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Updates: Rome-based peace talks set to review the cessation of hostilities

October 11, 2020 Breaking News, News, South Sudan, World

South Sudanese parties holding a peace talks on cessation of hostilities in Rome, Italy(Photo credit: supplied)

Rome, Italy, Oct 10, 2020(SSNN) —This afternoon in Rome, Italy, the South Sudan government delegation headed by the Minister of Presidential Affairs, Hon. Nhial Deng Nhial, and the main South Sudan Opposition Movement Alliance (SSOMA) have reached consensus on ratification of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA) after 3-hour long deliberations. The rivaling parties and the Roman Catholic mediating community […]

Gen Malong defies US-EU sanctions, flights to Italy

January 6, 2020 EU, Newsbeat, UN

January 7th, 2020 (SSNN)—South Sudan’s former Chief of General Staff and Chairman of the South Sudan United Front (SSUF), General Paul Malong Awan has traveled to Italy for a meeting organized by the community of Sant’Edidio, despite sanctions imposed on him by the United States and the European Union in 2018. Sunday De John, a spokesman of the South Sudan […]