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The Centurion Law Group to strengthen oil sector by training government officials on transparency and good governance.

Newsbeat, Press Releases
NJ Ayuk, the Chief Executive Officer of Centurion Legal Group(Photo credit: supplied)

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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South Sudan MPs quit annual budget presentation over overdue public salaries. 

Breaking News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabiordit, Minister of Finance and Planning(Photo credit: Larco Lomayat/SSNN)

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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FULL-TEXT: IGAD communique of the 68th extraordinary meeting in Addis Ababa on Sudan and South Sudan

IGAD, Press Releases, Reports

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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Resolution of the RJMEC: The 7th RJMEC Meeting

JMEC, Newsbeat, Press Releases
RJMEC Interim Chairperson H.E Ambassador Lt. Gen. Augostino Njoroge (Centre). With him are Chief of Staff Amb. Berhanu Kebede (right) and Deputy Chief of Staff (Strategy), Dr. Thomson Fontaine.(Photo credit: RJMEC/SSNN)

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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UNHCR Commemorates World Refugee Day on 20 June 2019

Newsbeat, Press Releases, UN, UNHCR
South Sudanese refugees gather at a UNHCR collection centre on the South Sudan border in Egelo, Uganda. (Photo credit: UNHCR /Will Swanson)

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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Panel of Experts urges South Sudan leaders to institutionalize transparency and good governance

Newsbeat, Press Releases
United States Institute of Peace Headquarters

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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7th RJMEC Plenary held in Juba

JMEC, Newsbeat, Peace Building, Press Releases
RJMEC Chairperson, Ambassador Berhanu Kebede speaks during a plenary meeting in Juba, South Sudan(Photo credit: JMEC/ssnewsnow)

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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Changson relinquishes leadership of South Sudan Opposition Alliance

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Leader of Federal Democratic Party and Ex-chairman of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) speaking to reporters in the Egyptian capital Cairo in March 2019 (File: Tor Madira Machier/Nyamilepedia)

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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South Sudan state-TV journalist dies in Kampala

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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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Ex-minister says oil ministry not a family company

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Former Minister of Petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth(Photo credit: supplied)

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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BREAKING: Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth Sacks Over Corruption and Mismanagement of South Sudan Oil Sector

Breaking News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
Amb. Lol Gatkuoth and President Salva Kiir sharing a short-lived jokes in the past(Photo credit: SSNN)

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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LAFON COUNTY YOUTH RESPONSE TO GOVERNOR OF IMOTONG STATE OVER HIS STATEMENT ON LAND ISSUE

Press Releases, South Sudan
Lafon County Youth performing traditional dance in Pari town(Photo credit: SSNN)

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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Twic and Gogrial States Governors Arrive in Bul-Nuer in Search of Stolen Cattle, Called for Compensetation and Rapariation For The Dead

Breaking News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
Dr. Joseph Nguen Monytuel, the Governor of Northern Liech State, receives Governor Atem Madut Yak Governor of Twic state and his counter part Governor of Gogrial state Hon Victor Atem Atem in MANKIEN airstrip - Bul South county(Photo credit: unknown)

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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President Kiir: “I can not tell you to pick up guns and fight” Bul-Nuer but ….

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Dr. Nguen Manytuel, governor of Northern Liech State visits Salva Kiir in his office to pledge assurances to hold criminals from his state accountable(Photo credit: Salva Kiir office)

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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Geneva Welcomes South Sudan’s Ratification of Vital Human Rights Treaties

Newsbeat, South Sudan, UN
South Sudan opening its Transitional Legislative National Assembly in 2019(Photo credit: unknown)

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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China and South Sudan government colluded with ‘Power China’ a private Chinese owned company in Juba to supply arms.*

Newsbeat, Op-Eds
South Sudan's incumbent Salva Kiir Mayardit reviews guards of honor alongside Chinese President Hu Jintao(Photo credit: Alexander F. Yuan/AP)

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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POSITION PAPER OF THE CHIEFS OF LOBONOK COUNTY ON THE CATTLE ISSUES

Newsbeat, Press Releases, South Sudan
A South Sudanese man guarding his cattle(Photo credit: unknown)

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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British diplomat urges release of rebel leaders detained by the military in Khartoum

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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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South Sudan Military Court To Make Its Final Verdict on Gen. Buay Rolnyang’s Case on Tuesday

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Maj. Gen. Stephen Buay Rolnyang during a parade with his soldiers in Upper Nile(Photo source: Nyamilepedia)

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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Lt Col Angelo Kuot Garang Kuot: the commander of Hit Squat in the Internal Security Bureau

Newsbeat, Opinions
A U.S. Special Forces trainer supervises a military assault drill for a unit within the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) conducted in Nzara on the outskirts of Yambio November 29, 2013. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: MILITARY) (Newscom TagID: rtrlsix165172.jpg) [Photo via Newscom]

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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State Minister Defects To SPLM/A(IO)

Newsbeat, Press Releases

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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Senior Economist Calls For Removal of Minister of Finance

Newsbeat, Opinions, Press Releases
Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabiordit, Minister of Finance and Planning(Photo credit: Larco Lomayat/SSNN)

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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THE ROLE OF NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE DESTRUCTION OF SOUTH SUDANESE NATION: THE CASE OF BOL MADUT CHOL OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Newsbeat, Opinions, Reports

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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“We need to move beyond mere tolerance and towards empathy to truly celebrate cultural diversity,” says the Executive Director of the Geneva Centre

Newsbeat, Press Releases, UN

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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Unmasking the politics of collusion and double standards in South Sudan (Part 1)

Analyses, Lotole Lo Luri, Newsbeat
President Salva Kiir wipes his face in public with a pink handkerchief

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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BOL MADUT CHOL OF NATIONAL SECURITY: THE KILLER OF SOUTH SUDANESE INTELLECTUALS AND OPPOSITIONS

Newsbeat, Opinions, South Sudan

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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President Salva Kiir addressing the nation in Juba, 15 May 2019: Speech of H.E President of the Republic on the occasion of the May 16th Celebration – 2019

Press Releases, Speeches
South Sudan fathers of nation

Dear Compatriots, Friday, May 17, 2019 (SSNN) — Today marks 36 years since the founding of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement. On this historic occasion, I want to congratulate the people of South Sudan in general and the men and women of the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) and the SPLM in particular. As we commemorate this important national day, […]

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