June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan army said on Wednesday that it has postponed the graduation of the necessary unified forces, which is provided for in the revitalized peace agreement, over shortage of funds. Major. Gen. Lul Ruai Koang, the South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) spokesman said the Joint Defense Board (JDB), the body created by the revitalized […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit has removed the undersecretary of the ministry of health Makur Koriom, according to a decree read out on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation. The reasons behind the sacking were not however mentioned but disagreements between the undersecretary and minister of health have grown in recent weeks leading up […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s former army chief General Gabriel Jok Riak has reportedly been put under house arrest in connection with last week’s Sherikat incident in which a relative of President Salva Kiir Mayardit killed at least five innocent civilians, a senior national security officer has said. “The former Chief of Defense Forces General Gabriel Jok has […]
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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 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) – 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 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 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 2, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has sacked the country’s minister for presidential affairs, Mayiik Ayii Deng, replacing him with a former former foreign minister. The decree which did not give reasons for Ayii’s removal was read out on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC). In a separate decree, the president appointed former Minister of […]
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Just for Fan, June 1, 2020(SSNN) — Your excellency, I learned with dismay that the position of the head of National Taskforce on COVID-19 has felt vacant again and your Vice President, Gen. Taban Deng Gai, who is the right successor in line, has refused to take up this position. We are not surprised at all to hear this, your […]
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May 27, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan vice-president and chairperson of the National Taskforce on coronavirus, Hussein Abdel-Baggi, has tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. A senior government official told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) this evening that Abdelbaggi was among 188 people – all of whom are South Sudanese – who tested positive […]
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May 27, 2020 (SSNN) – Two South Sudan army chiefs have been involved in gross human rights violations during their tenures, a new report by the US-based firm, The Sentry, has found. The report titled: “Making a Killing” also accused four South Sudan army chiefs including Malong, Jok Riak, Hoth Mai and Oyai Deng Ajak of corruption practices without accountability […]
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May 26, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, has denied rumors on social media that First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar has dismissed the SPLA-IO chief of staff Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual. A letter circulating on social media announced the dismissal of Gen. Gatwech Dual and that he has been replaced with Gen. […]
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May 25, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former Deputy Defense Minister and Former Political Detainee, Dr. Majak D’Agoot, has tested positive to COVID-19. Announcing the event on Twitter, Dr. Majak said he was initially tested negative to COVID-19 earlier last week but the latest test results turned out positive. “This is to inform you that I did my 2nd Covid-19 test […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has addressed the nation this evening denying reports that he is sick with COVID-19 and was rushed to Cairo for treatment. Below is the full address of the South Sudanese head of state to the nation from J1. “Fellow Citizens, I have just called for this press briefing to […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that reports that he was sick and was rushed to the Egyptian capital Cairo for treatment were not true saying he was fine and discharging his duties as head of state. This comes after reports that the South Sudanese head of state has contracted COVID-19, the respiratory […]
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May 22, 2020(SSNN) — Briefing the international media on US response to combating COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, the US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Tibor Peter Nagy, said South Sudan is not helping the efforts to combat the global pandemic by failing to pay the salaries of health workers. Hon. Nagy was responding to a journalist, Carol, who states that […]
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May 21, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from South Sudan’s Pibor Administrative Area and corresponding reports from the national capital, Juba, revealed that youth from neighboring Murle tribe are seen crossing the Ethiopian highland allegedly to launch attacks on Akobo of Lou-nuer, South Sudan. A report from an Ethiopian journalist, Zoya Mengiste, confirmed that thousands of heavily armed Murle youth were […]
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May 21, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s incumbent, president Salva Kiir Mayardit, is secretly battling Coronavirus “behind closed doors”, a high profile insider reveals to South Sudan News Now. The confidential insider confirmed that president Salva Kiir tested positive, a day after his First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and 59 other government officials tested positive to COVID-19. The South […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — For the last few days, a few fake tweets, attributed to Dr. Lam Akol and Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, have gone viral on Facebook, WhatsaApp and Twitter, forcing Dr. Lam to go on twitter, leaving his alleged counterpart in the dark, to clear the air. The fake tweets, which some are dated to as far as […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from South Sudan’s Uror county confirmed that the Murle youth, who attacked Lou-Nuer areas on Saturday, May 16, 2020, have incurred heavy losses in terms of lives, weapons and ammunitions. Speaking to South Sudan News Now correspondent in Pieri, South Sudan, James Mabor, a frontline journalist, confirmed that 748 dead bodies of Murle youth […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny and his wife Angelina Teny have both tested positive for COVID-19, his press secretary James Gatdet Dak said in a statement this evening. According to Gatdet, samples of Machar and his wife who is also the country’s minister of defense were taken last week and came […]
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May 17, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan advocacy group has condemned yesterday’s attack by Murle armed youth against Lou-Nuer areas in Jonglei state’s Uror county in which dozens of civilians including women and children were killed. In a statement this morning, the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) said it was saddened by attack and accused the Greater Pibor […]
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May 16, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan youth from Lou-nuer, a sub-tribe of the second largest ethnic group in the country, in the neighboring Uganda condemns the recent attacks in Pieri, Pamai, Guanchat and other suburbs of Jonglei state’s Uror County. Speaking on behalf of Lou-nuer Student Association in Uganda, Pargol Reuben Gai Both, alleged that a heavily armed Murle youth […]
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May 15, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, lost at least 7 officials between 4pm on May 13 and 10am on May 14, 2020 to what the High level Taskforce reported as “short illness” while threatening the media over biased reporting of the Coronavirus. Among the first highest ranking veterans who died on May 13, 2020 was Lt. […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – Another senior South Sudan army commander has died in the capital Juba on Wednesday, military officials said. Gen. John Madeng Gatduel’s death came hours after General Liah Diu Deng, a respected army commander in Unity state, died in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. According to military sources in the capital, Gen. Madeng, passed away at 8pm […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior South Sudan army general has passed away today in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, officials allid to vice-president Taban Deng Gai said Wednesday. Deng Machar Tot, a senior member of the defunct SPLM-IO faction led by Vice-President Taban Deng Gai confirmed to South Sudan News Now from the Egyptian capital Cairo that Lieutenant General […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – Three people have been killed and five others have been injured during an ambush in Central Equatoria state’s Yei River County, government officials there said. A Yei county official who spoke exclusively to South Sudan News Now (SSNN) said the incident happened just three miles outside Yei town. He said the incident took place at […]
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May 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) –The National Salvation Front (NAS) led by General Thomas Cirilo is planning for war and possibly may attack South Sudan’s capital Juba, documents leaked to Nyamilepedia have said. The group warned civilians on Monday that movements from and to Juba would be risky apparently because of a planned offensive against army headquarters in the capital Juba. […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – Barely a month after senior members of the SPLM-IO declared that they were defecting to president Salva Kiir’s side, another group is saying that it has defected again accusing Dr. Riek Machar of nepotism and lost of vision. The group of nine little know members led by Gen. Joseph Ruot Nyieny, said their decision to […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s holdout opposition group, National Salvation Front (NAS), led by General Thomas Cirilo said on Tuesday that all roads leading to Juba were under siege warning against all travel outside South Sudan’s capital. NAS said the measure, which came after joint government and SPLA-IO offensives against holdout opposition forces in central Equatoria, is aimed […]
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