South Sudan

Banking on Chat: How AI Makes ‘Cents’ for Finance Companies

News, Newsbeat, Opinions, Press Releases, South Sudan

Nov 6, 2023 (SSNN) — The digital customer experience (CX) landscape is continually evolving, with AI playing an ever-growing role in helping businesses, including those in the finance sector, build their relationship with their customers, helping to set them apart from their competition. Conversational AI is a gamechanger for banks and financial institutions, enabling the complete reimagining of the digital […]

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Education Fund for African Students in Energy

Breaking News, East Africa, News, Newsbeat, Oil, Op-Eds, Press Releases, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan
Soldiers patrol an oil field in Paloug, in South Sudan's Upper Nile state(Photo Credit: Jared Ferrie/IPS)

The African Energy Chamber launches its annual Energy Scholarship Award under efforts to expand the participation of youth in energy JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 9, 2023/ — We are thrilled to announce the launch of the AEC African Energy Education Fund (www.EnergyChamber.org), an annual program aimed at supporting young individuals across Africa who are pursuing undergraduate studies in oil, gas and […]

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We Must Stop Attacks on Children Immediately

Civil War, East Africa, Press Releases, South Sudan, Sudan
With a third of schools destroyed, occupied or closed since the beginning of the civil war, South Sudan holds the highest proportion of out-of-school children in the world at around two million children. The poor economic situation and continuing instability have left an estimated 1.1 million children under the age of five acutely malnourished and in need of life-saving aid in 2018. VIKTORIJA MICKUTE/AL JAZEERA

4 June 2023, New York – Children are not targets. Children are not soldiers. Children are not weapons. As we commemorate the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, we call on leaders everywhere to embrace the commitments outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Safe Schools Declaration to ensure girls and boys everywhere are able to reach their […]

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Sudan: Concrete UN Security Council Action Needed  African Council Members Should Take Leading Role in Ending Abuses

East Africa, News, Newsbeat, Press Releases, South Sudan, Sudan

For Immediate Release Nairobi, June 10, 2023(SSNN) – The United Nations Security Council should take stronger steps to reverse the rapidly deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in Sudan, Human Rights Watch said today. During the Security Council discussion on June 2, 2023 to renew the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), all council members, including the three African members, should support […]

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Fugitive South Sudan Bishop on the Run!

East Africa, Kenya, News, Newsbeat, Press Releases, Religion, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, World

April 1, 2023(SSNN) — A prominent South Sudanese Bishop of the Anglican Church of South Sudan(ACSS), Rt. Bishop Thomas Tut Gany of the Ayod Dioceses, has fled an arrest warrant from the South Sudanese authorities. According to South Sudan Police Services, Bishop Thomas Tut Gany, Founder and Executive Director of Christian Mission for Development(CMD), was charged on March 31st, 2023 […]

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Troika Statement on the Anniversary of the Juba Peace Agreement

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan, Sudan

By OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON, Oct 3, 2021 (SSNN) — The United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway (the Troika) commend the Sudanese people as they celebrate the first anniversary of the signing of Juba Peace Agreement (JPA) on October 3, 2020.  This historic agreement responds to the Sudanese people’s calls for freedom, peace, and justice, especially from those affected […]

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South Sudan Revitalized Peace deal at a crossroad to collapse

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
South Sudan President, Salva Kiir, and his First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, addressing the media in the capital, Juba(Photo credit: SSPPU)

Sep 24, 2021(SSNN) — South Sudan’s three-year-old peace deal is doomed to collapse unless the parties can settle disputes and create a unified army, the main opposition faction said on Wednesday. The accord signed in September 2018 calls for the reunification of all fighters involved in the civil conflict, but the process has been marred by delays. The peace deal signed […]

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K Denk releases a viral song Peter Gatdet in his latest album, Hope

Breaking News, Music, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan

Sep 19, 2021 — South Sudanese international, Koang Deng Kun Koang, popularly known by his stage name as K-Denk has released an emotional song, “Peter Gatdet” in memory of heroes who fought for the liberation of the Republic of South Sudan. The song, which was premiered on Youtube on September 16, was shot and launched in Alberta, Canada but K-Denk […]

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Kenya Ports Authority Awards Regional Port Users

Breaking News, Kenya, News, Newsbeat, Op-Eds, South Sudan, World

The 77 participants were drawn from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and DR Congo.  Mombasa, Kenya, Sep 19, 2021(SSNN) — Kenya Ports Authority held its second East Africa Maritime Awards EAMA 2020 ON September 17, 2021 in Kenya’s coastal City of Mombasa to recognize industry’s outstanding practices for Excellence, Sustainability, Training, Technology, Initiative, Personality and Leadership from the eastern Africa region. The Awards were […]

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Jagei Community Leader denounces election of Hon. Malual Tap

News, Newsbeat, South Sudan

Juba, South Sudan, June 7th, 2021(SSNN) — The Jagei  community association in Juba, South Sudan, has allegedly backtracked from its recent elections that installed Hon. Malual Tap Die, the Unity state minister of Finance, calling it illegal. In a statement received by our editorial team, the Jagei Community leadership calls on Jagei members in diaspora and South Sudanese at large […]

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Sudan Government welcomes the initiative over the final status of Abyei

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan, Sudan
President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Sudan Delegation (photo credit: courtesy image)

Juba, South Sudan, May 27th, 2021 — South Sudan’s President H.E Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit issued a presidential decree two days ago appointing an ad hoc committee to engage in talks with Sudanese Transitional Government over the status of contested Abyei Administrative Area.  The formation of the committee comes a week after armed militia from Sudan’s Messiriya tribe allegedly backed […]

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UN Security Council must not lift South Sudan arms embargo until human rights benchmarks are met

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan, UN
Members of South Sudan’s SSPDF singning in an unidentified area outside Juba, South Sudan, in January 2017 (Credit: Unknown)

May 17, 2021(SSNN) — Lifting the UN arms embargo on South Sudan could have dire consequences for human rights, Amnesty International warned today, ahead of a UN Security Council vote on 27 May to decide the future of the embargo. The Security Council must ensure a range of human rights benchmarks are met before the embargo can be lifted. These […]

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Indian Battalion Organizes Veterinary Camp in Kodok, Upper Nile State

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
Veterinary team of INDBATT-1 briefing Kodok county commissioner, Mr. Joseph Aban(Photo credit: UNMISS/SSNN)

May 6, 2021(SSNN) — Indian Battalion based at Malakal in UNMISS effectively carried out 02 days veterinary aid camp and animal health awareness campaign to livestock owners at Kodok in South Sudan from 16 April to 17 April, 2021. Kodok, formally known as Shilluk Kingdom, is located at Western Nile in Upper Nile State. According to Lt. Col. Philip Varghese, […]

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Opinion: What the Government of South Sudan Should Know About its Responsibilities Towards the Citizens

Opinions, South Sudan
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)

By Juol Nhomngek Gec Juba, South Sudan, May 06, 2021(SSNN) — Since the war broke out in 2013, South Sudanese citizens have never found peace inside and outside South Sudan. As human rights bodies such as Amnesty international, the UN High Commission for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch have been reporting, South Sudanese citizens are constantly subjected to arbitrarily […]

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UNMISS Peacekeepers Rescue UNMAS Contractors Following an Armed Ambush in Eastern Equatoria

News, South Sudan, UN, UNMISS
David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), briefs the Security Council(UN Photo/Loey Felipe)

By Samira Y Salifu, April 19, 2021(UNMISS) — 20 United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) workers were rescued by Rwandan peacekeepers and United Nations Mission Observers from UNMISS, after being ambushed in Longiro, an area some 58 kilometres north of Torit, Eastern Equatoria. They were part of a team from G4S Global contracted by UNMAS. “We found them shaken and […]

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EES governor Gen. Louis Lobong Lojore’s envoy attacked in Budi County

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
Governor of Eastern Equatoria Lt. Gen. Louis Lobong Lojore(Photo credit: courtesy image)

March 30, 2021(SSNN) — The Eastern Equatoria State governor, Louis Lobong Lojore’s envoy was on Monday ambushed by a group of armed youth in Budi County as they were leaving the area after a peace mission. The governor narrowly survived the attack that left one of his bodyguards and a wife to the Division Commander killed in the ambush while […]

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South Sudan President receives African Peace Award 2021

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
President Salva Kiir receiving African Peace Award 2021 presented to him by African Private Television Union(Photo credit: courtesy image)

March 27, 2021(SSNN) — South Sudan’s incumbent president, General Salva Kiir Mayardit, who has led his country through a brutal civil war for the last seven, has received an African Peace Award for this year 2021. According to the office of the president, His Excellency President Salva Kiir won the peace medal for his tireless efforts to bring peace and […]

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Sudan’s al Buhran arrives in Juba for peace talks with holdout oppositions

Breaking News, East Africa, Newsbeat, South Sudan, Sudan
President Salva Kiir receiving the Chairman of Sudan Transitional Sovereign Council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Buhran at Juba International Airport(Photo credit: courtesy image)

March 27, 2021(SSNN) — The Sudan’s Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Buhran, has arrived in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, to meet with the leaders of the holdout oppositions. According to president Salva Kiir’s office, Gen. Fattah was received in the airport by President Salva Kiir this morning, March 27, 2021. “27th March 2021, H.E. […]

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Women celebrate IWD2021 by calling for 35% representation in the government

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan, Women
Displaced women and children under a hot sun in South Sudan’s Maban County, where food shortages are causing tension. © UNHCR/P.Rulashe

March 8, 2021(SSNN) — As the world celebrates International Women’s Day with the theme ‘Choose to Challenge’, South Sudan women chose to challenge the issues facing women in leadership especially in the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on Conflict Resolution in South Sudan (R-ARCSS). These women focused on the clause on a clause that demands 35 percent representation of women […]

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SPLM-IO dismisses VP Taban Deng’s call to suspend the implementation of the peace agreement

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan

March 5, 2021(SSNN) — The SPLM-IO has dismissed Gen. Taban Deng Gai’s call to suspend the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement. Responding to Taban Group’s press release, Dut Majokdit, who is a member of the SPLM-IO National Council, said that the Vice-president is attempting to create another situation that is likely to jeopardize the implementation of the peace agreement. The […]

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Plane crash in Uror County of Jonglei State kills 10 people on board

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
Images showing the scene of the incident and one of the pilots Captain Majur Malou of the South Sudan Supreme Airlines(Photo credit: supplied)

Mar 2, 2021(SSNN) — A South Sudan commercial plane crashed on Tuesday in the Pieri area of Uror County, Jonglei State killing all the ten people who were on board. According to some eyewitnesses, the plane which was carrying two crew members and nine passengers crashed immediately after takeoff from Pieri airstrip. Eyewitness Sebit Kuol says the aircraft took off […]

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Pope urges South Sudanese leaders to renew peace process in Christmas message

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State, blessing South Sudan leaders recently in Vatican(Photo credit: Vatican/SSNN)

By Devin Watkins Dec 24, 2020(Nyamilepedia) — Pope Francis signs an ecumenical Christmas message to the political leaders of South Sudan, and urges them to make greater strides along the path of peace and service to the nation. Pope Francis has sent Christmas greetings to the political leaders of South Sudan once again this year. As with last year’s message, the […]

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UN agencies call for urgent humanitarian access to prevent hungers

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
WFP's beneficiaries unload food items from vehicles at an unidentified distribution point (Photo: Supplied)

Dec 23, 2020(SSNN) — Three United Nations organizations are calling for immediate humanitarian access to parts of South Sudan’s Jonglei State and Pibor Administrative Area, where people have run out of food and are facing terrible levels of hunger. This call came following a new report of Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on Friday which put South Sudan on heightened […]

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Museveni lobbies U.S and U.K to help him push for elections in South Sudan

Breaking News, East Africa, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan, Uganda
Ugandan President H.E. Kaguta Museveni ...

Dec 8, 2020(SSNN) — President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has met and held discussions with the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) Special Envoys to Uganda about the situation in South Sudan. The US Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Natalie E. Brown was accompanied by the US Special Envoy for South Sudan H.E Stuart Symington IV to the meeting while the […]

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IGAD, UNHCR and partners welcome first meeting of Sudan and South Sudan on solutions to displacement

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan, Sudan, World
The IGAD Chair, the IGAD secretary and the UNHCR Special Envoy for the horn of Africa at a High-Level meeting in Khartoum, Sudan.(Photo credit: courtesy of UNHCR)

KHARTOUM, Sudan. Dec 4, 2020(SSNN)  — Representatives of the governments of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan agreed this week on a regional roadmap which will outline the next steps toward medium to long-term solutions for seven million forcibly displaced persons originating from and hosted by the two countries, and other States hosting displaced populations from both countries. The […]

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Dr. Riek Machar’s Opening Statement of the 6th SPLM/A-IO Conference

News, Newsbeat, Press Releases, South Sudan
Dr. Riek Machar Teny, First Vice President and Chairman of the SPLM/A-IO addressing the SPLM/A-IO Conference at the Freedom Hall on December 1, 2020(Photo credit: supplied/SSNN)

GOOD MORNING!  1. It is my pleasure to welcome all of you to the SPLM/SPLA (10) 6th National Conference. I  must thank all of you, especially those who travelled long distances from states and counties despite the many challenges including lack of transport, bad roads, insecurity, poor weather and floods that have affected our country to attend this historic Conference. […]

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Oil Prices continue to decline in the world market, OPEC delays talks

News, Newsbeat, South Sudan

By Sibel Morrow Dec 2, 2020(SSNN) — Crude oil prices were down on Wednesday over the double whammy of an increase in US oil inventories and continuing uncertainty about OPEC+ meeting as investors await a decision from OPEC+ regarding their production policy for 2021. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $47.15 per barrel at 0648 GMT for a 0.56% […]

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Thousand of displaced people in Warrap State depend on aid to survive

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan
United Nations Police assisted IDPs seeking refugee and shelter from the heavy fighting(Photo credit: UNMISS/SSNN)

Dec 1, 2020(SSNN) — Thousands of people who have been displaced by violence and floods in Warrap State hardly get enough food or shelter. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that at least 377,300 people have been displaced by floods and violence in Warrap since July. Most of the displaced people are living on aid […]

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South Sudan’s latest peace effort stalls, UN experts say

Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan, South Sudan Peace
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)

Edith M. Lederer Tanzania, The Associated Press December 1, 2020(SSNN) — UN experts say South Sudan’s latest peace effort has stalled, with the coalition government formed in February failing to meet deadlines and President Salva Kiir locking opposition leader and now First Vice-President Riek Machar “out of the government’s decision-making process.” The panel of experts said it was told by […]

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South Sudan: UN arms embargo must be maintained after surge in violence against civilians in 2020

News, Newsbeat, Op-Eds, South Sudan
UN Security Council delegation visits South Sudan(Photo credit: UNMISS)

Nov 29, 2020(SSNN) — The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) must maintain the arms embargo on South Sudan, Amnesty International said today, after confirming shocking cases of extreme violence by government forces and an increase in attacks on civilians, including war crimes, across the country in 2020. New research by Amnesty International has documented a series of extrajudicial executions, forced displacement, torture, […]

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