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NAS accuses SPLM-IO of embracing “faked-up peace”

6 years ago

NAS leader Thomas Cirillo Swaka. photo: File Addis Ababa, January 26, 2019 (SSNA) — The National Salvation Front (NAS) has accused the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) of being…

No money for peace implementation, South Sudan says

6 years ago

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South Sudanese pound. Photo: File Juba, January 23, 2019 (SSNA) — South Sudanese government on Wednesday said it has no money for the implementation of the September 2018 peace agreement…

JMEC Chair calls for unification of South Sudan’s rival forces

6 years ago

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JMEC Interim Chair Augostino Njoroge. Photo: JMEC Juba, January 23, 2019 (SSNA) — The interim chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) Augostino Njoroge said he wants to…

South Sudan bans skin bleaching products

6 years ago

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Skin bleaching products. Photo: The African Voice/File Juba, January 22, 2019 (SSNA) — South Sudan’s Drugs and Food Control Authority (DFCA) says it has banned importation and sale of all…

Disagreement emerges among SPLM-IO officials as government pushes for joint military offensive against NAS

6 years ago

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SPLM/A-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar. Photo: eNews Channel Africa/File Juba, January 21, 2019 (SSNA) — South Sudan’s main rebel group, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-In Opposition (SPLM/A-IO), is divided over…

Israeli Prime Minister makes a secret fly over South Sudan

6 years ago

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Shutterstock/ lobelog.com Juba, January 20, 2019 (SSNA) — The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu went to Chad and flew over South Sudan from Chad…

South Sudan peace has little chance of succeeding, expert warns

6 years ago

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Kiir (right), Machar (left), and Museveni (far-center). Photo: sunrise.ug Juba, January 19, 2019 (SSNA) — A former United Nations expert says the ongoing peace process in South Sudan has a…

Media rights group slams South Sudan’s press suppression practice

6 years ago

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Photo: theinsider.ug Juba, January 18, 2019 (SSNA) — South Sudanese government suppression of the media and recent order to ban the local news outlets from covering ongoing Sudan’s protests must…

Torit State governor claims South Sudan is peaceful, urges refugees to return

6 years ago

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South Sudanese refugees. Photo: UNHCR Juba, January 17, 2019 (SSNA) — A South Sudanese Governor Alberio Tobiolo of Torit State said the war-ravaged young nation is peaceful and that all…

South Sudan main peace partners declare National Salvation Front “threat” to peace, warn of military action

6 years ago

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SSPDF General Chief of Staff Gabriel Jok Riak (R) with SPLA-IO Deputy Chief of Staff James Koang Chuol addressing the media. Photo: Radio Tamazuj/File Juba, January 16, 2019 (SSNA) —…

UK to send maggots to war zones in South Sudan to help treat wounds

6 years ago

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Maggots… Photo: Live Science Juba, January 16, 2019 (SSNA) — The government of the United Kingdom through its Department for International Development (DFID) will fund international war zones to use…

South Sudan Joint Defense Board to visit cantonment sites, vows to unify troops

6 years ago

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“Joint Defense Board meeting at Palm Africa Hotel in Juba. In the photo; SSPDF Chief of Defense Forces, Gen. Gabriel Jok Riak, SPLA IO Deputy Chief of General Staff for…

South Sudanese singer faces deportation after illegally killing wild animals in Uganda

6 years ago

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Dead Antelopes in an undisclosed location. Photo: gizmodo.com/Getty Images Juba, January 12, 2019 (SSNA) — A South Sudanese singer is facing deportation after he killed two Antelopes in northern Uganda,…

Juba warns citizens in Sudan to exercise caution as opposition renews call for fresh protests

6 years ago

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South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir. Photo: The Rwandan Focus/File Khartoum, January 11, 2019 (SSNA) — The government of South Sudan has warned its citizens in Sudan, asking them to stay…

South Sudan’s tycoon lashes out at Ugandan intelligence agency after release, claims he is “clean businessman”

6 years ago

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Lawrence Lual Malong Yor Jr. Photo: File/sqoop.co.ug Kampala, January 9, 2019 (SSNA) — A controversial South Sudanese millionaire who was arrested by Uganda’s Internal Security Organization (ISO) in November 2018…

At least 25 dead in bloody cattle raid in South Sudan’s Bieh State

6 years ago

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Photo: Matthew Abbott Juba, January 8, 2019 (SSNA) — A group of heavily armed Murle tribesmen have carried out a deadly cattle raid in Bieh State on Monday, killing at…

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