June 27, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan former presidential affairs minister, Mayiik Ayii Deng has been denied a visa to return to the United States, where he holds citizenship, officials familiar with the matter told South Sudan News Now. The attempt by Mayiik to return to the United States comes weeks after his removal from the ministry by President Salva […]
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June 27, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has been urged by a local rights group to include church leaders in the committee which the head of state established last week to investigate the ongoing Jonglei ethnic violence. Kiir last week appointed James Wani Igga, the vice-president, as head of a committee for the investigation and finding […]
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June 27, 2020 (SSNN) – The National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has said that its candidate for governor of Jonglei state is unopposed within the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) denying reports that claims the group has given up on the race. This week, Dr. Lam Akol wrote to President Salva Kiir, asking him to […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – Members of South Sudan army’s military intelligence (MI) are detaining two siblings who transported victims of Jonglei ethnic violence to the country’s capital Juba, a family member has said. Aleer Deng Aleer, a brother to the two said in a statement on Thursday that the two men were arrested following their return from Panyagoor, Jonglei […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) has a plan B if President Salva Kiir Mayardit insists on allocating Jonglei state to the opposition consortium, a senior member of the Alliance has said. Wazir Michael Liah, the spokesman for the Federal Democratic Party (FDP) and a senior member of the SSOA, told South Sudan News Now that […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s organized forces are taking sides in the ongoing intercommunal violence which has been rising with an alarming rate in the country, the UN mission said. David Shearer, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and head of United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said in a briefing to the United Nations Security […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan parties to the revitalized peace agreement have come to another deadlock over when the state governments are formed, the South Sudan News Now has learned. President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny agreed last week to the allocation of states with Kiir’s group taking six states of Unity, Warrap, […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan female artist, Mary Boyoi Gola, has been harassed by members of the country’s traffic police after a policeman asked Boyoi to pay an amount of SSP10, 000 for alleged violations of traffic police directives, two witnesses told South Sudan News Now. The first witness who identified himself as Juma said the incident took […]
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June 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has reportedly cleared its over $9 million membership arrears at the African Union (AU) which the world’s youngest country has not paid for the last three years. Earlier this month, the AU sanctioned the country for failing to pay its membership arrears for a duration of three years. The South Sudan ambassador […]
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June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Manawa Peter Gatkuoth Gual, has – on Tuesday – met a senior official of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) at his office in Juba, according to his office. Mr. Guang Cong, the United Nations Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General paid a visit to […]
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Juba 24, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has asked the Chinese government for a $12 million fee to settle membership fees because of which it was sanctioned by the African Union, a senior government official has said. Last week, the South Sudan ambassador to Addis Ababa and the country’s head of mission to the African Union, James Morgan, said […]
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June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit has on Monday formed a fact-finding committee to probe the ongoing inter-communal violence in the country’s restive Jonglei state. The action by Kiir comes after months of revenge attacks between the Lou-Nuer and Murle community which has killed hundreds of people from both sides. In a decree readout on […]
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June 23, 2020 (SSNN) – The National Democratic Movement (NDM) led by Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has said in a brief state this afternoon that it has nominated its secretary-general, Mahjuob Biel Turuk for the governorship of Jonglei state. The decision by the NDM follows a decision by President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar to divide […]
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June 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s Vice President Hussein Abdelbagi has this afternoon meet First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny following his return from Northern Bahr el Ghazal where he accompanied the body of his father who passed away last week. In a statement, Machar’s office said the two men, who also just recovered from COVID-19, the respiratory […]
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June 22, 2020 (SSNN) – The United States Ambassador to South Sudan, Thomas Hushek, has urged for the immediate reconstitution of the South Sudan parliament The call by the outgoing US envoy comes a few days after President Salva Kiir Mayardit and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny agreed to end the states deadlock which has been ongoing for a […]
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June 21, 2020(SSNN) — The white army spokesman calls on the Dinka Bor community to return the cattle, compensate the dead and apologize to the Nuer community before the white army finishes their ongoing operation in Murle. “We are fighting the Murle, not Bor people. We are recovering our cattle, women and children from Murle and we urge the Bor […]
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June 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has said that the African Union acted in violation of what it said is ‘principle of good faith,’ when it expelled a number of the country’s diplomats from a meeting in Addis Ababa earlier this week. On Monday, South Sudan diplomats at the AU were expelled from a meeting of the continental […]
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June 20, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan rights organization has welcomed the agreement between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny to bring to an end the issue of the states allocation which has been a sticking point in the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement. In a statement extended to South Sudan News […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and the leader of the SPLM-IO has ordered for the meeting of the organization’s two highest organs, the Political Bureau (PB) and the National Liberation Council (NLC). “The Chairman and Commander-in-Chief of SPLM/A-IO, Dr. Rick Machar Teny-Dhurgon would like to invite the members of SPLM/A-IO Political Bureau, National Liberation Council […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – Prominent South Sudan opposition leader and secretary-general of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin this evening met the First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny hours after welcoming a deal on the states reached by Machar and President Salva Kiir Mayardit. This afternoon, Dr. Lam who is also the chairperson of […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – Two senior members of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) have welcomed the decision by President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny to bring the states deadlock to an end. On Wednesday, Kiir and Machar met in J1 and resolved to end the four-month-old deadlock to an end by allocating […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of water resources and irrigation, Manawa Peter Gatkuoth, has this afternoon met the German ambassador to Juba, Manuel Muller, and the two discussed development in the field of water resources in the country, the ministry said in a statement. “The Minister Of Water Resources And Irrigation Hon. Manawa Peter Gatkuoth Met Today […]
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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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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLA-IO, is saying that an attack by South Sudan’s army on its base in Western Equatoria state has left a senior officer and at least ten (10) soldiers dead. The attack, one SPLA-IO officer said, took place on Wednesday in Tambura County after a joint attack by the South […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit will appoint state governors next week as parties are now preparing to submit names of respective nominees, a senior government official said today. Information minister Michael Makuei Lueth told South Sudan News Now from Juba this morning that President Salva Kiir Mayardit is waiting for the list of SPLM-IO […]
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June 19, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan holdout opposition group has condemned the killing of civilians by unknown armed men in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state in an ambush which has so far said to have killed around six people. The People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) led by Dr. Hakim Dario said in a statement extended to South Sudan News […]
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June 18, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s ex-governors of the defunct controversial 32 states plus Abyei have publicly declared this morning that they are no longer demanding for their $60,000 compensation package as demanded two weeks ago. A group of angry ex-governors stormed the Ministry of Finance two weeks ago and threatened that they will defect from the government if they […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan diplomats have been kicked out of an African Union (AU) meeting over failure by the world’s youngest country to pay membership fees to the continental body for three consecutive years, the South Sudan mission to the AU said. The South Sudan embassy in Addis Ababa and the country’s mission to the African Union […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – Outgoing Sudanese and United States ambassadors to Juba this afternoon visited South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and informed him that their mission was ending soon, a spokesman for Machar said. James Gatdet Dak, the official spokesman for the SPLM-IO leader said those who paid a visit to Machar include the US […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit will reconsider his decision to give Jonglei state to the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) and will instead give it to Other Political Parties (OPP) led by Peter Mayen should SSOA leader continue to reject the state, a senior government official said. This comes after the opposition consortium said […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s press secretary Ateny Wek Ateny has said that the world’s youngest country will not seek the permission of anyone to build a dam along the Nile saying the country will only do so in line with region water agreements. Ateny was reacting to a social media report in which he […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – The South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) has rejected yesterday’s consensus by president Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar on the allocation of states. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday in Juba, minister for presidential affairs Nhial Deng Nhial said the parties have reached an agreement and decided to allocate six states to the […]
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June 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has refused to hand over the body of Kerbino Wol, the opposition leader who was killed last week by the army in the country’s Lakes state, a family member has said. Wol – a prominent businessman and former National Security officer who formed a rebel group against President Salva Kiir Mayardit on […]
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