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 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 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit is reportedly planning to replace his long-time ally, presidential advisor on security, Tut Gatluak Manime, after a group of Greater Bahr El-Ghazal community leaders accused him of being behind attacks by armed Youth from Unity state on Warrap state. Gatluak was appointed in 2016 as the country’s presidential advisor […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s ministry of health said on Tuesday that six high profile government officials including the country’s first vice president Dr. Riek Machar Teny have recovered from coronavirus. Dr. Makur Koriom, the undersecretary of the minister of health, said in a statement on Sunday that the officials – beside Machar – include the minister of […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has urged the government of South Sudan to enact national IDP protection laws which it said would boost the protection for internally displaced persons. South Sudan this week is marking the first anniversary of its accession to the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan lawyer, Wani Santino Jada, is determined to pursue lawsuits against the government of South Sudan and oil companies operating in the country over the negative effect of oil exploitation which has led to pollution killing many people. Each of these lawsuits has the potential to greatly improve the lives of the people […]
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By Ayuen John June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – My dear country men and women who have been gripped by tears and sorrow for the bereavement of your lovely died in merciless massacres of unarmed civilians by president relative in Shirkat neighborhood, capital Juba on 3rd of March, 2020. Allow me to express my sincere and heartfelt condolences for the lost […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – A new study by the Hong kong based firm has found that South Sudan is the most dangerous place to live during the coronavirus pandemic which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan last year. “Its overall healthcare infrastructure and efficiency, as well as sanitation levels, are markedly lower, and generally has a much lower […]
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June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudanese lawmaker was shot and killed by unknown gunmen in the northern part of the neighboring Uganda. Jacob Kuwinsuk Gale, an MP for the defunct Yei River State died of his wounds while being taken to hospital, officials said. In a written statement, Alfred Kenneth Duku, the Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and […]
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June 6, 2020 (SSNN) – General Abdelbaggi Ayii Akol, the father of South Sudan vice-president Hussein Abdelbaggi who tested positive for coronavirus last month has reportedly died of COVID-19, the respiratory sickness caused by COVID-19. Vice-president Hussein who is also the head of the National Taskforce on COVID-19 tested positive for the virus on May 27. He reportedly met his […]
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By Latjor C. Gakah June 6, 2020 (SSNN) – Land is an asset which its value appreciates with time and that is the bottom line. Land grabbing is a judiciary debacle in South Sudan that is both silently claiming the lives of many innocent South Sudanese and leaving others homeless. The number of land grabbing cases depicts a full blown […]
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By Emmanuel Malual June 6, 2020 (SSNN) – The level of Army brutality witnessed in Sherikat shooting on Wednesday when hundreds of residents pour on the streets shows that there is more reforms to done in our National Army to so that they will protects the citizens The army profession is built on a foundation of discipline and standards during […]
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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 6, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny and his wife, Angelina Jany Kuma Khan (or Angelina Teny) – who is also the minister of defense – have today celebrated their 39th marriage anniversary which also coincides with Teny’s 60th birthday. The two met in Khartoum, Sudan in late 1970s and […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan businessman who was previously detained by the National Security Service (NSS) has formed a new rebel group to fight the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit. Kerbino Wol who was arrested by the NSS in April 2018 for allegedly conspiring against the government said in an interview with the VOA’s South Sudan […]
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June 5, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior member of South Sudan’s ruling SPLM party has criticized SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny for appointing an “incompetent” person into the ministry of health blaming him for the ongoing health crisis imposed by the coronavirus. Daniel Awet Akot, former presidential advisor on military affairs and senior member of the SPLM Political Bureau […]
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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’s deputy minister of interior Mabior Garang de’Mabior has on Wednesday told First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and the SPLM-IO that he was resigning from the revitalized unity government. Mabior who is also a senior member of the main armed opposition group said he will not however resign from the Machar-led movement […]
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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 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) – 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 President Salva Kiir Mayardit has condemned the killing – this morning – of four innocent civilians by a man believed by residents of the capital as his son saying investigations were ongoing. This morning, residents of Juba woke up to gunshots after Lual Marine, President Salva Kiir’s son, killed four innocent civilians over […]
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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) – 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’s main armed opposition group, the SPLM/SPLA (IO) has denied any involvement in the ongoing intercommunal conflict in the country’s Jonglei state between the Murle and the Lour-Nuer. This afternoon, the National Democratic Movement (NDM) said in a statement that the SPLA-IO – alongside the Lou-Nuer’s White Army – was preparing to wage a […]
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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 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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