April 2, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan parties negotiating the allocation of state governors are nearing an agreement as key opposition group is reportedly conceding, a senior government official said on Thursday. The SPLM-IG, led by President Salva Kiir Mayardit, the SPLM-IO led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar have been – since last month – negotiating over how […]
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April 1, 2020 (SSNN) ā United States President Donald John Trump on Wednesday renewed renewed the national emergency on South Sudan for another year, citing continuous threat being posed by the world’s youngest nation toward the United States. The emergency was first declared by former U.S. President, Barrack Obama in 2014, a few months after the eruption of conflict in […]
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April 1, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has reportedly warned on Wednesday against nomination of those he termed as militants as governors in the states. This comes as parties reaches deadlock over the allocation of state governors as provided for in the revitalized peace agreement signed in September 2018. Speaking to South Sudan News Now this […]
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April 1, 2020 (SSNN) ā South Sudan policemen will be wearing masks during operations in which they will be enforcing measures imposed by the government to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, police spokesman Maj. Gen. Daniel Justin said on Tuesday. āNow, arrangements are being made to provide Police and other security operatives with Personal Protective Equipment or PPE […]
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March 31, 2020 (SSNN) ā South Sudan government said on Monday that neighbouring Ethiopia has agreed to host South Sudanese students who ā among other international students ā were asked to leave the country over the crisis imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this week, students in Ethiopia said they had been asked to leave the country by the Ethiopian […]
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April 1, 2020 (SSNN) ā South Sudanās National Security Service (NSS) has ordered the closure ā without legal notice ā the Juba-based daily newspaper, Agamlong, according to a brief statement seen by South Sudan News Now. āIt is an unfortunate to inform the public that security personnel who claimed to have been sent from National security headquarters came to the […]
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March 21, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s holdout opposition leader Gen. Thomas Cirilo said on Friday that government forces are planning an attack against his forces in violation to the cessation of hostility agreement signed in 2017. Gen. Cirilo who leads the National Salvation Front (NAS) is not a signatory to the revitalized peace agreement which was signed by most […]
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March 18th 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudanese student studying at Cairo University has been hospitalized after he was diagnosed with coronavirus, friends said. The unnamed student, one colleague said, was rushed to the hospital after showing unusual signs of respiratory issues including coughing and cold. “She became sick with fever and too much cough. So, we rushed her to […]
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March 17th 2020 (SSNN) — SPLM-IO leader and South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has ordered his forces to terminate all communications with ex-SPLA-IO commander to defected to presidemt Salva Kiir today. Gen. James Koang Chuol, who spoke to reporters in Juba this afternoon while declaring his intention to defect to Kiir said he did so along […]
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March 17th 2020 (SSNN) — Lieutenant General James Koang Chuol, one of the SPLA-IOās top commanders, announced today during a press conference in Juba that he and three others had defected from the main armed opposition group led Dr. Riek Machar to join President Salva Kiir. “We are hereby announcing our resignation from the SPLA/M (10) with effect from 17/3/2020,” […]
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March 17th 2020 (SSNN) – As South Sudan enters transitional period, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told the country’s leaders to address tribal violence. This comes after president Salva Kiir appointed the long-awaited cabinet of the reconstituted transitional government of national unity. Following the signing of the revitalized peace agreement in September 2018, fighting between the rival forces […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit, has ordered political leaders who recently returned to the country for formation of the country’s unity government to self-isolate for two weeks. This comes following new directives issued by the South Sudanese head of state to combat the outbreak of coronavirus. āWe are taking immediate actions and scale […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) ā The ministers of the Reconstituted Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU) have been sworn in today, a senior government official said. Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, the information minister and government spokesman told Nyamilepedia in an interview from Juba that the swearing in ceremony took place at the state house J1 this morning. āYes the R-TGoNU […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) ā The Rwandan Ministry of Health said in a statement on Sunday that one of its citizens, who just returned to the country from South Sudan last week, has tested positive for coronavirus during airport screening. The Rwandan ministry of health said in the statement seen by South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that the patient is […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) ā South Sudanās ambassador to China, Andruga Duku, has expressed disappointments over the handling of coronavirus screening at the Juba airport. Amb. Andruga Duku said he saw the ministry of health staffs screening arrivals at Juba airport were not wearing masks which is risky according to the World Health Organization (WHO). āI found those working at […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) ā A foreigner in South Sudanās capital Juba, who has been rushed to Juba Teaching Hospital on suspicion of coronavirus, has tested negative, sources with direct knowledge said. On Saturday, the unnamed foreigner who had coronavirus-like symptoms was rushed to Juba hospital and a health ministry official quoted by Nyamilepedia said this morning that he was […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) ā South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has urged all citizens to exercise precautions such as avoiding handshakes and hugging each other as a protective measure against coronavirus. He encouraged non-physical contact but said that citizens could opt for elbow and foot bumps as greetings if they have to make physical contact. President Kiir spoke in […]
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March 16th 2020 (SSNN) ā The son of SPLM founder and senior member of the SPLM-IO has threatened to resign from the countryās revitalized unity government if security arrangements are not completed within the next eight months. Mabior Garang deāMabior, who has been appointed deputy minister of interior during last weekās formation of the unity government, said in a statement […]
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March 15th 2020 (Nyamilepedia) ā The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners are jointly appealing for US$1.3 billion this year to address the vast humanitarian needs of refugees fleeing seven years of unrest and conflict in South Sudan. āWe welcome the formation of the Transitional Government of National Unity of South Sudan. However, many challenges remain […]
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March 15th 2020 (SSNN) ā The Canadian government has welcomed the formation of South Sudanās long-awaited transitional government. President Salva Kiir on Thursday formed the long-awaited unity government starting 36-month transitional period. āCanada welcomes the announcement of a Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity in South Sudan,ā the Canadian Global Affairs said in a statement seen by South Sudan News […]
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March 13th 2020 (SSNN) — A suspected coronavirus case has been reported in South Sudan’s capital Juba a day after neighboring Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya reported their first cases of the deadly virus. According to an eye witness, an ambulance rushed to Hai Thawra near Juba University where the sick person was picked up. The government in Juba is yet […]
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March 13th 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan government has suspended direct flights to and from Egypt and Dubai to prevent the importation of the coronavirus into the country. The directive takes immediate effect and also restricts entry of travelers from all countries affected by the virus. Affected routes include Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Togo in Africa – as well as […]
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March 12th 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has appointed ministers of the long-awaited transnational government placing a woman -for the first time – in the ministry of defense. In series of decrees issued on Thursday evening, Kiir appointed Angelina Teny, a senior member of the SPLM-IO and wife of First Vice-Presidemt Dr. Riek Machar, as the country’s […]
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March 12th 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit has named ministers for the long-awaited revitalized unity government. This was announced during a decree read out on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation this evening. The ministerial appointees are: Martin Elia Lomuro ā Minister of Cabinet Affairs Beatrice Khamis Wani – Minister of Foreign and International Cooperation Angelina […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) ā Dozens of South Sudan religious leaders have been wounded after a fistfight at a church in the capital Juba, clerics said on Tuesday. āMany peopole have been wounded in the fistfight,ā a church leader told this website from Juba on Tuesday. āSome of them are being treated at the Juba Teaching Hospital and some with […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) ā United Nations investigators accuse South Sudanese leaders of widespread corruption and of trampling on the rights and fundamental freedoms of their people. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan presented its latest report to the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday. The U.N. commission accuses South Sudanās leaders of deliberately starving their people while […]
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March 11th 2020 (Nyamilepedia) ā South Sudan thought it was attaining peace last week but it may now have to deal with erupting ethnic clashes in some parts of the country. Even before the revitalised transitional government of national unity (R-TGoNU), which was formed out of a peace deal by President Salva Kiir, First Vice President Riek Machar and several […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) āĀ The absence of political leadership at the state level in South Sudan has contributed to the recent outbreak of intercommunal violence in the country, said the head of United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). āThis fighting has caused significant casualties and the displacement of thousands of families, particularly in areas around Pibor and the villages […]
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) ā Egyptās intelligence chief Major General Abbas Kamel passed on a message from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, in a meeting on Tuesday. El-Sisi congratulated Kiir on the peace agreement in South Sudan and expressed Egypt’s total support for the country and its quest for stability. Kamel and Kiir discussed […]
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March 9th 2020 (SSNN) ā A new report by United Nations human rights experts has linked senior South Sudan government officials and military commanders to the supply of arms to the countryās many ethnic militias. This morning, Yasmin Soka, the Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights Yasmin Soka told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that āSouth Sudan […]
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March 9th 2020 (SSNN) ā South Sudanās main armed opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny is still under house arrest despite an early statement by IGAD special envoy to South Sudan Ismail Wais that the First Vice-President was free, her wife Angelina Teny who is a senior SPLM-IO figure said. IGADās special envoy to South Sudan Ismail Wais said that […]
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March 8th 2020 (SSNN) ā Britainās National Crime Agency (NCA) issued an alert on Thursday of a money laundering inked to corrupt South Sudan government officials. The NCA is mandated to fight organized crime thereby protecting the public by targeting and pursuing those criminals who pose the greatest risk to the UK. The official warning on money laundering and illicit […]
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March 7th 2020 (Nyamilepedia) ā A protest by bus operators on the Uganda-South Sudan border on Friday disrupted activities and caused a huge snarl-up at the Nimule-Elegu crossing point. The bus operators, most of who operate transboundary passenger services, said money changers on Friday morning beat up and injured Trinity Bus Service driver Gabulyeri Ngabirano. āThis incident happened this morning […]
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