By Gen. Salva Mathok Gengdit July 6, 2020 (SSNN) – The initiative taken by H.E president Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit in forming the committee chaired by Vice President H.E Dr. James Wani Igga, is a milestone decision to address Greater Jonglei crisis, although the issue may not be necessary rank or post. By 2011, H. E the president declared a […]
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By Duop Chak Wuol July 6, 2020 (SSNN) — President Salva Kiir through his press office recently claimed that he is against the appointment of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-In Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) General Johnson Olony who is the nominee for Upper Nile State governorship. He alleged that the SPLA-IO General is anti-peace and that General Olony refused to allow his […]
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By Beek Mabior, Nairobi, Kenya July 6, 2020 (SSNN) – Hi citizenry of my country, kindly allow me to spell out and read this magnificent analysis why South Sudan; a nation with billions natural resources have millions of her people living below the disgraceful poverty line and chronic hunger yet there’re billions of natural resources that the country is endowed […]
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By Paul Ruot Bayoch July 4, 2020 (SSNN) – Hoth Nhial, you died a poor man prematurely. You died an innocent man. I know you’re not born to die like that. You’re killed by unknown gunmen in place you call motherland whose land had prematurely swallowed lives of many innocent people. You’re doing your best when you met your fate. […]
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By Wicmuon Geng Chan Kuany July 1, 2020 (SSNN) – Rubkona County is located in the Centre north of Unity State and covers an area of 3,597 Sq.km with a population estimated at 100,236,4. It borders Guit County to the east, Southern Kordofan State to the north, Abiemnhom County to the North West, Mayom County to the west, Koch County […]
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By Zechariah Makuach Maror July 1, 2020 (SSNN) – What my advice infers here is that people are not always as diligent as they say they are in a way that they check the information they receive, and it is certainly the case that when people feel threatened, frightened or had wrong perception about the source of the information, they […]
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By Charles Bol Makuet June 29, 2020 (SSNN) – Yesterday, the public was surprised to see a very deadly attack on the most loyal Police General who has devoted his entire life to serving the government of South Sudan without running his tongue loosely on anyone. The article was allegedly written by certain Gabriel Akech Dhieu, a proxy name which […]
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By Beek Mabior June 29, 2020 (SSNN) – Our country has been notoriously exhibited again and again as one of the most successful war-like nations on earth. Our beloved South Sudan has regrettably and sadly earned a disgraceful and violent reputation for over half a century starting from 1956 when our former United Sudan gained her independence after a shameful […]
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By Jackline Akuot Mangok June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – The rule of law is the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws’. In this case, the well-defined laws of South Sudan are; the Transitional Constitution, 2011, Islamic laws, Customary practices, and General international principles. Role of women in ensuring the functionality of […]
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By D. Benjamin Mabor June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – Last Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the principal parties to the R-ARCSS brought an end to a standstill on the allocation of States. This marked a comprehensive resolution of what appeared to have been a fear-inspired intransigence when the SPLM/A-IO leadership objected to the decision of the Presidency citing irrelevance in regard […]
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By Kuol Abraham Tong June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – I would like to thank the SPLM/SPLA for the consistency they have portrayed during the liberation struggle that has resulted into our independence and foundation of the principles that many of us were drawn to. The SPLM/SPLA waged the longest war in Africa that is the 21 years of struggle creating […]
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The History of the Crisis, By Matai Muon, June 22, 2020(SSNN) — The ongoing diplomatic row between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile waters is, to a certain magnitude, the legacy of the colonial rule in Africa. In the late 20’s, Egypt was the regional giant along the Nile Valley owing to her superior technology, military might etc. comparatively speaking. […]
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By Gatgong Koang Thany June 22, 2020 (SSNN) – First thing first, to those who think that they have a divine entitlement to think, decide and speak for and on behalf of everyone, on everything, every time, I want to tell you, NO! A BIG NO on this one, unlike in the past and with other situation, this time, we […]
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By Lul Gatkuoth Gatluak June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – The stalemate between Egypt and Ethiopia over the project of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam is now being exaggerated in Social Media. In the past three weeks, last week of May and the first two weeks of June, one of the pressing newscast has been the establishment of the Egyptian Army Base […]
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By Noah Issa Philip June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Your Excellency, with due regard and rectitude to you and your colleagues, I hope this letter will find you although you and your wife and other colleagues are battling with COVID-19 pandemic, it’s my hope and prayers to see you and other colleagues of yours to be healthy again as the […]
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June 14, 2020 (SSNN) – World over, very few people would suggest to take their own lives. They say Death has no Friend, but in South Sudan, the reverse seems true. There are those who are friends with death. When you are living, and doing your things, your work, ideas would be opposed and fought. Today, you are a friend […]
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By Ayuen John June 14, 2020 (SSNN) – My dear country men and women – especially the resilient youth of South Sudan who are subsisting with hardship of numerous predicaments and pandemic within the country and abroad. I humbly salute you in the name of our beloved nation. Indeed some of the youth may wonder about the question put forward […]
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By Gatkuoth Kutei Chany June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – The fact that SPLM has two houses, the ‘owners and servants’ is likely scenario indisputable to deny given the situation to which the government is formed in South Sudan. Those who own the SPLM “take it all” and those who are servants continue to wash dishes and gets home with peanut; taking the […]
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By Ayuen John June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – My dear country men and women who have been gripped by tears and sorrow for the bereavement of your lovely died in merciless massacres of unarmed civilians by president relative in Shirkat neighborhood, capital Juba on 3rd of March, 2020. Allow me to express my sincere and heartfelt condolences for the lost […]
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By Emmanuel Malual June 6, 2020 (SSNN) – The level of Army brutality witnessed in Sherikat shooting on Wednesday when hundreds of residents pour on the streets shows that there is more reforms to done in our National Army to so that they will protects the citizens The army profession is built on a foundation of discipline and standards during […]
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By Nhial Gatkuoth Chung June 2, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudanese had foreseen the failure of the SPLM leadership just months after we hoisted our independence flag, the warning signs that emerged as a result of leadership crisis inside the SPLM party were the emergence of both political and military camps within the SPLM- leaders, all top military commanders and […]
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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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By Yanta Daniel Elisha April 3, 2020 (SSNN) — I would like to begin with a word of condolence to all African communities and Kuku in particular for the mysterious disappearance of virginity from our most dignified girls. There is no surprise when I bring Kuku, the South Sudanese tribe occupying Kajo Keji County of Central Equatoria State in focus […]
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By Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu April 3, 2020 (SSNN) — After every cataclysmic event one tends to think that the world will never be the same. This time it is true that in certain ways the world must change. Global history is laden with such turning points almost all being painful. For years we have been warned that a pandemic could be […]
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By Gabriel Matut Maliah April 2, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government needs to lockdown the whole country to prevent and stop coronavirus spread. All the ten states plus the three administrative areas should be in total lockdown to fight the spread of the coronavirus especially the bordering states to our neighboring countries. It is not a joke as I […]
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By Matai Muon April 1, 2020 (SSNN) — Life outside one’s door knob might be viewed as a luxury from the outside, at least sometimes. Generally speaking, South Sudanese students at home believe that those who are outside the country are the privileged few. Sometimes they could be right as being outside South Sudan these days is more of a […]
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By Eng. WIlliang Gatjang Ging March 23, 2020 (SSNN) – It has become a habit always that when somebody wants to quit away from other, he/she tries to coin out something bad against the accused so as to qualify the reason separation for exit even if it is not true. Likewise brother Ayual claimed that ‘’Ruweng suffered serious political marginalization […]
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Opinion, By: Reat Nhial Tuany February 20, 2020 (SSNN)—On February 15, 2020 President Salva Kiir Mayardit stunned the nation when he announced to reduce the number of States in the Republic of South Sudan from a staggering (32) States to (10) states, with an additional (3) administrative areas: Abyei, Ruweng and Boma. The idea to increase the number of states […]
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Opinion, By: Tut Kuany Kok February 19, 2020 (SSNN)—“Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‘leaders’ must take back our rights, our identities, and our responsibilities.” Said Maya Angelou. In a democratic and civilized state, citizens are always familiar with their rights bestowed on them by the constitution if not by natural […]
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Opinion, By Duop Chak Wuol, February 19, 2020 (SSNN)—In October 2015, President Salva Kiir issued a decree, expanding the original ten states to 28. In January 2017, Kiir issued another presidential order creating an additional four states, making the young nation a mother of 32 states. The move was met with mixed reactions from South Sudanese worldwide. Kiir move […]
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Civil Society Open Letter in support of ten States In Support of 10 States February 19, 2020 (SSNN)—Following the Summit of the IGAD Heads of States and Government on the situation of the Republic of South Sudan, held in Addis Ababa from 8-9 February 2020, the Summit delegated His Excellency Dr. Abdalla Hamdok, Prime Minister of the Republic of Sudan […]
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Opinion, By James Gatdet Dak Lampuar February 16, (2020)—By unilaterally creating administrative areas—when the action is supposed to strictly revert the country to the constitutional 10 states—-South Sudan’s Presidency is wrong, because the decision is unnecessary and a bad precedence and problematic. Well, let me first state that I congratulate President Salva Kiir on his bold decision to listen to the […]
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Opinion, By Nathaniel Pierino Subject: Proposal for the International Mediators to impose Ten (10) States or Consider a Neutral Independent Caretaker Administration (NICA). February 12, 2020 (SSNN)—Dear Chairman, Antonio Gramsci said, “The Crisis Consists Precisely in the Fact that the Old is dying and the New cannot be Born…” The question is, what do we do? I am writing to […]
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