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 rebels have abducted eight senior military officers of the main armed opposition group, SPLM/SPLA (IO) after fighting escalated in the country’s Central Equatoria state, a spokesman said Thursday. Col. Lam Paul Gabriel, the deputy SPLA-IO spokesman and the press secretary at the minister of defense’s office said two Generals were abducted along with […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – Three people have been killed and five others have been injured during an ambush in Central Equatoria state’s Yei River County, government officials there said. A Yei county official who spoke exclusively to South Sudan News Now (SSNN) said the incident happened just three miles outside Yei town. He said the incident took place at […]
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May 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) –The National Salvation Front (NAS) led by General Thomas Cirilo is planning for war and possibly may attack South Sudan’s capital Juba, documents leaked to Nyamilepedia have said. The group warned civilians on Monday that movements from and to Juba would be risky apparently because of a planned offensive against army headquarters in the capital Juba. […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s holdout opposition group, National Salvation Front (NAS), led by General Thomas Cirilo said on Tuesday that all roads leading to Juba were under siege warning against all travel outside South Sudan’s capital. NAS said the measure, which came after joint government and SPLA-IO offensives against holdout opposition forces in central Equatoria, is aimed […]
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