May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have surpassed 800 after the ministry of health registered over 150 more cases on Monday. Dr. Makur Koriom, the undersecretary in the ministry of health said 243 samples were collected during the pass 48 hours among which 151 people were tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has addressed the nation this evening denying reports that he is sick with COVID-19 and was rushed to Cairo for treatment. Below is the full address of the South Sudanese head of state to the nation from J1. “Fellow Citizens, I have just called for this press briefing to […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that reports that he was sick and was rushed to the Egyptian capital Cairo for treatment were not true saying he was fine and discharging his duties as head of state. This comes after reports that the South Sudanese head of state has contracted COVID-19, the respiratory […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – The embassy of Japan in Juba on Monday denied reports that it has donated a package of unapproved “preventive” cards against COVID-19 to the office of the president. This comes after the office of the president said Japan had donated preventive cards also know as “Virus Shut Out.” In a statement this afternoon, the Japanese […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan Information Minister and government spokesman Michael Makuei Lueth has said that he is recovering from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. “Well I am fine and I am recovering. I haven’t experienced any symptom of the corona[virus]. I think by next week I will be well,” Makuei told South Sudan […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – 27-year-old South Sudanese model Nyakim Gatwech labeled “Queen of the Dark”, who has broken down the barriers of conventional beauty and encouraged others to do the same, now has a net worth of $4 million. Gatwech’s willpower and her beautiful flawless dark skin tone have earned her endorsements and brand ambassador deals with major companies like Fashion […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit will tour Juba tomorrow, Tuesday, to dispel rumours that he has been admitted to a Cairo hospital after he has allegedly be diagnosed with COVID-19, a presidency spokesman said. “The president is very healthy and doing his work normally. I want to assure the public that the president is […]
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May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has condemned a new outbreak of intercommunal violence in South Sudan that has left hundreds dead, calling for those responsible to be brought swiftly to justice. “The reports from Jonglei State are appalling, indicating that scores of civilians have been killed in attacks across 28 villages […]
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May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have soared to 655 after the National Taskforce on COVID-19 said this evening that 92 more people have tested positive for the deadly virus. The taskforce said two more deaths were also registered on Saturday bringing the total of those who died as direct results of COVID-19, the disease associated with […]
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May 23, 2020(SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and leader of the SPLM-IO Dr. Riek Machar Teny has said this morning that he and his wife Angelina Teny were recovering from COVID-19 one week since they were found positive for the virus. Speaking via teleconference from Juba to worshipers in Khartoum today, Machar said he and Mrs. Teny who […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has announced that the country’s ministry of health registered on Friday 82 more cases of COVID-19 all of whom are South Sudanese. This, the high-level taskforce said, brings the total cases of coronavirus in the world’s youngest country to 551. South Sudan has seen rise in coronavirus cases since President Salva Kiir […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny is discharging his duties as First Vice President and also as SPLM-IO leader from his home where he is quarantined, his media official said. Machar last week tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory sickness caused by the novel coronavirus, along his wife Angelina Teny who is […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – Former governor of South Sudan’s defunct Kapoeta state Louis Lobong has been injured in a car crush outside Juba this morning, close aides have said. The former governor was heading to Torit when his car overturned in just a few miles away from Gumbo area, a Juba suburb on the other side of the river […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s information minister Michael Makuei Lueth has denied reports that President Salva Kiir Mayardit has tested positive for the deadly COVID-19. The denial by Makuei comes as South Sudan diplomats quoted by the South Sudan News Now (SSNN) said on Friday that the head of state has been flown to the Egyptian capital Cairo […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo in a surprise trip, a South Sudan embassy staff in Cairo said this morning. “The President of the republic is here in Cairo. He arrived on Thursday and he will stay here for a number of days to discuss bilateral relations with […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has not been evacuated to any foreign country as reported on a section of South Sudan media yesterday, a spokesman for Machar said in a statement this morning. On Thursday, reports were circulated on social media of Machar having been evacuated to Europe allegedly after his […]
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May 22, 2020(SSNN) — Briefing the international media on US response to combating COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, the US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Tibor Peter Nagy, said South Sudan is not helping the efforts to combat the global pandemic by failing to pay the salaries of health workers. Hon. Nagy was responding to a journalist, Carol, who states that […]
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May 21, 2020(SSNN) — Latest reports from South Sudan’s Pibor Administrative Area and corresponding reports from the national capital, Juba, revealed that youth from neighboring Murle tribe are seen crossing the Ethiopian highland allegedly to launch attacks on Akobo of Lou-nuer, South Sudan. A report from an Ethiopian journalist, Zoya Mengiste, confirmed that thousands of heavily armed Murle youth were […]
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May 21, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s incumbent, president Salva Kiir Mayardit, is secretly battling Coronavirus “behind closed doors”, a high profile insider reveals to South Sudan News Now. The confidential insider confirmed that president Salva Kiir tested positive, a day after his First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and 59 other government officials tested positive to COVID-19. The South […]
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By Paul Ruot Bayoch Revenge: May 20, 2020(SSNN) — For how long shall you enslave and keep us captives in your ugly cycles? For how long shall you rob us of our joys and ambitions? For how long shall you be traumatizing us? For how long shall you make our mothers and sisters widows? For how long shall you […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior South Sudan government official has reportedly been evacuated to an identified country after an alleged health setbacks imposed by the novel coronavirus. A senior government official at the Juba International Airport told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that the senior government official has recently been tested positive for coronavirus but said could not […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – Members of South Sudan’s Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) in the capital Juba have rejected an order this week from the presidency that all lawmakers take mandatory coronavirus test, sources have said from Juba. “This thing (COVID-19 test) shouldn’t be mandatory. It is individual person to determine whether that person need to test or not,” […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of cabinet affairs, Hon. Martin Elia Lomoro, has admitted that he and some members of his family have been exposed to COVID-19, the sickness which comes as result of the novel coronavirus. This comes days after Lomoro denied in a statement on social media that he was tested and found positive for […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan civil society watchdog has condemned an attack on a local radio journalist in the capital Juba. On Tuesday night, a Eye Radio journalist was attacked at his home near Bilpam by a group of criminal gang who he said opened fire on his brother wounding him in the leg. The police has […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – The Sudanese government has asked the government of South Sudan to supply it with crude oil in return for gasoline, a senior government official in Khartoum has said. The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Energy and Mining Hamid Suleiman said in an interview quoted by Sudan Tribune that the purpose of the proposed new deal […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – The United Nations has condemned this week’s attack by Murle on areas o Lou Nuer in South Sudan’s Jonglei state that has killed a number of aid workers. At least three aid workers were killed in intense clashes in South Sudan over the weekend, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — A cattle raid in South Sudan’s Mayom county of Bul-nuer, Unity State, that witnessed at least 17 death, among which 9 were soldiers, was reportedly led by a senior officer of the South Sudan Military Intelligence (MI). Confidential sources from South Sudan military headquarters, Bilpham-Juba, alleged that the recent attacks in Mayom county were led by […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — For the last few days, a few fake tweets, attributed to Dr. Lam Akol and Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, have gone viral on Facebook, WhatsaApp and Twitter, forcing Dr. Lam to go on twitter, leaving his alleged counterpart in the dark, to clear the air. The fake tweets, which some are dated to as far as […]
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This opinion article has been thoroughly edited to aid reading… By Mariak Madut Thiik Riiny, May 20, 2020(SSNN) — My fellow citizens of the Republic of South Sudan, I picked my phone today to write an article for the removal of the so-call Tutkew Gatluak Manime, the security advisor in the office of the president. I am a mere citizen […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — In a friendly letter written and signed by South Sudan’s incumbent president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, to his all-time rival and current First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, who contracted COVID-19, president Kiir prays for Machar and other members of the former High-level Taskforce to get well soon. Despite political differences that have hindered the implementations […]
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May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have jumped to 490 after 143 more people tested positive for the virus. Until today, South Sudan had 347 cases. The ministry of health said in a statement that all the 143 new cases are South Sudanese. The surge in cases came as President Salva Kiir said earlier this month that […]
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May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – Many people who died recently in South Sudan’s capital Juba are victims of the the novel coronavirus, a senior government official said. Dr Angok Kuol Tiir, the coronavirus incident manager at the ministry of health told the Australia-based radio station SBS Dinka that many people who died recently have tested positive posthumously for coronavirus. Dr. […]
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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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