SSPDF Forces

SPLA-IO urges gov’t to release detained commander

July 20, 2020 Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan

July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLA-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has urged the South Sudan People’s Defence Force (SSPDF) to release detained SPLA-IO commander. Over the weekend, General Gabriel Bol Wek, a senior SPLA-IO commander in Western Bahr el Ghazal state’s Jur River was arrested by government forces, reportedly […]

Arrangement underway to transport food, NFIs for starving troops at cantonment sites -IGAD

January 28, 2020 Newsbeat

Jan 28, 2020 (SSNN—The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has said that plans are underway to arrange the transportation of different types of items for starving forces, reported to have gone for months without food, non-food items and medical supplies in cantonment areas. Last week, it was reported that two soldiers lost their lives at Owinykibul training centers due […]

NAS praises its leadership after releasing 23 people, stresses importance of International Human Rights Law

January 3, 2020 Newsbeat, South Sudan

Leader of South Sudan's National Salvation Front (NAS) General Thomas Cirilo appears during an interview in Addis Ababa, Ethioia in 2017 (Photo credit: Getty Images)

January 4th, 2020 (SSNN)—The National Salvation Front (NAS), a Non-signatory faction to the R-ARCSS fighting government forces in Central and Western Equatoria and headed by General Thomas Cirillo Swaka – has congratulated its leadership on abiding by International Human Rights Law by releasing 23 people including children under its custody. “The leadership of National Salvation Front (NAS) would like to […]

South Sudan’s ex-rival forces undergo training, sign Declaration on Child Protection

December 10, 2019 News, UN, UNMISS

Senior Military Officers representing the SSPDF, SSOA and SPLA-IO sign a Declaration affirming their commitment to protecting the rights of all children in South Sudan (Photo: UNMISS)

Dec 10th, 2019 (SSNN)-The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UMMISS) has selected about 40 senior officers from the South Sudan Defence Forces (SSPDF), Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-iO), and South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) to attend an interactive training on child protection policy. According to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, the forty officers expressed their […]

‘Do not speculate, Maj. Gen. Stephen Buay was not stripped of his ranks’ family rubbishes social media allegations

October 31, 2019 Newsbeat

Nov 1st, 2019 (SSNN)-The family of Major General Stephen Buay Rulnyang on Thursday dismissed and strongly condemned social media allegations that South Sudan’s Military Court had made its final ruling on Buay, stripping him of his ranks and removing him from the SSPDF’s ranks and files. “As a family of Major General Stephen Buay Rolnyang, it has actually come to […]