June 23rd 2019 (SSNN) – Following a coup attempt that killed, Dr. Ampacho Mikonen, President of the Amhara Regional Government and His Excellency Eazy Wassie, Adviser to the Regional Government Office in Amhara, the Office of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister issued a press statement, condemning the planned coup and vowing to hold the perpetrators to account. “In the early evening of […]
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June 22, 2019(SSNN) — The Pan-African Legal Group has intensified its efforts to launch a pilot training programme aimed at improving oil sector by training South Sudan’s government officials on transparency and responsible governance. NJ Ayuk, the Chief Executive Officer of Centurion Legal Group, emphasized the importance of promoting transparency and responsible governance in the Ministry of Petroleum, noting that […]
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June 20th, 2019(SSNN) — South Sudan lawmakers on Wednesday halted approval of the government’s next budget proposal totaling 1.7 billion Euros, in protests that military and public officials have not been paid for more than six months. Speaking at the parliament session, Elizabeth Adut, a member of parliament, disclosed that because of the late payment of salaries and the deterioration […]
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June 23rd 2019 (SSNN) – The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on June 19th decided to come up with some celebration on the situation on Sudan and South Sudan. Below is the communique of the 68th extra-ordinary session. The IGAD Council of Ministers held its 68th Extra-Ordinary Session on 19 June 2019 in Addis Ababa […]
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Palm Africa Hotel, 18th June 2019, Juba, South Sudan June 19th, 2019(SSNN) — The 7th meeting of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) convened in Juba, South Sudan, on 18th June 2019 chaired by the Interim Chairperson of the RJMEC, Ambassador Lt. General Augostino S.K Njoroge (Rtd). In attendance were the representatives of all the Parties and stakeholders […]
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Juba, South Sudan. June 19, 2019(SSNN) – The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR will be hosting a ceremony on 20 June to commemorate World Refugee Day in the capital of South Sudan, Juba, together with refugees, government officials, donors, partners, and South Sudanese public. According to Richard Ruati, UNHCR’s Assistant External Relation for South Sudan Program, the celebration will take place at […]
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June 18th, 2019(SSNN) — In a live broadcast discussion hosted by the United States Institute of Peace, the Panel of Experts from USIP, Democracy International, and Enough Project’s Brian Adeba, Deputy Director of Policy, and Mark Ferullo, Senior Advisor, exchanged their views and evidence-based recommendations on how to mitigate conflict, promote peace and advance accountability in South Sudan. In response […]
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June 18th, 2019(SSNN) — The 7th Monthly Plenary of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) was held today, Tuesday June 18, 2019, in Juba, South Sudan. Speaking during the opening of the meeting, RJMEC Interim Chairperson H.E. Ambassador Lt. Gen. Augostino Njoroge gave an update on the status of implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict […]
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June 18th 2019 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan government has agreed to a request by the main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by First Vice-President designate Dr. Riek Machar to increase the number of the VIP protection unit to something equal to an army division, army spokesman, General Lul Ruai, said. In South Sudan, an army infantry division is made up […]
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June 18th 2019 (Nyamilepedia) – The leader of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), Gabriel Changson Chang, has relinquished power ending stalemate over who should lead the opposition umbrella, an opposition spokesman allied to him said Tuesday. Wazir Michael Liah, the spokesman for Federal Democratic Party (FDP) led by Changson told the Nyamilepedia in an exclusive interview that Changson made the […]
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June 18th 2019 (SSNN) – A Renowned South Sudan state-TV journalist has passed away in the Ugandan capital Kampala, family and colleagues said. Shortly before his death, Kizito Oketo Modest was working for the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporations (SSBC). Family members and friends contacted by the South Sudan News Now said the award-wining journalist died following short illness. He […]
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June 18th 2019 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s former Minister of Petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, who was dismissed from his 3–year old job last week has said his ministry is not a family company and that people should not be surprised that he had been replaced. This followed social media reactions by several critics who mocked Gatkuoth for having been at […]
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June 15th, 2019(SSNN) — South Sudan’s Minister of Petroleum, Amb. Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, has been fired just in less than three years over what has surfaced as a case of corruption and mismanagement of the Ministry of “Oil”, the lifeline to the world’s youngest nation. According to confidential reports extended to South Sudan News Now, Hon. Gatkuoth was fired while […]
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TITLE: THE LAND ISSUE SHOULD NOT BE USED BY THE HON GOVERNOR TO DETRACT ATTENTION: RE: THE RESPONSE TO THE HON. GOVERNOR OF IMOTONG STATE, REGARDING HIS STATEMENT ON EYE RADIO ON LAND ISSUE. THE IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE BY THE LAFON COUNTY YOUTH. June 13, 2019(SSNN) — Allow me respond to Torit’s Governor, Hon. Tobiolo Oromo regarding his statement on […]
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June 9th, 2019(SSNN) — On Thursday, June 6th, 2019, the Governor of Northern Liech State, Dr. Joseph Nguen Monytuel receives his special guests, the two governors of twin states of Twic Mayardit and Gogrial states in Mankien, Bul South County of Northern Liech State. “The arrival of Governor Atem Madut Yak Governor of Twic state and his counter part Governor […]
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June 9th, 2019(SSNN) — Condemning attacks on his home states of Twice East and Gogrial States earlier this week, South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, mourns the death of civilians, who were killed by cattle raiders, and urge them not to revenge but assures that he “must make sure peace prevails”. How president Kiir will ensure peace prevails overnight after […]
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June 9, 2019(SSNN) — On Friday, June 7th 2019, the Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, announced that Geneva welcomes South Sudan’s unanimous ratification of two vital human rights treaties, passed by the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on Monday this week. “We welcome the unanimous ratification, without reservations of two vital human rights treaties […]
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June 9th, 2019(SSNN) — The government of China People’s Republic has the blood of many South Sudanese on its hands. China is edging ever closer to ethical and legal fallout by continuing to supply weapons to South Sudan regime in Juba through ‘PowerChina ‘ a private Chinese own company that has been contracted by Chinese arms deal companies to purchase […]
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By David Shearer, shared by at least one member of the TROIKA group of nations. June 9th, 2019(SSNN) — Its Special Envoy repeated what Shearer said during a closed meeting in March 2019. But drumming up for the R-ARCSS would prove to be a big mistake. The supporters could call it Plan A and the only option on the table, […]
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Republic of South Sudan Jubek State Lobonok County June 9th, 2019(SSNN) — We, the chiefs of Lobonok county having met at the request of the cattle keepers; being aware of their presence at both sides of the river Nile. regardless of the meetings and presidential decrees issued in 2010 and 2015 respectively for the returned of cattle to their original […]
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June 9th 2019 (SSNN) – A top British diplomat to Sudan has urged the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) to immediately release three armed opposition leaders under the military detention. Last week, the military in Khartoum arrested the deputy chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N), Yasir Arman, the group’s Secretary General, Khamis Jalab and spokesman, Mabarak […]
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June 3rd, 2019(SSNN) — The Sudanese protests, which have been running for more than half a year now and have ousted President Omar Hassan el Bashir, have seen a sharp turn this morning, June 3rd, 2019 as the armed groups began firing live bullets on civilians killing dozzens in attempt to disperse a sit-in at the military headquarters of the […]
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May 26th, 2019(SSNN) — South Sudan’s General Court Martial(GCM), which prosecutes officers, will make it final verdict on the trial of Major General. Stephen Buay Rolnyang on Tuesday, May 28th, 2019. The GCM, which has been running every Tuesday and Thursday, heard from the last witness who was identified as Brigadier Gen. Kerubino Deng Thong last Tuesday, May 21st, 2019. […]
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Opinion, May 26th, 2019(SSNN) — This is the Institution that has failed South Sudan. Their mandate is to implement intelligent collected by external Security, and prevent counter insurgents in the country, maintain security and keep order in the Republic of South Sudan; however, the Director General in charge of the Internal Security wanted to be the village king of his […]
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The unreported, cowardly killing of a 3-year-old Mabaan child, and an unarmed Mabaan man on April 11th, 2019 in Kilo Ashara: My Condemnation. Opinion, By Tawfiq Zuruf Musa, May 26th, 2019(SSNN) — A cowardly South Sudanese security agent has taken the lives of 2 Mabaan civilians (one a 3 year old girl, the other an un-armed civilian) and wounded 4 others, […]
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To: H.E Gen. Taban Deng Gai, First Vice President. By Riek Yak Guandong, May 26th, 2019(SSNN) — In the formation of SPLM/A-IO-Taban party in 2016, we got incredible supports from South Sudanese both inside and outside the country. We got 8 Chapters, these including: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Australia, New York and Quensbec. Most of these Chapters have now […]
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May 26th, 2019(SSNN) —- South Sudan’s Latjor State Minister of Physical Infrastructure, a former loyalist of Gen. Taban Deng Gai, defected to SPLM/A(IO) under the leadership of Dr. Riek Machar Teny. According to a report extended to South Sudan News Now by the SPLM/A(IO) Mission Office to Ethiopia and AU, Hon, Dech Kuek Jokthiang, has declared his defections to SPLM/A-IO […]
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Sub: Appeal for the removal of Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabiordit, the minister for finance and economic planning May 26th, 2019(SSNN) — Your Excellency, I would like to express my maximum appreciation to you and your leadership for bringing sustainable and lasting peace to the people of South Sudan through the signing of the Revitalized Peace Agreement. The Revitalized Peace Agreement […]
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Part 2, By Ali el Ali Ismail, Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, May 21st, 2019(SSNN) — The Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have repeatedly documented the South Sudanese government’s arbitrarily arrest and detention of those perceived to be opponents in official and unofficial NSS facilities across the country. Though the government has been repeatedly been warned against the practice, it does not […]
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By Blerim Mustafa, Geneva, Tuesday, May 21. 2019(SSNN) – On the occasion of the 2019 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, commemorated annually on 21 May, the Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue, Ambassador Idriss Jazairy, calls for the celebration of cultural diversity which is both, the common heritage and the […]
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Analysis, By Lotole Lo Luri May 19th, 2019(SSNN) — A week or so has elapsed since we witnessed the dropping of two bombshells over the political sphere in South Sudan. First, the South Sudanese were baffled by the revelation that the government had hired an American private firm in a bid to block the establishment of the Hybrid Court of South […]
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For Immediate Release By Dak Buoth, May 19th, 2019(SSNN) — On 17th May 2019, I reported threats made by Ayuel Taupiny Malek and others he knows to the Nairobi central police. The police have now taken keen note of these threats and have called and reached out to the above mentioned individual (s) in my present. On 16th May 2019, […]
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By Ali el Ali, Khartoum, Sudan, May 17th, 2019(SSNN) — In South Sudan, the name of National Security is synonymous with the National Insecurity. Citizens are not at ease with them as the way they conduct themselves is something strange and intimidating. It is something strange in South Sudan to find the member of National Security or National Insecurity in […]
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