March 13th 2020 (SSNN) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who recently called the coronavirus pandemic a “fantasy,” has tested positive for the illness, according to a local report. “He waits for the result of the counter-proof this Friday (13) to confirm the contamination. There is tension in the air. Despite spending quiet time on TV, and asking the people […]
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March 13th 2020 (SSNN) — Sudan and neighboring Ethiopia have reported their first cases of the coronavirus. Sudan has reported its first confirmed coronavirus case, a man who died on Thursday and had visited the United Arab Emirates in the first week of March. The man, in his 50s, died in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the health ministry said in […]
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March 13th 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has suspended direct flights to and from Egypt and Dubai to prevent the importation of the coronavirus into the country. The directive takes immediate effect and also restricts entry of travelers from all countries affected by the virus. Affected routes include Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Togo in Africa – as well as […]
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March 12th 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has appointed ministers of the long-awaited transnational government placing a woman -for the first time – in the ministry of defense. In series of decrees issued on Thursday evening, Kiir appointed Angelina Teny, a senior member of the SPLM-IO and wife of First Vice-Presidemt Dr. Riek Machar, as the country’s […]
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March 12th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit has named ministers for the long-awaited revitalized unity government. This was announced during a decree read out on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation this evening. The ministerial appointees are: Martin Elia Lomuro – Minister of Cabinet Affairs Beatrice Khamis Wani – Minister of Foreign and International Cooperation Angelina […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – Dozens of South Sudan religious leaders have been wounded after a fistfight at a church in the capital Juba, clerics said on Tuesday. “Many peopole have been wounded in the fistfight,” a church leader told this website from Juba on Tuesday. “Some of them are being treated at the Juba Teaching Hospital and some with […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – Authorities in Sudan said on Tuesday that a number of suspects in connection with what the government called an assassination attempt against Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in an incident that underlines the fragility of the country’s transition to civilian rule. Officials and state media said on Monday Hamdok, 64, survived unharmed after a bomb and […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – United Nations investigators accuse South Sudanese leaders of widespread corruption and of trampling on the rights and fundamental freedoms of their people. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan presented its latest report to the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday. The U.N. commission accuses South Sudan’s leaders of deliberately starving their people while […]
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March 11th 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan thought it was attaining peace last week but it may now have to deal with erupting ethnic clashes in some parts of the country. Even before the revitalised transitional government of national unity (R-TGoNU), which was formed out of a peace deal by President Salva Kiir, First Vice President Riek Machar and several […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – The absence of political leadership at the state level in South Sudan has contributed to the recent outbreak of intercommunal violence in the country, said the head of United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). “This fighting has caused significant casualties and the displacement of thousands of families, particularly in areas around Pibor and the villages […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – Egypt’s intelligence chief Major General Abbas Kamel passed on a message from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, in a meeting on Tuesday. El-Sisi congratulated Kiir on the peace agreement in South Sudan and expressed Egypt’s total support for the country and its quest for stability. Kamel and Kiir discussed […]
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March 9th 2020 (SSNN) – A new report by United Nations human rights experts has linked senior South Sudan government officials and military commanders to the supply of arms to the country’s many ethnic militias. This morning, Yasmin Soka, the Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights Yasmin Soka told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that “South Sudan […]
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March 9th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny is still under house arrest despite an early statement by IGAD special envoy to South Sudan Ismail Wais that the First Vice-President was free, her wife Angelina Teny who is a senior SPLM-IO figure said. IGAD’s special envoy to South Sudan Ismail Wais said that […]
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March 9th 2020 (SSNN) – Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt as his motorcade drove through the capital, Sudanese activist in Khartoum said. The activist said the attack targeted Mr Hamdok’s convoy as it was heading to the prime minister’s office. Details of the attempt remain unclear and neither the government nor the military have yet […]
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March 8th 2020 (SSNN) – The South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) led by Josephine Lagu has threatened to stay out the R-TGoNU distribution of national ministers. The revitalized peace agreement signed in September 2018 provided for the division of the 35 ministers which are to be created under the deal. The opposition consortium is entitled o three (3) ministers and […]
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March 8th 2020 (SSNN) – Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) issued an alert on Thursday of a money laundering inked to corrupt South Sudan government officials. The NCA is mandated to fight organized crime thereby protecting the public by targeting and pursuing those criminals who pose the greatest risk to the UK. The official warning on money laundering and illicit […]
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March 7th 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A protest by bus operators on the Uganda-South Sudan border on Friday disrupted activities and caused a huge snarl-up at the Nimule-Elegu crossing point. The bus operators, most of who operate transboundary passenger services, said money changers on Friday morning beat up and injured Trinity Bus Service driver Gabulyeri Ngabirano. “This incident happened this morning […]
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March 7th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group SPLM-IO has denied – in a brief statement – reports of brawl among members at a hotel in the capital Juba. This comes after social media users reported that a fistfight erupted at a SPLM-IO meeting at Pyramid Continental Hotel. In a statement this morning, Kalany Mamun, a social […]
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March 7th 2020 (SSNN) – Western diplomats and experts have warned that South Sudan’s latest peace deal will likely not stop the country’s bloody conflict. US officials have discussed a range of options if the deal fails again, including sanctioning more senior South Sudanese government officials, downgrading diplomatic relations and even de-recognition the government of South Sudan as a potential […]
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February 29, 2020 (SSNN)—The Jieng Council of Elders, an influential group of elders predominantly from the Dinka tribe, has congratulated the parties on resolving outstanding issues and forming a unity government on schedule. “President Salva Kiir Mayardit (SPLM) and First President Riek Machar Teny (SPLM IO) acted with concerted efforts and yielded to South Sudanese and international community demand to […]
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS, KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Monday was named the top “spoiler of peace” in a new award that seeks to shame him and others into taking serious steps to end bloody conflict in the world’s youngest country. Kiir and rival leader Riek Machar are under growing pressure to form a coalition government this […]
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Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash in Calabash, outside Los Angeles, California, this Sunday morning … TMZ, ESPN, CBR, Variety and other major media outlets have confirmed. Kobe was traveling with at least 3 other people in his private helicopter when it went down. A fire broke out. Emergency personnel responded, but nobody on board survived. 5 people are […]
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January 16, 2020(SSNN) — The National Constitutional Amendment Committee (NCAC) has today, Thursday 16th January, 2020, presented the Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan, 2011 (Amendment) (No.6) Bill, 2020 to the Minister for Justice & Constitutional Affairs of the former Transitional Government of National Unity of the Republic of South Sudan, H.E. Hon. Paulino Wanawila. The Bill incorporates the one […]
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January 14th, 2020 (SSNN)—The closed-door meeting between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Chairman of the SPLM-IO Dr. Riek Machar have been concluded, however, the outcome of the talks between the two principals remains unclear. The today’s closed-door meeting held at the State House – was attended by South Africa’s Deputy President David Mabuza and the Deputy Chairman of the Sovereign […]
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January 14th, 2020 (SSNN)- The Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA), a civil society group based in Uganda, has welcomed the recent declaration on process by holdout opposition groups signed on Sunday in Rome under the auspices of the community of Egidio – a Rome-based lay Catholic association. “We firmly believe that any peace agreement, which does not have […]
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January 12th, 2020 (SSNN)—South Sudan’s main armed opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar is expected to arrive in South Sudan capital, Juba on Monday for another round of peace talks with South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on the Number of States and their Boundaries – an outstanding issue that has hindered the formation of the unity government. Speaking to […]
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January 10, 2020(SSNN) — Reacting to the news of sanctions, travel ban and property monitoring on the First Vice President, Gen. Taban Deng Gai, who has been sanctioned by the United States of America for his involvement on deadly human rights violations, blocking the implementation of peace and for undermining reconciliation efforts in the country, many South Sudanese on social […]
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January 9, 2020(SSNN) — An eighteen year old aspiring rapper and Bell Warriors footballer was gunned down in a rare shooting on Gilmour Street, Ottawa, Canada on Wednesday morning, Canadian news agencies and Capital Hill Parliament police confirmed. According to neighbors the shooting occurred at 7:30am on Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 in an apartment rented out through Airbnb on Gilmour […]
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January 9th, 2020 (SSNN)—The Chairman of the Provisional Military and Political Council, Major General James Ochan Puot, and the SPLA-IO’s senior commander, Khor Chuol Giet have been reportedly instructed to report to Juba and shed light on the recent clashes between the SPLA-IO and PMPC forces in Jekou. “The leader of the government-allied military group, General James Ochan Puot, and […]
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January 8th, 2020 (SSNN)—South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the National Security Council, have discussed and reviewed the ongoing security situation across the country, the Presidency said on Wednesday. “The President of the Republic, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit, listened to the National Security Council’s reports from all the security units in the country, at the State House today in […]
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January 1st, 2020 (SSNN)—The United States government has congratulated the people of Sudan on the 64th Independence Anniversary, marked on an annual basis on January 1St. “On behalf of the Government of the United States, I offer best wishes to the people of Sudan as you celebrate your National Day on January 1,” the United States Secretary of State, Mike […]
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Dec 10th, 2019 (SSNN)-The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UMMISS) has selected about 40 senior officers from the South Sudan Defence Forces (SSPDF), Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-iO), and South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) to attend an interactive training on child protection policy. According to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, the forty officers expressed their […]
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Dec 4th, 2019 (SSNN)-The South Sudan Civil Society Forum (SSCSF), a coalition of civil society groups, has unveiled a new approach to breaking the ongoing impasse over the number and boundaries of states, a key outstanding issue that has hampered the implementation of the peace deal. In a press release extended to SSNN, the civil society group recommended that if […]
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