May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has been asked by a group of intellectuals from Jonglei state to create another administrative area there. This came after the presidency issued a communique in which it said Jonglei state, alongside Western Bahr el-Ghazal and Western Equatoria, will be allocated to the SPLM-IO as part of a provision […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayatdit, has exhausted all his patience allowing his first deputy and SPLM-IO chairman, Dr. Riek Machar, make important decisions, a close aide to Kiir said Saturday. This comes a day after a plan by president Kiir to divide states between the parties to the revitalized peace agreement was rejected […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Said Bandas, the deputy chairperson of the SPLM-IO Youth League, said in a video he posted on his Facebook timeline that he was among a group of 30 people who tested positive for the virus on […]
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May 9, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, meets a High Level Delegation from the Federal Republic of Ethiopia in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. According to Machar’s term long-term spokesman, James Gatdet Dak, the Ethiopian delegation was led by the Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Gedu Andergachew. “A high level delegation from the Federal […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, has hinted at accepting a plan by president Salva Kiir to divide the states, calls for compromises and reiterates his commitment to the revitalized peace agreement. On Thursday the Minister in the office of President Salva Kiir, Hon. Mayiik Ayii Deng, said that the parties had […]
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May 9, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s Ministry of Finance and Planning approves 30 millions South Sudanese pound, which is more than 1 million US Dollar, for burial rite for the son of minister Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabior, The approval came within less than 24 hours following the death of the Minister’s son, leaving doubts on how much was spent on […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases on Friday jumped to 120 following the announcement by the ministry of health this afternoon that thirty (3) more people have tested positive for the virus. The latest development has raised fears of a rapid spread of the virus as President Salva Kiir Mayardit ordered on Thursday that measures put in […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) – The UN Refugee Agency in South Sudan has said that it commends the unity government in the country for continuing to welcome people seeking refuge from the Democratic Republic of Congo and stands in solidarity with the South Sudanese government. UNHCR commends the Transitional Government of National Unity for its continued generosity to allow people […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s SPLM-IO has condemned a decision by President Salva Kiir claiming that the parties collegially reached an agreement on the allocation of states as provided for in the revitalized peace agreement. The presidency issued a communiqué on Thursday saying Kiir and Machar had reached an agreement on the allocation of state governors. The statement […]
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May 7, 2020 (SSNN) — A South Sudan rights group has condemned the ongoing renewal of fighting in the country’s Central Equatoria state urging the parties to find a peaceful mean of resolving their disputes. This comes after reports that the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) and SPLA-IO launched fresh attacks against holdout opposition groups in parts of Central […]
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By Deng S. Elijah, May 5, 2020(SSNN) — This constructive analysis is meant to serve the best interest of Comrade James Gatdet Dak and many politicians in his position. In addition, it is written in the best interest of the SPLM/A in Opposition and that of the South Sudanese at large; however, the reasoning that is used in this article […]
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April 30, 2020 (SSNN) – A $40 million grant from the World Bank’s International Development Association will fund a two and half years Project to provide income support to nearly 430,000 low income South Sudanese. The Project will be implemented by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in South Sudan. UNOPS will deliver the South Sudan Safety Net […]
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South Sudan’s High-Level Taskforce, the body that oversees COVID-19 pandemic in the country, grants a “Special Permission” to unnamed charter plane to pick up the notorious general Lt. Gen. David Yau Yau from his hometown of Pibor to Juba
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April 20, 2020(SSNN) — Responding to defection of SPLM/A(IO) senior politicians led by Hon. Dak Duop Bichiok, a group of Eastern Jikany Nuer politicians have spoken. The group cited a conference held by Hon. Dak Duop on April 16, 2020 and condemn it in the strongest terms possible. “Given the totality of the circumstances under which the defection was declared, […]
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April 17, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former TGONU Minister of Petroleum, Hon. Dak Duop Bichiok, and his group did not only defect from one faction of the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity but also violated the Coronavirus Task Force bylaws that are being overseen by his former boss, Dr. Riek Machar Teny. The political gathering, which welcomed interested members […]
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PRESS RELEASE, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 2, 2019(SSNN) — A meeting of the leadership of the parties to the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) was convened today in Addis Ababa. “The meeting is of great significance at this time of the South Sudan peace process as the Pre-Transitional period of […]
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