March 27, 2021(SSNN) — South Sudan’s incumbent president, General Salva Kiir Mayardit, who has led his country through a brutal civil war for the last seven, has received an African Peace Award for this year 2021. According to the office of the president, His Excellency President Salva Kiir won the peace medal for his tireless efforts to bring peace and […]
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Edith M. Lederer Tanzania, The Associated Press December 1, 2020(SSNN) — UN experts say South Sudan’s latest peace effort has stalled, with the coalition government formed in February failing to meet deadlines and President Salva Kiir locking opposition leader and now First Vice-President Riek Machar “out of the government’s decision-making process.” The panel of experts said it was told by […]
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Nov 14, 2020(Nyamilepedia) — Following the Governor’s visit to the Bilinyang Payam of Juba County and his accompanying delegation, the state government has ordered the illegal land occupants in Bilinyang Garbo area to immediately vacate the area in question within 24-hours. The governor warns the local residents to follow the rightful procedures of owning a land as enshrined in the […]
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Oct 26, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, met the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, David Shearer, earlier today at his residence in the capital, Juba. Speaking to media after the meeting, the Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan said the two leaders discussed the need for him and Machar to […]
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MOSES PASI Oct 26, 2020(SSNN) — Eighteen South Sudanese women who have survived civil war, displacement and sexual violence build their skills every day at the UNMISS car washing bay where they ensure the mission’s vehicles are in top condition to reach remote communities across the world’s newest country. “With the money I earn working at the UNMISS car washing […]
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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 21, 2020(SSNN) — Bangladeshi peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan have brought joy to cattle keepers in Wau by offering much-needed free veterinary services for their livestock. “I used to have more than 300 cows, but due to an acute shortage of medications I have lost about 70 of them, plus four goats, in recent […]
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Oct 17, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s main armed Opposition, the Sudan People Liberation Movement in Opposition(SPLA-IO), fears that their leader, the First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, could be under house arrest in the capital, Juba. For the third time, the military leadership of the SPLM/A(IO) is calling on the peace guarantors and the region to allow the First […]
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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) — Latest reportsd from The Synagogue, Lagos, alleges that South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has yet again invited the Nigerian Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, commonly referred to as T. B. Joshua, for a “prophetic mission”. The Prophet who has been hiding from Coronavirus in the mountains has revealed that he has been invited by the South […]
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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 4, 2020(SSNN) — The South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit has won an internationally facilitated peace prize for mediating the Sudanese peace agreement that was signed this afternoon in South Sudan capital, Juba. The least expected award was presented by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) at Dr. John Garang mausoleum today, October 3, 2020, where the Sudanese leaders signed […]
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Oct 4, 2020(SSNN) — The South Sudan police service has arrested two officials that are identified as members of the main armed opposition, SPLM/A-IO, in the capital, Juba. The two members who were arrested on Saturday are identified Abraham Manyiel and William Manyiel Martin from Wulu County of Lakes State. According to eyewitnesses, they were arrested at Gure and they […]
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Oct 3, 2020(SSNN) — The office of President Salva Kiir has launched a new website to improve accessibility of presidency affairs, according to officials from the presidency. “The Office of the President has launched an official website for the Presidency on Friday the 2nd of October 2020, to make information regarding the activities of President Salva Kiir Mayardit easily accessible […]
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Oct 3, 2020(SSNN) — Mark Enei, a senior member of the ruling party SPLM has decided to quit his party in favour of the opposition party, SPLM/IO under the leadership of Dr. Riek Machar. In a letter seen by nyamilepedia, Mark Enei joined the opposition together with 48 others in favour of the revitalized peace agreement signed. “I Mark Anei […]
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Sep 29, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, met the African Union(AU) Ambassador to South Sudan, Professor Joram Bisworo, today in his office in the capital, Juba. According to Dr. Machar’s press officials, Dr. Joram Bisworo commended the First Vice President and the SPLM/A-IO leadership for their commitment to peace in the country. “The African […]
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MACH SAMUEL, Sep 24, 2020(SSNN) — The South Sudan National Police Services in Greater Jonglei have received ten motorbikes from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan to improve their mobility and hence ability to protect civilians. The vehicles were donated to the peacekeeping mission by the South Korean government. “I can hardly believe it that I will no longer […]
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Sep 23, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan incumbent, H.E.President Salva Kiir, received officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at his office in Juba. According to officials from the office of the president, President Kiir was briefed by the UNHCR officials on the commissioner’s comprehensive solution for South Sudan refugees in the region. “H.E.President Salva Kiir, recieved a […]
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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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Ratify UN Treaty, Investigate, Ensure Truth, Justice, and Healing By HRW, Nairobi, Kenya August 28, 2020(SSNN) – South Sudan should investigate the fate and whereabouts of scores of victims of enforced disappearances and those still missing from years of civil war, Human Rights Watch and Remembering the Ones We Lost said today. On August 30, the world marks the International Day of the Disappeared. Since […]
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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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August 08, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former lost boy, Peter Biar Ajak, who was detained for 18 months in South Sudan’s capital Juba, has gone viral on social media over the last one week after arriving in the United States but according to press secretary, Ateny Wek Ateny, Biar desperately needed the opportunity to gain entry into the US. Ateny […]
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August 5, 2020(SSNN) — Today, August 5, 2020, South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, met with the Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Hon. Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro, to determine how best the two could push other members of the governance cluster to come to the table to draft roles and responsibilities. Speaking after meeting Dr. Machar, the Minister […]
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June 21, 2020(SSNN) — The white army spokesman calls on the Dinka Bor community to return the cattle, compensate the dead and apologize to the Nuer community before the white army finishes their ongoing operation in Murle. “We are fighting the Murle, not Bor people. We are recovering our cattle, women and children from Murle and we urge the Bor […]
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June 18, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s ex-governors of the defunct controversial 32 states plus Abyei have publicly declared this morning that they are no longer demanding for their $60,000 compensation package as demanded two weeks ago. A group of angry ex-governors stormed the Ministry of Finance two weeks ago and threatened that they will defect from the government if they […]
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Analysis, By The Stuff Writers, June 14, 2020(SSNN) — Notwithstanding that the recent appointments of the new army leadership violates the Revitalized Agreement of the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan, it is evidently clear that president Salva Kiir Mayardit is planning for war. Unlike the first war that was commanded by a Nuer, Gen. James Hoth Mai, and […]
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June 11, 2020(SSNN) — As China finds herself on the weaker side of bilateral relationships following unsuccessful renegotiations of the multi-billion dollar Juba-Bhar el Ghazal highway project, the Chinese government made an u-turn in her bid to win the heart of South Sudan’s Republican Palace, J1. This morning, June 11, 2020, the Chinese ambassador to South Sudan, Hua Ning, handed […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) — Petitioning South Sudan presidency to establish State and Local governments, Unity State Community in Kenya demands that their governor must be appointed now without further delay. “We want our governor now, so that together we can embark on unity and reconciliation drive in earnest. Should this logical demand be ignored and delayed than it will […]
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June 7, 2020(SSNN) — Reports from South Sudan’s Bul-nuer youth leadership alleged that the Presidential Advisor on National Security, Hon. Tutkew Gatluak Manime, has been kidnapping, torturing and arresting youth who are accused to have criticized him on social media. According to the chairman of Bul Youth Council in Juba, South Sudan, the arrests and kidnapping can be done anywhere […]
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The Voiceless, June 6, 2020(SSNN) — To begin with, may these letters find you in good health and wealth. Hon. Angelina Teny, the Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs, we would be proud to introduce ourselves by names to you and your sympathizers but at this moment in time that does not matter because it is not us, the authors, […]
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June 4, 2020(SSNN) — The recent incident at “Sharikat-Bor” park has caused outraged as many South Sudanese mourned the death of five but as time goes by South Sudanese intellectuals and youth on social media found themselves exchanging tribal sentiments and heated debates over who should demand justice. Initially the issue was the used of unnecessary force on unarmed civilians […]
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May 15, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, lost at least 7 officials between 4pm on May 13 and 10am on May 14, 2020 to what the High level Taskforce reported as “short illness” while threatening the media over biased reporting of the Coronavirus. Among the first highest ranking veterans who died on May 13, 2020 was Lt. […]
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South Sudan’s High-Level Taskforce, the body that oversees COVID-19 pandemic in the country, grants a “Special Permission” to unnamed charter plane to pick up the notorious general Lt. Gen. David Yau Yau from his hometown of Pibor to Juba
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