March 17th 2020 (SSNN) — Lieutenant General James Koang Chuol, one of the SPLA-IO’s top commanders, announced today during a press conference in Juba that he and three others had defected from the main armed opposition group led Dr. Riek Machar to join President Salva Kiir. “We are hereby announcing our resignation from the SPLA/M (10) with effect from 17/3/2020,” […]
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March 17th 2020 (SSNN) – As South Sudan enters transitional period, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told the country’s leaders to address tribal violence. This comes after president Salva Kiir appointed the long-awaited cabinet of the reconstituted transitional government of national unity. Following the signing of the revitalized peace agreement in September 2018, fighting between the rival forces […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) – Sudan’s leader of the ruling sovereignty council, H.E Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has declared a state of emergency in a bid to fight the outbreak of the coronavirus. A statement by the Council issued this afternoon did not specify a timeframe for the state of emergency but said the health measures taken by the National […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit, has ordered political leaders who recently returned to the country for formation of the country’s unity government to self-isolate for two weeks. This comes following new directives issued by the South Sudanese head of state to combat the outbreak of coronavirus. “We are taking immediate actions and scale […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) – The ministers of the Reconstituted Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU) have been sworn in today, a senior government official said. Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, the information minister and government spokesman told Nyamilepedia in an interview from Juba that the swearing in ceremony took place at the state house J1 this morning. “Yes the R-TGoNU […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) – The Rwandan Ministry of Health said in a statement on Sunday that one of its citizens, who just returned to the country from South Sudan last week, has tested positive for coronavirus during airport screening. The Rwandan ministry of health said in the statement seen by South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that the patient is […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s ambassador to China, Andruga Duku, has expressed disappointments over the handling of coronavirus screening at the Juba airport. Amb. Andruga Duku said he saw the ministry of health staffs screening arrivals at Juba airport were not wearing masks which is risky according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “I found those working at […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) – A foreigner in South Sudan’s capital Juba, who has been rushed to Juba Teaching Hospital on suspicion of coronavirus, has tested negative, sources with direct knowledge said. On Saturday, the unnamed foreigner who had coronavirus-like symptoms was rushed to Juba hospital and a health ministry official quoted by Nyamilepedia said this morning that he was […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has urged all citizens to exercise precautions such as avoiding handshakes and hugging each other as a protective measure against coronavirus. He encouraged non-physical contact but said that citizens could opt for elbow and foot bumps as greetings if they have to make physical contact. President Kiir spoke in […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) – The son of SPLM founder and senior member of the SPLM-IO has threatened to resign from the country’s revitalized unity government if security arrangements are not completed within the next eight months. Mabior Garang de’Mabior, who has been appointed deputy minister of interior during last week’s formation of the unity government, said in a statement […]
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March 15th 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Ethiopia’s chief of the national defense forces has warned that his army will defend and retaliate any possible attacks targeting a mega dam being built on the Blue Nile. Gen. Adem Mohammed made the remarks on Thursday as he led the country’s top military officers on a conducted tour of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam […]
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March 15th 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners are jointly appealing for US$1.3 billion this year to address the vast humanitarian needs of refugees fleeing seven years of unrest and conflict in South Sudan. “We welcome the formation of the Transitional Government of National Unity of South Sudan. However, many challenges remain […]
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March 15th 2020 (SSNN) – The Canadian government has welcomed the formation of South Sudan’s long-awaited transitional government. President Salva Kiir on Thursday formed the long-awaited unity government starting 36-month transitional period. “Canada welcomes the announcement of a Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity in South Sudan,” the Canadian Global Affairs said in a statement seen by South Sudan News […]
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March 13th 2020 (SSNN) — A suspected coronavirus case has been reported in South Sudan’s capital Juba a day after neighboring Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya reported their first cases of the deadly virus. According to an eye witness, an ambulance rushed to Hai Thawra near Juba University where the sick person was picked up. The government in Juba is yet […]
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March 13th 2020 (SSNN) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who recently called the coronavirus pandemic a “fantasy,” has tested positive for the illness, according to a local report. “He waits for the result of the counter-proof this Friday (13) to confirm the contamination. There is tension in the air. Despite spending quiet time on TV, and asking the people […]
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March 13th 2020 (SSNN) — Sudan and neighboring Ethiopia have reported their first cases of the coronavirus. Sudan has reported its first confirmed coronavirus case, a man who died on Thursday and had visited the United Arab Emirates in the first week of March. The man, in his 50s, died in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the health ministry said in […]
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March 13th 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has suspended direct flights to and from Egypt and Dubai to prevent the importation of the coronavirus into the country. The directive takes immediate effect and also restricts entry of travelers from all countries affected by the virus. Affected routes include Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Togo in Africa – as well as […]
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March 12th 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has appointed ministers of the long-awaited transnational government placing a woman -for the first time – in the ministry of defense. In series of decrees issued on Thursday evening, Kiir appointed Angelina Teny, a senior member of the SPLM-IO and wife of First Vice-Presidemt Dr. Riek Machar, as the country’s […]
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March 12th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit has named ministers for the long-awaited revitalized unity government. This was announced during a decree read out on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation this evening. The ministerial appointees are: Martin Elia Lomuro – Minister of Cabinet Affairs Beatrice Khamis Wani – Minister of Foreign and International Cooperation Angelina […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – Dozens of South Sudan religious leaders have been wounded after a fistfight at a church in the capital Juba, clerics said on Tuesday. “Many peopole have been wounded in the fistfight,” a church leader told this website from Juba on Tuesday. “Some of them are being treated at the Juba Teaching Hospital and some with […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – Authorities in Sudan said on Tuesday that a number of suspects in connection with what the government called an assassination attempt against Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in an incident that underlines the fragility of the country’s transition to civilian rule. Officials and state media said on Monday Hamdok, 64, survived unharmed after a bomb and […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – United Nations investigators accuse South Sudanese leaders of widespread corruption and of trampling on the rights and fundamental freedoms of their people. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan presented its latest report to the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday. The U.N. commission accuses South Sudan’s leaders of deliberately starving their people while […]
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March 11th 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan thought it was attaining peace last week but it may now have to deal with erupting ethnic clashes in some parts of the country. Even before the revitalised transitional government of national unity (R-TGoNU), which was formed out of a peace deal by President Salva Kiir, First Vice President Riek Machar and several […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – The absence of political leadership at the state level in South Sudan has contributed to the recent outbreak of intercommunal violence in the country, said the head of United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). “This fighting has caused significant casualties and the displacement of thousands of families, particularly in areas around Pibor and the villages […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – Egypt’s intelligence chief Major General Abbas Kamel passed on a message from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, in a meeting on Tuesday. El-Sisi congratulated Kiir on the peace agreement in South Sudan and expressed Egypt’s total support for the country and its quest for stability. Kamel and Kiir discussed […]
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March 9th 2020 (SSNN) – A new report by United Nations human rights experts has linked senior South Sudan government officials and military commanders to the supply of arms to the country’s many ethnic militias. This morning, Yasmin Soka, the Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights Yasmin Soka told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that “South Sudan […]
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March 9th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny is still under house arrest despite an early statement by IGAD special envoy to South Sudan Ismail Wais that the First Vice-President was free, her wife Angelina Teny who is a senior SPLM-IO figure said. IGAD’s special envoy to South Sudan Ismail Wais said that […]
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March 9th 2020 (SSNN) – Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt as his motorcade drove through the capital, Sudanese activist in Khartoum said. The activist said the attack targeted Mr Hamdok’s convoy as it was heading to the prime minister’s office. Details of the attempt remain unclear and neither the government nor the military have yet […]
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March 8th 2020 (SSNN) – The South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) led by Josephine Lagu has threatened to stay out the R-TGoNU distribution of national ministers. The revitalized peace agreement signed in September 2018 provided for the division of the 35 ministers which are to be created under the deal. The opposition consortium is entitled o three (3) ministers and […]
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March 8th 2020 (SSNN) – Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) issued an alert on Thursday of a money laundering inked to corrupt South Sudan government officials. The NCA is mandated to fight organized crime thereby protecting the public by targeting and pursuing those criminals who pose the greatest risk to the UK. The official warning on money laundering and illicit […]
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March 7th 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A protest by bus operators on the Uganda-South Sudan border on Friday disrupted activities and caused a huge snarl-up at the Nimule-Elegu crossing point. The bus operators, most of who operate transboundary passenger services, said money changers on Friday morning beat up and injured Trinity Bus Service driver Gabulyeri Ngabirano. “This incident happened this morning […]
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March 7th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group SPLM-IO has denied – in a brief statement – reports of brawl among members at a hotel in the capital Juba. This comes after social media users reported that a fistfight erupted at a SPLM-IO meeting at Pyramid Continental Hotel. In a statement this morning, Kalany Mamun, a social […]
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March 7th 2020 (SSNN) – Western diplomats and experts have warned that South Sudan’s latest peace deal will likely not stop the country’s bloody conflict. US officials have discussed a range of options if the deal fails again, including sanctioning more senior South Sudanese government officials, downgrading diplomatic relations and even de-recognition the government of South Sudan as a potential […]
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