4 June 2023, New York – Children are not targets. Children are not soldiers. Children are not weapons. As we commemorate the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, we call on leaders everywhere to embrace the commitments outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Safe Schools Declaration to ensure girls and boys everywhere are able to reach their […]
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For Immediate Release Nairobi, June 10, 2023(SSNN) – The United Nations Security Council should take stronger steps to reverse the rapidly deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in Sudan, Human Rights Watch said today. During the Security Council discussion on June 2, 2023 to renew the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), all council members, including the three African members, should support […]
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By OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON, Oct 3, 2021 (SSNN) — The United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway (the Troika) commend the Sudanese people as they celebrate the first anniversary of the signing of Juba Peace Agreement (JPA) on October 3, 2020. This historic agreement responds to the Sudanese people’s calls for freedom, peace, and justice, especially from those affected […]
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Sep 24, 2021(SSNN) — South Sudan’s three-year-old peace deal is doomed to collapse unless the parties can settle disputes and create a unified army, the main opposition faction said on Wednesday. The accord signed in September 2018 calls for the reunification of all fighters involved in the civil conflict, but the process has been marred by delays. The peace deal signed […]
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Juba, South Sudan, May 27th, 2021 — South Sudan’s President H.E Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit issued a presidential decree two days ago appointing an ad hoc committee to engage in talks with Sudanese Transitional Government over the status of contested Abyei Administrative Area. The formation of the committee comes a week after armed militia from Sudan’s Messiriya tribe allegedly backed […]
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May 17, 2021(SSNN) — Lifting the UN arms embargo on South Sudan could have dire consequences for human rights, Amnesty International warned today, ahead of a UN Security Council vote on 27 May to decide the future of the embargo. The Security Council must ensure a range of human rights benchmarks are met before the embargo can be lifted. These […]
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May 17, 2021(SSNN) — At least 12 people have been killed and seven left struggling for life after Misseriya, an armed militia group fired assault rifles at civilians in Abyei according to Kon Manyiet Matiok, the Chief Administrator of the area. Manyiet says the incident started at 11:00 am on 14th May 2021 after the armed group supported by the […]
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May 6, 2021(SSNN) — Indian Battalion based at Malakal in UNMISS effectively carried out 02 days veterinary aid camp and animal health awareness campaign to livestock owners at Kodok in South Sudan from 16 April to 17 April, 2021. Kodok, formally known as Shilluk Kingdom, is located at Western Nile in Upper Nile State. According to Lt. Col. Philip Varghese, […]
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March 30, 2021(SSNN) — The Eastern Equatoria State governor, Louis Lobong Lojore’s envoy was on Monday ambushed by a group of armed youth in Budi County as they were leaving the area after a peace mission. The governor narrowly survived the attack that left one of his bodyguards and a wife to the Division Commander killed in the ambush while […]
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March 27, 2021(SSNN) — The Sudan’s Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Buhran, has arrived in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, to meet with the leaders of the holdout oppositions. According to president Salva Kiir’s office, Gen. Fattah was received in the airport by President Salva Kiir this morning, March 27, 2021. “27th March 2021, H.E. […]
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Juba, South Sudan, March 16, 2021(SSNN)– The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), UNHCR, the Refugee Agency and partners, applaud progress toward lasting solutions for forcibly displaced persons as national consultations took place last week in Juba, South Sudan. The two day event successfully marked another milestone for South Sudan’s implementation of the Sudan and South Sudan Solutions Initiative, under the auspices of […]
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Mar 2, 2021(SSNN) — A South Sudan commercial plane crashed on Tuesday in the Pieri area of Uror County, Jonglei State killing all the ten people who were on board. According to some eyewitnesses, the plane which was carrying two crew members and nine passengers crashed immediately after takeoff from Pieri airstrip. Eyewitness Sebit Kuol says the aircraft took off […]
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Feb 23, 2021(SSNN) — A fistfight broke-out at Juba International Airport on Monday afternoon as the Tigrayans forces, who served in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan(UNMISS), refused to board a scheduled plane to return to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Speaking to media after the fistfight, the UN spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, explained that the argument began in the airport on […]
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By Dr. Lam Akol, Feb 23, 2021(SSNN) — The International Crisis Group (ICG) issued its Africa Repot No.300 on 10 February 2021. The report attempts to address the current crisis South Sudan is wallowing in and offers possible ways out of the political cul-de-sac it is inexorably heading towards with attendant insecurity. The basic premises of the paper are that […]
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For Immediate Press Release, 29 December 2020(SSNN) —- This serves to inform the general public that there was no election conducted by Leek Community Association in Juba at Star Hotel as Mr. Lam Tungwar claimed, for what happened was a hollow sham to assume power illicitly since he contested nobody but himself. What we all know as a Leek community […]
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By Devin Watkins Dec 24, 2020(Nyamilepedia) — Pope Francis signs an ecumenical Christmas message to the political leaders of South Sudan, and urges them to make greater strides along the path of peace and service to the nation. Pope Francis has sent Christmas greetings to the political leaders of South Sudan once again this year. As with last year’s message, the […]
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Dec 23, 2020(SSNN) — Three United Nations organizations are calling for immediate humanitarian access to parts of South Sudan’s Jonglei State and Pibor Administrative Area, where people have run out of food and are facing terrible levels of hunger. This call came following a new report of Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on Friday which put South Sudan on heightened […]
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Opinion: By Ran Kuoth Chak, Dec 8, 2020(SSNN) — Of all the aspiring candidates in the SPLM/A-IO leadership, who would replace the chairman Dr. Riek Machar Teny(PhD) in any eventuality, the one and only self-proclaimed leader that can never ascend to that position is none other than Hon. Duer Tut Duer. In a few words, Duer has proven that he […]
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KHARTOUM, Sudan. Dec 4, 2020(SSNN) — Representatives of the governments of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan agreed this week on a regional roadmap which will outline the next steps toward medium to long-term solutions for seven million forcibly displaced persons originating from and hosted by the two countries, and other States hosting displaced populations from both countries. The […]
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By Sibel Morrow Dec 2, 2020(SSNN) — Crude oil prices were down on Wednesday over the double whammy of an increase in US oil inventories and continuing uncertainty about OPEC+ meeting as investors await a decision from OPEC+ regarding their production policy for 2021. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $47.15 per barrel at 0648 GMT for a 0.56% […]
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Dec 1, 2020(SSNN) — Thousands of people who have been displaced by violence and floods in Warrap State hardly get enough food or shelter. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that at least 377,300 people have been displaced by floods and violence in Warrap since July. Most of the displaced people are living on aid […]
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Edith M. Lederer Tanzania, The Associated Press December 1, 2020(SSNN) — UN experts say South Sudan’s latest peace effort has stalled, with the coalition government formed in February failing to meet deadlines and President Salva Kiir locking opposition leader and now First Vice-President Riek Machar “out of the government’s decision-making process.” The panel of experts said it was told by […]
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Nov 29, 2020(SSNN) — The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) must maintain the arms embargo on South Sudan, Amnesty International said today, after confirming shocking cases of extreme violence by government forces and an increase in attacks on civilians, including war crimes, across the country in 2020. New research by Amnesty International has documented a series of extrajudicial executions, forced displacement, torture, […]
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Nov 29, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from the Ethiopia capital of Addis Ababa alleged that the Ethiopian government has given South Sudan diplomats 72 hours to leave the country. The controversial decision, which was delivered in writing to South Sudan embassy came less than 24 hours after the Egyptian President H.E. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi visited the South Sudanese capital, Juba […]
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Nov 28, 2020(SSNN) — His Excellency Abdel Fattah Al- Sisi, President of Arab Republic of Egypt was today morning received upon arrival at Juba International Airport by His Excellency Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan. “His Excellency Salva Kiir Mayardit welcomed his Egyptian Counterpart, His Excellency Abdel Fattah Al- Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of […]
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Nov 20, 2020(SSNN) — Addressing Church leaders and eminent personalities from the Global Churches, who held a meeting and prayers at the presidential palace today, November 20th, President Salva Kiir outlined his three main reasons for refusing to appoint the SPLM/A-IO gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gen. Johnson Olony Thabo. “H.E. President Salva Kiir Mayardit, in his Office this Friday morning, […]
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FRANCESCA MOLD, Nov 21, 2020(SSNN) — When South Sudan won independence almost a decade ago, it inherited an infrastructure devastated by civil war. Government buildings, power and water supplies as well as roads were destroyed. The country’s climate hasn’t helped the process of rebuilding in the wake of a peace deal. Heavy floods often leave roads impassable during the long […]
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Nov 21, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance would like to inform its supporters at large, regional and international community as well as the media houses that several SSOMA-Leadership Council meetings were held on the 31st October, 7th and the 14th of November 2020 whereby the leaders resolved to call for reunification of SSOMA and express readiness to engage […]
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Nov 10, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, met a Sudanese delegation comprising of members of Sudan’s Sovereign Council led by Prof. Siddig Taour Kafi Aburas today in Juba, South Sudan. Speaking to the media after meeting president Salva Kiir, the Sudanese officials appreciated Salva Kiir leadership in mediating their differences. “Prof. Siddig Taour commended H.E, President Salva […]
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Nov 10, 2020(SSNN) — The story of the struggle of the South Sudanese has been told in many different versions, some tragic and some hopeful. The story of my family’s escaping 1984 from The Republic of Sudan to the United States when I was three years old is worthy of a Hollywood script. My father is a career politician; he […]
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By Dr. Lam Akol, Nov 9, 2020(SSNN) – On the 3rd of November, the National Conference of the “National Dialogue” was opened in Juba amid a fanfare that it represented the voice of the people of South Sudan. “Our people have spoken” was a recurrent and repeated phrase by the organizers of the Conference in self-congratulation for a job well […]
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Nov 10, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from Western Equatoria state accuse senior officials from Equatoria, who are attending the National Dialogue in Juba, of funding atrocities in Western Equatoria state. According to Hon. William Baiki, the Executive Director in the Office of the Governor of Western Equatoria state, the Transitional Government should hold accountable senior officials that include Hon. Jemma […]
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Press Release By Manuel Müller, German Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan Oct 30, 2020(SSNN) — 30 years ago, on October 3rd, 1990, the former two German states got united. Like the day of November 9th, 1989, when the Berlin wall had come down less than one year before, this is one of those historic days everyone who witnessed […]
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