June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit has removed the undersecretary of the ministry of health Makur Koriom, according to a decree read out on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation. The reasons behind the sacking were not however mentioned but disagreements between the undersecretary and minister of health have grown in recent weeks leading up […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – The US embassy in South Sudan has urged the country’s transitional government of national unity to work in order to de-escalate ongoing intercommunal conflicts in several parts of the country. The US call comes as several South Sudan states in both Upper Nile and Bahr el-Ghazal flung into intercommunal fighting most of which is caused […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s first vice president and SPLM-IO chairman Dr. Riek Machar Teny has formed a fact-finding committee to investigate the circumstances in which a senior opposition commander was killed last week in Jonglei state. Last week, Brigadier General Mawich Bol was killed by a group of unknown armed civilians in Fangak county where he was […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s former army chief General Gabriel Jok Riak has reportedly been put under house arrest in connection with last week’s Sherikat incident in which a relative of President Salva Kiir Mayardit killed at least five innocent civilians, a senior national security officer has said. “The former Chief of Defense Forces General Gabriel Jok has […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s national security chief, Gen. Akol Koor Kuc, has opened a private airport in a remote village in Tonj of the country’s Warrap state, sources with direct knowledge told South Sudan News Now. One security official who spoke from Juba said the construction of the airport begun in January this year and was complete […]
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June 10, 2020 (SSNN) – Sudanese militia commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abdel-Rahman, who is commonly known as Ali Kushayb, has surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) from the Central African Republic and has been transferred to The Hague where he is being detained and awaits trial. Kushayb is a senior Janjaweed commander who supported the Sudanese government against Darfur rebel groups during the Omar […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – The Troika Countries (United States, Britain and Norway) on Tuesday urged South Sudan parties to the revitalized peace agreement to form the state governments which it said has become a new challenge in the implementation of the revitalized peace deal. President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny in February formed the long-awaited […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan police has on Monday identified the killer of Captain Manyang Chol Manyang, a member of the presidential guards who was killed as results of last week’s fighting in Sherikat, and that preparation were being made to charge him, a police source said this afternoon. Manyang is a member of the South Sudan’s Presidential […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny has dispatched a team of aides to the UN protection of civilians site in Juba to de-escalate tensions following fighting inside the base over the weekend. The fighting over unknown reasons on Friday and Saturday left over 170 people injured. Speaking to South Sudan News […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – While I was writing these lines I was- and continue to be- full of sorrow over loss after loss of many people- all over the world in general and South Sudan in particular-due partly to Covid-19 and other causes. Some of the departed South Sudanese public figures were either friends or individuals I have worked […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and leader of the Sudans People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) Dr. Riek Machar will – this week – name a new deputy minister of interior after his aide Mabior Garang de’Mabior resigned. Mabior who is also the SPLM-IO chairperson of national committee for information and public relations resigned last […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – A Chinese diplomat has blamed what he said is a lack of proper drainage system for the destruction of Juba-Rumbek high-way two weeks after rains destroyed parts of the road which is being constructed. A Chinese company which is constructing the highway has been criticized for failing to deliver lasting service on the construction of […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan veteran politician and former member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) Peter Adwok Nyaba has said that he regrets being part of what he said is a South Sudan failure. Adwok was the country’s minister for higher Education twice, first following the independence in 2011, and then following the signing […]
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June 5, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny and the minister of defense, Angelina Teny who is also his wife have recovered from the novel coronavirus, Machar’s office said today. James Gatdet Dak, the press secretary in the office of the First Vice President said a second COVID-19 test has returned negative for the […]
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June 5, 2020 (SSNN) – Prominent South Sudan opposition and National Democratic Movement (NDM) leader Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has called for what he said should be a thorough investigation into Sherikat’s Tuesday killing by a member of the army. Lt. Col. Lual Akook Wol Kiir, a cousin to President Salva Kiir opened fire on Tuesday mornig against a group […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that he fired former presidential affairs minister Mayiik Ayii Deng because he acted poorly over the construction of Juba-Rumbek highway. Kiir, the the presidency said in a statement this afternoon, made the remarks during the swearing in ceremony of Nhial Deng Nhial, the new minister for presidential […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – A group of angry protesters in South Sudan’s Jonglei state has set on fire the house of state Secretary-General after the killing of five innocent civilians – some of them from Bor – by a relative of president Salva Kiir Mayardit. Yesterday, Col. Lual Akook Wol Kiir, a cousin to president Salva Kiir and a […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s former Minister of Presidential Affairs Mayii Ayii Deng who was fired on Tuesday has said that he has no regrets working for President Salva Kiir and expressed his happiness for having grown politically mature under Kiir. This comes after he was fired by president Salva Kiir over Rumbek-Juba road saga in which a […]
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June, 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei Lueth has said that he is returning to work following a fourteen-day isolation after testing positive – last month – for COVID-19. Speaking to South Sudan News Now (SSNN) this afternoon, the information minister said doctors were conducting what he said may be the last test before he would […]
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June 3, 2020 (SSNN) – The nephew of South Sudan president who opened fire on innocent civilians this morning in Sherikat, a neighborhood in the capital Juba, killing four innocent civilians has died, two sources with direct knowledge told South Sudan News Now (SSNN). Lt. Col. Lual Akook Wol – who is better known to the people in the capital’s […]
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June 3, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s National Security Service has arrested dozens of protesters who took to streets in Juba on Wednesday after a nephew and son of President Salva Kiir Mayardit killed four members of one family. The killing took place this morning in Sherikat, a neighborhood few kilometers outside the country’s capital. Following the killing, protesters took […]
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June 3, 2020 (SSNN) – A gunman who claims to be President Salva Kiir’s son has killed three people over dispute on a piece of land at Shirikat, a Juba subburb on the other part of the Nile, residents said this morning. The incident happened exactly near Bor bus park which is located in Shirikat. One resident said the culprit […]
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June 2, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has sacked the country’s minister for presidential affairs, Mayiik Ayii Deng, replacing him with a former former foreign minister. The decree which did not give reasons for Ayii’s removal was read out on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC). In a separate decree, the president appointed former Minister of […]
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June 2, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s SPLA-IO is reportedly preparing to wage a counter-attack against the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) following last month’s attack on several areas of the Greater Akobo. In May, heavily armed Murle youth attacked several parts of Akobo killing over 300 people and walked away with a huge number of cattle before the cattle […]
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June 2, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has finally recovered from COVID-19, senior SPLM-IO officials said today. Machar who is also the chairperson of the main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, said late last month that he and his wife Angelina Teny who is also the minister of defense tested positive for respiratory disease […]
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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – Vice-President Taban Deng Gai has reportedly turned down a request by President Salva Kiir Mayardit to replace his counterpart Hussein Abdelbaggi as the new chair of the country’s coronavirus taskforce. Hussein last week tested positive for coronavirus and said he was going for the 14-day quarantine recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Speaking to […]
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By Dr. Laura Nunu June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – From 1983 to 2020, it is exactly thirty seven years in which more than 3.5 millions lives lost in SPLM/A war of liberation but did that struggle have a hidden evil agenda with it? It is now crystal clear if not to every single South Sudanese, but all Ma’di community what […]
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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan lawmaker in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) on the ticked of vice-president Taban Deng’s defunct SPLM-IO faction has resigned as the country awaits the reconstitution of the legislative body. “Your Excellency, Please accept this letter as formal notification of resignation from my position as Member of Parliament at the Transitional National […]
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May 31, 2020 (SSNN) – The Amnesty International has welcomed the renewal of South Sudan arms embargo on South Sudan by the United Nations Security Council, an East African envoy of the watchdog said Sunday. The AI’s Director for East and Southern Africa, Deprose Muchena, said the decision by the world body to continue the sanction regime on South Sudan […]
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May 31, 2020 (SSNN) – The farmers’ union in South Sudan’s Ruweng Administrative Area (RAA) has brought a suit against companies pumping and transporting oil in the country. The farmers thus join an association of attorneys and humanitarian NGOs in lodging motions. Respondent in the latter is the government of South Sudan, which is being sued in the East African […]
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May 27, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan vice-president and chairperson of the National Taskforce on coronavirus, Hussein Abdel-Baggi, has tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. A senior government official told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) this evening that Abdelbaggi was among 188 people – all of whom are South Sudanese – who tested positive […]
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May 27, 2020 (SSNN) – Two South Sudan army chiefs have been involved in gross human rights violations during their tenures, a new report by the US-based firm, The Sentry, has found. The report titled: “Making a Killing” also accused four South Sudan army chiefs including Malong, Jok Riak, Hoth Mai and Oyai Deng Ajak of corruption practices without accountability […]
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May 26, 2020 (SSNN) – Has South Sudan reached the stage of anarchy?? That is a question, I know many South Sudanese are struggling to answer, personally I am not finding any better terminology to describe this stage, where our country find itself today.When the authorities in a country can not grantee the safety and security of the Citizens under […]
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