May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has ordered all members of parliament to take a mandatory test for coronavirus, a lawmaker told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) from the capital Juba. “The President has ordered that all of us [to] be tested and that will go on regularly every one week,” the lawmaker who refused […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei has said that all members of the former high-level taskforce including himself have contracted the novel coronavrius. This comes after speculations on social media suggest that he and some members of the taskforce have contracted the virus. The deputy chair of the taskforce and First Vice President Dr. Riek […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – Almost fifty (50) Murle attackers have been captured during this week’s fighting in which armed men from the Greater Pibor Administrative Area attacked several villages in Uror County of Jonglei state. According to a local official who spoke to South Sudan News Now (SSNN) from Uror, some of those captured had ranks saying eight of […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – The former governor of the defunct Buma state Gen. David Yau Yau who met President Salva Kiir Mayardit last week is among 57 people whose COVID-19 test results came back positive yesterday, a government official who said he himself is COVID-19 positive has said. “General David Yau Yau has tested positive for coronavirus,” the official […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan aid worker working for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been killed as result of the renewed Jonglei fighting, the humanitarian agency said in a statement on Tuesday. “We express our deepest sympathy and condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of our staff member and all those affected,” said Steve MacKay, MSF […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan minister of cabinet affairs Martin Elia Lomoro has debunked this afternoon rumors that he has been found positive with COVID-19 after reports that he and some members of the high-level taskforce tested positive for the virus. Yesterday, South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny said all members of the coronavirus taskforce […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan main armed opposition military general has died on Monday in Juba of COVID-19 which is caused by the novel coronavirus, officials have confirmed. Maj. Gen. Ohisa Robert passed away in Juba on Monday died in the capital Juba after he was rushed to the Dr. John Garang Center for Infectious Diseases after […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei Lueth and Cabinet affairs minister Martin Elia Lomoro have both tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, sources inside the high-level taskforce said. One source said Makuei had refused to give blood samples last month but was convinced earlier this month to do so and […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar who tested positive for coronavirus today has said that all members of the high-level taskforce have tested positive for coronavirus with the exception of the health minister. Machar made the remarks during a briefing with the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) hours after he tested positive for […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny and his wife Angelina Teny have both tested positive for COVID-19, his press secretary James Gatdet Dak said in a statement this evening. According to Gatdet, samples of Machar and his wife who is also the country’s minister of defense were taken last week and came […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have skyrocketed to 347 after the country’s ministry of health announced in the capital Juba this evening that 57 more people have tested positive for the deadly virus. The undersecretary in the ministry of health, Dr. Makur Koriom, said in a statement to the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) that […]
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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) – Fresh fighting has broke out in South Sudan’s Unity state after armed youth from the country’s Ruweng Administrative Area launched a surprise attack on a village in Guit county, local officials said. Simon Bol, a local official in Guit told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) via telephone call that the fighting began in the midnight […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – The Press Secretary for President Salva Kiir Mayardit has referred to the ongoing Murle attack against villages in Greater Akobo state as revenge and counter-revenge. Fighting has been ongoing in parts of Uror county of Jonglei state after heavily armed Murle Youth launched attacks against in several villages there. Dozens of civilians have been killed […]
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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 18, 2020 (SSNN) – Youth from South Sudan’s Mayom county have rubbished claims by some Warrap politicians that they have been armed by president Salva Kiir’s security advisor Tut Gatluak, General Puljang and former Northern Liech state governor Nguen Manytuil. Last week, some Warrap state politicians called for the removal of Gatluak for allegedly arming Bul youth whom the […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior South Sudan government official has blamed the absence of state governments of the ongoing fighting in the country’s Jonglei state. Manawa Peter Gatkuoth, the minister for irrigation and the deputy chairperson of SPLM-IO national committee for information and public relations said absence of state governments has led to the civilians taking laws into […]
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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 17, 2020 (SSNN) – Inflation in Sudan jumped to 99 percent because of rising food prices, official figures showed Saturday, more than a year after the country was rocked by protests sparked by bread price hikes. The inflation rate in April shot up from 82 percent the previous month due to increased prices of grains, meat, milk and bread, […]
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May 17, 2020 (SSNN) – Chinese medical experts on Friday shared their experience of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with their counterparts in Uganda and South Sudan. Speaking at the opening of the meeting held via Webinar, Aeneas Chuma, UNAIDS Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, said the world is facing one of the biggest challenges that is not […]
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May 17, 2020 (SSNN) – Sudan rejected Ethiopia’s proposal to sign an initial agreement on how to fill the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and now wants to resume U.S.-led negotiations on the project. According to a statement on Tuesday, Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok sent a letter to his Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed disapproving of an Addis Ababa […]
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May 17, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan advocacy group has condemned yesterday’s attack by Murle armed youth against Lou-Nuer areas in Jonglei state’s Uror county in which dozens of civilians including women and children were killed. In a statement this morning, the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) said it was saddened by attack and accused the Greater Pibor […]
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May 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s high-level taskforce on coronavirus has announced that as much as over 50 people tested positive for COVID-19, the diseases caused by the novel coronavirus, the highest infection rate in one single day. The high-level taskforce said this evening that the ministry of health informed them that 54 people tested positive for COVID-19 today. […]
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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) – The National Salvation Front (NAS) said on Friday that South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA) on Friday suffered heavy losses after the two launched attacks against different positions of the rebel group on Thursday. Suba Samuel Manase, the NAS spokesman, said a join attack by the […]
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May 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit said on Friday that members of South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) will be deployed to fight hunger and the novel coronavirus. The South Sudanese leader made the remark during a televised address on Friday as the country marks the 37th anniversary of the SPLM/SPLA, a rebel movement and […]
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May 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Dozens of people have been killed after armed youth from the Greater Pibor Administrative Area attacked a number of villages in Jonglei’s Greater Akobo, residents there said this afternoon. “There was an attack this morning. The attackers come from Murle areas and many people have been killed and the fighting has since subsidized. I don’t […]
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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) – Former deputy governor of South Sudan’s defunct Yei River state has died this morning with coronavirus, sources at Dr. John Garang Infectious Diseases Center have said. Yousta Baba Dima died after contracting the disease last week and was referred to Dr. John Garang Infectious Diseases Center after having been treated at a private hospital in […]
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that the country’s leaders – including himself – have not lived to the liberation struggle promises saying he would be ashamed if he met the fallen heroes today. Kiir made the remarks during a speech on the eve of the 37 anniversary of the SPLM/SPLA formation. Below […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – The vice chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo has warned unnamed individuals of conspiracy to relocate his forces outside the capital Khartoum. The powerful militia commander said, during a press conference after visiting wounded soldiers at a Khartoum hospital, that there were conspiracies to move out the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) […]
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – The Bentiu community in Kenya has expressed shock after the surprise demise of a senior army general on Wednesday hailing him for his role in the Liberation struggle. On Wednesday, Lieutenant General Liah Diu Deng, a senior army officer and former director of Unity state’s prison service, passed on in the Sudanese capital Khartoum where […]
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s National Salvation Front (NAS) led by former deputy chief of staff of the army General Thomas Cirilo Swaka has denied that it kidnapped eight SPLA-IO officers saying the main armed opposition group did that to its own officers. SPLA-IO deputy spokesman, Col. Lam Paul Gabriel, said in a statement yesterday that eight officers […]
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