May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has condemned a new outbreak of intercommunal violence in South Sudan that has left hundreds dead, calling for those responsible to be brought swiftly to justice. “The reports from Jonglei State are appalling, indicating that scores of civilians have been killed in attacks across 28 villages […]
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May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have soared to 655 after the National Taskforce on COVID-19 said this evening that 92 more people have tested positive for the deadly virus. The taskforce said two more deaths were also registered on Saturday bringing the total of those who died as direct results of COVID-19, the disease associated with […]
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May 23, 2020(SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and leader of the SPLM-IO Dr. Riek Machar Teny has said this morning that he and his wife Angelina Teny were recovering from COVID-19 one week since they were found positive for the virus. Speaking via teleconference from Juba to worshipers in Khartoum today, Machar said he and Mrs. Teny who […]
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May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan presidency said on Saturday that plans were being made to relocate President Salva Kiir Mayardit to Luri which has been described by the presidency as “lest congested.” Ateny Wek Ateny, president Kiir’s spokesman also denied this morning that president Salva Kiir has been evacuated to Egypt for treatment after social media reports. “Whatever […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has announced that the country’s ministry of health registered on Friday 82 more cases of COVID-19 all of whom are South Sudanese. This, the high-level taskforce said, brings the total cases of coronavirus in the world’s youngest country to 551. South Sudan has seen rise in coronavirus cases since President Salva Kiir […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny is discharging his duties as First Vice President and also as SPLM-IO leader from his home where he is quarantined, his media official said. Machar last week tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory sickness caused by the novel coronavirus, along his wife Angelina Teny who is […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – Former governor of South Sudan’s defunct Kapoeta state Louis Lobong has been injured in a car crush outside Juba this morning, close aides have said. The former governor was heading to Torit when his car overturned in just a few miles away from Gumbo area, a Juba suburb on the other side of the river […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – A head-on collision between a truck carrying passengers and another vehicle has killed at least 43 people and left 32 others injured on a highway in Sudan’s Darfur region. The police statement said the crash took place late Thursday in the town of Shangil Tobayi in North Darfur province. The statement did nor elaborate on […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s information minister Michael Makuei Lueth has denied reports that President Salva Kiir Mayardit has tested positive for the deadly COVID-19. The denial by Makuei comes as South Sudan diplomats quoted by the South Sudan News Now (SSNN) said on Friday that the head of state has been flown to the Egyptian capital Cairo […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo in a surprise trip, a South Sudan embassy staff in Cairo said this morning. “The President of the republic is here in Cairo. He arrived on Thursday and he will stay here for a number of days to discuss bilateral relations with […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has not been evacuated to any foreign country as reported on a section of South Sudan media yesterday, a spokesman for Machar said in a statement this morning. On Thursday, reports were circulated on social media of Machar having been evacuated to Europe allegedly after his […]
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May 22, 2020(SSNN) — Briefing the international media on US response to combating COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, the US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Tibor Peter Nagy, said South Sudan is not helping the efforts to combat the global pandemic by failing to pay the salaries of health workers. Hon. Nagy was responding to a journalist, Carol, who states that […]
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May 21, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from South Sudan’s Pibor Administrative Area and corresponding reports from the national capital, Juba, revealed that youth from neighboring Murle tribe are seen crossing the Ethiopian highland allegedly to launch attacks on Akobo of Lou-nuer, South Sudan. A report from an Ethiopian journalist, Zoya Mengiste, confirmed that thousands of heavily armed Murle youth were […]
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May 21, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s incumbent, president Salva Kiir Mayardit, is secretly battling Coronavirus “behind closed doors”, a high profile insider reveals to South Sudan News Now. The confidential insider confirmed that president Salva Kiir tested positive, a day after his First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and 59 other government officials tested positive to COVID-19. The South […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior South Sudan government official has reportedly been evacuated to an identified country after an alleged health setbacks imposed by the novel coronavirus. A senior government official at the Juba International Airport told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that the senior government official has recently been tested positive for coronavirus but said could not […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – Members of South Sudan’s Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) in the capital Juba have rejected an order this week from the presidency that all lawmakers take mandatory coronavirus test, sources have said from Juba. “This thing (COVID-19 test) shouldn’t be mandatory. It is individual person to determine whether that person need to test or not,” […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of cabinet affairs, Hon. Martin Elia Lomoro, has admitted that he and some members of his family have been exposed to COVID-19, the sickness which comes as result of the novel coronavirus. This comes days after Lomoro denied in a statement on social media that he was tested and found positive for […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan civil society watchdog has condemned an attack on a local radio journalist in the capital Juba. On Tuesday night, a Eye Radio journalist was attacked at his home near Bilpam by a group of criminal gang who he said opened fire on his brother wounding him in the leg. The police has […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – The Sudanese government has asked the government of South Sudan to supply it with crude oil in return for gasoline, a senior government official in Khartoum has said. The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Energy and Mining Hamid Suleiman said in an interview quoted by Sudan Tribune that the purpose of the proposed new deal […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations has condemned this week’s attack by Murle on areas o Lou Nuer in South Sudan’s Jonglei state that has killed a number of aid workers. At least three aid workers were killed in intense clashes in South Sudan over the weekend, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — A cattle raid in South Sudan’s Mayom county of Bul-nuer, Unity State, that witnessed at least 17 death, among which 9 were soldiers, was reportedly led by a senior officer of the South Sudan Military Intelligence (MI). Confidential sources from South Sudan military headquarters, Bilpham-Juba, alleged that the recent attacks in Mayom county were led by […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — For the last few days, a few fake tweets, attributed to Dr. Lam Akol and Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, have gone viral on Facebook, WhatsaApp and Twitter, forcing Dr. Lam to go on twitter, leaving his alleged counterpart in the dark, to clear the air. The fake tweets, which some are dated to as far as […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — In a friendly letter written and signed by South Sudan’s incumbent president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, to his all-time rival and current First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, who contracted COVID-19, president Kiir prays for Machar and other members of the former High-level Taskforce to get well soon. Despite political differences that have hindered the implementations […]
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May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have jumped to 490 after 143 more people tested positive for the virus. Until today, South Sudan had 347 cases. The ministry of health said in a statement that all the 143 new cases are South Sudanese. The surge in cases came as President Salva Kiir said earlier this month that […]
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May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – Many people who died recently in South Sudan’s capital Juba are victims of the the novel coronavirus, a senior government official said. Dr Angok Kuol Tiir, the coronavirus incident manager at the ministry of health told the Australia-based radio station SBS Dinka that many people who died recently have tested positive posthumously for coronavirus. Dr. […]
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May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has ordered all members of parliament to take a mandatory test for coronavirus, a lawmaker told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) from the capital Juba. “The President has ordered that all of us [to] be tested and that will go on regularly every one week,” the lawmaker who refused […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from South Sudan’s Uror county confirmed that the Murle youth, who attacked Lou-Nuer areas on Saturday, May 16, 2020, have incurred heavy losses in terms of lives, weapons and ammunitions. Speaking to South Sudan News Now correspondent in Pieri, South Sudan, James Mabor, a frontline journalist, confirmed that 748 dead bodies of Murle youth […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei has said that all members of the former high-level taskforce including himself have contracted the novel coronavrius. This comes after speculations on social media suggest that he and some members of the taskforce have contracted the virus. The deputy chair of the taskforce and First Vice President Dr. Riek […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – Almost fifty (50) Murle attackers have been captured during this week’s fighting in which armed men from the Greater Pibor Administrative Area attacked several villages in Uror County of Jonglei state. According to a local official who spoke to South Sudan News Now (SSNN) from Uror, some of those captured had ranks saying eight of […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – The former governor of the defunct Buma state Gen. David Yau Yau who met President Salva Kiir Mayardit last week is among 57 people whose COVID-19 test results came back positive yesterday, a government official who said he himself is COVID-19 positive has said. “General David Yau Yau has tested positive for coronavirus,” the official […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan aid worker working for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been killed as result of the renewed Jonglei fighting, the humanitarian agency said in a statement on Tuesday. “We express our deepest sympathy and condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of our staff member and all those affected,” said Steve MacKay, MSF […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan minister of cabinet affairs Martin Elia Lomoro has debunked this afternoon rumors that he has been found positive with COVID-19 after reports that he and some members of the high-level taskforce tested positive for the virus. Yesterday, South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny said all members of the coronavirus taskforce […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan main armed opposition military general has died on Monday in Juba of COVID-19 which is caused by the novel coronavirus, officials have confirmed. Maj. Gen. Ohisa Robert passed away in Juba on Monday died in the capital Juba after he was rushed to the Dr. John Garang Center for Infectious Diseases after […]
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