Juba, September 22, 2021 (SSNA) — President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar will resume peace implementation talks next week, two government sources familiar with the matter told the South Sudan News Agency today. The discussion scheduled to resume as the agreement required will address obstacles that are preventing peace from progressing….
Re: Letter of condemnation to Gen. Khor Chuol Giet’s defection. United States, August 19, 2021 (SSNA) – The Gajaak Community Development Services (GCDS) in USA had convened an emergency meeting on Sunday August 15, 2021, at 6:30 pm. A very good number has attended the meeting which lasts for 5 hours. Since the 2013 war,…
August 6, 2021 (SSNA) — The leadership of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-In Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) has shapely criticizes the decision made by its military command to depose the current South Sudan First Vice President and chairman of the SPLM/A-IO Dr. Riek Machar. In an announcement, the SPLA-IO military led by its Chief of General Staff…
Nairobi/Juba, July 22, 2021 (SSNA) — The United States is secretly finalizing a plan to reallocate the money it has committed to the creation of a hybrid court in the war-ravaged South Sudan, a senior African Union official with full knowledge of the situation and who asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the…
Re: REPORT OF THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE COMMITTEE SUMMARIZED July 2021 This document is prepared and distributed in the hope that South Sudanese throughout the nation may understand what their friends and neighbors around the country have said during the National Dialogue interviews. Many people may not have access to the final report so we hope…
Juba, May 8, 2021 (SSNA) — The South Sudanese main parties to the revitalized peace agreement have agreed to dissolve the current Parliament paving the way for the Reconstitute Parliament to be sworn and take over, the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) has learned. The move comes more than a year after a transitional government…
Juba, April 25, 2021 (SSNA) — The United Nations has appointed Nicholas Haysom to head the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) has confirmed. UN Secretary-General António Guterres first made public the appointment of Haysom in January this year. The new UNMISS head who took over today (Sunday)…
Juba, April 18, 2021 (SSNA) — The South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has returned to Juba from Pretoria Sunday evening after three days of talks with his South African counterpart President Cyril Ramaphosa. Kiir left Juba for Pretoria on Thursday for what his office described as “bilateral relation and peace-related talks” with the South African…
Juba, April 10, 2021 (SSNA) — The President of South Sudan Salva Kiir has removed Chief of Staff of the military General Johnson Juma Okot and replaced him with General Santino Deng Wol. Kiir also fired many officials including Minister of Presidential Affairs Nhial Deng Nhial, Director-General of the South Sudan National Intelligence Bureau (External…
Nuer Community in Victoria Sub-Community leaders 13th of March 2021 Re: Warning letter to the general public of the Nuer community about social media abuse and bullying Dear beloved members, Victoria, Australia, March 13, 2021 (SSNA) — On behalf of the Nuer community in Victoria and its sub-communities leaders we wish our community members all…
Juba, March 10, 2021 (SSNA) — The United Nations has asked the government of South Sudan to allow its aid personnel access to Jonglei State’s Pibor and Akobo counties. The UN says people in Akobo and Pibor counties face insecurity every day due to rising of violence and that authorities need to contain it to…
Juba, March 5, 2021 (SSNA) — The government of the United Kingdom is prepared to dramatically reduce its yearly financial aid to South Sudan by 59%, a document leaked to the Britain media and seen by the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) shows. The Britain media says Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to gut humanitarian…
Juba, March 2, 2021 (SSNA) — A plane carrying 8 passengers and two pilots crashed after it took off from Pieri local airport bounded for the capital, Juba, Jonglei State authorities said. A senior government official who has not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media told the SSNA…
Juba, February 19, 2021 (SSNA) — Fighting has been ongoing in South Sudan even after the formation of a transitional government in February last year, the United Nations says in a report on Friday. In the report, a UN commission formed to investigate and verify violence and peace implementation states that the violence has been…
Juba, February 11, 2021 (SSNA) — The government of South Sudan has asked the European Union to help in its bid to lift arms embargoes imposed on the young nation in 2018 by both the United States and the United Nations. The move comes as parties to South Sudan’s revitalized peace agreement wrestle with its…
Juba, January 22, 2021 (SSNA) — The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) who spent years in South Sudan removing unexploded mines and ammunition warned that the young nation still in a dangerous phase after they determined that many locations must be cleared before local people can resume their normal farming and other activities. Thousands…