August 29, 2020(SSNN) — A confidential document extended to South Sudan News Now reveals that South Sudan National Youth Union Chairperson, Mr. Gola Boyoi Gola, has ordered assassination of his court opponent in Juba, South Sudan. The letter explains that the South Sudan National Youth Union has a court case in the Supreme Court and based on the evidence, the […]
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August 23, 2020(SSNN) — A retired police Major General was killed this evening at South Sudan’s Sherikat suburbs where fatal shooting happened in June. Unlike the previous incidents that happened here, a soldier who was later identified as Apukic opened fire on a retired Major General few minutes to 7PM today. “The Maj. General was playing table game under a […]
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August 22, 2020(SSNN) — A senior member of South Sudan Central Bank has came forward to explain why South Sudan has ran out of hard currencies. Speaking to South Sudan News Now, the senior banker who identified himself as John, said the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Hon. Salvatore Garang should be held accountable for lack of foreign reserves […]
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August 08, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former lost boy, Peter Biar Ajak, who was detained for 18 months in South Sudan’s capital Juba, has gone viral on social media over the last one week after arriving in the United States but according to press secretary, Ateny Wek Ateny, Biar desperately needed the opportunity to gain entry into the US. Ateny […]
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August 1, 2020 (SSNN) – A former South Sudanese Judge says he and 14 other judges should be reinstated immediately after an East African court ruled President Salva Kiir illegally fired them three years ago. Former South Sudan Court of Appeals Judge Malek Mathiang Malek said he is grateful the East African Court of Justice ruled in his favor. President […]
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July 24, 2020 (SSNN) – Sudanese authorities have announced that they have found a mass grave that most likely contains remains of 28 army officers executed in 1990 for plotting an attempted coup against the former President Omar al-Bashir. According to the public prosecutor, the officers were executed in mysterious circumstances after a quick military trial one year after Bashir […]
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July 24, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan presidency denied on Friday claims by renowned economist and former National Security Service (NSS) detainee, Peter Biar Ajak, that President Salva Kiir had sent a security team to slaughter him in Kenya. Peter Biar, who was in Kenya, fled – along with his family – to the US on Thursday and later said […]
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July 24, 2020 (SSNN) – United States President Donald J. Trump has given South Sudan economist and former National Security Service (NSS) detainee, Peter Biar Ajak, a refuge in the United States after fears that Kiir’s NSS operatives were looking for him in Nairobi. “Thank you President @realDonaldTrump for saving my family+me & giving us refuge in the USA after […]
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By Dr. Ran Kuoth Chak Incompetency Part I, July 24, 2020(SSNN) — For the past fifteen years, incompetency has been one of the frequently cited factors in the failure of South Sudan and it has been predominantly so because president Salva Kiir neither attained accredited education nor was he directly involved in political administration of the SPLM. If anything, President […]
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July 23, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan presidential advisor on minority affairs, Akot Lual, has been released without charges after almost one week under national security service detention in the capital Juba, sources close to him said. Lual was arrested on Saturday in Juba by the National Security Service (NSS) after local communities in Bor allegedly told a committee set […]
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July 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s chief of defense forces, general Johnson Juma Akot has said that his country does not have external threats urging members of the unified forces to work to bring permanent peace in the war-torn country. The top South Sudan army official was speaking during a visit to Maridi training camp for the unified forces […]
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July 22, 2020 (SSNN) – Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok on Wednesday announced the replacement of the military governors of its states by civilians. Addressing a news conference in the capital Khartoum, Hamdok said that Abdul Fattah Alburhan, the head of the Sovereign Council, has approved the appointment of the 18 civilian rulers of the states in the country, including […]
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July 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan president’s advisor on minority affairs, Akot Lual, has been arrested by National Security Service in the country’s capital Juba, after a section of the Bor community accused him of arming Murle community. Sources speaking to South Sudan News Now said from Juba that Akot was arrested on Saturday night in central Juba and […]
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July 21, 2020 (SSNN) – Sudan’s former long-serving President Omar al-Bashir faces trial starting Tuesday in Khartoum over the military coup that brought him to power in 1989. Al-Bashir is already behind bars for corruption, but AFP reports that he could face the death penalty if convicted in the new charge. The 76-year-old is accused alongside 16 others. The trial […]
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July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – Weeks into speculation that Egypt might intervene in Libya, Egypt’s Parliament has approved that troops be sent to its western neighbor in a bid to ward off Government of National Accord (GNA) fighters aiming to capture Sirte. The decision, which is based on a constitutional stipulation that military intervention be carried out externally to Egypt based […]
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July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLA-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has urged the South Sudan People’s Defence Force (SSPDF) to release detained SPLA-IO commander. Over the weekend, General Gabriel Bol Wek, a senior SPLA-IO commander in Western Bahr el Ghazal state’s Jur River was arrested by government forces, reportedly […]
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July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – Kenya’s Citizen TV news anchor and radio host Jeff Koinange has tested positive for coronavirus. The TV anchor is the latest Citizen TV employee to confirm to have contracted the deadly virus. Koinange went on social media to inform Kenyans of his status saying he had no symptoms of the virus and felt very okay. […]
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July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that he rejected to be dictated on who should be appointed as governor of any state in South Sudan, and as such some of the nomination by other parties. Kiir made the remarks during the swearing-in ceremony of the newly appointed governors of Jonglei and Western Bahr […]
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July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan oil production has dropped to 170,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 185,000 bpd due to disruptions caused by COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official has said. Awow Daniel Chuang, the undersecretary in the ministry of petroleum, disclosed that the drop in production is the result of global economic slowdown due to COVID-19 that has […]
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July 20, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Fierce fighting has broken out between South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) and Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) in Mapel, one of the training centers for the unified forces, sources have said. The fighting, one source said, occurred on Sunday morning; a day after the SSPDF abducted the deputy commander of SPLA-IO Nahr […]
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July 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, the SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, has ruled out any intention to replace General Johnson Olony Thambo as the SPLM-IO nominee for Upper Nile state governorship. Machar had last month nominated Olony for the top state position, but President Salva Kiir refused to appoint […]
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July 17, 2020 (SSNN) – Authorities in South Sudan’s capital Juba have arrested a Ugandan national who has been accused by local residents of selling meet, according to police spokesman Maj. General Daniel Justine. The arrest – Justine told journalists – took place on Thursday when the police in Juba’s northern police station were alerted by local residents of suspicious […]
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July 16, (SSNN) – Two aid workers in South Sudan were shot dead along with four people they were helping after members of an unknown armed group attacked them early this week, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the country said Thursday. South Sudan is one of the most dangerous places in the world for humanitarian workers even after the country’s […]
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July 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of higher education, Denay Jock Chagor, has been relieved from his position and then appointed as the new governor of the country’s restive Jonglei state, according to a decree readout on the SSBC. President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, who are the main principals to the peace […]
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July 15, 2020 (SSNN) – Ethiopia began filling the reservoir of its giant Nile dam without signing an agreement on water flows; a step Egypt has warned will threaten regional security. The announcement was made by Ethiopian Water, Irrigation and Energy Minister Seleshi Bekele, according to a report on the state-owned Ethiopian Broadcasting Corp.’s Facebook page. The move came two […]
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July 15, 2020 (SSNN) – The Troika has called on South Sudan’s parties to the revitalized peace agreement to agree on and appoint the remaining two state governors, weeks after President Kiir appointed only eight of the ten state governors. “The Troika (the United States, Kingdom of Norway, and the United Kingdom) commends the Parties to the Revitalized Agreement on […]
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July 15, 2020 (SSNN) – Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, has commended South Sudan parties to the revitalized peace agreement for progress achieved in recent months despite the disruption by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is despite the health and economic difficulties posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Uhuru underscored the setting up of the executive arm of the Revitalized Transitional Government of […]
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July 13, 2020 (SSNN) – Fighting at Wau central prison this afternoon has killed at least one person and wounded three others after prisoners grabbed guns from prison guards before they scape, according to police officers in Wau. This afternoon, over 70 inmates break out of Wau Central Prison, after confiscating guns from prison guards who they overwhelmed at the […]
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July 13, 2020 (SSNN) — The SPLM-IO Chairperson of National Committee for Information and Public Relations, Mabior Garang de’Mabior, has said that the revitalized peace agreement has been hijacked by what he calls ‘NPTC’ regime in the nation’s capital Juba. Mabior made the remarks in an exclusive interview with the Nyamilepedia chief executive office, Deng Elijah Hon Top, in which […]
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July 12, 2020 (SSNN) – The SPLM-IO spokesman, Mabior Garang de ‘Mabior, who is also the group’s Chairperson of National Committee for Information and Public Relations, has denied reports that he resigned blaming “NPTC regime” in Juba. Earlier this morning, a document purported to be a resignation from Mabior Garang de ‘Mabior, was circulated online raising panic among the SPLM-IO […]
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July 8, 2020 (SSNN) – The Apadang community of the country’s Upper Nile state has finally accepted the nomination of General Johnson Olony for the governorship of Upper Nile state, days after rejection from a section of the community. First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar last week nominated Olony for the governorship of the oil-rich northern state, but was not […]
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July 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has said that he did not make the concessions that include returning the country to ten states because of weakness but because of his desire for peace. In March, Kiir made a key concession and ordered the return of the country to ten states from 32 which he created […]
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July 8, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudanese diplomat in the United States sparked an online uproar when he was seen urinating during a live Facebook political discussion. Panelists were discussing the appointment of a governor for Upper Nile state on Friday when Gordon Buay, South Sudan’s deputy ambassador to the U.S., was seen walking to the bathroom wearing only […]
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