South Sudan: BREAKING NEWS, media & analyses
August 27, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The United Kingdom has condemned last week’s rebel attack on vice-president James Wani Igga’s convoy in which six members of the vice-president’s guards were killed. The incident which took place at Lobonok Payam in Central Equatoria state also resulted in the kidnapping of one senior officer of the President Guards and the wounding of two […]
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August 27, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The chairman of Sudanese Sovereign Council Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has threatened to redeploy troops to disputed areas with South Sudan and Egypt. Al-Burhan who took over power following the forceful takeover of power from Omar al-Bashir in April 2019 made the remarks during an address to members of the Sudanese armed forces at […]
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August 27, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Amid alarming ethnic violence in South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, Cambodia has dispatched more troops to South Sudan where they would join a huge United Nations peacekeeping mission there to help maintain peace. Speaking to the contingent which was about to take-off for Juba, Cambodian minister of national defense Tea Banh encouraged the soldiers […]
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August 27, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani discussed bilateral relations in a phone call on Wednesday, according to Qatari state media. The meeting which lasted one hour discussed, according to the government-ran Gulf Times, the bilateral relations between the two countries with the Qatari leader reiterating […]
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August 27, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan prominent opposition leader Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has urged the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU) to promptly answer demands by the people of Melut County of Upper Nile state who have been on demonstrations for two days demanding services from oil companies. In a statement extended to Nyamilepedia on Wednesday, Dr. […]
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August 26, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Detained South Sudan lawyer Kuoch Malek Deng who was arrested by the National Security Service (NSS) on Tuesday has just been released by the security institution without charges, family sources have said. Malek was arrested on Tuesday after he was summoned to the NSS headquarters also known as the Blue House for allegedly questioning the […]
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August 26, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan will let China National Petroleum Corp.’s contract as operator in some oilfields expire, allowing state-owned Nile Petroleum Corp. to take over the role. The company began preparations last year to become an operator by 2027, Nilepet Managing Director Chol Deng Thon Abel said in an interview in the capital, Juba. CNPC has the […]
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August 26, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s national security service is detaining a lawyer for allegedly criticizing economic policies of the government, several sources with direct knowledge have said. Kuoch Malek Deng Malek, an advocate working for Yom Yom & Co. advocate, a law firm in the country’s capital Juba, was arrested after he was summoned to the National Security […]
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By Angelo Makuek Longar. Open Letter to President, H.E Salva Kiir Mayardit, Republic of South Sudan, Juba. Re: Calls for removal of Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabior, Minister of Finance & Economic Planning, R-TGoNU. South Sudan Diplomatic Service & Civil Service: The sufferers of imposed cartels economy. “The legacy of Salvatore’s inability to pay Diplomats & Civil Servants on monthly basis” […]
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August 26, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) -Residents of Rock city in South Sudan’s capital Juba are saying that a dead body of a young man was found floating at a swimming pool at the Rock City Hotel. “I would like to sincerely thank South Sudan Red Cross for responding timely after I made unsuccessful number of phone calls to some of the […]
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August 26, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The Sudanese government has said that it is working with South Sudan parties to the revitalized peace agreement to make sure that the establishment of the country’s professional unified army is completed before conduct of elections which is due in exactly three years from now. Sudanese defense minister Yassen Ibrahim met Monday with his South […]
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August 26, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan army has deployed thousands of its service-men in the country’s restive region of Central Equatoria days after a rebel force ambushed and killed bodyguards of vice-president James Wani Igga, holdout oppositio group said. Several civilians in Lobonok county, the area where the ambush took place last week, said government troops have been deploying […]
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August 25, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has this evening issued a Republican Order establishing a economic management committee to handle the current economic crisis. The committee announced on the state-ran South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) would work to consolidate none-oil revenues to help in the country’s financial improvement which has been affected by war, COVID-19 […]
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August 25, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Three years after the controversial killing of freelance journalist Christopher Allen in South Sudan, a UN human rights expert today called for full investigation into his murder. “The fact that for three whole years there has been no independent investigation into Mr. Allen’s killing sends a very dangerous signal that journalists and media workers can […]
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August 25, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is paying an official visit to Sudan on Tuesday, during which he will discuss with governmental representatives of this country ways to strengthen ties between the two African nations, according to diplomatic sources. The newly appointed Ethiopia’s Ambassador to Sudan Yibtalal Amero confirmed Ahmed’s stay for a day in Khartoum, […]
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August 25, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took off on the first official direct Tel Aviv-Khartoum flight on Tuesday morning, a day after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Video released by the US embassy in Jerusalem showed an official greeting Pompeo, as he walked up the steps into his plane, saying “You are now […]
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August 25, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan government has reportedly been given a condition by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before walking away with a loan from the international financial institution. A South Sudan senior government official who spoke to Nyamilepedia from the capital Juba this morning has said that the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been told […]
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August 24 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo who is currently on a state visit to Israel is visiting Sudan on Tuesday according to several Sudanese officials quoted by the state-owned Sudan News Agency. Sudan has been normalizing relations with the United States since the overthrow of former leader Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, but […]
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August 24 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan government has appealed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank for an economic bailout as senior government officials say country has run out of foreign reserve exchange. Last week a senior South Sudan government official in the Central Bank said the country’s top financial institution had run out of hard […]
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August 24, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been urged by a South Sudanese activist to intervene in South Sudan, Kenya’s northern neighbor, to help in the restoration of peace and stability. South Sudan government and opposition groups signed a revitalized version of a 2015 peace agreement that eventually led to end of the six-year-old conflict in February […]
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August 24, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s army has threatened to use what it said would be a deadly force against holdout opposition groups which it said have regularly violated ceasefire agreements. The latest army statement comes a few days after elements belonging to the National Salvation Front (NAS) led by General Thomas Cirilo ambushed a convoy belonging to vice-president […]
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August 24, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Sudanese rebel leader General Abdel Aziz Adam al-Hilu was not inside the cargo plane which crashed in South Sudan’s capital Juba on Friday, a statement by the SPLM-North/al-Hilu said. Social media rumors have alleged that al-Hilu who is in Juba for the Sudanese peace talk was killed in the plane crash which killed eight people […]
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By Communities of Upper Nile State. Dear Mr. President; August 22, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – We begin by saluting you for your phenomenal unwavering contribution to R-ARCCS. As we all aware that, the journey is fills with both ups and downs process but, your persistence ensuring that, people of South Sudan will enjoy the peace without reservations. Your Excellency, It is […]
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