Nov 29, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from the Ethiopia capital of Addis Ababa alleged that the Ethiopian government has given South Sudan diplomats 72 hours to leave the country. The controversial decision, which was delivered in writing to South Sudan embassy came less than 24 hours after the Egyptian President H.E. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi visited the South Sudanese capital, Juba […]
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Nov 28, 2020(SSNN) — His Excellency Abdel Fattah Al- Sisi, President of Arab Republic of Egypt was today morning received upon arrival at Juba International Airport by His Excellency Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan. “His Excellency Salva Kiir Mayardit welcomed his Egyptian Counterpart, His Excellency Abdel Fattah Al- Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of […]
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Nov 26, 2020(SSNN) — Sudan’s former Prime Minister, Sadiq al-Mahdi also known as Sadiq as-Siddiq, who ruled the country from 1966 to 1967 and again from 1986 to 1989, has succumbed to coronavirus infection at the age of 84 years. According to a brief statement shared by the family, Sadiq al-Mahdi died on Thursday, three weeks after being admitted to […]
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Nov 22, 2020(SSNN) — The Ethiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has given the Tigrayan regional forces, also known as the Tigray People Liberation Front, less than 72 hours to surrender before the Ethiopian military begins an offensive on the regional capital of Mekelle. “We urge you to surrender peacefully within 72 hours, recognizing that you are at the point […]
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Nov 20, 2020(SSNN) — Addressing Church leaders and eminent personalities from the Global Churches, who held a meeting and prayers at the presidential palace today, November 20th, President Salva Kiir outlined his three main reasons for refusing to appoint the SPLM/A-IO gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gen. Johnson Olony Thabo. “H.E. President Salva Kiir Mayardit, in his Office this Friday morning, […]
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Nov 21, 2020(SSNN) —The Ethiopian peace idol, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, has turned down efforts by the African Union to mediate the crisis in Tigray region that has already displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Responding to a proprosal by the South African President and the Chairman of the African Union, President Cyril Ramaphosa, who formed a three-member team composing […]
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FRANCESCA MOLD, Nov 21, 2020(SSNN) — When South Sudan won independence almost a decade ago, it inherited an infrastructure devastated by civil war. Government buildings, power and water supplies as well as roads were destroyed. The country’s climate hasn’t helped the process of rebuilding in the wake of a peace deal. Heavy floods often leave roads impassable during the long […]
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Nov 14, 2020(Nyamilepedia) — Following the Governor’s visit to the Bilinyang Payam of Juba County and his accompanying delegation, the state government has ordered the illegal land occupants in Bilinyang Garbo area to immediately vacate the area in question within 24-hours. The governor warns the local residents to follow the rightful procedures of owning a land as enshrined in the […]
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Nov 10, 2020(SSNN) — The story of the struggle of the South Sudanese has been told in many different versions, some tragic and some hopeful. The story of my family’s escaping 1984 from The Republic of Sudan to the United States when I was three years old is worthy of a Hollywood script. My father is a career politician; he […]
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South Sudanese -Canadian Nova Stevens crowned Miss Universe Canada Oct 26, 2020(SSNN) — Nova Stevens, a 27-year-old South Sudanese-Canadian activist who is popularly known for co-organizing the Vancouver’s Freedom marches that saw thousands of people turning up to support the Black Lives Matter Movement in Summer this year, has been crowned Miss Universe Canada, a title she will carry on […]
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Oct 26, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, met the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, David Shearer, earlier today at his residence in the capital, Juba. Speaking to media after the meeting, the Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan said the two leaders discussed the need for him and Machar to […]
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MOSES PASI Oct 26, 2020(SSNN) — Eighteen South Sudanese women who have survived civil war, displacement and sexual violence build their skills every day at the UNMISS car washing bay where they ensure the mission’s vehicles are in top condition to reach remote communities across the world’s newest country. “With the money I earn working at the UNMISS car washing […]
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FELIX FRANCIS KATIE, Oct 21, 2020(SSNN) — Alfred Futuyo Karaba, Governor of Western Equatoria State, has promised that his government will make sure that women will obtain their 35 per cent political representation, as stipulated in the revitalized peace agreement signed in September 2018. The governor renewed his commitment to this gender provision at a one-day training for 35 female […]
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Oct 19, 2020(SSNN) — The united states is close to signing an agreement that will see Sudan removed from the U.S list of state sponsors of terrorism. On Monday, the U.S. President Donald Trump said that the United States would remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism after the country’s new government pays millions to American victims. […]
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Oct 17, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s main armed Opposition, the Sudan People Liberation Movement in Opposition(SPLA-IO), fears that their leader, the First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, could be under house arrest in the capital, Juba. For the third time, the military leadership of the SPLM/A(IO) is calling on the peace guarantors and the region to allow the First […]
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Oct 18, 2020 (SSNN) – The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Justice Fatou Bom Bensouda, the Gambiam lawyer who has served as the ICC prosecutor since June 2012, arrived in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Saturday night, October 17, 2020. استقبلتُ اليوم المُدعية العامة للمحكمة الجنائية الدُّولية، السيدة فاتو بنسودا.هذه الزيارة التاريخية تأكيد للتغيير الكبير الذي حدث ويستمر […]
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October 11, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reportsd from The Synagogue, Lagos, alleges that South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has yet again invited the Nigerian Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, commonly referred to as T. B. Joshua, for a “prophetic mission”. The Prophet who has been hiding from Coronavirus in the mountains has revealed that he has been invited by the South […]
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Rome, Italy, Oct 10, 2020(SSNN) —This afternoon in Rome, Italy, the South Sudan government delegation headed by the Minister of Presidential Affairs, Hon. Nhial Deng Nhial, and the main South Sudan Opposition Movement Alliance (SSOMA) have reached consensus on ratification of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA) after 3-hour long deliberations. The rivaling parties and the Roman Catholic mediating community […]
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October 11, 2020(SSNN) — The Governor of South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State, Hon.Emmanuel Adil Anthony, condemns in the strongest terms possible the recent extrajudicial killing of Lawrence Clement Wani Konga, a son to the former Governor of Central Equatoria State, Gen.Clement Wani Konga. The son of the former governor was killed at the outskirts of Juba on Monday in a […]
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By Kang JJ, Oct 5, 2020(SSNN) — The UNMISS should fulfil their humanitarian mission in South Sudan by protecting the IDPs until there is a tangible success in the peace process that has become static unless IGAD and AU are allowing another genocide or something worse than the 2016 massacres, they should forbid. The assumption that the IDPs should feel […]
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Oct 4, 2020(SSNN) — The South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit has won an internationally facilitated peace prize for mediating the Sudanese peace agreement that was signed this afternoon in South Sudan capital, Juba. The least expected award was presented by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) at Dr. John Garang mausoleum today, October 3, 2020, where the Sudanese leaders signed […]
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Oct 3, 2020(SSNN) — The Sudanese peace agreement, whose signing was delayed by rain this morning in the South Sudan capital, Juba, is officially signed by the government of Sudan and a coalition of armed oppositions under the banner of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (RSF), among others. The peace agreement has given Blue Nile, Southern Kordofan and Darfur self-autonomy during […]
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Oct 3, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan cabinet of ministers has secured at least $88 millions in loans from the Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), according to the government spokesman and the Minister of Information, Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth. Briefing the media after a cabinet ministers meeting in the capital, Juba, the Minister of Information said the Council of Ministers has agreed […]
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Sep 29, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, met the African Union(AU) Ambassador to South Sudan, Professor Joram Bisworo, today in his office in the capital, Juba. According to Dr. Machar’s press officials, Dr. Joram Bisworo commended the First Vice President and the SPLM/A-IO leadership for their commitment to peace in the country. “The African […]
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By JULIO BRATHWAITE Sep 29, 2020(SSNN) — “I’m very proud to be a part of UNMISS,” says Captain Chunadevi Paudel, a peacekeeper from Nepal, upon receiving the United Nations medal for her commitment to the cause of durable peace across South Sudan. “I think what I have been most struck by are the people of South Sudan. They have been […]
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Sep 23, 2020(SSNN) — Members of South Sudan’s Internally Displaced community, the IDPs, who are speaking out, believe that the United Nations Mission in South Sudan(UNMISS) is doctoring its mandates in favor of Salva Kiir government to be able to raise more funding and expand its mission. A group of international displaced persons interviewed by South Sudan News Now (SSNN) […]
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Sep 23, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan incumbent, H.E.President Salva Kiir, received officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at his office in Juba. According to officials from the office of the president, President Kiir was briefed by the UNHCR officials on the commissioner’s comprehensive solution for South Sudan refugees in the region. “H.E.President Salva Kiir, recieved a […]
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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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By Deng Vanang, August 02, 2020(SSNN) — Upper Nile State among ten States is still the only one without its head or Governor. Governor’s absence not the common interest of its majority citizens. It is rather due to Presidency’s failure to reach a compromise on who is the right candidate for a Chief Executive of multy-ethnic state of Jikany Nuer, […]
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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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