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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By Paul Ruot Bayoch July 4, 2020 (SSNN) – Hoth Nhial, you died a poor man prematurely. You died an innocent man. I know you’re not born to die like that. You’re killed by unknown gunmen in place you call motherland whose land had prematurely swallowed lives of many innocent people. You’re doing your best when you met your fate. […]
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July 3, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN mission to South Sudan, David Shearer, has said that 57 UN personnel have tested positive for COVID-19. Shearer said the peacekeepers could have contracted the virus due to what he described as “continuous close interactions with the South Sudanese population.” “Forty-five of […]
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By Wicmuon Geng Chan Kuany July 1, 2020 (SSNN) – Rubkona County is located in the Centre north of Unity State and covers an area of 3,597 Sq.km with a population estimated at 100,236,4. It borders Guit County to the east, Southern Kordofan State to the north, Abiemnhom County to the North West, Mayom County to the west, Koch County […]
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July 1, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has demanded an administrative area for Apadang community of Upper Nile state, a senior opposition official who attended yesterday’s meeting between Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar said. The latest demand by the South Sudanese leader comes after he refused to appoint SPLM-IO nominee, General Johnson Olony, […]
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July 1, 2020 (SSNN) – UN Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, has welcomed what it said is a ‘generous contribution’ from the government of Japan saying the latest pledge by the Asian country would benefit hundreds of thousands across South Sudan. Japan, which donated around $17 million since 2016, last week pledged another $1 million for South Sudan’s displaced population through […]
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By Zechariah Makuach Maror July 1, 2020 (SSNN) – What my advice infers here is that people are not always as diligent as they say they are in a way that they check the information they receive, and it is certainly the case that when people feel threatened, frightened or had wrong perception about the source of the information, they […]
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June 29, 2020 (SSNN) – The main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has said General Johnson Olony, the group’s nominee for Upper Nile state governor, was not appointed on Monday due tribal mindset and objection by the Apadang community. This comes after information minister Michael Makuei Lueth said the appointment was not […]
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By Charles Bol Makuet June 29, 2020 (SSNN) – Yesterday, the public was surprised to see a very deadly attack on the most loyal Police General who has devoted his entire life to serving the government of South Sudan without running his tongue loosely on anyone. The article was allegedly written by certain Gabriel Akech Dhieu, a proxy name which […]
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By Beek Mabior June 29, 2020 (SSNN) – Our country has been notoriously exhibited again and again as one of the most successful war-like nations on earth. Our beloved South Sudan has regrettably and sadly earned a disgraceful and violent reputation for over half a century starting from 1956 when our former United Sudan gained her independence after a shameful […]
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By Beek Mabior June 29, 2020 (SSNN) – Homosexuality is devilish and it is not part and parcel of South Sudan’s culture and I’d like to break my silence and express my condemnation, total rejection, and dissatisfaction on this very controversial subject in the world. As you’re all aware that South Sudan is a member of the UN and has […]
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By Jackline Akuot Mangok June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – The rule of law is the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws’. In this case, the well-defined laws of South Sudan are; the Transitional Constitution, 2011, Islamic laws, Customary practices, and General international principles. Role of women in ensuring the functionality of […]
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By D. Benjamin Mabor June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – Last Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the principal parties to the R-ARCSS brought an end to a standstill on the allocation of States. This marked a comprehensive resolution of what appeared to have been a fear-inspired intransigence when the SPLM/A-IO leadership objected to the decision of the Presidency citing irrelevance in regard […]
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By Kuol Abraham Tong June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – I would like to thank the SPLM/SPLA for the consistency they have portrayed during the liberation struggle that has resulted into our independence and foundation of the principles that many of us were drawn to. The SPLM/SPLA waged the longest war in Africa that is the 21 years of struggle creating […]
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The History of the Crisis, By Matai Muon, June 22, 2020(SSNN) — The ongoing diplomatic row between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile waters is, to a certain magnitude, the legacy of the colonial rule in Africa. In the late 20’s, Egypt was the regional giant along the Nile Valley owing to her superior technology, military might etc. comparatively speaking. […]
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June 21, 2020(SSNN) — The white army spokesman calls on the Dinka Bor community to return the cattle, compensate the dead and apologize to the Nuer community before the white army finishes their ongoing operation in Murle. “We are fighting the Murle, not Bor people. We are recovering our cattle, women and children from Murle and we urge the Bor […]
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June 21, 2020(SSNN) — Reports from Bor town, Jonglei State, alleged that Bor youth have ambushed a platoon of Nuer white army, who were returning with recovered cattle from Murle, killed one of them and took all their cattle. Speaking to South Sudan News Now, the spokesman of the white army, said that 29 of their members whom they sent […]
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June 21, 2020(SSNN) — For nearly two weeks, over ten thousands youth from the Nuer subs tribes of Lou, Gawaar and Jikany, and Dinka youth comprising of Nyarweng, Hol, Tui and Bor have invaded the tiny Murleland in a revenge attack they called a “peace mission”. “This is a peace mission. We are only going to recover our cattle, children […]
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June 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has said that the African Union acted in violation of what it said is ‘principle of good faith,’ when it expelled a number of the country’s diplomats from a meeting in Addis Ababa earlier this week. On Monday, South Sudan diplomats at the AU were expelled from a meeting of the continental […]
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June 19, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from South Sudan’s northern Upper Nile reveal that officers of the Egyptians army are in South Sudan, something the government in Juba has been denying. According to South Sudan News Now investigative journalists, who visited Paloch oil fields, near the Ethiopian borders, to verify earlier reports, there is an Egyptian platoon in Paloch pictured […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of water resources and irrigation, Manawa Peter Gatkuoth, has this afternoon met the German ambassador to Juba, Manuel Muller, and the two discussed development in the field of water resources in the country, the ministry said in a statement. “The Minister Of Water Resources And Irrigation Hon. Manawa Peter Gatkuoth Met Today […]
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June 18, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s ex-governors of the defunct controversial 32 states plus Abyei have publicly declared this morning that they are no longer demanding for their $60,000 compensation package as demanded two weeks ago. A group of angry ex-governors stormed the Ministry of Finance two weeks ago and threatened that they will defect from the government if they […]
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June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of health Madam Elizabeth Achuei has fired back at senior SPLM member Daniel Awet Akot and said the ministry of health needs doctors and not politicians. This comes a few days after Daniel Awet Akot, a former deputy speaker of the South Sudan’s parliament and a senior member of the Sudan People’s […]
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By Noah Issa Philip June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Your Excellency, with due regard and rectitude to you and your colleagues, I hope this letter will find you although you and your wife and other colleagues are battling with COVID-19 pandemic, it’s my hope and prayers to see you and other colleagues of yours to be healthy again as the […]
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By Deng Mangok Ayuel June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Tribalism, understood as “groupness” or “group affiliation,” is rooted in human psychology. Everyone, everywhere, has tribal instincts and belongs to any tribe. However, these instincts don’t operate in the same way. When people talk of tribalism, they often think in binary terms—two groups, two tribes with different social and cultural norms. […]
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Analysis, By The Stuff Writers, June 14, 2020(SSNN) — Notwithstanding that the recent appointments of the new army leadership violates the Revitalized Agreement of the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan, it is evidently clear that president Salva Kiir Mayardit is planning for war. Unlike the first war that was commanded by a Nuer, Gen. James Hoth Mai, and […]
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June 13, 2020(SSNN) — On Monday this week, at least 200 heads of cattle were raided in Pacidi payam and Lwala Boma of Lafon county of Eastern Equatoria state. According to Lafon youth union chairperson Paul Ukach and the Union’s Secretary Benjamin Unyang, the cattle raiders killed one person during the attack. “We, the Lafon County Youth Union hereby condemn […]
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June 13, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan vice-president, James Wani Igga has said this afternoon that he has recovered from the novel coronavirus. This makes him the last – of three – vice-presidents to beat the respiratory sickness which is also known as COVID-19 after Vice President Hussein Abdelbaggi and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny recovered last week. […]
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June 12, 2020(SSNN) — Within less than a week following a fatal shooting at the Shirkaat-Bor park in the capital, Juba, which claimed seven lives and left dozen others wounded, the Bor youth who ran amok for days in Jonglei State capital have revealed hundreds of arsenals as the angry youth chant war songs and slogans against unidentified enemies. For […]
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June 11, 2020(SSNN) — As China finds herself on the weaker side of bilateral relationships following unsuccessful renegotiations of the multi-billion dollar Juba-Bhar el Ghazal highway project, the Chinese government made an u-turn in her bid to win the heart of South Sudan’s Republican Palace, J1. This morning, June 11, 2020, the Chinese ambassador to South Sudan, Hua Ning, handed […]
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June 11, 2020 (SSNN) — Petitioning South Sudan presidency to establish State and Local governments, Unity State Community in Kenya demands that their governor must be appointed now without further delay. “We want our governor now, so that together we can embark on unity and reconciliation drive in earnest. Should this logical demand be ignored and delayed than it will […]
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By Gatkuoth Kutei Chany June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – The fact that SPLM has two houses, the ‘owners and servants’ is likely scenario indisputable to deny given the situation to which the government is formed in South Sudan. Those who own the SPLM “take it all” and those who are servants continue to wash dishes and gets home with peanut; taking the […]
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