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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, 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, 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…

Juba, December 25, 2020 (SSNA) — The World Food Programme (WFP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have a released s joint statement, saying conflict between South Sudan’s government and rebels including armed groups, floods, and coronavirus have pushed the people into extreme hunger. The three main United Nations agencies were…

Juba, July 18, 2020 (SSNA) — The United States is willing to lift sanctions imposed on South Sudan if the young nation successfully implements lasting peace and reforms, U.S Ambassador to South Sudan Thomas Hushek told the BBC on Friday. Ambassador Hushek explained during the interview that his country laid out a specific language in…

Djibouti, July 15, 2020 (SSNA) — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has given parties to South Sudan’s revitalized peace agreement 30 days to resolve all outstanding issues, warning that the regional bloc will intervene beginning on or after August 13, In its 36th extraordinary assembly of IGAD heads of state and government held through…

Juba, July 1, 2020 (SSNA) SSNA) — The United Nations humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan Alain Noudéhou has condemned the brutal killing of a UN local staff in  Cueibet. The UN harshly criticized the killing and calls on South Sudan’s government to conduct an investigation and find those who carried out the killing. These violent…

Malakal, May 20, 2020 (SSNA) — Indian peacekeepers based in Malakal town of Upper Nile State have launched a veterinary camp to vaccinate cattle in a move to keep them healthy. The group also said the free cattle vaccination camp will also serve as a center to spread awareness about the danger of the COVID-19…

Djibouti, April 1, 2020 (SSNA) — East African countries have established a regional command solely for the purpose of dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic, the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) has leaned. A document obtained by the SSNA reveals that nearly all East African countries with the exception of Eritrea signed up for the scheme….

Juba, March 25, 2020 (SSNA) — Sudan’s defense minister, Lt. General Jamal Omar, has died in Juba this morning, a senior South Sudanese government official told the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA). The official, who asked his name be kept anonymous because of the sensitivity of the issue reveals that the late Sudanese minister died…

Juba, March 10, 2020 (SSNA) — A commission set up by the United Nations to investigate alleged widespread corruption in South Sudan says in a new report that South Sudan’s leaders systematically use corrupt practices to steal the wealth of the young nation. The report came more than two weeks after South Sudanese rival parties…

Washington, January 2, 2020 (SSNA) — The Troika countries (the United Kingdom, Norway, and the United States) have issued a statement, saying South Sudanese leaders should implement the September 2018 revitalized peace agreement. In a statement obtained by the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA), the 3-nation bloc calls on signatories to the September 2018 peace…

Washington, DC, December 16, 2019 (SSNA) — The United States has imposed sanctions on two Sourh Sudan senior government officials, a document published on the Treasury department’s website and seen by the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) shows. The new sanctions targeted Defense Minister Kuol Manyang Juuk and Cabinet Affairs Minister Martin Elia Lomuro. The…

Washington, DC, December 10, 2019 (SSNA) — The United States has identified at least five people it believes directly involved in the abduction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) officials in Kenya in 2017, according to a statement published today by the US Treasury Department and seen by the South Sudan News Agency…