The Voiceless, June 6, 2020(SSNN) — To begin with, may these letters find you in good health and wealth. Hon. Angelina Teny, the Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs, we would be proud to introduce ourselves by names to you and your sympathizers but at this moment in time that does not matter because it is not us, the authors, […]
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For Immediate release June 7th, 2020, June 6, 2020(SSNN) — The People’s Democratic Movement (PDM), welcomes with high expectations, the inaugural declaration of the 7th October Movement on 5th June 2020 as came in its Manifesto “Our Cause” dated 12th April 2020, which made a public commitment of the Movement to end SPLM rule, tyranny, impunity and unabated systemic corruption […]
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By Latjor C. Gakah June 6, 2020 (SSNN) – Land is an asset which its value appreciates with time and that is the bottom line. Land grabbing is a judiciary debacle in South Sudan that is both silently claiming the lives of many innocent South Sudanese and leaving others homeless. The number of land grabbing cases depicts a full blown […]
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By Deng Vanang, June 5, 2020(SSNN) — In a Nuer youth heated reconciliation meeting around 1999 in the office of his fortnight magazine, South Sudan Post along Adams road, Nairobi, Kenya,, Muolana John requested the erratic rival factions to let Deng Vanang jot down minutes of the meeting for he is a good writer to their affirmative. The recognition not […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan businessman who was previously detained by the National Security Service (NSS) has formed a new rebel group to fight the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit. Kerbino Wol who was arrested by the NSS in April 2018 for allegedly conspiring against the government said in an interview with the VOA’s South Sudan […]
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June 5, 2020 (SSNN) – Prominent South Sudan opposition and National Democratic Movement (NDM) leader Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has called for what he said should be a thorough investigation into Sherikat’s Tuesday killing by a member of the army. Lt. Col. Lual Akook Wol Kiir, a cousin to President Salva Kiir opened fire on Tuesday mornig against a group […]
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June 4, 2020(SSNN) — The recent incident at “Sharikat-Bor” park has caused outraged as many South Sudanese mourned the death of five but as time goes by South Sudanese intellectuals and youth on social media found themselves exchanging tribal sentiments and heated debates over who should demand justice. Initially the issue was the used of unnecessary force on unarmed civilians […]
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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s ministry of health has suspended issuing documents certifying that someone has tested negative for COVID-19, the deadly respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The minister of health Elizabeth Acuei Yol said in an order seen by South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that the decision by her institution came about after it discovered […]
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By Justice Garang Sebit. June 3, 2020(SSNN) — Many South Sudanese, those outraged and observers alike, are still wondering if Col. Lual Marine, a nephew who is believed to be a biological son of President Salva Kiir Mayar, is actually dead. Lual is dead but his controversies are not dead. First, the question of who was Lual Marine and how […]
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Ensure Transparent Investigations, Focus on Highest Levels, For Immediate Release, Nairobi, Kenya. June 3, 2020(SSNN) — Sudan’s transitional government has yet to deliver justice to victims and families a year after more than 120 people were killed and hundreds injured and abused in a violent attack on protesters in Khartoum, Human Rights Watch said today. The government’s investigation committee is […]
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May 26, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan youth group has condemned this week’s attacks against in several parts of Unity state by armed men from neighboring Lakes and Warrap states in which an unconfirmed innocent people were killed. “The leadership of the Liech Youth Union condemns in the strongest term possible the recent attacks on Unity State communities by […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that reports that he was sick and was rushed to the Egyptian capital Cairo for treatment were not true saying he was fine and discharging his duties as head of state. This comes after reports that the South Sudanese head of state has contracted COVID-19, the respiratory […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – Former governor of South Sudan’s defunct Kapoeta state Louis Lobong has been injured in a car crush outside Juba this morning, close aides have said. The former governor was heading to Torit when his car overturned in just a few miles away from Gumbo area, a Juba suburb on the other side of the river […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo in a surprise trip, a South Sudan embassy staff in Cairo said this morning. “The President of the republic is here in Cairo. He arrived on Thursday and he will stay here for a number of days to discuss bilateral relations with […]
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May 22, 2020(SSNN) — Briefing the international media on US response to combating COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, the US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Tibor Peter Nagy, said South Sudan is not helping the efforts to combat the global pandemic by failing to pay the salaries of health workers. Hon. Nagy was responding to a journalist, Carol, who states that […]
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May 21, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from South Sudan’s Pibor Administrative Area and corresponding reports from the national capital, Juba, revealed that youth from neighboring Murle tribe are seen crossing the Ethiopian highland allegedly to launch attacks on Akobo of Lou-nuer, South Sudan. A report from an Ethiopian journalist, Zoya Mengiste, confirmed that thousands of heavily armed Murle youth were […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — For the last few days, a few fake tweets, attributed to Dr. Lam Akol and Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, have gone viral on Facebook, WhatsaApp and Twitter, forcing Dr. Lam to go on twitter, leaving his alleged counterpart in the dark, to clear the air. The fake tweets, which some are dated to as far as […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — In a friendly letter written and signed by South Sudan’s incumbent president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, to his all-time rival and current First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, who contracted COVID-19, president Kiir prays for Machar and other members of the former High-level Taskforce to get well soon. Despite political differences that have hindered the implementations […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan businessman Athian Achiek Majok has died this afternoon in the country’s capital Juba after contracting the COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, medical staff have said. “Yes it is true, Mr. Athian passed away this afternoon. He was brought here (Dr. John Garang Infectious Disease Center) for coronavirus. We don’t when […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s ambassador to South Africa has died of COVID-19 days after struggling with the sickness caused by the novel coronavirus, sources familiar with the development said. “Ambassador Paul Macuei Malok died on Sunday night at the Dr. John Garang Infectious Diseases Centre after contracting the novel coronavirus,” one source in Juba familiar with the […]
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May 17, 2020(SSNN) — A South Sudanese youth group from the neighboring Duk county condemns the ongoing barbaric attacks in the neighboring Uror county and other Lou-nuer areas. The attacks, which have claimed many lives, burned down houses and abducted children and women, is believed to be carried out by Youth from Murle tribe of the recently established Greater Pibor […]
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May 16, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan youth from Lou-nuer, a sub-tribe of the second largest ethnic group in the country, in the neighboring Uganda condemns the recent attacks in Pieri, Pamai, Guanchat and other suburbs of Jonglei state’s Uror County. Speaking on behalf of Lou-nuer Student Association in Uganda, Pargol Reuben Gai Both, alleged that a heavily armed Murle youth […]
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May 16, 2020(SSNN) — In response to combat Coronavirus in South Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for the Refugees(UNHCR) has handed over at least three vehicles and beddings to South Sudan Ministry of Health. According to the Assistant External Relations Officer, Gift Friday Noah, of the UNHCR in South Sudan, the refugee agency in the world’s youngest nation has […]
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s high-level taskforce has confirmed three more deaths of COVID-19, the disease associated with the novel coronavirus, and also announced that the country’s overall active cases have jumped to 236. More to follow!
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May 15, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, lost at least 7 officials between 4pm on May 13 and 10am on May 14, 2020 to what the High level Taskforce reported as “short illness” while threatening the media over biased reporting of the Coronavirus. Among the first highest ranking veterans who died on May 13, 2020 was Lt. […]
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May 14, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has – for the first time – confirmed its first death as a direct result of the novel coronavirus. The ministry of health making the announcement this evening also said 28 more people have tested positive for the virus. This, the ministry of health said, brings the number of those infected with […]
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One day you will be held accountable for every penny that has ever entered your pocket the wrong way. By Ajang Longar, May 13, 2020(SSNN) — The Republic of South Sudan was free from Corona virus until April 5th 2020 when she registered her first patient of Covid 19 who had travelled into the country on 28th Feb 2020 from […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – Another senior South Sudan army commander has died in the capital Juba on Wednesday, military officials said. Gen. John Madeng Gatduel’s death came hours after General Liah Diu Deng, a respected army commander in Unity state, died in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. According to military sources in the capital, Gen. Madeng, passed away at 8pm […]
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May 10, 2020 (SSNN) – A traditional chief in South Sudan’s Warrap state has claimed that the South Sudan army loyal to President Salva Kiir Mayardit was forcefully recruiting youth into its file raising concerns over the government’s commitment to the revitalized peace agreement. Speaking to Nyamilepedia from Tonj South county this morning, the traditional chief said they have been […]
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By Muslim Gore, May 10, 2020(SSNN) — If someone were to ask the average South Sudanese in any city, region or country about the Founding Fathers of South Sudan, the answer they would receive would be almost identical to one another in every single case. Why is that? Because the history has been buried by the current SPLM Party in […]
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May 10, 2020(SSNN) — The leadership of Greater-Bor communities of South Sudan rubbishes a call for Administrative Area that would curve another Administrative Area, comprising of Bor, Twic East and Duk Counties, from the current Jonglei State. The Chairpersons of the Greater Bor counties condemn the anonymous group in the strongest terms possible calling them as “lost souls” who do […]
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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 09, 2020(SSNN) — The Republic of South Sudan approved at least one million US Dollar to be contributed in kind to African Union and Africa Center for Disease Control. According to Resolution No. 3 on Financial Contribution of the presidency, the Republic of South Sudan will contribute $750, 000.00 to the African Union and $250, 000 USD to the […]
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