May 10, 2020 (SSNN) — A high-level delegation of the African Union (AU) has urged South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, and first vice president, Dr. Riek Machar, to resolve the deadlock over the allocation of states. This came after the parties failed to agree on the matter following months-long talks to divide states governments which would allow for the appointment […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has been asked by a group of intellectuals from Jonglei state to create another administrative area there. This came after the presidency issued a communique in which it said Jonglei state, alongside Western Bahr el-Ghazal and Western Equatoria, will be allocated to the SPLM-IO as part of a provision […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayatdit, has exhausted all his patience allowing his first deputy and SPLM-IO chairman, Dr. Riek Machar, make important decisions, a close aide to Kiir said Saturday. This comes a day after a plan by president Kiir to divide states between the parties to the revitalized peace agreement was rejected […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Said Bandas, the deputy chairperson of the SPLM-IO Youth League, said in a video he posted on his Facebook timeline that he was among a group of 30 people who tested positive for the virus on […]
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May 9, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, meets a High Level Delegation from the Federal Republic of Ethiopia in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. According to Machar’s term long-term spokesman, James Gatdet Dak, the Ethiopian delegation was led by the Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Gedu Andergachew. “A high level delegation from the Federal […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, has hinted at accepting a plan by president Salva Kiir to divide the states, calls for compromises and reiterates his commitment to the revitalized peace agreement. On Thursday the Minister in the office of President Salva Kiir, Hon. Mayiik Ayii Deng, said that the parties had […]
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May 09, 2020(SSNN) — The Republic of South Sudan approved at least one million US Dollar to be contributed in kind to African Union and Africa Center for Disease Control. According to Resolution No. 3 on Financial Contribution of the presidency, the Republic of South Sudan will contribute $750, 000.00 to the African Union and $250, 000 USD to the […]
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May 9, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s Ministry of Finance and Planning approves 30 millions South Sudanese pound, which is more than 1 million US Dollar, for burial rite for the son of minister Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabior, The approval came within less than 24 hours following the death of the Minister’s son, leaving doubts on how much was spent on […]
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May 08, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s new minister of Finance and Planning, Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabiordit, orders for at least 4 million SSP to be paid for his “house service and emergency funds” every month; According to a leaked document extended to South Sudan News Now, the Minister orders the Undersecretary to put this request in their monthly bills and […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases on Friday jumped to 120 following the announcement by the ministry of health this afternoon that thirty (3) more people have tested positive for the virus. The latest development has raised fears of a rapid spread of the virus as President Salva Kiir Mayardit ordered on Thursday that measures put in […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) – The UN Refugee Agency in South Sudan has said that it commends the unity government in the country for continuing to welcome people seeking refuge from the Democratic Republic of Congo and stands in solidarity with the South Sudanese government. UNHCR commends the Transitional Government of National Unity for its continued generosity to allow people […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has rejected a decision by president Salva Kiir’s office claiming that the parties have agreed to the allocation of states. The opposition group said it was surprised by the presidency statement because the matter was not resolved based on the revitalized peace agreement. […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s SPLM-IO has condemned a decision by President Salva Kiir claiming that the parties collegially reached an agreement on the allocation of states as provided for in the revitalized peace agreement. The presidency issued a communiqué on Thursday saying Kiir and Machar had reached an agreement on the allocation of state governors. The statement […]
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May 7, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan Coronavirus cases has rose to 90 after the ministry of health said sixteen (16) people have tested positive for the virus. This is the third day a high rise is recorded in South Sudan fter 28 people, last week, and 16 yesterday, tested positive for the virus. In a statement, Machar’s office said […]
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May 7, 2020 (SSNN) — A South Sudan rights group has condemned the ongoing renewal of fighting in the country’s Central Equatoria state urging the parties to find a peaceful mean of resolving their disputes. This comes after reports that the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) and SPLA-IO launched fresh attacks against holdout opposition groups in parts of Central […]
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May 7, 2020 (SSNN) — Members of the incumbent Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) from across South Sudan’s Greater Equatoria states on Thursday met the country’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, his office said. James Gatdet Dak, the Press Secretary at Machar’s office said in a statement that the delegation discussed range of issues including the the implementation of […]
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By Deng S. Elijah, May 5, 2020(SSNN) — This constructive analysis is meant to serve the best interest of Comrade James Gatdet Dak and many politicians in his position. In addition, it is written in the best interest of the SPLM/A in Opposition and that of the South Sudanese at large; however, the reasoning that is used in this article […]
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May 1, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has been urged to renew South Sudan’s arms embargo which was imposed on the world’s youngest nation in July 2018 months before a peace agreement to end the seven-year-old conflict could be signed. Deprose Muchena, the Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa said if the African Union […]
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May 1, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s coronavirus cases on Friday jumped to forty-five (45) after ten more people who had contact with a number of the 34 cases tested positive, according to the coronavirus taskforce. “Out of the 10 cases, two are truck drivers who were stopped at Nimule border. Two other cases are domestic travelers who were planning […]
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April 30, 2020 (SSNN) – A $40 million grant from the World Bank’s International Development Association will fund a two and half years Project to provide income support to nearly 430,000 low income South Sudanese. The Project will be implemented by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in South Sudan. UNOPS will deliver the South Sudan Safety Net […]
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By Eng. Chuar Juet Jock, April 27, 2020(SSNN) — While I disagree with Dr. Machar in some administrative and leadership issues, we still share a country and a community fate and destiny and only fools should think that the Nuer community, not the one bribed by Kiir and other political criminals In disguise will not defend Machar to the last drop. […]
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April 27, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former deputy minister of defense and veterans affairs, Lt. Gen. David Yauyau, who was supposed to be airlifted from his hometown of Pibor yesterday, April 26, 2020, was reportedly seen this morning, 27 April 2020, in Bor town, Jonglei State. According to earlier report from South Sudan’s Jonglei State capital, Lt. Gen. David Yauyau, […]
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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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By Dimo Silva Aurelio, JUBA , SOUTH SUDAN, April 24, 2020(SSNN) —- The South Sudan High Level Taskforce for COVID-19 has extended the country’s partial lockdown until further notice. That means all schools and most shops will remain closed, as will South Sudan’s borders and Juba International Airport. The government was expected to lift the partial lockdown Monday, but at […]
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By GARANG A. MALAK, April 24, 2020(SSNN) — A United Nations employee in South Sudan is facing disciplinary action from the global body after he reportedly left the country despite being under quarantine over suspected Covid-19. The move followed revelations by South Sudan’s High-Level Taskforce on coronavirus which said the staffer had left the country under unclear circumstances, thus breaking […]
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April 20, 2020(SSNN) — Responding to defection of SPLM/A(IO) senior politicians led by Hon. Dak Duop Bichiok, a group of Eastern Jikany Nuer politicians have spoken. The group cited a conference held by Hon. Dak Duop on April 16, 2020 and condemn it in the strongest terms possible. “Given the totality of the circumstances under which the defection was declared, […]
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April 19, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s Deputy Minister of Interior and the former Chairman of the SPLM/A(IO) National Committee for Information and Public Relation, Hon. Mabior Garang de Mabior, downplays the recent defection of some of the heavyweight politicians, Hon. Dak Duop Bichok and others, from the SPLM-IO in Government to the SPLM-mainstream in Government. While politicians are rotating the […]
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April 18, 2020 (SSNN) — An opposition envoy in the Egyptian capital Cairo allied to South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar has disowned a group of 100 members who said they were defecting to join President Salva Kiir on Thursday calling them “refugees” without political activities. Two days ago, around 100 people who said they […]
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April 18, 2020(SSNN) — According to a senior member of the ruling party in Juba who preferred to remain anonymous, said the leadership of PMPC is fighting over dwindling political gains and promises. PMCP is an acronym of Provisional Military Political Council, a breakaway group from Dr. Riek Machar’s SPLM/A-IO back in August, 2019 under the leadership of Major General […]
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April 17, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former TGONU Minister of Petroleum, Hon. Dak Duop Bichiok, and his group did not only defect from one faction of the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity but also violated the Coronavirus Task Force bylaws that are being overseen by his former boss, Dr. Riek Machar Teny. The political gathering, which welcomed interested members […]
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April 16, 2020 (SSNN) — Senior members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny have declared their intention to abandon the movement and joined the SPLM-IG of President Salva Kiir. This comes after the defection of SPLA-IO deputy chief of staff General Koang Chuol Ranley in March to President […]
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April 15, 2020 (SSNN) — Veteran South Sudanese politician and SPLM-IO figure Edward Lino Wuor Abyei has died this afternoon in the Indian city of Bangalore a long battle with unidentified sickness, family members and close sources said. One family source said from Nairobi that Abyei died this afternoon at a hospital in India. The family source however did not […]
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April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — A deadly attack on a village South East of the disputed region of Abyei on Monday has killed at least four people and also resulted in the abduction of two children, the chief administrator for Abyei at South Sudan presidency said. Kuol Alor Kuol said the attack occured during the early hours of Monday at […]
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