August 29, 2020(SSNN) — A confidential document extended to South Sudan News Now reveals that South Sudan National Youth Union Chairperson, Mr. Gola Boyoi Gola, has ordered assassination of his court opponent in Juba, South Sudan. The letter explains that the South Sudan National Youth Union has a court case in the Supreme Court and based on the evidence, the […]
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Ratify UN Treaty, Investigate, Ensure Truth, Justice, and Healing By HRW, Nairobi, Kenya August 28, 2020(SSNN) – South Sudan should investigate the fate and whereabouts of scores of victims of enforced disappearances and those still missing from years of civil war, Human Rights Watch and Remembering the Ones We Lost said today. On August 30, the world marks the International Day of the Disappeared. Since […]
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August 23, 2020(SSNN) — A retired police Major General was killed this evening at South Sudan’s Sherikat suburbs where fatal shooting happened in June. Unlike the previous incidents that happened here, a soldier who was later identified as Apukic opened fire on a retired Major General few minutes to 7PM today. “The Maj. General was playing table game under a […]
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August 22, 2020(SSNN) — A senior member of South Sudan Central Bank has came forward to explain why South Sudan has ran out of hard currencies. Speaking to South Sudan News Now, the senior banker who identified himself as John, said the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Hon. Salvatore Garang should be held accountable for lack of foreign reserves […]
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August 11, 2020(SSNN) — When they say “youth are naive”, they mean it. In fact youth are the foolish majority. This is a fact that you will run into in any part of the world. A few years ago, I was crossing a busy street (Westbrooks Mall) on campus. I was being driven by a senior friend whose daughter […]
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August 08, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former lost boy, Peter Biar Ajak, who was detained for 18 months in South Sudan’s capital Juba, has gone viral on social media over the last one week after arriving in the United States but according to press secretary, Ateny Wek Ateny, Biar desperately needed the opportunity to gain entry into the US. Ateny […]
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August 5, 2020(SSNN) — Today, August 5, 2020, South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, met with the Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Hon. Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro, to determine how best the two could push other members of the governance cluster to come to the table to draft roles and responsibilities. Speaking after meeting Dr. Machar, the Minister […]
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By Gong John, August 2, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan chief justice has been recently caught directing the judge to sentence the journalist who has the case with the minister of finance and economic planning. This happened in the muduria court after the Minister of Finance and economic planning sealed a deal with South Sudan chief justice to wrongly convict Zechariah […]
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By Gabriel Kuot Akok Dengdit August 2, 2020(SSNN) — On 30th July 2005, His Excellency the First Vice President of the Sudan TGoNU and the President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS), H.E. Dr. John Garang De Mabior died in a helicopter crash. As South Sudanese are commemorating their martyrs, I would love to seize this sad moment to […]
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August 1, 2020 (SSNN) – A former South Sudanese Judge says he and 14 other judges should be reinstated immediately after an East African court ruled President Salva Kiir illegally fired them three years ago. Former South Sudan Court of Appeals Judge Malek Mathiang Malek said he is grateful the East African Court of Justice ruled in his favor. President […]
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By Philip Ayuen Dot July 28, 2020 (SSNN) – Climate change is a global problem that is wreaking havoc on all countries in one way or another. The rapid industrialization witnessed in the last two centuries has led to excess emission of carbon dioxide and other gases in volumes too large for the atmosphere to handle. This has led […]
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Kuek Deng Kuek July 27, 2020 (SSNN) – In a democracy, it is all always significant to make decisions out of divergent views and ideas like in other parts of the world. For instance, in the US there are many parties like Republican and Democratic parties – the two major political organizations. One party pushes for socio-economic philosophy and the […]
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By Dr. Ran Kuoth Chak Incompetency Part I, July 24, 2020(SSNN) — For the past fifteen years, incompetency has been one of the frequently cited factors in the failure of South Sudan and it has been predominantly so because president Salva Kiir neither attained accredited education nor was he directly involved in political administration of the SPLM. If anything, President […]
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July 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s chief of defense forces, general Johnson Juma Akot has said that his country does not have external threats urging members of the unified forces to work to bring permanent peace in the war-torn country. The top South Sudan army official was speaking during a visit to Maridi training camp for the unified forces […]
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By Deng Gatpan Wang July 23, 2020 (SSNN) – On 22nd July 2020, the sole anti-government radio station known as Eye Radio, broadcast a fabricated audio report that implicates the current Director of South Sudan Customs Service in financial corruption and nepotism. The Eye Radio reporter broadcast the report inform of audio which he claims to have been recorded from […]
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By Koang Chol July 22, 2020 (SSNN) – Throughout of human life, many changes evolved out of calamitous circumstances that brought up an incredible and unimaginable practice. Historically, it has been a pattern whether it was meaningful change or impractical change. Certainly, pandemics and wars are the leading cause of deaths for so many people across the world over the […]
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By Gatwech Kutei, July 22, 2020(SSNN) — Before rolling out my little understanding of the state of current affairs in South Sudan’s most difficult to rule state, I would like to grab this opportunity to congratulate the appointed governor of the country’s most fragile state Hon Denay Jok on winning the trust of some members of his coalition “South Sudan […]
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July 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan president’s advisor on minority affairs, Akot Lual, has been arrested by National Security Service in the country’s capital Juba, after a section of the Bor community accused him of arming Murle community. Sources speaking to South Sudan News Now said from Juba that Akot was arrested on Saturday night in central Juba and […]
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By Gen. Salva Mathok Gengdit July 18, 2020 (SSNN) – My personal congratulations goes to H.E President Salva Kiir Mayardit for the 9th anniversary of our independence. I also congratulate our comrades whom we made that day a real, particularly our martyrs, without them, we would have not made it. Congratulations! The predictions and events are always part of histories. […]
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By Chol Duang July 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Even after the formation of the so-called R-TGONU, violence continues to flare up everywhere, including in areas known to enjoy peace and good neighborliness. Hate speech has heightened unprecedentedly, as hatemongers inundate online space with highly inflammatory comments and fear traders exchanging threats, widening schism further. The self-appointed government in Juba has […]
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July 15, 2020 (SSNN) – Ethiopia began filling the reservoir of its giant Nile dam without signing an agreement on water flows; a step Egypt has warned will threaten regional security. The announcement was made by Ethiopian Water, Irrigation and Energy Minister Seleshi Bekele, according to a report on the state-owned Ethiopian Broadcasting Corp.’s Facebook page. The move came two […]
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July 15, 2020 (SSNN) – The Troika has called on South Sudan’s parties to the revitalized peace agreement to agree on and appoint the remaining two state governors, weeks after President Kiir appointed only eight of the ten state governors. “The Troika (the United States, Kingdom of Norway, and the United Kingdom) commends the Parties to the Revitalized Agreement on […]
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By Nhial Gatkuoth Chung July 9, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudanese in 2011 overwhelmingly voted to have their independent state called the Republic of South Sudan, there were huge hopes that independence would bring peace and stability in the nascent country. Just two years after the independence flag was hoisted in the air, the liberators who fought for years in […]
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By Paul Ruot Bayoch July 9, 2020 (SSNN) – I am writing this poem on behave of all concern citizens who seem to be caring and the leaders who seem not to care about the suffering of thy fellow citizens and countrymen. South Sudan is bleeding And no one seems to care South Sudan is bleeding And no one seems […]
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July 8, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has said that he did not make the concessions that include returning the country to ten states because of weakness but because of his desire for peace. In March, Kiir made a key concession and ordered the return of the country to ten states from 32 which he created […]
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July 8, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudanese diplomat in the United States sparked an online uproar when he was seen urinating during a live Facebook political discussion. Panelists were discussing the appointment of a governor for Upper Nile state on Friday when Gordon Buay, South Sudan’s deputy ambassador to the U.S., was seen walking to the bathroom wearing only […]
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By is Kech Nguoth Tiem July 7, 2020 (SSNN) – The writer of this article was motivated to give out his views about the above subject due to ongoing wrestling between the leadership and some Community actors regarding the appointment of Gen Olony Thabo as the Governor of Upper Nile through SPLA IO ticket as agreed in the Revitalized Peace […]
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By Philip Ayuen Dot July 7, 2020 (SSNN) – As South Sudan tries to catch up with other nations on all developmental issues, the environment is one area that needs utmost focus. And while on this, goal number six of the sustainable developmental goals stating that all nations shall ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for […]
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By Gen. Salva Mathok Gengdit July 6, 2020 (SSNN) – The initiative taken by H.E president Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit in forming the committee chaired by Vice President H.E Dr. James Wani Igga, is a milestone decision to address Greater Jonglei crisis, although the issue may not be necessary rank or post. By 2011, H. E the president declared a […]
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July 6, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s former army general Maj. Gen. Stephen Buay Rolnyang and former commander of Special Forces in Unity state, General Matthew Puljang Top, have reconciled after years of differences, according to a statement. The differences between Buay and Puljang came to light in May 2018 when General Buay was arrested by forces loyal to Puljang […]
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July 6, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his first deputy, Dr. Riek Machar Teny will meet this week to discuss the deadlock over the SPLM-IO nominee for Upper Nile state governor, a spokesman for Machar said. Last week, Machar nominated SPLA-IO general, Johnson Olony Thambo, for the governorship of Upper Nile state which was allocated […]
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July 6, 2020 (SSNN) – Members of the Ugandan People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) have kidnapped – inside South Sudan territory – two South Sudan army soldiers after claiming that they had crossed into Ugandan territory, residents in Nimule have said. “Yesterday night, fifteen soldiers from Uganda crossed to South Sudan territory and they kidnapped two soldiers. They were telling us […]
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July 4, 2020 (SSNN) – The East African Community is struggling to pay its members of parliament as South Sudan becomes incapable to pay its membership arrears, regional MPs have said. “EALA members have not been paid their sitting allowances since March. We demand that the secretariat pays all staff including MPs. EAC partner states need to honor their remittance […]
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