March 27, 2021(SSNN) — South Sudan’s incumbent president, General Salva Kiir Mayardit, who has led his country through a brutal civil war for the last seven, has received an African Peace Award for this year 2021. According to the office of the president, His Excellency President Salva Kiir won the peace medal for his tireless efforts to bring peace and […]
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June 7, 2020(SSNN) — Reports from South Sudan’s Bul-nuer youth leadership alleged that the Presidential Advisor on National Security, Hon. Tutkew Gatluak Manime, has been kidnapping, torturing and arresting youth who are accused to have criticized him on social media. According to the chairman of Bul Youth Council in Juba, South Sudan, the arrests and kidnapping can be done anywhere […]
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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 13, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has been urged by a local watchdog to investigate the country’s minister of finance for corruption after documents surface on social media exposing widespread misuse of public funds. Last week, finance minister Salvatore Garang came under intense scrutiny after documents circulated on social media exposing the diversion of thousands of dollars for […]
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By Duol Malow Jamlah May 10, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan politicians took up the responsibility to deliberately fight the global pandemic. One challenge, however, the South Sudan political team took the challenge over themselves and forgot to include the most important health constituent in the country, the South Sudan Doctors’ Union (SSDU) With this, I don’t think it carries […]
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January 9th, 2020 (SSNN)—South Sudan’s First Vic-President Taban Deng Gai has been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians and enforced disappearance of opposition members, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office said on Wednesday. “The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the First Vice President of South Sudan, Taban Deng Gai […]
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