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Full interview with Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin

July 3, 2020 Interviews, News, Newsbeat

Chairman of National Democratic Movement (NDM) and Secretary-General of South Sudan Opposition Alliance Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin speaking in an interview (Photo credit: Supplied)

July 3, 2020 (SSNN) – Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin, the chairperson of the National Democratic Movement and Secretary-General of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), has been on loggerheads with other members of the Alliance over how to share power within the opposition consortium. In an interview with South Sudan News Now on Friday, he explained what went wrong in the […]

Dr. Lam mocks Denay Chagor for backtracking on his age

June 30, 2020 Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, Politics, South Sudan

Chairperson of the National Democratic Movement (NDM) and Secretary-General of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin speaking to the media in Juba in 2016 (Photo credit: Supplied)

June 30, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s prominent opposition leader Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin who is also the chairperson of the National Democratic Movement (NDM) has mocked Denay Jok Chagor for claiming that his age was written wrongly in his national documents. Yesterday, Chagor was quoted by a section of the media as saying that his age was written wrongly […]

SSOA has ‘plan B’ if Kiir insists on allocating Jonglei – official

June 25, 2020 News, Newsbeat, South Sudan

Federal Democratic Party spokesman Wazir Michael Liah (Photo credit: Al Qad Channel)

June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) has a plan B if President Salva Kiir Mayardit insists on allocating Jonglei state to the opposition consortium, a senior member of the Alliance has said. Wazir Michael Liah, the spokesman for the Federal Democratic Party (FDP) and a senior member of the SSOA, told South Sudan News Now that […]

S. Sudan Opposition Alliance rejects latest consensus on states

June 18, 2020 Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan

Leaders of South Sudan Opposition Alliance [SSOA] posting for a photo in Juba in 2019 (Photo credit: Nyamilepedia)

June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – The South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) has rejected yesterday’s consensus by president Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar on the allocation of states. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday in Juba, minister for presidential affairs Nhial Deng Nhial said the parties have reached an agreement and decided to allocate six states to the […]

Analysis: Pushing brinkmanship to the cliff: SPLM-IG’s intransigence on the allocation of the States

May 12, 2020 Analyses

South Sudan prominent opposition leader, leader of National Democratioc Movement (NDM) and SG of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin speaks during the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly on October 2007 at the United Nations in New York. (Photo credit: DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)

By Dr Lam Akol May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – The signing of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) in September 2018 was received with jubilation by the war weary South Sudanese. They believed it was going to bring their suffering to an end. For five years they witnessed terrible horrors […]

South Sudan Opposition Alliance threatens to stay out of unity govt

March 8, 2020 News, Newsbeat

March 8th 2020 (SSNN) – The South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) led by Josephine Lagu has threatened to stay out the R-TGoNU distribution of national ministers. The revitalized peace agreement signed in September 2018 provided for the division of the 35 ministers which are to be created under the deal. The opposition consortium is entitled o three (3) ministers and […]