South Sudan Donates One Million US Dollar to AUF and ACDC

President Salva Kiir Mayardit and opposition leader, Dr. Riek Machar and the rest of the newly appointed Vice-Presidents at the State House, in Juba (Photo credit: PPU)

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, 000.00Ā  to the African Union and $250, 000 USD to the […]

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South Sudan Minister of Finance Demands 4 Million SSP Monthly for “House Service”

Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabiordit, the minister for finance and economic planning

May 08, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s new minister of Finance and Planning, Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabiordit, orders for at least 4 million SSP to be paid for his “house service and emergency funds” every month; According to a leaked document extended to South Sudan News Now, the Minister orders the Undersecretary to put this request in their monthly bills and […]

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South Sudan lawmakers from Equatoria states meet Machar

May 7, 2020 (SSNN) — Members of the incumbent Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) from across South Sudan’s Greater Equatoria states on Thursday met the country’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, his office said. James Gatdet Dak, the Press Secretary at Machar’s office said in a statement that the delegation discussed range of issues including the the implementation of […]

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Opinion: Pulling the Rope on Machar and Possible Long Term Implications and Impacts on South Sudan

South Sudan arch rivals, President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his former deputy, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, leader of the SPLM/A in Opposition gazing at each other's eyes during peace process in Khartoum in 2018(Photo credit: shared/unknown)

By Eng. Chuar Juet Jock, April 27, 2020(SSNN) — While I disagree with Dr. Machar in some administrative and leadership issues, we still share a country and a community fate and destiny and only fools should think that the Nuer community, not the one bribed by Kiir and other political criminals In disguise will not defend Machar to the last drop. […]

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Wanted General David Yauyau seen in Bor Town, Jonglei State

David Yauyau alighting from military helicopter on arrival in Juba from pibor in 2014(Photo credit: supplied)

April 27, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s former deputy minister of defense and veterans affairs, Lt. Gen. David Yauyau, who was supposed to be airlifted from his hometown of Pibor yesterday, April 26, 2020, was reportedly seen this morning, 27 April 2020, in Bor town, Jonglei State. According to earlier report from South Sudan’s Jonglei State capital, Lt. Gen. David Yauyau, […]

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South Sudan Extends Partial Lockdown Indefinitely

Dr. Riek Machar Teny, South Sudan First Vice President, announcing the first case of Coronavirus at Pyramid Hotel, Juba, on April 5th, 2020(Photo credit: SSNN/supplied)

By Dimo Silva Aurelio, JUBA , SOUTH SUDAN, April 24, 2020(SSNN) —- The South Sudan High Level Taskforce for COVID-19 has extended the country’s partial lockdown until further notice. That means all schools and most shops will remain closed, as will South Sudan’s borders and Juba International Airport. The government was expected to lift the partial lockdown Monday, but at […]

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South Sudan News: UN to sanction staff that escaped quarantine in S.Sudan

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses his statement, during the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

By GARANG A. MALAK, April 24, 2020(SSNN) — A United Nations employee in South Sudan is facing disciplinary action from the global body after he reportedly left the country despite being under quarantine over suspected Covid-19. The move followed revelations by South Sudan’s High-Level Taskforce on coronavirus which said the staffer had left the country under unclear circumstances, thus breaking […]

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South Sudan: “Mass Exodus from the SPLM/SPLA (IO) is a Propaganda” ~ Mabior Garang

April 19, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s Deputy Minister of Interior and the former Chairman of the SPLM/A(IO) National Committee for Information and Public Relation, Hon. Mabior Garang de Mabior, downplays the recent defection of some of the heavyweight politicians, Hon. Dak Duop Bichok and others, from the SPLM-IO in Government to the SPLM-mainstream in Government. While politicians are rotating the […]

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Machar envoy to Cairo disowns defectors as “refugees” with no political activitiesĀ 

April 18, 2020 (SSNN) — An opposition envoy in the Egyptian capital Cairo allied to South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar has disowned a group of 100 members who said they were defecting to join President Salva Kiir on Thursday calling them “refugees” without political activities. Two days ago, around 100 people who said they […]

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Maiwut’s PMCP in Political Turmoil in Juba

Gen. Ochan Puot and Bol Rom traveling to Juba to declare the new allegance to Salva Kiir(Photo credit: file)

April 18, 2020(SSNN) — According to a senior member of the ruling party in Juba who preferred to remain anonymous, said the leadership of PMPC is fighting over dwindling political gains and promises. PMCP is an acronym of Provisional Military Political Council, a breakaway group from Dr. Riek Machar’s SPLM/A-IO back in August, 2019 under the leadership of Major General […]

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South Sudan authorities warn against xenophobic attacks over coronavirus

April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s high-level taskforce on coronavirus has urged all citizens to refrain from planned xenophobic attacks against Covid-19 patients, warning that those caught will be punished according to the law. Addressing journalists on Saturday in Juba after its 17th meeting, Dr Makur Koriom, the taskforce’s spokesperson, said the team had received online hate speech messages […]

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IGAD says COVID-19 crisis to affect peace implementation

South Sudan First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar and President Salva Kiir look away from the camera during the signing of security arrangement in Khartoum, Sudan (Photo credit: SSNN)

April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) said on Sunday that the ongoing crisis imposed by the coronavirus will affect the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement signed in 2018 and which brought about the current unity government between the signatories. IGAD Special Envoy for South Sudan, Ismail Wais, said restrictions and interruption of activities are […]

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S. Sudan shuts down movements between states over coronavirus pandemic

Dr. Riek Machar Teny, South Sudan First Vice President, announcing the first case of Coronavirus at Pyramid Hotel, Juba, on April 5th, 2020(Photo credit: SSNN/supplied)

April 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has suspended interstate movement as part of its efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the country’s first vice president Dr. Riek Machar announced. Machar who is also the deputy chairperson of the coronavirus taskforce said passenger planes, and vehicles are not allowed to travel to and from the states […]

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S. Sudan’s longest-serving justice minister dies, coronavirus not ruled out

April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — Former South Sudan justice minister, Paulino Manawila, has died this evening, government spokesman and information minister Michael Makuei Lueth said. Manawila, Makuei said, died at the Juba Medical Complex at around 4:45 PM where he was rushed after suffering a heart rupture after doctors couldn’t help him. However, sources close to the country’s longest serving […]

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Dr. Lam’s group awaiting IGAD response on allocation of parliamentary seats – spokesman

National Democratic Movement, Dr. Lam Akal(Photo credit: Nyamilepedia)

April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin is awaiting a response from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on a complaint it raised over the allocation of parliamentary seats within the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA). Based on the revitalized peace deal, the alliance which comprise of the NDM and […]

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S. Sudanese students in Egypt plea for govt help amid COVID-19 lockdown

April 12, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudanese students studying on private admission in Egypt are pleading to their government back home to reconsider its decision which they said was favoring those on government scholarship and add them to the coronavirus funds provided by the government. Last month, the coronavirus taskforce allocated $3 million to South Sudanese students studying on government […]

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South Sudan’s Kiir warned over unilateral actions

South Sudan rival leaders, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, leader of the SPLM/A(IO) and his former boss, President Salva Kiir(Photo credit: supplied)

April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been warned by the regional body, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which mediated the revitalized peace agreement, over unilateral actions which may derail the implementation of the revitalized peace deal. This comes weeks after the South Sudanese head of state appointed the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Petroleum, […]

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S. Sudan says some who had contact with COVID-19 patients refusing to give blood samples for testing

Dr. Riek Machar Teny, South Sudan First Vice President, announcing the first case of Coronavirus at Pyramid Hotel, Juba, on April 5th, 2020(Photo credit: SSNN/supplied)

April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has threatened to arrest people who had contact with the confirmed four cases of COVID-19 and are refusing to give blood samples to the ministry of health for testing. The coronavirus taskforce said this evening in a statement that some of the people who had contact with the confirmed coronavirus cases are […]

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SPLA-IO, SSPDF-allied militia group clash in eastern South Sudan

April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLA-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar yesterday clashed with army-allied militia group led by General Ochan Puot in eastern part of the country, the Nyamilepedia has learned. One resident said from Jiokow that fighting started after soldiers belonging to renegade General Ochan Puot attacked an SPLA-IO […]

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BREAKING: Gov’t confirms second COVID-19 case

April 7, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government on Tuesday confirmed the country’s second case of coronavirus. According to the Coronavirus Taskforce, the patient is a 53-year-old female South Sudanese who traveled to Juba from Nairobi, Kenya, in March. The Undersecretary in the Ministry of Health Dr. Makur Koryom who is also the taskforce’s spokesman said the patient works for […]

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South Sudan COVID-19 patient destined for Kenya returned to JubaĀ 

April 7, 2020 (SSNN) — Kenyan authorities have rejected the entrance of a South Sudan coronavirus patient who was airlifted from Juba on Monday, sources with direct knowledge said, Nyamilepedia reports. On Monday, a unnamed son of South Sudan’s chief justice Chan Reec Madut was airlifted on a chartered plane after reportedly suffering from COVID-19 symptoms having returned recently to […]

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Chief Justice’s son said to be flown to Kenya over “persistent” COVID-19 symptoms

Chief Justice Chan Reec Madut speaking at a gathering. Chan has refused to be tested from coronavirus despite all attempt to get him and his family tested(Photo credit: SSNN)

April 6, 2020 (SSNN) — Son of South Sudan’s Chief Justice is said to have been flown to Kenyan capital Nairobi after reportedly suffering symptoms similar to that of coronavirus, several government officials and close friends said. Four children of Chief Justice Chan Reec Madut arrived to the country from London, UK, last month. They refused to be tested upon […]

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Sudan puts deportation of rebel officer to Juba on hold over coronavirus

April 3, 2020 (SSNN) — Sudanese government on Thursday put the deportation of a South Sudanese rebel commander on hold over the outbreak of the coronavirus, a senior security official said from Khartoum on Friday. The deportation, the official said, was scheduled for today, of four South Sudanese rebel officer captured in January in the country’s capital Khartoum would have […]

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South Sudan praises China for helping countries in coronavirus fight

South Sudan's incumbent Salva Kiir Mayardit reviews guards of honor alongside Chinese President Hu Jintao(Photo credit: Alexander F. Yuan/AP)

April 3, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan president on Thursday expressed his appreciation to the Chinese government and people for playing a central role in supporting other countries globally in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. President Salva Kiir emphasized that his government and people will continue to firmly support China’s efforts and effective measures to control the spread of […]

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