June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – A Chinese diplomat has blamed what he said is a lack of proper drainage system for the destruction of Juba-Rumbek high-way two weeks after rains destroyed parts of the road which is being constructed. A Chinese company which is constructing the highway has been criticized for failing to deliver lasting service on the construction of […]
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June 8, 2020(SSNN) — Speaking to media today in Juba, South Sudan, the Minister of Information and Postal Services, Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, who has been battling Coronavirus for the last three weeks has been finally declared COVID-19 negative but Makuei could not admit the verbal results until he sees it written on a piece of paper. The Minister wants […]
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June 8, 2020(SSNN) — A South Sudanese medical doctor, Dr. Hakim, who identified himself as one of the doctors who worked on the autopsy of the late Lt. Col. Laul Akook Wol Kiir, claims that a laboratory analysis of a DNA sample confirms that late Lual Marine is a biological son of president Salva Kiir. According to Dr. Hakim, he […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit is reportedly planning to replace his long-time ally, presidential advisor on security, Tut Gatluak Manime, after a group of Greater Bahr El-Ghazal community leaders accused him of being behind attacks by armed Youth from Unity state on Warrap state. Gatluak was appointed in 2016 as the country’s presidential advisor […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s ministry of health said on Tuesday that six high profile government officials including the country’s first vice president Dr. Riek Machar Teny have recovered from coronavirus. Dr. Makur Koriom, the undersecretary of the minister of health, said in a statement on Sunday that the officials – beside Machar – include the minister of […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has urged the government of South Sudan to enact national IDP protection laws which it said would boost the protection for internally displaced persons. South Sudan this week is marking the first anniversary of its accession to the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan lawyer, Wani Santino Jada, is determined to pursue lawsuits against the government of South Sudan and oil companies operating in the country over the negative effect of oil exploitation which has led to pollution killing many people. Each of these lawsuits has the potential to greatly improve the lives of the people […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – A new study by the Hong kong based firm has found that South Sudan is the most dangerous place to live during the coronavirus pandemic which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan last year. “Its overall healthcare infrastructure and efficiency, as well as sanitation levels, are markedly lower, and generally has a much lower […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudanese lawmaker was shot and killed by unknown gunmen in the northern part of the neighboring Uganda. Jacob Kuwinsuk Gale, an MP for the defunct Yei River State died of his wounds while being taken to hospital, officials said. In a written statement, Alfred Kenneth Duku, the Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and […]
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June 7, 2020(SSNN) — Reports from South Sudan’s Bul-nuer youth leadership alleged that the Presidential Advisor on National Security, Hon. Tutkew Gatluak Manime, has been kidnapping, torturing and arresting youth who are accused to have criticized him on social media. According to the chairman of Bul Youth Council in Juba, South Sudan, the arrests and kidnapping can be done anywhere […]
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The Voiceless, June 6, 2020(SSNN) — To begin with, may these letters find you in good health and wealth. Hon. Angelina Teny, the Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs, we would be proud to introduce ourselves by names to you and your sympathizers but at this moment in time that does not matter because it is not us, the authors, […]
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June 6, 2020 (SSNN) – General Abdelbaggi Ayii Akol, the father of South Sudan vice-president Hussein Abdelbaggi who tested positive for coronavirus last month has reportedly died of COVID-19, the respiratory sickness caused by COVID-19. Vice-president Hussein who is also the head of the National Taskforce on COVID-19 tested positive for the virus on May 27. He reportedly met his […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan veteran politician and former member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) Peter Adwok Nyaba has said that he regrets being part of what he said is a South Sudan failure. Adwok was the country’s minister for higher Education twice, first following the independence in 2011, and then following the signing […]
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June 6, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny and his wife, Angelina Jany Kuma Khan (or Angelina Teny) – who is also the minister of defense – have today celebrated their 39th marriage anniversary which also coincides with Teny’s 60th birthday. The two met in Khartoum, Sudan in late 1970s and […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan businessman who was previously detained by the National Security Service (NSS) has formed a new rebel group to fight the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit. Kerbino Wol who was arrested by the NSS in April 2018 for allegedly conspiring against the government said in an interview with the VOA’s South Sudan […]
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June 5, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior member of South Sudan’s ruling SPLM party has criticized SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny for appointing an “incompetent” person into the ministry of health blaming him for the ongoing health crisis imposed by the coronavirus. Daniel Awet Akot, former presidential advisor on military affairs and senior member of the SPLM Political Bureau […]
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June 5, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny and the minister of defense, Angelina Teny who is also his wife have recovered from the novel coronavirus, Machar’s office said today. James Gatdet Dak, the press secretary in the office of the First Vice President said a second COVID-19 test has returned negative for the […]
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June 5, 2020 (SSNN) – Prominent South Sudan opposition and National Democratic Movement (NDM) leader Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has called for what he said should be a thorough investigation into Sherikat’s Tuesday killing by a member of the army. Lt. Col. Lual Akook Wol Kiir, a cousin to President Salva Kiir opened fire on Tuesday mornig against a group […]
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June 4, 2020(SSNN) — The recent incident at “Sharikat-Bor” park has caused outraged as many South Sudanese mourned the death of five but as time goes by South Sudanese intellectuals and youth on social media found themselves exchanging tribal sentiments and heated debates over who should demand justice. Initially the issue was the used of unnecessary force on unarmed civilians […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s deputy minister of interior Mabior Garang de’Mabior has on Wednesday told First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and the SPLM-IO that he was resigning from the revitalized unity government. Mabior who is also a senior member of the main armed opposition group said he will not however resign from the Machar-led movement […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that he fired former presidential affairs minister Mayiik Ayii Deng because he acted poorly over the construction of Juba-Rumbek highway. Kiir, the the presidency said in a statement this afternoon, made the remarks during the swearing in ceremony of Nhial Deng Nhial, the new minister for presidential […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – A group of angry protesters in South Sudan’s Jonglei state has set on fire the house of state Secretary-General after the killing of five innocent civilians – some of them from Bor – by a relative of president Salva Kiir Mayardit. Yesterday, Col. Lual Akook Wol Kiir, a cousin to president Salva Kiir and a […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s former Minister of Presidential Affairs Mayii Ayii Deng who was fired on Tuesday has said that he has no regrets working for President Salva Kiir and expressed his happiness for having grown politically mature under Kiir. This comes after he was fired by president Salva Kiir over Rumbek-Juba road saga in which a […]
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June, 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei Lueth has said that he is returning to work following a fourteen-day isolation after testing positive – last month – for COVID-19. Speaking to South Sudan News Now (SSNN) this afternoon, the information minister said doctors were conducting what he said may be the last test before he would […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s ministry of health has suspended issuing documents certifying that someone has tested negative for COVID-19, the deadly respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The minister of health Elizabeth Acuei Yol said in an order seen by South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that the decision by her institution came about after it discovered […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has asked Deng Alor Kuol, the leader of former political detainees (SPLM-FDs), to nominate a person to replace late John Luk Jok as the country’s minister for East African Affairs, a aide said. This comes exactly two days after Luk – who in the past served as South Sudan’s […]
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By Justice Garang Sebit. June 3, 2020(SSNN) — Many South Sudanese, those outraged and observers alike, are still wondering if Col. Lual Marine, a nephew who is believed to be a biological son of President Salva Kiir Mayar, is actually dead. Lual is dead but his controversies are not dead. First, the question of who was Lual Marine and how […]
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Telar Deng 3rd. June 2020, Juba South Sudan, June 3, 2020(SSNN) — I met John Luk Jok in the mid 1970’s when he was working in Yirol as Range three Local government administrator and I was a student at Juba Commercial Senior Secondary School. We had a very good social and community relationship as John Luk Jok was fluent in […]
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June 3, 2020(SSNN) — The controversial unknown gunman, who killed five people and wounded eight others in what appeared to be another land-grabbing shooting in South Sudan capital, Juba, at the Sharikat-Bor Park has been fully identified.The suspect was initially identified as Lual Marine, Lual Akook Wol Kiir or Lual Salva Kiir. Lual has been in public light, mostly for […]
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June 3, 2020 (SSNN) – The nephew of South Sudan president who opened fire on innocent civilians this morning in Sherikat, a neighborhood in the capital Juba, killing four innocent civilians has died, two sources with direct knowledge told South Sudan News Now (SSNN). Lt. Col. Lual Akook Wol – who is better known to the people in the capital’s […]
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June 3, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has condemned the killing – this morning – of four innocent civilians by a man believed by residents of the capital as his son saying investigations were ongoing. This morning, residents of Juba woke up to gunshots after Lual Marine, President Salva Kiir’s son, killed four innocent civilians over […]
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June 3, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s National Security Service has arrested dozens of protesters who took to streets in Juba on Wednesday after a nephew and son of President Salva Kiir Mayardit killed four members of one family. The killing took place this morning in Sherikat, a neighborhood few kilometers outside the country’s capital. Following the killing, protesters took […]
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June 3, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s National Salvation Front (NAS) led by General Thomas Cirilo has accused the SSDPF and SPLA-IO of killing fifteen (15) innocent civilians in the country’s Yei river county following an alleged offensive by the two peace partners. Suba Samuel Manase, the spokesman for the NAS, said the South Sudan army and the SPLA-IO have […]
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