Oct 4, 2020(SSNN) — The South Sudan police service has arrested two officials that are identified as members of the main armed opposition, SPLM/A-IO, in the capital, Juba. The two members who were arrested on Saturday are identified Abraham Manyiel and William Manyiel Martin from Wulu County of Lakes State. According to eyewitnesses, they were arrested at Gure and they […]
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Oct 3, 2020(SSNN) — Mark Enei, a senior member of the ruling party SPLM has decided to quit his party in favour of the opposition party, SPLM/IO under the leadership of Dr. Riek Machar. In a letter seen by nyamilepedia, Mark Enei joined the opposition together with 48 others in favour of the revitalized peace agreement signed. “I Mark Anei […]
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July 17, 2020 (SSNN) – Authorities in South Sudan’s capital Juba have arrested a Ugandan national who has been accused by local residents of selling meet, according to police spokesman Maj. General Daniel Justine. The arrest – Justine told journalists – took place on Thursday when the police in Juba’s northern police station were alerted by local residents of suspicious […]
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July 8, 2020 (SSNN) – The Apadang community of the country’s Upper Nile state has finally accepted the nomination of General Johnson Olony for the governorship of Upper Nile state, days after rejection from a section of the community. First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar last week nominated Olony for the governorship of the oil-rich northern state, but was not […]
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July 3, 2020 (SSNN) – Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin, the chairperson of the National Democratic Movement and Secretary-General of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), has been on loggerheads with other members of the Alliance over how to share power within the opposition consortium. In an interview with South Sudan News Now on Friday, he explained what went wrong in the […]
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June 30, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and leader of the country’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, is on his way to J1 to meet President Salva Kiir Mayardit on the issue of Upper Nile state governor, a senior opposition official has said. The expected meeting between Kiir and Machar which is set […]
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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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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny said they only negotiated with President Salva Kiir, over the state dispute to only secure their share. This comes after the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) which is led by Josephine Lagu criticized the two main signatories of the revitalized peace agreement of […]
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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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June 4, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan veteran politician and former member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) Peter Adwok Nyaba has said that he regrets being part of what he said is a South Sudan failure. Adwok was the country’s minister for higher Education twice, first following the independence in 2011, and then following the signing […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – The chairperson of South Sudan’s Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (R-JMEC), Amb. Augostino Njoroge, has sided with the SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar saying President Kiir violated the revitalized peace deal last week by deciding to distribute the states to the parties. Kiir who is a party to the 2018 over the weekend unilaterally […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior aide to South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Wednesday blasted critics of the SPLM-IO role in the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement. James Gatdet Dak, the press secretary at Machar’s office said critics were blaming the SPLM-IO with the misperception that the group should lonely carry out reforms […]
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May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – Barely a month after senior members of the SPLM-IO declared that they were defecting to president Salva Kiir’s side, another group is saying that it has defected again accusing Dr. Riek Machar of nepotism and lost of vision. The group of nine little know members led by Gen. Joseph Ruot Nyieny, said their decision to […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has been asked by a group of intellectuals from Jonglei state to create another administrative area there. This came after the presidency issued a communique in which it said Jonglei state, alongside Western Bahr el-Ghazal and Western Equatoria, will be allocated to the SPLM-IO as part of a provision […]
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May 9, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayatdit, has exhausted all his patience allowing his first deputy and SPLM-IO chairman, Dr. Riek Machar, make important decisions, a close aide to Kiir said Saturday. This comes a day after a plan by president Kiir to divide states between the parties to the revitalized peace agreement was rejected […]
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May 8, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s SPLM-IO has condemned a decision by President Salva Kiir claiming that the parties collegially reached an agreement on the allocation of states as provided for in the revitalized peace agreement. The presidency issued a communiqué on Thursday saying Kiir and Machar had reached an agreement on the allocation of state governors. The statement […]
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April 16, 2020 (SSNN) — Senior members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny have declared their intention to abandon the movement and joined the SPLM-IG of President Salva Kiir. This comes after the defection of SPLA-IO deputy chief of staff General Koang Chuol Ranley in March to President […]
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April 11, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by the the country’s first vice president Dr. Riek Machar Teny and as such could not achieve its objectives, Mabior Garang, a senior member of the group said. “The success or failure of any Movement is determined by how it has achieved its objectives. The root cause […]
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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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February 29, 2020 (SSNN)—The Jieng Council of Elders, an influential group of elders predominantly from the Dinka tribe, has congratulated the parties on resolving outstanding issues and forming a unity government on schedule. “President Salva Kiir Mayardit (SPLM) and First President Riek Machar Teny (SPLM IO) acted with concerted efforts and yielded to South Sudanese and international community demand to […]
Continue reading »February 29, 2020 (SSNN)—The South Sudanese government has instructed the Ministry of Finance to release a total of 11,250,000 USD, in which each member of Parliament must receive about $ 25,000 for health insurance, according to one of the legislators who spoke on the condition of anonymity since he was not allowed to speak to the media. However, as the […]
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February 27, 2020 (SSNN)–The South Sudan government and the main opposition group, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – IO, have now reached a dead end on how to divide and allocate key ministerial positions, such as the ministries of oil, finance, and defense. Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Manawa Peter Gatkoth, deputy spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-IO, […]
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Opposition leader and the First Vice-president Dr. Riek Machar’s Repremarks during the swearing in Ceremony of the First Vice President and the Vice Presidents. Machar’s speech on February 22, 2020 during the swearing-in ceremony of the Presidency H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan; H.E. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, President of the Sudan Transitional Sovereign Council and […]
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February 21, 2020 (SSNN)—South Sudan’s opposition leader and FVP Dr. Riek Machar has issued a press release, dissolving all 21 governors under the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-IO in accordance with the recent return of the country to its previous ten states. “As we agreed with the President, South Sudan has reverted to States, the 21 governors are hereby dissolved with […]
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Opinion, By: Reat Nhial Tuany February 20, 2020 (SSNN)—On February 15, 2020 President Salva Kiir Mayardit stunned the nation when he announced to reduce the number of States in the Republic of South Sudan from a staggering (32) States to (10) states, with an additional (3) administrative areas: Abyei, Ruweng and Boma. The idea to increase the number of states […]
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Opinion, By James Gatdet Dak Lampuar February 16, (2020)—By unilaterally creating administrative areas—when the action is supposed to strictly revert the country to the constitutional 10 states—-South Sudan’s Presidency is wrong, because the decision is unnecessary and a bad precedence and problematic. Well, let me first state that I congratulate President Salva Kiir on his bold decision to listen to the […]
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February 14, 2020 (SSNN)—South Sudan’s main opposition leader, Dr. Riek Machar has released a press statement, rejecting the government’s call for consultations on the issue of the number of states and their boundaries, a pending task that has become an obstacle to the formation of the unity government. “The SPLM/SPLA(I0) would like to make the following comments in regards to […]
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Opinion, By Nathaniel Pierino Subject: Proposal for the International Mediators to impose Ten (10) States or Consider a Neutral Independent Caretaker Administration (NICA). February 12, 2020 (SSNN)—Dear Chairman, Antonio Gramsci said, “The Crisis Consists Precisely in the Fact that the Old is dying and the New cannot be Born…” The question is, what do we do? I am writing to […]
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Press Release, SPLM/A-IO – IO National Committee for Information & Public Relations February 10th, 2020 (SSNN)—On the Tripartite Consultations on the Pending Critical Issues of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) – 9 February 2020, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia As per the resolution of the Communique of the 34th Extraordinary […]
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February 9th, 2020 (SSNN)—South Sudan’s Minister of Information, Communication and Broadcasting, Michael Makuei Lueth briefs the media on the outcome of the AU summit and the IGAD’s 70th Extraordinary Session of the IGAD Council of Ministers on the situation of South Sudan which discussed the status of the implementation of the peace agreement in South Sudan. Click on the video […]
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February 9th, 2020 (SSNN)—South Sudan’s government has strongly criticized the East African regional bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, for its failure to provide a win-win solution to the number of states and their internal boundaries, a pending issue that is likely to hamper the formation of a national unity government. On Saturday, the IGAD Council of Ministers adopted a […]
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Updated position of SPLM-IO/SPLA IO to enable the formation of the Revitalized Government National Unity at the end of the Extension of the Hundred Days. Introduction February 4, 2020 (SSNN)—Since the signing of the Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan R-ARCSS on September 12th […]
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January 25th, 2020 (SSNN)—South Sudan’s main armed opposition faction, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army – IO has been accused of forcibly recruiting children into armed forces, in Rubkona County, Northern Liech State. According to State Information Minister David Gai, the ongoing forced recruitment of child soldiers has forced residents to flee the areas to avoid further enlistment by […]
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