May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s National Salvation Front (NAS) led by former deputy chief of staff of the army General Thomas Cirilo Swaka has denied that it kidnapped eight SPLA-IO officers saying the main armed opposition group did that to its own officers. SPLA-IO deputy spokesman, Col. Lam Paul Gabriel, said in a statement yesterday that eight officers […]
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May 14, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has – for the first time – confirmed its first death as a direct result of the novel coronavirus. The ministry of health making the announcement this evening also said 28 more people have tested positive for the virus. This, the ministry of health said, brings the number of those infected with […]
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May 14, 2020 (SSNN) – Two South Sudan doctors among those fighting the coronavirus pandemic has said the the government of president Salva Kiir is not reporting deaths coming as direct results of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, infection. One doctor at South Sudan’s Juba military hospital who has been handling coronavirus patients said in an exclusive interview with […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – The chairperson of South Sudan’s Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (R-JMEC), Amb. Augostino Njoroge, has sided with the SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar saying President Kiir violated the revitalized peace deal last week by deciding to distribute the states to the parties. Kiir who is a party to the 2018 over the weekend unilaterally […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan coronavirus cases on Wednesday surpassed the 200 mark after the high-level Taskforce said nine (9) more people tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The high-level Taskforce said the latest positive tests were all of South Sudanese who were in contact with the people who tested positive for the virus […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior aide to South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Wednesday blasted critics of the SPLM-IO role in the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement. James Gatdet Dak, the press secretary at Machar’s office said critics were blaming the SPLM-IO with the misperception that the group should lonely carry out reforms […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has been urged by a local watchdog to investigate the country’s minister of finance for corruption after documents surface on social media exposing widespread misuse of public funds. Last week, finance minister Salvatore Garang came under intense scrutiny after documents circulated on social media exposing the diversion of thousands of dollars for […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudanese political analyst has urged peace parties to compromise in order to end the deadlock on states allocation, citing that delays threatens the accord. Ting Mayai, a researcher at Sudd Institute in Juba said on Monday that lack of authority on the ground is a security threat to the nation. “Apart from the […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have jumped to 194 on Tuesday after the ministry of health said in a statement this evening that eighteen more people tested positive for the virus. The undersecretary in the ministry of health, Dr. Makur Koryiom, told the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting (SSBC) this evening following a meeting of the high-level […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, discussed – in a phone call on Tuesday – bilateral relations between Sudan and South Sudan with the leader of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudanese media reports. Sudan’s state-owned Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported that al-Burhan spoke to Machar to […]
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By Mabior Garang de Mabior May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – those questioning the status of the allocation of States should understand that the entire Agreement is in question, not just the issue of the States. The SPLM/SPLA (IO) – wittingly or unwittingly – went to Juba to implement the Agreement before the critical tasks related to the pre-transitional period had […]
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May 11, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has announced that it has reopened its airports to international and regional flights after almost two months of closure imposed by the spread of coronavirus. In late March, the high-level taskforce announced the closure of South Sudan’s airports both in the states and the capital Juba. The closure was part of measures […]
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May 11, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan army commander announced on Monday that he was defecting from the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) to join former army chief General Paul Malong Awan who leads the South Sudan United Front/Army (SSUF/A) Speaking to South Sudan News Now (SSNN) from northern Unity state on Tuesday morning, Maj. Gen. Monyjur Miakol […]
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May 10, 2020 (SSNN) – A traditional chief in South Sudan’s Warrap state has claimed that the South Sudan army loyal to President Salva Kiir Mayardit was forcefully recruiting youth into its file raising concerns over the government’s commitment to the revitalized peace agreement. Speaking to Nyamilepedia from Tonj South county this morning, the traditional chief said they have been […]
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May 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny met, on Sunday, leaders of Other Opposition Parties (OPP) at his office in Juba to discuss the delayed formation of state governments, a spokesman said this morning. James Gatdet Dak, the Press Secretary at the Office of the First Vice President, said the opposition leaders who […]
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May 10, 2020 (SSNN) — A high-level delegation of the African Union (AU) has urged South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, and first vice president, Dr. Riek Machar, to resolve the deadlock over the allocation of states. This came after the parties failed to agree on the matter following months-long talks to divide states governments which would allow for the appointment […]
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May 10, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations has blamed South Sudan’s increased inter-communal violence on the delayed formation of state governments by the parties to revitalized peace agreement urging the country’s leaders to complete the outstanding tasks in the 2018 peace deal in order to bring lasting peace in the war-torn nation. The United Nations leadership in South Sudan […]
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By Duol Malow Jamlah May 10, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan politicians took up the responsibility to deliberately fight the global pandemic. One challenge, however, the South Sudan political team took the challenge over themselves and forgot to include the most important health constituent in the country, the South Sudan Doctors’ Union (SSDU) With this, I don’t think it carries […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has been asked by a group of intellectuals from Jonglei state to create another administrative area there. This came after the presidency issued a communique in which it said Jonglei state, alongside Western Bahr el-Ghazal and Western Equatoria, will be allocated to the SPLM-IO as part of a provision […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayatdit, has exhausted all his patience allowing his first deputy and SPLM-IO chairman, Dr. Riek Machar, make important decisions, a close aide to Kiir said Saturday. This comes a day after a plan by president Kiir to divide states between the parties to the revitalized peace agreement was rejected […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Said Bandas, the deputy chairperson of the SPLM-IO Youth League, said in a video he posted on his Facebook timeline that he was among a group of 30 people who tested positive for the virus on […]
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May 9, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, meets a High Level Delegation from the Federal Republic of Ethiopia in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. According to Machar’s term long-term spokesman, James Gatdet Dak, the Ethiopian delegation was led by the Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Gedu Andergachew. “A high level delegation from the Federal […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, has hinted at accepting a plan by president Salva Kiir to divide the states, calls for compromises and reiterates his commitment to the revitalized peace agreement. On Thursday the Minister in the office of President Salva Kiir, Hon. Mayiik Ayii Deng, said that the parties had […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has rejected a decision by president Salva Kiir’s office claiming that the parties have agreed to the allocation of states. The opposition group said it was surprised by the presidency statement because the matter was not resolved based on the revitalized peace agreement. […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s SPLM-IO has condemned a decision by President Salva Kiir claiming that the parties collegially reached an agreement on the allocation of states as provided for in the revitalized peace agreement. The presidency issued a communiqué on Thursday saying Kiir and Machar had reached an agreement on the allocation of state governors. The statement […]
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April 30, 2020 (SSNN) – A $40 million grant from the World Bank’s 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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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 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’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’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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April 1, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has reportedly warned on Wednesday against nomination of those he termed as militants as governors in the states. This comes as parties reaches deadlock over the allocation of state governors as provided for in the revitalized peace agreement signed in September 2018. Speaking to South Sudan News Now this […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – United Nations investigators accuse South Sudanese leaders of widespread corruption and of trampling on the rights and fundamental freedoms of their people. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan presented its latest report to the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday. The U.N. commission accuses South Sudan’s leaders of deliberately starving their people while […]
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March 9th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny is still under house arrest despite an early statement by IGAD special envoy to South Sudan Ismail Wais that the First Vice-President was free, her wife Angelina Teny who is a senior SPLM-IO figure said. IGAD’s special envoy to South Sudan Ismail Wais said that […]
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