May 22, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo in a surprise trip, a South Sudan embassy staff in Cairo said this morning. “The President of the republic is here in Cairo. He arrived on Thursday and he will stay here for a number of days to discuss bilateral relations with […]
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May 21, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s incumbent, president Salva Kiir Mayardit, is secretly battling Coronavirus “behind closed doors”, a high profile insider reveals to South Sudan News Now. The confidential insider confirmed that president Salva Kiir tested positive, a day after his First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and 59 other government officials tested positive to COVID-19. The South […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior South Sudan government official has reportedly been evacuated to an identified country after an alleged health setbacks imposed by the novel coronavirus. A senior government official at the Juba International Airport told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that the senior government official has recently been tested positive for coronavirus but said could not […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of cabinet affairs, Hon. Martin Elia Lomoro, has admitted that he and some members of his family have been exposed to COVID-19, the sickness which comes as result of the novel coronavirus. This comes days after Lomoro denied in a statement on social media that he was tested and found positive for […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan civil society watchdog has condemned an attack on a local radio journalist in the capital Juba. On Tuesday night, a Eye Radio journalist was attacked at his home near Bilpam by a group of criminal gang who he said opened fire on his brother wounding him in the leg. The police has […]
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May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – Many people who died recently in South Sudan’s capital Juba are victims of the the novel coronavirus, a senior government official said. Dr Angok Kuol Tiir, the coronavirus incident manager at the ministry of health told the Australia-based radio station SBS Dinka that many people who died recently have tested positive posthumously for coronavirus. Dr. […]
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May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has ordered all members of parliament to take a mandatory test for coronavirus, a lawmaker told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) from the capital Juba. “The President has ordered that all of us [to] be tested and that will go on regularly every one week,” the lawmaker who refused […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – The former governor of the defunct Buma state Gen. David Yau Yau who met President Salva Kiir Mayardit last week is among 57 people whose COVID-19 test results came back positive yesterday, a government official who said he himself is COVID-19 positive has said. “General David Yau Yau has tested positive for coronavirus,” the official […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan main armed opposition military general has died on Monday in Juba of COVID-19 which is caused by the novel coronavirus, officials have confirmed. Maj. Gen. Ohisa Robert passed away in Juba on Monday died in the capital Juba after he was rushed to the Dr. John Garang Center for Infectious Diseases after […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have skyrocketed to 347 after the country’s ministry of health announced in the capital Juba this evening that 57 more people have tested positive for the deadly virus. The undersecretary in the ministry of health, Dr. Makur Koriom, said in a statement to the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) that […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan businessman Athian Achiek Majok has died this afternoon in the country’s capital Juba after contracting the COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, medical staff have said. “Yes it is true, Mr. Athian passed away this afternoon. He was brought here (Dr. John Garang Infectious Disease Center) for coronavirus. We don’t when […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – Fresh fighting has broke out in South Sudan’s Unity state after armed youth from the country’s Ruweng Administrative Area launched a surprise attack on a village in Guit county, local officials said. Simon Bol, a local official in Guit told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) via telephone call that the fighting began in the midnight […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – The Press Secretary for President Salva Kiir Mayardit has referred to the ongoing Murle attack against villages in Greater Akobo state as revenge and counter-revenge. Fighting has been ongoing in parts of Uror county of Jonglei state after heavily armed Murle Youth launched attacks against in several villages there. Dozens of civilians have been killed […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s ambassador to South Africa has died of COVID-19 days after struggling with the sickness caused by the novel coronavirus, sources familiar with the development said. “Ambassador Paul Macuei Malok died on Sunday night at the Dr. John Garang Infectious Diseases Centre after contracting the novel coronavirus,” one source in Juba familiar with the […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – Youth from South Sudan’s Mayom county have rubbished claims by some Warrap politicians that they have been armed by president Salva Kiir’s security advisor Tut Gatluak, General Puljang and former Northern Liech state governor Nguen Manytuil. Last week, some Warrap state politicians called for the removal of Gatluak for allegedly arming Bul youth whom the […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior South Sudan government official has blamed the absence of state governments of the ongoing fighting in the country’s Jonglei state. Manawa Peter Gatkuoth, the minister for irrigation and the deputy chairperson of SPLM-IO national committee for information and public relations said absence of state governments has led to the civilians taking laws into […]
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May 17, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan advocacy group has condemned yesterday’s attack by Murle armed youth against Lou-Nuer areas in Jonglei state’s Uror county in which dozens of civilians including women and children were killed. In a statement this morning, the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) said it was saddened by attack and accused the Greater Pibor […]
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May 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s high-level taskforce on coronavirus has announced that as much as over 50 people tested positive for COVID-19, the diseases caused by the novel coronavirus, the highest infection rate in one single day. The high-level taskforce said this evening that the ministry of health informed them that 54 people tested positive for COVID-19 today. […]
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May 16, 2020 (SSNN) – The National Salvation Front (NAS) said on Friday that South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA) on Friday suffered heavy losses after the two launched attacks against different positions of the rebel group on Thursday. Suba Samuel Manase, the NAS spokesman, said a join attack by the […]
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May 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit said on Friday that members of South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) will be deployed to fight hunger and the novel coronavirus. The South Sudanese leader made the remark during a televised address on Friday as the country marks the 37th anniversary of the SPLM/SPLA, a rebel movement and […]
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May 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Dozens of people have been killed after armed youth from the Greater Pibor Administrative Area attacked a number of villages in Jonglei’s Greater Akobo, residents there said this afternoon. “There was an attack this morning. The attackers come from Murle areas and many people have been killed and the fighting has since subsidized. I don’t […]
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s high-level taskforce has confirmed three more deaths of COVID-19, the disease associated with the novel coronavirus, and also announced that the country’s overall active cases have jumped to 236. More to follow!
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – The Bentiu community in Kenya has expressed shock after the surprise demise of a senior army general on Wednesday hailing him for his role in the Liberation struggle. On Wednesday, Lieutenant General Liah Diu Deng, a senior army officer and former director of Unity state’s prison service, passed on in the Sudanese capital Khartoum where […]
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s National Salvation Front (NAS) led by former deputy chief of staff of the army General Thomas Cirilo Swaka has denied that it kidnapped eight SPLA-IO officers saying the main armed opposition group did that to its own officers. SPLA-IO deputy spokesman, Col. Lam Paul Gabriel, said in a statement yesterday that eight officers […]
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May 14, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government threatened on Thursday to jail journalists over unethical reporting urging media houses to strictly desist from what it said is a non-professional reporting practices. In a statement this evening, South Sudan’s high-level taskforce said it “strongly denounces the wave of information and disinformation around COVID- 19 disease including publishing in social media, […]
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May 14, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan rebels have abducted eight senior military officers of the main armed opposition group, SPLM/SPLA (IO) after fighting escalated in the country’s Central Equatoria state, a spokesman said Thursday. Col. Lam Paul Gabriel, the deputy SPLA-IO spokesman and the press secretary at the minister of defense’s office said two Generals were abducted along with […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior South Sudan army general has passed away today in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, officials allid to vice-president Taban Deng Gai said Wednesday. Deng Machar Tot, a senior member of the defunct SPLM-IO faction led by Vice-President Taban Deng Gai confirmed to South Sudan News Now from the Egyptian capital Cairo that Lieutenant General […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan coronavirus cases on Wednesday surpassed the 200 mark after the high-level Taskforce said nine (9) more people tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The high-level Taskforce said the latest positive tests were all of South Sudanese who were in contact with the people who tested positive for the virus […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) has suspended the construction of a new detention facility at Luri, an area outside Juba where President Salva Kiir’s cattle farm is based, over shortage of funds. Quoting an unnamed national security officer, the independent Nyamilepedia reported last April that the South Sudan notorious security body was planning to […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – Three people have been killed and five others have been injured during an ambush in Central Equatoria state’s Yei River County, government officials there said. A Yei county official who spoke exclusively to South Sudan News Now (SSNN) said the incident happened just three miles outside Yei town. He said the incident took place at […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – Days after easing measures, the high-level taskforce introduced to fight the coronavirus outbreak; South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit is now saying that he will impose total lockdown as cases in the world’s youngest nation closes to 200. The South Sudanese head of state disclosed this during a meeting via teleconference with leaders of the […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) — For the first time, COVID-19 has been confirmed in a crowded civilian protection camp in South Sudan’s capital, the United Nations confirmed on Tuesday, a worrying development in a country that’s one of the world’s least prepared for the virus’ spread. The U.N. is aware that the health ministry and World Health Organization have confirmed […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei Lueth did not downplay the presence of coronavirus in the country and he was quoted out of context by social media users, a senior government official said Tuesday. South Sudan’s deputy information minister Baba Medan told the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) that reports on social media that […]
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