June 2, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has finally recovered from COVID-19, senior SPLM-IO officials said today. Machar who is also the chairperson of the main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, said late last month that he and his wife Angelina Teny who is also the minister of defense tested positive for respiratory disease […]
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June 2, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister for East African Affairs John Luk Jok has died this morning in the capital Juba after reportedly succumbing to COVID-19, officials said this morning. One official at his office told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that Luk was tested positive for coronavirus two weeks earlier and died succumbed to the virus this […]
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Just for Fan, June 1, 2020(SSNN) — Your excellency, I learned with dismay that the position of the head of National Taskforce on COVID-19 has felt vacant again and your Vice President, Gen. Taban Deng Gai, who is the right successor in line, has refused to take up this position. We are not surprised at all to hear this, your […]
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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – Vice-President Taban Deng Gai has reportedly turned down a request by President Salva Kiir Mayardit to replace his counterpart Hussein Abdelbaggi as the new chair of the country’s coronavirus taskforce. Hussein last week tested positive for coronavirus and said he was going for the 14-day quarantine recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Speaking to […]
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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan lawmaker in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on the ticked of vice-president Taban Deng’s defunct SPLM-IO faction has resigned as the country awaits the reconstitution of the legislative body. “Your Excellency, Please accept this letter as formal notification of resignation from my position as Member of Parliament at the Transitional National […]
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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – Members of Israeli intelligence agency are training a private militia group belonging to President Salva Kiir Mayardit in an area in South Sudan’s Warrap state, a local official said on Monday. One official told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, had in February dispatched 23 non-commissioned officers to South Sudan […]
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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – South Korea has sent additional rotational peacekeeping troops to South Sudan on Monday, along with medical supplies to help the African country handle the new coronavirus, the South Korean defense ministry said. The first echelon of the 12th batch for Hanbit Unit was dispatched to the war-torn nation in May after months of delay due […]
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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) and its peace partner, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO), have launched fresh military offensives against holdout opposition group, National Salvation Front (NAS) led by General Thomas Cirilo Swaka in Central Equatoria state, an opposition spokesman said. Suba Samuel Manase, the spokesman for NAS said the former […]
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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – Four South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) soldiers were on Sunday shot dead by Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers following a clash at Maru village, Kochi Sub-county in Yumbe District. According to the area LC1 Chairman, Mr Yusuf Taban, the South Sudan soldiers started disturbing the residents of the area on May 20 in […]
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May 31, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has denied allegations that it was involved in raiding cattle in Ruweng Administrative area. Last week, the Secretary-General of the defunct Ruweng state Victoriano Ngor Chuang accused the SPLA-IO of aiding civilians from Unity state to attack and raid […]
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May 31, 2020 (SSNN) – The Amnesty International has welcomed the renewal of South Sudan arms embargo on South Sudan by the United Nations Security Council, an East African envoy of the watchdog said Sunday. The AI’s Director for East and Southern Africa, Deprose Muchena, said the decision by the world body to continue the sanction regime on South Sudan […]
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May 31, 2020 (SSNN) – The farmers’ union in South Sudan’s Ruweng Administrative Area (RAA) has brought a suit against companies pumping and transporting oil in the country. The farmers thus join an association of attorneys and humanitarian NGOs in lodging motions. Respondent in the latter is the government of South Sudan, which is being sued in the East African […]
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May 31, 2020 (SSNN) – The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Friday extending for a year an arms embargo on South Sudan and a travel ban and financial sanctions for targeted individuals, with Russia, China and South Africa abstaining. The U.S.-drafted resolution welcomes “encouraging developments in South Sudan´s peace process,” including the beginning of the formation of a transitional […]
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May 30, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan vice-president James Wani Igga and his entire family have tested positive for COVID-19, officials close to him said Saturday. “Yes the vice-president has tested positive for coronavirus. his family members have also been affe ted by the virus,” an aide who refused to be named told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) this evening. […]
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May 29, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s cabinet affairs minister Martin Elia Lomoro has been discharged from hospital days after he was admitted to an intensive care unit at Dr. John Garang Center for Infectious Diseases, the South Sudan News Now (SSNN) has learned. Lomoro who repeatedly denied that he has the coronavirus disease (or COVID-19) was last week put […]
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May 29, 2020 (SSNN) – The Sudanese army said on Wednesday that fighting erupted between its border guards and Ethiopian militia group at its eastern border. Brigadier General Amer Mohamed Al Hassan said in a televised statement that Ethiopian militias backed by the Ethiopian army have attacked territories in Gadaref state in eastern Sudan since May 26. “Backed by the […]
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May 29, 2020 (SSNN) — Former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and seven former members of his regime, who are being held in Khartoum prisons, have been transferred to hospitals in the capital; three with chronic conditions, three with confirmed Covid-19, and two, including Al Bashir, with suspected coronavirus symptoms, Sudan’s Public Prosecution reports. In a statement on Wednesday, the Public […]
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May 28, 2020 (SSNN) – United States President Donald Trump has threatened to shoot angry protesters who took to streets in the US city of Minneapolis to denounce police brutality against the black American community. On Monday, a black man identified as George Floyd was arrested at a Minneapolis grocery store after police were notified by an employee that he […]
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May 28, 2020 (SSNN) – In the dusty streets of South Sudan’s capital city, Juba, citizens of the world’s youngest nation are stranded, traumatized and hungry with no food to eat. A mother who lost her husband to war is seen selling tomatoes at a custom market with no hope of making enough money. A soldier who has not received […]
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May 27, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan vice-president and chairperson of the National Taskforce on coronavirus, Hussein Abdel-Baggi, has tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. A senior government official told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) this evening that Abdelbaggi was among 188 people – all of whom are South Sudanese – who tested positive […]
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May 27, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s ministry of health said on Wednesday that COVID-19 cases have surpassed the 1000 mark after almost 200 people tested positive for the virus. The ministry of health said 188 people were confirmed to have caught the virus. This brings the total number of those with the deadly virus to 1004. The ministry of […]
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May 27, 2020 (SSNN) – Two South Sudan army chiefs have been involved in gross human rights violations during their tenures, a new report by the US-based firm, The Sentry, has found. The report titled: “Making a Killing” also accused four South Sudan army chiefs including Malong, Jok Riak, Hoth Mai and Oyai Deng Ajak of corruption practices without accountability […]
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May 26, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan youth group has condemned this week’s attacks against in several parts of Unity state by armed men from neighboring Lakes and Warrap states in which an unconfirmed innocent people were killed. “The leadership of the Liech Youth Union condemns in the strongest term possible the recent attacks on Unity State communities by […]
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May 26, 2020 (SSNN) – A Senior South Sudan government official has been put under ventilators after developing coronavirus disease symptoms over earlier this week, sources have said from Juba. An aide said Cabinet Minister Martin Elia Lomoro was put under ventilators on Sunday after developing COVID-19 symptoms which forced him to decide that he is taken to a government […]
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May 26, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, has denied rumors on social media that First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar has dismissed the SPLA-IO chief of staff Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual. A letter circulating on social media announced the dismissal of Gen. Gatwech Dual and that he has been replaced with Gen. […]
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May 25, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former Deputy Defense Minister and Former Political Detainee, Dr. Majak D’Agoot, has tested positive to COVID-19. Announcing the event on Twitter, Dr. Majak said he was initially tested negative to COVID-19 earlier last week but the latest test results turned out positive. “This is to inform you that I did my 2nd Covid-19 test […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have surpassed 800 after the ministry of health registered over 150 more cases on Monday. Dr. Makur Koriom, the undersecretary in the ministry of health said 243 samples were collected during the pass 48 hours among which 151 people were tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has addressed the nation this evening denying reports that he is sick with COVID-19 and was rushed to Cairo for treatment. Below is the full address of the South Sudanese head of state to the nation from J1. “Fellow Citizens, I have just called for this press briefing to […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that reports that he was sick and was rushed to the Egyptian capital Cairo for treatment were not true saying he was fine and discharging his duties as head of state. This comes after reports that the South Sudanese head of state has contracted COVID-19, the respiratory […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – The embassy of Japan in Juba on Monday denied reports that it has donated a package of unapproved “preventive” cards against COVID-19 to the office of the president. This comes after the office of the president said Japan had donated preventive cards also know as “Virus Shut Out.” In a statement this afternoon, the Japanese […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan Information Minister and government spokesman Michael Makuei Lueth has said that he is recovering from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. “Well I am fine and I am recovering. I haven’t experienced any symptom of the corona[virus]. I think by next week I will be well,” Makuei told South Sudan […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – 27-year-old South Sudanese model Nyakim Gatwech labeled “Queen of the Dark”, who has broken down the barriers of conventional beauty and encouraged others to do the same, now has a net worth of $4 million. Gatwech’s willpower and her beautiful flawless dark skin tone have earned her endorsements and brand ambassador deals with major companies like Fashion […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit will tour Juba tomorrow, Tuesday, to dispel rumours that he has been admitted to a Cairo hospital after he has allegedly be diagnosed with COVID-19, a presidency spokesman said. “The president is very healthy and doing his work normally. I want to assure the public that the president is […]
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