Garang came under intense scrutiny after documents circulated on social media exposing the diversion of thousands of dollars for […]
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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 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have jumped to 194 on Tuesday after the ministry of health said in a statement this evening that eighteen more people tested positive for the virus. The undersecretary in the ministry of health, Dr. Makur Koryiom, told the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting (SSBC) this evening following a meeting of the high-level […]
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May 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) –The National Salvation Front (NAS) led by General Thomas Cirilo is planning for war and possibly may attack South Sudan’s capital Juba, documents leaked to Nyamilepedia have said. The group warned civilians on Monday that movements from and to Juba would be risky apparently because of a planned offensive against army headquarters in the capital Juba. […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – Barely a month after senior members of the SPLM-IO declared that they were defecting to president Salva Kiir’s side, another group is saying that it has defected again accusing Dr. Riek Machar of nepotism and lost of vision. The group of nine little know members led by Gen. Joseph Ruot Nyieny, said their decision to […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei Lueth did not downplay the presence of coronavirus in the country and he was quoted out of context by social media users, a senior government official said Tuesday. South Sudan’s deputy information minister Baba Medan told the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) that reports on social media that […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, discussed – in a phone call on Tuesday – bilateral relations between Sudan and South Sudan with the leader of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudanese media reports. Sudan’s state-owned Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported that al-Burhan spoke to Machar to […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s holdout opposition group, National Salvation Front (NAS), led by General Thomas Cirilo said on Tuesday that all roads leading to Juba were under siege warning against all travel outside South Sudan’s capital. NAS said the measure, which came after joint government and SPLA-IO offensives against holdout opposition forces in central Equatoria, is aimed […]
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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) – A South Sudan army commander announced on Monday that he was defecting from the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) to join former army chief General Paul Malong Awan who leads the South Sudan United Front/Army (SSUF/A) Speaking to South Sudan News Now (SSNN) from northern Unity state on Tuesday morning, Maj. Gen. Monyjur Miakol […]
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May 11, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit on Monday replaced the country’s army chief, General Gabriel Jok Riak, with General Johnson Juma Okot who served – until Monday – as Jok’s deputy. So, who is General Johnson Okot? General Okot is a South Sudan army general who was born in the country’s Eastern Equatoria state in […]
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May 11, 2020 (SSNN) — Kenya has recalled the chairperson of South Sudan’s Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (R-JMEC) Amb. Augustino Njoroge and said it was replacing him with another Kenyan military official. Njoroge was appointed by the regional body, IGAD, as deputy chairperson of JMEC shortly before the formation of the defunct Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) […]
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