The truth hurts but it is liberating By Alma Ettore, This is written in reply to an article by Riak Gok Majok “Permanent Shedding of Crocodile Tears”. As you can see, I have taken off the Dr and PhD titles because it is meaningless as far as the majority of our suffering and fed up South Sudanese are concerned. A […]
Continue reading »
Opinion, By Changkuoth Gem Panyuan, Sunday, Sept 8, 2019. As a farewell after your frightful obnoxious death, I am writing my peace of memories for you brother. Since the day you have gone, I could not explain how and what to write about your death and how I could endure it. Turning around seeing your colleagues, family members, brothers and […]
Continue reading »
Opinion, By Alfred Thiik Thiik, July 28th, 2019(Nyamilepedia) — The Governor of Gogrial State Mr. Victor Atem Atem in aid of commander of Tiger Division has secretly loaded military helicopter with millions of pounds from Juba to Gogrial state purposely for purchasing arms and ammunitions to be distributed to his community militants. The governor of Gogrial state who is originally […]
Continue reading »
By Majok Anyakdit Nhomuot, June 29, 2019(SSNN) — There is no doubt and argument that Deng Gai Gatluak had been a rebel between 2013 to 2016, following the political crisis that unfolded in the Republic of South Sudan. Deng Gai who had been a dancing tune of balancing between Dr. Riak Machar Teny, Taban Deng Gai and Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth […]
Continue reading »
By Deng Akok Muorardid June 23rd 2019 (SSNN) — Cde Deng Gai Gatluak is the most competent candidate to reform and transform the South Sudan National Youth Union. He is a true patriot and nationalist who cares for his people. He believes in unity of all the youth of South Sudan irrespective of their ethnicities, cultures and political affiliation. He […]
Continue reading »
By Gatkuoth Gatwech, Khartoum, Sudan, June 18th, 2019(SSNN) — From now to July 9, 2019 is going to be a critical time in the history of South Sudan. Though the Revitalized Peace Agreement known as R-ARCSS, 2018 offers a promising end to the conflict in South Sudan, the way things are moving now as our sources within Juba and in […]
Continue reading »
By Deng Akok Muoradid, June 15th, 2019(SSNN) — On Date 13th June 2019, a certain confused concerned citizen called Mr. Gadier Peter wrote an impudent article against Amb. Ezekiel Lol in Nyamilepedia. In his article entitled” Ezekiel Lol reignites political begging as a Freedom of Expression”, Gadier Peter described Lol’s appreciation letter as a strategy for reppointment. He further described […]
Continue reading »
Opinion, By Gatdier Peter, June 13, 2019(SSNN) — Here, the question is: to what extent does a politician become a “political beggar”? A politician becomes a beggar and (re)focuses on the “politics of begging” as soon as (s)he has lost a political executive-post and focuses to reinforce means, assumptions, and strategies for (re)appointment into the nearest political position. This is […]
Continue reading »
“ You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose” Idowu koyenikan By Deng Akok Muoradid, June 12, 2019(SSNN) — An unknown person in the name of Padang Youth Union has written a fake and malicious petition to H.E […]
Continue reading »
Opinion, By Arech Deng Akook, June 12, 2019(SSNN) — According to the English Oxford’s Dictionary, Youth is the period when the person moves from dependence (childhood) to independence (adulthood). It also defines Childhood as the period when the person hasn’t yet attained the youth age of 18 years plus whereas the Adulthood is the state of being an adult who […]
Continue reading »
Opinion, By Andrew Nyuol Madut, June 2nd, 2019(SSNN) — For last few days or even months, a group of individuals with malicious intentions have intensified personal attacks and character assassination against Gen. Akol Koor Kuc, his family and those perceived to be his closest friends or allies whether real or imagined. These personal attacks have reached unprecedented level for any […]
Continue reading »![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]](https://i1.wp.com/ssnewsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SPLA-hitmen.jpg?resize=900%2C280&ssl=1)
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 […]
Continue reading »](https://i0.wp.com/ssnewsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ayuel.png?resize=467%2C280&ssl=1)
By Dak Buoth, May 26th, 2019(SSNN) — On 18th May, 2019, I made a public claims that I feared for my life, following the threats I received from the above mentioned and others, and that i had reported the threats to the police in the city of Nairobi on this 17th day of May, 2019. Their statement via phone telling […]
Continue reading »
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, […]
Continue reading »
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 […]
Continue reading »
By Ali el Ali Ismail, Khartoum, Sudan, May 26, 2019(SSNN) — South Sudan officially known as the Republic of South Sudan gained its independence from the Republic of the Sudan in 2011, making it the newest country with widespread recognition. Its capital and largest city is Juba. Geographically, South Sudan is bordered by Sudan to the north, Ethiopia to the […]
Continue reading »
-The standard approach to leadership inevitably results in failed nation-building efforts. -Leaders are not just decision-makers. They also must be students and educators. -Nation-building leaders help their nations set strategic priorities and then govern according to those priorities. -Defining — and differentiating between — the appropriate roles and responsibilities of leaders, employees and citizens is vital to successful nation building. […]
Continue reading »
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 […]
Continue reading »
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 […]
Continue reading »
Analysis, By Duop Chak Wuol, May 19, 2019(SSNN) — In his Easter message, President Salva Kiir called on the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO), Dr. Riek Machar, to go to Juba to form a transitional government. so that the two leaders could form a provisional government as stipulated in the September 2018 peace agreement. To be […]
Continue reading »
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 […]
Continue reading »
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 […]
Continue reading »
By Deng Akok Muoradid, Thursday, May 16, 2019(SSNN) — Red Card Movement is a Facebook organization which was created by the members of SPLM IO, NAS, SSUF etc under the auspices of Western Countries.The organization is being funded by TROIKA. The initiators of RCM were given $11,045000 by their sponsors, the Western Countries. The imaginary objective of Red Card Movement […]
Continue reading »
Opinion, By Gattuor Kier, Monday 13, 2019(SSNN) — Compatriots, fellow students and youth of South Sudan, the waithood is over; everyone deserves equal and just rights. The faces who have been around for 15 years must leave. They massacred our aged parents, they raped our sisters and mothers, killed our youngsters and children would be the future of our great […]
Continue reading »
Opinion, By Wesley Kosa, Monday May 13, 2019(SSNN) — On April, Pope Francis invited the South Sudanese parties for spiritual retreat, to narrow the gap between them as they get closer to the date line for the formation of the government of national unity. The gap which was to be narrowed is too wide to be narrowed most to the […]
Continue reading »
By Laura Nunu, May 11th, 2019(SSNN) — This is a very big question that provokes and brings us face to face with the question of our identity. It is a question that asks: ‘how do we come to exist as diverse as we are?’ Depending on where you are seeking, science and religion/spirituality has different answers to this same simple question. […]
Continue reading »
Attn: Open Letter to the Sudanese People, By Mabior Garang de Mabior, Greetings in the Name of Allah, the Beneficent and the Merciful! My Fellow Sudanese, May 10th, 2019(SSNN) — I would like to start by honoring the memory of all the men and women who sacrificed their precious lives to push the struggle forward in this generation. Your sacrifices […]
Continue reading »
Opinion, By Riek Lang Met, May 5th, 2019(SSNN) — In the midst of our trials and tribulations,the people of South Sudan have always stood up to the test of time. South Sudanese are impressively a tolerant people,who have embraced many cultures and have lived together with their fellow citizens for many peaceful years. Perhaps,we have one of the highest percentage […]
Continue reading »
By Yien Tot Lam Padiet, Perth, Australia. May 5th, 2019(SSNN) — l would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of Dong Samuel Luak and Aggrey Iddri around the Globe. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Their bodies had disappeared but their spirits are still alive. Their full participation in the liberation of the whole […]
Continue reading »
By Duop Chak Wuol, May 4, 2019(SSNN) — When South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir, began planning a civil war in the name of a bogus coup in 2013, he did not mobilize Americans to help him wage such a brutal campaign against South Sudanese he sees as his political opponents. What he did was to turn to the Ugandan President […]
Continue reading »
“I’ll fight this so-called agreement. I’ll not accept this, I’ll have to get myself killed in the process” By Deng Elijah, April 27th, 2019(SSNN) — For more than half a million South Sudanese, who perished in the last six years and those who miraculously survived a predetermined death under the Atropos Salva Kiir Mayardit, death was not a wishful thinking […]
Continue reading »
Opinion, By Deng Akok Muoradid, April 23, 2019(SSNN) — The desperate protesters in Sudan are criticizing their former President Omar Hassan Al Bashir for the partition of Sudan and they recently called for the urgent reunification of the two Sudans after they ousted him from power. The traumatized Sudanese wrongly conceptualize the separation of South Sudan as a “Bashir’s fault” […]
Continue reading »
Opinion, By Deng Gatpan Wang, April 23, 2019(SSNN) — Hon. Amb. Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, the current minister of petroleum, is a hard working and caring South Sudanese Politician. He had played important political roles in the liberation struggle especially when he was a representative of SPLM to United States. He also served as a head of Mission to USA. During […]
Continue reading »