April 30, 2020 (SSNN) ā A $40 million grant from the World Bankās International Development Association will fund a two and half years Project to provide income support to nearly 430,000 low income South Sudanese. The Project will be implemented by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in South Sudan. UNOPS will deliver the South Sudan Safety Net […]
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By Eng. Chuar Juet Jock, April 27, 2020(SSNN)Ā ā While I disagree with Dr. Machar in some administrative and leadership issues, we still share a country and a community fate and destiny and only fools should think that the Nuer community, not the one bribed by Kiir and other political criminals In disguise will not defend Machar to the last drop. […]
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April 27, 2020(SSNN) ā South Sudan’s former deputy minister of defense and veterans affairs, Lt. Gen. David Yauyau, who was supposed to be airlifted from his hometown of Pibor yesterday, April 26, 2020, was reportedly seen this morning, 27 April 2020, in Bor town, Jonglei State. According to earlier report from South Sudan’s Jonglei State capital, Lt. Gen. David Yauyau, […]
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South Sudan’s High-Level Taskforce, the body that oversees COVID-19 pandemic in the country, grants a “Special Permission” to unnamed charter plane to pick up the notorious general Lt. Gen. David Yau Yau from his hometown of Pibor to Juba
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By Dimo Silva Aurelio, JUBA , SOUTH SUDAN, April 24, 2020(SSNN) ā- The South Sudan High Level Taskforce for COVID-19 has extended the countryās partial lockdown until further notice. That means all schools and most shops will remain closed, as will South Sudanās borders and Juba International Airport. The government was expected to lift the partial lockdown Monday, but at […]
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By GARANG A. MALAK, April 24, 2020(SSNN) ā A United Nations employee in South Sudan is facing disciplinary action from the global body after he reportedly left the country despite being under quarantine over suspected Covid-19. The move followed revelations by South Sudanās High-Level Taskforce on coronavirus which said the staffer had left the country under unclear circumstances, thus breaking […]
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April 20, 2020(SSNN) ā Responding to defection of SPLM/A(IO) senior politicians led by Hon. Dak Duop Bichiok, a group of Eastern Jikany Nuer politicians have spoken. The group cited a conference held by Hon. Dak Duop on April 16, 2020 and condemn it in the strongest terms possible. “Given the totality of the circumstances under which the defection was declared, […]
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April 19, 2020(SSNN) ā South Sudan’s Deputy Minister of Interior and the former Chairman of the SPLM/A(IO) National Committee for Information and Public Relation, Hon. Mabior Garang de Mabior, downplays the recent defection of some of the heavyweight politicians, Hon. Dak Duop Bichok and others, from the SPLM-IO in Government to the SPLM-mainstream in Government. While politicians are rotating the […]
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April 18, 2020 (SSNN) — An opposition envoy in the Egyptian capital Cairo allied to South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar has disowned a group of 100 members who said they were defecting to join President Salva Kiir on Thursday calling them “refugees” without political activities. Two days ago, around 100 people who said they […]
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April 18, 2020(SSNN) ā According to a senior member of the ruling party in Juba who preferred to remain anonymous, said the leadership of PMPC is fighting over dwindling political gains and promises. PMCP is an acronym of Provisional Military Political Council, a breakaway group from Dr. Riek Macharās SPLM/A-IO back in August, 2019 under the leadership of Major General […]
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April 17, 2020(SSNN) ā South Sudan’s former TGONU Minister of Petroleum, Hon. Dak Duop Bichiok, and his group did not only defect from one faction of the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity but also violated the Coronavirus Task Force bylaws that are being overseen by his former boss, Dr. Riek Machar Teny. The political gathering, which welcomed interested members […]
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By Brown Akoon Yel Dut, Rummarial. April 16, 2020(SSNN) ā The first question is asking who is the responsible of killing innocent civilians in Abyei administrative area? If answer might be army are responsible of killing innocent people of Abyei. Then It means the government of South Sudan have failed its obligation duties to protect civilians in Abyei Area. These […]
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April 16, 2020 (SSNN) — Senior members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny have declared their intention to abandon the movement and joined the SPLM-IG of President Salva Kiir. This comes after the defection of SPLA-IO deputy chief of staff General Koang Chuol Ranley in March to President […]
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TO: EXCELLENCY MR. XI JINPING, PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLEāS REPUBLIC OF CHINA, ZHONGNANHAI, XICHENGQU, BEIJING. FROM: THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AROUND THE GLOBE SUBJECT: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND INHUMANE TREATMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE LIVING IN CHINA. Your Excellency, April 15, 2020(SSNN) ā For centuries, Africa has warmly and wholeheartedly welcomed Chinese nationals onto her shores, allowing them to settle, marry and […]
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April 15, 2020 (SSNN) — Veteran South Sudanese politician and SPLM-IO figure Edward Lino Wuor Abyei has died this afternoon in the Indian city ofĀ Bangalore a long battle with unidentified sickness, family members and close sources said. One family source said from Nairobi that Abyei died this afternoon at a hospital in India. The family source however did not […]
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April 14, 2020(SSNN) ā A young man who was later identified as Okello Ocii has been apprehended by the Ugandan police after trying to escape a scene that has gone viral within the last twenty four hours on social media. Okello, who was captured on a live video brutally beating up an old woman, identified as Anek Lucy, has been […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — A deadly attack on a village South East of the disputed region of Abyei on Monday has killed at least four people and also resulted in the abduction of two children, the chief administrator for Abyei at South Sudan presidency said. Kuol Alor Kuol said the attack occured during the early hours of Monday at […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudanās high-level taskforce on coronavirus has urged all citizens to refrain from planned xenophobic attacks against Covid-19 patients, warning that those caught will be punished according to the law. Addressing journalists on Saturday in Juba after its 17th meeting, Dr Makur Koriom, the taskforceās spokesperson, said the team had received online hate speech messages […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) said on Sunday that the ongoing crisis imposed by the coronavirus will affect the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement signed in 2018 and which brought about the current unity government between the signatories. IGAD Special Envoy for South Sudan, Ismail Wais, said restrictions and interruption of activities are […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has suspended interstate movement as part of its efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the country’s first vice president Dr. Riek Machar announced. Machar who is also the deputy chairperson of the coronavirus taskforce said passenger planes, and vehicles are not allowed to travel to and from the states […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — Former South Sudan justice minister, Paulino Manawila, has died this evening, government spokesman and information minister Michael Makuei Lueth said. Manawila, Makuei said, died at the Juba Medical Complex at around 4:45 PM where he was rushed after suffering a heart rupture after doctors couldn’t help him. However, sources close to the country’s longest serving […]
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April 12, 2020(SSNN) ā South Sudan’s deputy Minister of Interior, Hon. Mabior Garang de Mabior, urges his fellow politicians not to politicize residency of the internally displaced persons(IDPs) at their current UN-based protection sites in pretext of fighting for their health and safety from the Coronavirus. Hon. Mabior warns that COVID-19 is a Global Pandemic that people should take more […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared an outbreak of yellow fever in the southern part of South Sudan. The UN health agency said, in a statement, that two cases were identified in Kajo-keji, a region bordering Uganda, where an outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic disease was detected early this year. WHO warned that the […]
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April 12, 2020(SSNN) ā James Gatdet Dak, a former Spokesman to Dr. Riek Machar Teny, hints that he is still the “Official Spokesman” of the country’s First Vice President, a position that he has not held for more than 3 years. Publicly responding to anecdotal claims from private conversations with friends, Dak said he has not been removed as the […]
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Analysis BY MABIOR GARANG. April 11, 2020(SSNN) ā The success or failure of any Movement is determined by how it has achieved its objectives. The root cause of the current crisis in our country – and the outbreak of civil war – was the charge made by a group of SPLM Leaders, opposed to the new political dispensation which arose […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin is awaiting a response from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on a complaint it raised over the allocation of parliamentary seats within the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA). Based on the revitalized peace deal, the alliance which comprise of the NDM and […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudanese students studying on private admission in Egypt are pleading to their government back home to reconsider its decision which they said was favoring those on government scholarship and add them to the coronavirus funds provided by the government. Last month, the coronavirus taskforce allocated $3 million to South Sudanese students studying on government […]
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April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — Fighting between South Sudan and the SPLA-IO has intensified in the country’s Upper Nile state with a dozens of soldiers being killed as result, a spokesman from the armed movement, now a part of the coalition government said. “The Office of the Military Spokesman for Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) would like to […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been warned by the regional body, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which mediated the revitalized peace agreement, over unilateral actions which may derail the implementation of the revitalized peace deal. This comes weeks after the South Sudanese head of state appointed the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Petroleum, […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has threatened to arrest people who had contact with the confirmed four cases of COVID-19 and are refusing to give blood samples to the ministry of health for testing. The coronavirus taskforce said this evening in a statement that some of the people who had contact with the confirmed coronavirus cases are […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by the the country’s first vice president Dr. Riek Machar Teny and as such could not achieve its objectives, Mabior Garang, a senior member of the group said. “The success or failure of any Movement is determined by how it has achieved its objectives. The root cause […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has confirmed its first locally transmitted coronavirus case originating from the first case bringing the total number to four. The country’s coronavirus incident manager at the ministry of health, Dr Angok Gordon Kuol, said the fourth case is a local who contracted the disease from the first case. “The fourth case is […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLA-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar yesterday clashed with army-allied militia group led by General Ochan Puot in eastern part of the country, the Nyamilepedia has learned. One resident said from Jiokow that fighting started after soldiers belonging to renegade General Ochan Puot attacked an SPLA-IO […]
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