Trump envoy to Juba urges immediate reconstitution of parliament

South Sudan opening its Transitional Legislative National Assembly in 2019(Photo credit: unknown)

June 22, 2020 (SSNN) – The United States Ambassador to South Sudan, Thomas Hushek, has urged for the immediate reconstitution of the South Sudan parliament The call by the outgoing US envoy comes a few days after President Salva Kiir Mayardit and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny agreed to end the states deadlock which has been ongoing for a […]

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South Sudan lawmaker allied to Taban resigns

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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Breaking: S. Sudan’s Speaker Makana resigns amid impeach threats

  Dec 9th, 2019 (SSNN)-South Sudan’s Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Anthony Lino Makana has submitted his resignation to President Salva Kiir Mayardit to avert looming impeachment by the country’s members of Parliament. “Following the recent move by the MPs to impeach Rt. Hon. Anthony Lino Makana which the SPLM caucus has to consider in a meeting chaired […]

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