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 21, 2020(SSNN) — Minister of Cabinet Affairs Martin Elia Lomuro says elections will be conducted at the end of the interim period as per the agreement. It has been nine years since South Sudan got its independence but elections have never been held. South Sudan has been suffering from conflict and since then making it hard for the country […]
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Oct 18, 2020(SSNN) — In the wake of an announcement that crippled the South Sudanese pound overnight, the Sudan government began to enforce a far-fetched military grounded policy that saw the currency appreciating within less than 48 hours following president Salva Kiir’s emergency meeting with the cabinet on Wednesday. The South Sudanese pound which depreciated from 510 SSP per dollar […]
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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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Oct 6, 2020(SSNN) — The leadership of the Gawaar Global Community, comprising of the Gawaar community associations in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe, is organizing an intercontinental leadership conference for the Gawaar community leaders in all the continents. The leaders’ conference, which is scheduled for this coming Saturday October 10th, 2020 invites all Gawaar leaders, especially in African […]
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Sep 29, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from Kajo-Keji allege that a senior military officer of the SPLA in Opposition who defected recently from Kajo-Keji and mobilized offensives against the SPLA-IO forces has narrowly survived during the offensives he commanded this morning. According to the SPLA-IO sources in Kajo-Keji, Maj. Gen. Moses Lokujo Gabriel led offensives this morning around 6am; however, […]
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September 4, 2020(SSNN) — A high profile committee that was constituted by President Salva Kiir in June to investigate a shooting in Sherikat suburbs of South Sudan capital that led to killing of more than six people has released its findings today, Thursday September 3, 2020. The suspect behind the shooting that killed six unarmed civilians and wounded eight others […]
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September 3, 2020(SSNN) — A notorious South Sudanese militia commander, Major General Mathew Puljang, who has been commanding a parallel militia alongside South Sudan army under the command of President Salva Kiir has been arrested in the capital, Juba. According to the latest report from the Small Arms Survey, the Bul-Nuer politicians and generals are having their own internal power […]
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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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March 29, 2020(SSNN) — Explaining the government account to media, South Sudan Minister of Information, who also doubles as the government spokesman, Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, said the parties reached a deadlock on allocation of states because the oppositions want the states to be divided 50/50. “What is hampering the appointment is the dispute over the allocation of states. The […]
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Nov 9th, 2019 (SSNN)-South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-IO (SPLM/A-IO) has welcomed the outcome of the Entebbe Tripartite Summit, notably the 100-Days-Extension of the Pre-transitional Period, due to commencing from November 12, 2019 until February 2020. On the Communique of the Tripartite Summit – Entebbe, Uganda “In reference to the above, the SPLM/SPLA (IO) […]
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Opinion, By: Richmond Blake, approving bipartisan Senate resolution is a way to reaffirm U.S. support for peace deal. Nov 9th, 2019 (SSNN)- South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar on Thursday pulled back from the brink and agreed to delay the formation of a government of national unity by 100 days. A crucial element of the peace […]
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Nov 9th, 2019 (SSNN)-The Liech community in Kenya has welcomed and commended the extension of the Pre-transitional Period by 100 days by South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Chairman and Commander-in-Chief Dr. Riek Machar Teny on November 7th, in Entebbe, Uganda. “The Liech community Association in Kenya hereby express her special commendation to South Sudan President GEN. […]
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Nov 4th, 2019 (SSNN)-A South Sudanese refugee, mother of four, who lives in a refugee camp in Kenya, has left her children destitute with no water or food to eat for three days, according to a neighbor interviewed by our East African reporter. Michael Lonya, a 5-year-old boy and his younger siblings, are said to have spent three days on […]
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