December 19, 2019 (SSNN)- The Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS), United States institute of Peace (USIP), Addis Ababa University (AAU) together with Oxfam held an expert meeting on South Sudan in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, from 16th to 18th 2019. Under the theme. ‘The Future of South Sudan Peace Process- What Happens after the 100 Days?’ […]
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Opinion, By Lujang John December 19th, 2019 (SSNN)-The long awaited Metropolitan Arch Bishop Paolino Lukudo Loro retirement happens at last with a very bad legacy after leaving power of attempted coup by chief Lucifer and few angels spearheaded by Commander Arch Angel Michael. The news of his Retirement was as silence jubilation from the marginalized catholic groups of the Arch […]
Continue reading »December 19th, 2019 (SSNN)-One year on after the popular uprising that led to the ouster of former Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Amnesty International has called on Sudan’s Sovereign Council to deliver on human rights and justice for all victims. “One year after protests broke out in Sudan leading to the ouster of President Omar al Bashir on 11 […]
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Statement, By Ambassador Jonathan Allen, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the Security Council briefing on South Sudan December 18th, 2019 (SSNN)-Thank you very much, Madam President. And let me, like others, thank Special Representative Shearer for his briefing and not only that, but for his work and that of all his team out on the ground of […]
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December 18th, 2019 (SSNN)-The Chinese Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Wu Haitao told members of the United Nations Security Council during a high-level forum on South Sudan that, the country’s stability lies in the hands of its political and military leaders, stressing that maintaining the R-ARCSS remains a first priority. The Chinese diplomat noted that his government is […]
Continue reading »December 18th, 2019 (SSNN)-The main opposition leader, Dr. Riek Machar has conveyed his heartfelt condolences on the untimely passing on of the SPLM-IO’s senior commander and former Governor of Adar State, Sadam Chayuot Manyang Wuor, who passed away on Tuesday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum after he had been battling with liver cancer. “Gen. Sadam Chayuot Manyang […]
Continue reading »December 18th, 2019 (SSNN)-The main opposition leader, Dr. Riek Machar has conveyed his heartfelt condolences on the untimely passing on of the SPLM-IO’s senior commander and former Governor of Adar State, Sadam Chayuot Manyang Wuor, who passed away on Tuesday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum after he had been battling with liver cancer. “Gen. Sadam Chayuot Manyang […]
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December 18th, 2019 (SSNN)-The United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, said at a high-level United Nations press conference on South Sudan on Tuesday that the United States is running out of patience and losing confidence in South Sudan’s leaders due to their unwilling to implement peace. Craft, remarked that South Sudan’s leaders bear the […]
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Religious and political leaders prayer for peace and forgiveness before the second Face-to-face Meeting between the parties started in September, 2019 (Photo: Supplied)Dec 18th, 2019 (SSNN)-The South Sudan Council of Church (SSCC),a religious group, has sent a festive message, calling for peace and forgiveness as Christmas almost approaches. “On this festive day, let us ask the Lord for Peace, Healing, […]
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Dec 17th, 2019 (SSNN)-South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, and the main opposition leader, Dr. Riek Machar, have agreed, among other outstanding matters, to create a free political environment that would allow the dissemination of the R-ARCSS, as well as freedom of the press in various parts of the country. South Sudan’s leaders on Tuesday, in the presence of […]
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Dec 17th, 2019 (SSNN)-South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the First-vice Designate, Dr. Riek Machar, have agreed during a consultative meeting, to format the long-awaited Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity despite unimplemented pre-transitional activities. “The President of the Republic, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit and, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, who is the main opposition leader and a signatory […]
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Dec 17th, 2019 (SSNN)-A lawmaker in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Paul Bor Gatwech applauds South Sudan’s prominent opposition leader, Dr. Riek Machar Teny for sending a message of peace and reconciliation to the people of South Sudan during the commemoration of the 6th Anniversary of the Nuer Massacre marked on December 15- 16. “The Nuer in Diaspora have […]
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Dec 16th, 2019 (SSNN)-South Sudan’s main armed opposition leader, Dr. Riek Machar Teny has issued a statement on the commemoration of the 6th Anniversary of the 2013 Nuer Massacre – a deadly event in which – forces loyal to President Kiir Mayardit carried out door-to-door “ethnic cleansing” against the Nuer, targeting and killing everyone including women and children in […]
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Dec 16th, 2019 (SSNN)-The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed individual sanctions on two South Sudanese officials for their role in obstructing the implementation of the peace deal and reconciliation initiatives in South Sudan. “Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals pursuant to […]
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Dec 16th, 2019 (SSNN)-The Provisional Military and Political Council, a breakaway faction headed by Major General James Ochan Puot, has accused the main opposition group, SPLM-IO, of planning to launch a multiple attacks on its positions in Maiwut and its surrounding areas. In a statement extended to SSNN, the group explained that it had received incredible information from reliable […]
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Dec 15th, 2019 (SSNN)-Netizens have criticized South Sudan’s government for posting pictures of persons with disabilities and children on Facebook to justify and make people believe that the establishment of the 32 states was not a political move by the government, but rather a popular demand of all citizens. Since last week, social media users have shared pictures of […]
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Dec 15th, 2019 (SSNN) – The Network of South Sudan Civil Society Organizations in Uganda (NoSSCOU) a leading member of Refugees-Led Organizations Network in Uganda – has condemned violence between South Sudanese refugees and the host community especially the Madi tribe of Uganda. Last week, an incident occurred when a Madi man was killed in a nearby camp by […]
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Dec 15th, 2019 (Kampala)– The Nuer Christian Youth for Peace and Development (NCYPD) held a three- day annual peace conference in Ugandan capital, Kampala. The conference began on December 11th to 13rd 2019 at Makerere Kikoni in Uganda under the theme “Kɛn ti gor kɛ i bi ruac kɛ Naath ɛ kan mi tekɛ luth Kuoth kɛnɛ mal kamni Naath” […]
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Opinion, By Paul Tethloach Dak December 15th, 2019 (SSNN)- When Rockefeller was asked to tell very briefly how people get rich, he replied “Some people find oil and some don’t”. (Lallon Prasad, Understanding Oil and Gas Business, version: July 2013). The South Sudan Oil and Gas Power 2019 conference held on October 28-29, 2019 has brought to light and discussed […]
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Dec 15th, 2019 (SSNN)-At least 6 people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed last week, and several others were seriously injured in the aftermath of heavy fighting between South Sudanese and Sudanese refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, SSNN correspondent has more on this story. “It was an intense fighting between South Sudanese and Sudanese refugees that left 6 […]
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Dec 10th, 2019 (SSNN)-Today, on International Human Rights Day, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has taken decisive action, imposing strict sanctions on five identified individuals responsible for their role in the kidnapping and killing of South Sudan’s opposition members, Aggrey Idri and Dong Samuel Luak, prominent human rights activists who were kidnapped […]
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Dec 10th, 2019 (SSNN)-The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UMMISS) has selected about 40 senior officers from the South Sudan Defence Forces (SSPDF), Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-iO), and South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) to attend an interactive training on child protection policy. According to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, the forty officers expressed their […]
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Dec 10th, 2019 (SSNN)-The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, David Shearer, expresses deep concern about the recent intercommunal clashes reported in various parts of the country over the weekend. “These clashes in areas that have been relatively calm for many months is worrying,” said UNMISS chief David Shearer. “The […]
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Dec 10th, 2019 (SSNN)-Chairman and Commander-In-Chief of the SPLM-IO Dr. Riek Machar and his accompanying delegation of have finally arrived in the South Sudanese capital, Juba to attend another round of face-to-face meeting between him and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit. The main armed opposition leader, Machar was accompanied by senior Sudanese officials, including Deputy Chairperson of the […]
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Dec 10th, 2019 (SSNN)-The leadership of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) has convened a Consultative Meeting with its peace Mechanisms in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, with the aim of reviewing progress made in the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS). “The SPLM/SPLA (IO) Peace Mechanisms conducted a consultative […]
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Dec 10th, 2019 (SSNN)-Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has said that Sudan and neighboring South Sudan, which gained independence on July 9, 2011 after an overwhelming vote on secession, may be considered geographically as two separate states, but in reality, the two countries remain united as one nation. “We are two states, but one nation,” Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla […]
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Opinion, By Eng. Chuar Juet Jok Dec 9th, 2019 (SSNN)-December will never be the same again for the rest of our lifetime and neither in the lifetime of our children, its celebratory mode has been stolen and poisoned forever by the one we assumed once as our national government and army. On Dec 15th, 2013, a day when our lives […]
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Dec 9th, 2019 (SSNN)-South Sudan’s main opposition group, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO) in a statement issued this morning, blamed the South Sudanese government for the 100-days extension of the Pre-transitional Period. Mabior Garang De Mabior, Chairman of the SPLM-IO National Committee for Information and Publicity said that the government should be blamed for its refusal and reluctance […]
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Dec 9th, 2019 (SSNN)-South Sudan’s Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Anthony Lino Makana has submitted his resignation to President Salva Kiir Mayardit to avert looming impeachment by the country’s members of Parliament. “Following the recent move by the MPs to impeach Rt. Hon. Anthony Lino Makana which the SPLM caucus has to consider in a meeting chaired […]
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Dec 8th, 2019 (SSNN)-The Provisional Military and Political Council (PMPC), a breakaway faction headed by Major General James Ochan Puot – has accused South Sudan’s main armed opposition forces, SPLA-(IO) forces of carrying out a series of attacks on the civilian population who were cultivating their farms along the Sobat River. In a statement extended to SSNN, the Deputy […]
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Opinion, By Dr. Gatluak Ter Thach Dec 7th, 2019 (SSNN)-South Sudan has a population of 12.58 million (2017). This population represents approximately 64 ethnic groups that speak different languages or dialects, as well as practice varied cultural activities. Most of the population in South Sudan lives in the rural counties, depending heavily on farms and other basic means to survive. […]
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Dec 7th, 2019 (SSNN)-Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Friday met with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, and according the IMF the two leaders discussed ways to overhaul the country’s deteriorating economy. Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said that she had held a fruitful meeting with the Sudanese leader […]
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Dec 7th, 2019 (SSNN)-In order to end the impasse over the number of states and their boundaries, the South Sudanese government has proposed a nationwide referendum by all citizens, saying that way, the citizens themselves will decide how many states they need during the transitional period. “The president shared his concern with the members of cabinet and all of […]
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