Juba, November 21, 2016 (SSNA) — Japanese peacekeepers from Japan Self-Defense Forces have arrived in South Sudan today (Monday), making Tokyo one of UN troop-contributing countries in war-torn South Sudan. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a parliamentary committee early last week that Tokyo will send a combat-ready military unit to the young African nation…
Juba, November 10, 2016 (SSNA) — South Sudan’s capital, Juba, has been hit by fuel shortage, forcing some businesses to close their operations, business owners and car drivers told Xinhua. “The fuel shortage is affecting us too much. What I have bought cannot run the generator for more than two weeks. It takes more than…
Nairobi/New York, November 2, 2016 (SSNA) — Government of Kenya has strongly criticized decision by the United Nations Secretary-General to dismiss a Kenyan General who was appointed in May to head the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. The protest came a day after Lt. Gen. Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki, a Kenyan, was fired Tuesday…
By Duop Chak Wuol Summary September 5, 2013 (SSNA) — The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) is a political party in South Sudan. It was founded on democratic principles and waged a successful war against Khartoum’s brutal regime of more than twenty-four years. Yet despite the resolution of this bloody, decades-long struggle between Sudan and South…
By: Gabriel Garang Pioth March 12, 2013 (SSNA) — It has become a common phenomenon across South Sudan for a patient who has malaria-typhoid like symptoms and went for blood test in their local pathology laboratory to be told ‘you have malaria-typhoid’. The term typhomalarial fever or malaria-typhoid fever has it is called in South…
By Dr. Lul P. Riek December 3, 2011 (SSNA) — On 1st December, 2011, the people of South Sudan will join millions of people around the world to observe World AIDS Day. Like no other illness, AIDS is the most single destructive epidemic in the recent human history because it has killed more than 25…
By Dr Lam Akol December 1, 2011 (SSNA) — A presentation by this author to the Conference on Higher Education in South Sudan held on 14-15 November 2011 in Juba [1], outlined the function of tertiary education and its requirements, concluded by raising certain policy issues that needed to be addressed in order to revamp…