April 1, 2023(SSNN) — A prominent South Sudanese Bishop of the Anglican Church of South Sudan(ACSS), Rt. Bishop Thomas Tut Gany of the Ayod Dioceses, has fled an arrest warrant from the South Sudanese authorities. According to South Sudan Police Services, Bishop Thomas Tut Gany, Founder and Executive Director of Christian Mission for Development(CMD), was charged on March 31st, 2023 […]
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March 5, 2021(SSNN) — The SPLM-IO has dismissed Gen. Taban Deng Gai’s call to suspend the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement. Responding to Taban Group’s press release, Dut Majokdit, who is a member of the SPLM-IO National Council, said that the Vice-president is attempting to create another situation that is likely to jeopardize the implementation of the peace agreement. The […]
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Nov 14, 2020(Nyamilepedia) — Following the Governor’s visit to the Bilinyang Payam of Juba County and his accompanying delegation, the state government has ordered the illegal land occupants in Bilinyang Garbo area to immediately vacate the area in question within 24-hours. The governor warns the local residents to follow the rightful procedures of owning a land as enshrined in the […]
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Oct 26, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, met the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, David Shearer, earlier today at his residence in the capital, Juba. Speaking to media after the meeting, the Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan said the two leaders discussed the need for him and Machar to […]
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October 10, 2020 (SSNN) – Nine senior army officers from South Sudan United Front (SSUF) loyal to Gen. Paul Malong Awan have defected to South Sudan army (SSPDF) with 500 soldiers in Unity State. Speaking on behalf of the defectors in the state capital, Bentiu on Saturday, the commanding officer, Major Gen. Nyal Tut Toat, said their defection was in […]
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August 1, 2020 (SSNN) – A former South Sudanese Judge says he and 14 other judges should be reinstated immediately after an East African court ruled President Salva Kiir illegally fired them three years ago. Former South Sudan Court of Appeals Judge Malek Mathiang Malek said he is grateful the East African Court of Justice ruled in his favor. President […]
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By Mohamed Osman July 25, 2020 (SSNN) – On July 18, the Sudanese army issued a statement saying they had appointed a special commissioner to bring lawsuits against individuals who “insult” the army, including activists and journalists, both in and outside of Sudan, who write online. The army spokesperson invoked the troublesome Cybercrimes Act, an overly broad law introduced in 2007 that has […]
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July 24, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan presidency denied on Friday claims by renowned economist and former National Security Service (NSS) detainee, Peter Biar Ajak, that President Salva Kiir had sent a security team to slaughter him in Kenya. Peter Biar, who was in Kenya, fled – along with his family – to the US on Thursday and later said […]
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By Peter Biar Ajak July 24, 2020 (SSNN) – I arrived safely in Washington Thursday after a harrowing journey from Nairobi, Kenya. I used to be pressured into hiding after receiving phrase a number of weeks in the past from senior authorities officers in South Sudan that President Salva Kiir had ordered the Nationwide Safety Service, led by Gen. Akol […]
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July 24, 2020 (SSNN) – United States President Donald J. Trump has given South Sudan economist and former National Security Service (NSS) detainee, Peter Biar Ajak, a refuge in the United States after fears that Kiir’s NSS operatives were looking for him in Nairobi. “Thank you President @realDonaldTrump for saving my family+me & giving us refuge in the USA after […]
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July 23, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan presidential advisor on minority affairs, Akot Lual, has been released without charges after almost one week under national security service detention in the capital Juba, sources close to him said. Lual was arrested on Saturday in Juba by the National Security Service (NSS) after local communities in Bor allegedly told a committee set […]
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July 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s chief of defense forces, general Johnson Juma Akot has said that his country does not have external threats urging members of the unified forces to work to bring permanent peace in the war-torn country. The top South Sudan army official was speaking during a visit to Maridi training camp for the unified forces […]
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July 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan president’s advisor on minority affairs, Akot Lual, has been arrested by National Security Service in the country’s capital Juba, after a section of the Bor community accused him of arming Murle community. Sources speaking to South Sudan News Now said from Juba that Akot was arrested on Saturday night in central Juba and […]
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July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLA-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has urged the South Sudan People’s Defence Force (SSPDF) to release detained SPLA-IO commander. Over the weekend, General Gabriel Bol Wek, a senior SPLA-IO commander in Western Bahr el Ghazal state’s Jur River was arrested by government forces, reportedly […]
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July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that he rejected to be dictated on who should be appointed as governor of any state in South Sudan, and as such some of the nomination by other parties. Kiir made the remarks during the swearing-in ceremony of the newly appointed governors of Jonglei and Western Bahr […]
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By Beek Mabior July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – Female circumcision is satanic and I’m deeply dissatisfied and unhappy with this practice in our nation that fuel indignity and attack against women’s rights and freedoms in South Sudan and beyond. We all need to come together and eliminate this meaningless and disgraceful cultural practice in our country. A woman is a […]
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July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan oil production has dropped to 170,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 185,000 bpd due to disruptions caused by COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official has said. Awow Daniel Chuang, the undersecretary in the ministry of petroleum, disclosed that the drop in production is the result of global economic slowdown due to COVID-19 that has […]
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July 20, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Fierce fighting has broken out between South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) and Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) in Mapel, one of the training centers for the unified forces, sources have said. The fighting, one source said, occurred on Sunday morning; a day after the SSPDF abducted the deputy commander of SPLA-IO Nahr […]
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July 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, the SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, has ruled out any intention to replace General Johnson Olony Thambo as the SPLM-IO nominee for Upper Nile state governorship. Machar had last month nominated Olony for the top state position, but President Salva Kiir refused to appoint […]
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July 17, 2020 (SSNN) – The Chinese Business Association in South Sudan (CBASS) on Thursday donated food and relief items to help the east African country respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Zhu Yan, acting chairperson of CBASS, said the group provided 30 sets of tents, 200 mosquito nets, 100 bags of rice, 100 bags of wheat flour and 2,000 liters […]
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July 17, 2020 (SSNN) – Authorities in South Sudan’s capital Juba have arrested a Ugandan national who has been accused by local residents of selling meet, according to police spokesman Maj. General Daniel Justine. The arrest – Justine told journalists – took place on Thursday when the police in Juba’s northern police station were alerted by local residents of suspicious […]
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July 16, (SSNN) – Two aid workers in South Sudan were shot dead along with four people they were helping after members of an unknown armed group attacked them early this week, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the country said Thursday. South Sudan is one of the most dangerous places in the world for humanitarian workers even after the country’s […]
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By Zechariah Makuach Maror July 16, 2020 (SSNN) – If we youth stop for a moment to think honestly, and finally asked the following questions. Do our leader/elders have enough time to devote to guiding young generation in the right direction? Am I wrong if I say that they themselves would have been victims of today’s competitive era if we […]
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July 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of higher education, Denay Jock Chagor, has been relieved from his position and then appointed as the new governor of the country’s restive Jonglei state, according to a decree readout on the SSBC. President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, who are the main principals to the peace […]
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July 15, 2020 (SSNN) – Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, has commended South Sudan parties to the revitalized peace agreement for progress achieved in recent months despite the disruption by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is despite the health and economic difficulties posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Uhuru underscored the setting up of the executive arm of the Revitalized Transitional Government of […]
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July 13, 2020 (SSNN) – Fighting at Wau central prison this afternoon has killed at least one person and wounded three others after prisoners grabbed guns from prison guards before they scape, according to police officers in Wau. This afternoon, over 70 inmates break out of Wau Central Prison, after confiscating guns from prison guards who they overwhelmed at the […]
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July 13, 2020 (SSNN) — The SPLM-IO Chairperson of National Committee for Information and Public Relations, Mabior Garang de’Mabior, has said that the revitalized peace agreement has been hijacked by what he calls ‘NPTC’ regime in the nation’s capital Juba. Mabior made the remarks in an exclusive interview with the Nyamilepedia chief executive office, Deng Elijah Hon Top, in which […]
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July 12, 2020 (SSNN) – The SPLM-IO spokesman, Mabior Garang de ‘Mabior, who is also the group’s Chairperson of National Committee for Information and Public Relations, has denied reports that he resigned blaming “NPTC regime” in Juba. Earlier this morning, a document purported to be a resignation from Mabior Garang de ‘Mabior, was circulated online raising panic among the SPLM-IO […]
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By Beek Mabior July 11, 2020 (SSNN) – Industrialization is a backbone for the national economy just like agriculture and I’d like to appeal to our government and citizenry to embrace this magnificent analysis and recommendation on how to make South Sudan an industrialize and technological state in Africa. We all know that industrialization, technology, and scientific discoveries are the […]
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Dear Compatriots, July 9, 2020 (SSNN) – Today marks the 9th anniversary of our independence. This great feeling did not come easy, but after a very long protracted struggle that lasted for decades and took millions of lives of our people and untold destruction of property. The resistance of our great people has been a long race with the torch […]
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July 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has said that he did not make the concessions that include returning the country to ten states because of weakness but because of his desire for peace. In March, Kiir made a key concession and ordered the return of the country to ten states from 32 which he created […]
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July 7, 2020 (SSNN) – We write to you in our capacity as Unity State youths to pledge our unequivocal solidarity with all the communities of Unity State; they are continuing to endure all manner of risk and suffering in the United Nations’ camps in and outside the country. It has been exactly 7 years since you became the Unity […]
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By is Kech Nguoth Tiem July 7, 2020 (SSNN) – The writer of this article was motivated to give out his views about the above subject due to ongoing wrestling between the leadership and some Community actors regarding the appointment of Gen Olony Thabo as the Governor of Upper Nile through SPLA IO ticket as agreed in the Revitalized Peace […]
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