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 minister for East African Affairs John Luk Jok has died this morning in the capital Juba after reportedly succumbing to COVID-19, officials said this morning. One official at his office told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that Luk was tested positive for coronavirus two weeks earlier and died succumbed to the virus this […]
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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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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – South Korea has sent additional rotational peacekeeping troops to South Sudan on Monday, along with medical supplies to help the African country handle the new coronavirus, the South Korean defense ministry said. The first echelon of the 12th batch for Hanbit Unit was dispatched to the war-torn nation in May after months of delay due […]
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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) and its peace partner, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO), have launched fresh military offensives against holdout opposition group, National Salvation Front (NAS) led by General Thomas Cirilo Swaka in Central Equatoria state, an opposition spokesman said. Suba Samuel Manase, the spokesman for NAS said the former […]
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By Tom Gatdel Malou June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – Concerning the above subject, South Sudan Students’ Association in Kenya, (SSSAK) and Uganda being the countries with a good number of students schooling on their own and also not benefited from the Covid-19 funds released two months back. The leadership of South Sudanese students in Kenya decries, regrets and blames the […]
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June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – Four South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) soldiers were on Sunday shot dead by Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers following a clash at Maru village, Kochi Sub-county in Yumbe District. According to the area LC1 Chairman, Mr Yusuf Taban, the South Sudan soldiers started disturbing the residents of the area on May 20 in […]
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May 31, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has denied allegations that it was involved in raiding cattle in Ruweng Administrative area. Last week, the Secretary-General of the defunct Ruweng state Victoriano Ngor Chuang accused the SPLA-IO of aiding civilians from Unity state to attack and raid […]
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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 31, 2020 (SSNN) – The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Friday extending for a year an arms embargo on South Sudan and a travel ban and financial sanctions for targeted individuals, with Russia, China and South Africa abstaining. The U.S.-drafted resolution welcomes “encouraging developments in South Sudan´s peace process,” including the beginning of the formation of a transitional […]
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May 30, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan vice-president James Wani Igga and his entire family have tested positive for COVID-19, officials close to him said Saturday. “Yes the vice-president has tested positive for coronavirus. his family members have also been affe ted by the virus,” an aide who refused to be named told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) this evening. […]
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May 29, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s cabinet affairs minister Martin Elia Lomoro has been discharged from hospital days after he was admitted to an intensive care unit at Dr. John Garang Center for Infectious Diseases, the South Sudan News Now (SSNN) has learned. Lomoro who repeatedly denied that he has the coronavirus disease (or COVID-19) was last week put […]
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May 28, 2020 (SSNN) – In the dusty streets of South Sudan’s capital city, Juba, citizens of the world’s youngest nation are stranded, traumatized and hungry with no food to eat. A mother who lost her husband to war is seen selling tomatoes at a custom market with no hope of making enough money. A soldier who has not received […]
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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) — South Sudan’s ministry of health said on Wednesday that COVID-19 cases have surpassed the 1000 mark after almost 200 people tested positive for the virus. The ministry of health said 188 people were confirmed to have caught the virus. This brings the total number of those with the deadly virus to 1004. The ministry of […]
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May 26, 2020 (SSNN) – A Senior South Sudan government official has been put under ventilators after developing coronavirus disease symptoms over earlier this week, sources have said from Juba. An aide said Cabinet Minister Martin Elia Lomoro was put under ventilators on Sunday after developing COVID-19 symptoms which forced him to decide that he is taken to a government […]
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May 26, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, has denied rumors on social media that First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar has dismissed the SPLA-IO chief of staff Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual. A letter circulating on social media announced the dismissal of Gen. Gatwech Dual and that he has been replaced with Gen. […]
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May 25, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former Deputy Defense Minister and Former Political Detainee, Dr. Majak D’Agoot, has tested positive to COVID-19. Announcing the event on Twitter, Dr. Majak said he was initially tested negative to COVID-19 earlier last week but the latest test results turned out positive. “This is to inform you that I did my 2nd Covid-19 test […]
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By Dak Buoth Riek-Gaak, May 25, 2020(SSNN) — I felt that a week cannot pass without me uttering a word on this sensitive matter of life and death of our people. On a matter of this magnitude, silence is not recommendable largely because it works in favour of the wrongdoers who are behind the attackers of the Lou Nuer one […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have surpassed 800 after the ministry of health registered over 150 more cases on Monday. Dr. Makur Koriom, the undersecretary in the ministry of health said 243 samples were collected during the pass 48 hours among which 151 people were tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has addressed the nation this evening denying reports that he is sick with COVID-19 and was rushed to Cairo for treatment. Below is the full address of the South Sudanese head of state to the nation from J1. “Fellow Citizens, I have just called for this press briefing to […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – The embassy of Japan in Juba on Monday denied reports that it has donated a package of unapproved “preventive” cards against COVID-19 to the office of the president. This comes after the office of the president said Japan had donated preventive cards also know as “Virus Shut Out.” In a statement this afternoon, the Japanese […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan Information Minister and government spokesman Michael Makuei Lueth has said that he is recovering from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. “Well I am fine and I am recovering. I haven’t experienced any symptom of the corona[virus]. I think by next week I will be well,” Makuei told South Sudan […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – 27-year-old South Sudanese model Nyakim Gatwech labeled “Queen of the Dark”, who has broken down the barriers of conventional beauty and encouraged others to do the same, now has a net worth of $4 million. Gatwech’s willpower and her beautiful flawless dark skin tone have earned her endorsements and brand ambassador deals with major companies like Fashion […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit will tour Juba tomorrow, Tuesday, to dispel rumours that he has been admitted to a Cairo hospital after he has allegedly be diagnosed with COVID-19, a presidency spokesman said. “The president is very healthy and doing his work normally. I want to assure the public that the president is […]
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May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has condemned a new outbreak of intercommunal violence in South Sudan that has left hundreds dead, calling for those responsible to be brought swiftly to justice. “The reports from Jonglei State are appalling, indicating that scores of civilians have been killed in attacks across 28 villages […]
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May 23, 2020(SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and leader of the SPLM-IO Dr. Riek Machar Teny has said this morning that he and his wife Angelina Teny were recovering from COVID-19 one week since they were found positive for the virus. Speaking via teleconference from Juba to worshipers in Khartoum today, Machar said he and Mrs. Teny who […]
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May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan presidency said on Saturday that plans were being made to relocate President Salva Kiir Mayardit to Luri which has been described by the presidency as “lest congested.” Ateny Wek Ateny, president Kiir’s spokesman also denied this morning that president Salva Kiir has been evacuated to Egypt for treatment after social media reports. “Whatever […]
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By Isaac Thok Moses May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – When you look deep into current South Sudan political discourse in a close proximity, you came to realize that our political elites are here to open the old stitched wounds of 1985, 1991 and 2013. These events occurred as a political showdown between our leaders, but they had devastated results and […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has announced that the country’s ministry of health registered on Friday 82 more cases of COVID-19 all of whom are South Sudanese. This, the high-level taskforce said, brings the total cases of coronavirus in the world’s youngest country to 551. South Sudan has seen rise in coronavirus cases since President Salva Kiir […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny is discharging his duties as First Vice President and also as SPLM-IO leader from his home where he is quarantined, his media official said. Machar last week tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory sickness caused by the novel coronavirus, along his wife Angelina Teny who is […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – Former governor of South Sudan’s defunct Kapoeta state Louis Lobong has been injured in a car crush outside Juba this morning, close aides have said. The former governor was heading to Torit when his car overturned in just a few miles away from Gumbo area, a Juba suburb on the other side of the river […]
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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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