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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April 20, 2020(SSNN) — Responding to defection of SPLM/A(IO) senior politicians led by Hon. Dak Duop Bichiok, a group of Eastern Jikany Nuer politicians have spoken. The group cited a conference held by Hon. Dak Duop on April 16, 2020 and condemn it in the strongest terms possible. “Given the totality of the circumstances under which the defection was declared, […]
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April 19, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s Deputy Minister of Interior and the former Chairman of the SPLM/A(IO) National Committee for Information and Public Relation, Hon. Mabior Garang de Mabior, downplays the recent defection of some of the heavyweight politicians, Hon. Dak Duop Bichok and others, from the SPLM-IO in Government to the SPLM-mainstream in Government. While politicians are rotating the […]
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April 18, 2020 (SSNN) — An opposition envoy in the Egyptian capital Cairo allied to South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar has disowned a group of 100 members who said they were defecting to join President Salva Kiir on Thursday calling them “refugees” without political activities. Two days ago, around 100 people who said they […]
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April 18, 2020(SSNN) — According to a senior member of the ruling party in Juba who preferred to remain anonymous, said the leadership of PMPC is fighting over dwindling political gains and promises. PMCP is an acronym of Provisional Military Political Council, a breakaway group from Dr. Riek Machar’s SPLM/A-IO back in August, 2019 under the leadership of Major General […]
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April 16, 2020 (SSNN) — Senior members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny have declared their intention to abandon the movement and joined the SPLM-IG of President Salva Kiir. This comes after the defection of SPLA-IO deputy chief of staff General Koang Chuol Ranley in March to President […]
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April 15, 2020 (SSNN) — Veteran South Sudanese politician and SPLM-IO figure Edward Lino Wuor Abyei has died this afternoon in the Indian city of Bangalore a long battle with unidentified sickness, family members and close sources said. One family source said from Nairobi that Abyei died this afternoon at a hospital in India. The family source however did not […]
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April 14, 2020(SSNN) — A young man who was later identified as Okello Ocii has been apprehended by the Ugandan police after trying to escape a scene that has gone viral within the last twenty four hours on social media. Okello, who was captured on a live video brutally beating up an old woman, identified as Anek Lucy, has been […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — A deadly attack on a village South East of the disputed region of Abyei on Monday has killed at least four people and also resulted in the abduction of two children, the chief administrator for Abyei at South Sudan presidency said. Kuol Alor Kuol said the attack occured during the early hours of Monday at […]
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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 13, 2020 (SSNN) — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) said on Sunday that the ongoing crisis imposed by the coronavirus will affect the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement signed in 2018 and which brought about the current unity government between the signatories. IGAD Special Envoy for South Sudan, Ismail Wais, said restrictions and interruption of activities are […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has suspended interstate movement as part of its efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the country’s first vice president Dr. Riek Machar announced. Machar who is also the deputy chairperson of the coronavirus taskforce said passenger planes, and vehicles are not allowed to travel to and from the states […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — Former South Sudan justice minister, Paulino Manawila, has died this evening, government spokesman and information minister Michael Makuei Lueth said. Manawila, Makuei said, died at the Juba Medical Complex at around 4:45 PM where he was rushed after suffering a heart rupture after doctors couldn’t help him. However, sources close to the country’s longest serving […]
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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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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin is awaiting a response from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on a complaint it raised over the allocation of parliamentary seats within the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA). Based on the revitalized peace deal, the alliance which comprise of the NDM and […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudanese students studying on private admission in Egypt are pleading to their government back home to reconsider its decision which they said was favoring those on government scholarship and add them to the coronavirus funds provided by the government. Last month, the coronavirus taskforce allocated $3 million to South Sudanese students studying on government […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — Fighting between South Sudan and the SPLA-IO has intensified in the country’s Upper Nile state with a dozens of soldiers being killed as result, a spokesman from the armed movement, now a part of the coalition government said. “The Office of the Military Spokesman for Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) would like to […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been warned by the regional body, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which mediated the revitalized peace agreement, over unilateral actions which may derail the implementation of the revitalized peace deal. This comes weeks after the South Sudanese head of state appointed the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Petroleum, […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has threatened to arrest people who had contact with the confirmed four cases of COVID-19 and are refusing to give blood samples to the ministry of health for testing. The coronavirus taskforce said this evening in a statement that some of the people who had contact with the confirmed coronavirus cases are […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by the the country’s first vice president Dr. Riek Machar Teny and as such could not achieve its objectives, Mabior Garang, a senior member of the group said. “The success or failure of any Movement is determined by how it has achieved its objectives. The root cause […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has confirmed its first locally transmitted coronavirus case originating from the first case bringing the total number to four. The country’s coronavirus incident manager at the ministry of health, Dr Angok Gordon Kuol, said the fourth case is a local who contracted the disease from the first case. “The fourth case is […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLA-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar yesterday clashed with army-allied militia group led by General Ochan Puot in eastern part of the country, the Nyamilepedia has learned. One resident said from Jiokow that fighting started after soldiers belonging to renegade General Ochan Puot attacked an SPLA-IO […]
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April 7, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government on Tuesday confirmed the country’s second case of coronavirus. According to the Coronavirus Taskforce, the patient is a 53-year-old female South Sudanese who traveled to Juba from Nairobi, Kenya, in March. The Undersecretary in the Ministry of Health Dr. Makur Koryom who is also the taskforce’s spokesman said the patient works for […]
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April 7, 2020 (SSNN) — Kenyan authorities have rejected the entrance of a South Sudan coronavirus patient who was airlifted from Juba on Monday, sources with direct knowledge said, Nyamilepedia reports. On Monday, a unnamed son of South Sudan’s chief justice Chan Reec Madut was airlifted on a chartered plane after reportedly suffering from COVID-19 symptoms having returned recently to […]
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April 6, 2020 (SSNN) — Son of South Sudan’s Chief Justice is said to have been flown to Kenyan capital Nairobi after reportedly suffering symptoms similar to that of coronavirus, several government officials and close friends said. Four children of Chief Justice Chan Reec Madut arrived to the country from London, UK, last month. They refused to be tested upon […]
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April 4, 2020(SSNN) — While standing as the eighth country with the most confirmed number of cases so far, the United Kingdom has registered at least 4, 313 death out of 41, 903 confirmed cases. Among the deads are the three senior African-British surgeons Dr. Adil El Tayar, Dr. Alfa Saadi and Dr. Amged El Hawrani. According to a […]
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April 3, 2020 (SSNN) — Sudanese government on Thursday put the deportation of a South Sudanese rebel commander on hold over the outbreak of the coronavirus, a senior security official said from Khartoum on Friday. The deportation, the official said, was scheduled for today, of four South Sudanese rebel officer captured in January in the country’s capital Khartoum would have […]
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April 3, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan vice-president Taban Deng Gai said on Friday that progress is being made on the construction of Juba-Bahr el-Ghazal highway. Gai made the comment during a meeting at the state house J1 today with president Salva Kiir Mayardit. “The President of the Republic, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit was briefed by the Vice President for […]
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April 3, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan president on Thursday expressed his appreciation to the Chinese government and people for playing a central role in supporting other countries globally in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. President Salva Kiir emphasized that his government and people will continue to firmly support China’s efforts and effective measures to control the spread of […]
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April 3, 2020 (SSNN) — New armed clashes between the Manuer and Gak communities in the central South Sudanese state of Lakes led to the deaths of 13 people, parliamentary sources said Thursday. Of the total number of deaths in these clashes, which occurred in recent hours in the town of Malueth, 11 are from the Manuer and two are […]
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April 2, 2020(SSNN) — Following a series of revenge and targeted killing among the neighboring Nuer sub-tribes in Sobat of Upper Nile State, local communities, chiefs, elders and local administrations held a conference on March 5 and 6 in Maker Payam of Thorow County; Referenced to the conference, the Gaguang-Nuer community white army re-organized and established a new leadership for […]
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April 2, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan parties negotiating the allocation of state governors are nearing an agreement as key opposition group is reportedly conceding, a senior government official said on Thursday. The SPLM-IG, led by President Salva Kiir Mayardit, the SPLM-IO led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar have been – since last month – negotiating over how […]
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April 2, Juba, April 2, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan National Democratic Movement (NDM) chairman, Dr. Lam Akol, has hinted that he may forge a new alliance with stronger oppositions in the country to strengthen his fight for democratic change and reforms in the world’s youngest nation. Speaking to South Sudan based Al Maugif on March 27th, Akol admits that he […]
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