By Ayuen John June 14, 2020 (SSNN) – My dear country men and women – especially the resilient youth of South Sudan who are subsisting with hardship of numerous predicaments and pandemic within the country and abroad. I humbly salute you in the name of our beloved nation. Indeed some of the youth may wonder about the question put forward […]
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June 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has summoned the country’s head of National Security Service’s Internal Security Bureau (ISB) General Akol Koor Kuc over a private airport opened in a village in Tonj North County, two senior officials said. Last week, the General Akol Koor opened a private airstrip in Awul village in Tonj North […]
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June 12, 2020 (SSNN) – The body of South Sudan army officer and President Salva Kiir’s relative lt. Col. Lual Akook (aka Lual Marine) has been flown to his home state of Warrap from the capital Juba, officials have said. Lual who died last week had opened fire a civilians in the capital’s neighborhood of Sherikat killing at least five […]
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June 12, 2020 (SSNN) – The British ambassador to South Sudan, Christopher Trott, has met the country’s minister of Defense Angelina Teny following her return to office this week after more than two weeks of quarantine. Mrs. Teny went to the quarantine in mid May after she and her husband – who is also the First Vice President – Dr. […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – Fighting has erupted in South Sudan’s Lakes state after a tribal commander declared his intention to join Kerbino Wol, a former national security detainee who formed a new rebel group last week. The fighting, residents said in Yirol, took place at Amokpiny, a village in Rumbek East County. One resident said the fighting erupted after […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – The paramount chief of Bor County, Alier Aluong, has died in the South Sudan capital Juba, relatives and close friends have told South Sudan News Now this afternoon. “This is to inform you that the Paramount Chief of Bor County, Alier Aluong has died in Juba this afternoon. He has been sick for the previous […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan army said on Wednesday that it has postponed the graduation of the necessary unified forces, which is provided for in the revitalized peace agreement, over shortage of funds. Major. Gen. Lul Ruai Koang, the South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) spokesman said the Joint Defense Board (JDB), the body created by the revitalized […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – The European Union has blamed the escalation of intercommunal violence in the country on the delayment of the formation state governments which has been a sticking point in the negotiation between parties seeking to fully form the revitalized unity government. In recent months, intercommunal conflicts have dramatically increased in several parts of the country with […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been warned by a group of Bul intellectuals against plans to remove presidential advisor on security, Tutkew Gatluak Manime. This comes after reports that the president was planning to remove Tutkew after a group of community leaders from Bahr el-Ghazal and Warrap in particular complained that Tutkew was […]
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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) – 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 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 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s ambassador to Brussels, Belgium, has died in Juba, a family member has said. He died at 64. Ambassador Jwokgwen Severio Yukwan Ayik reportedly died of COVID-19 in Juba where he has been stranded because of COVID-198 lockdown preventing him to return to his work destination. “It is true, ambassador Severio has died today. […]
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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 information minister and government spokesman Michael Makuei Lueth has finally returned to office after a battle with COVID-19 ended in his favor, the ministry of information said in a statement this afternoon. “The National Minister of Information, Communication Technology and Postal Services, Michael Makuei Lueth resumed his official duty on Tuesday,” it said […]
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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 President Salva Kiir Mayardit has asked Deng Alor Kuol, the leader of former political detainees (SPLM-FDs), to nominate a person to replace late John Luk Jok as the country’s minister for East African Affairs, a aide said. This comes exactly two days after Luk – who in the past served as South Sudan’s […]
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June 3, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s National Salvation Front (NAS) led by General Thomas Cirilo has accused the SSDPF and SPLA-IO of killing fifteen (15) innocent civilians in the country’s Yei river county following an alleged offensive by the two peace partners. Suba Samuel Manase, the spokesman for the NAS, said the South Sudan army and the SPLA-IO have […]
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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 government has agreed to Egyptian request to build a military base in Pagak, a former opposition stronghold that lies in the country’s Maiwut County of Upper Nile state, military sources at Bilpam said Tuesday. The base, one high-ranking military official said, will house around 250 Egyptian troops in an apparent preparation for all […]
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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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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 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that reports that he was sick and was rushed to the Egyptian capital Cairo for treatment were not true saying he was fine and discharging his duties as head of state. This comes after reports that the South Sudanese head of state has contracted COVID-19, the respiratory […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s information minister Michael Makuei Lueth has denied reports that President Salva Kiir Mayardit has tested positive for the deadly COVID-19. The denial by Makuei comes as South Sudan diplomats quoted by the South Sudan News Now (SSNN) said on Friday that the head of state has been flown to the Egyptian capital Cairo […]
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