South Sudan: BREAKING NEWS, media & analyses
August 1, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A dam in Sudan’s Blue Nile state has collapsed and destroyed around 600 houses, officials quoted by local media in Sudan have said. “Over 600 houses in the neighborhoods of Bout town in Blue Nile State have been destroyed due to a sudden collapse of Bout dam which is used to store around 5 million […]
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June 18, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Kenya this evening won a non-permanent seat of the United Nations Security Council after garnering 129 votes in the second round against Djibouti on Thursday. Djibouti got 62 votes after forcing the second voting by denying Kenya the win in the first round on Wednesday. The first round of the election was conducted on Wednesday […]
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May 13, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (R-JMEC) calls on IGAD to step in and address the states allocation deadlock. Amb. Augostino Njoroge, the chairperson of the R-JMEC, revealed in his latest letter to the IGAD Chairspon and the Sudanese Prime Minister, H.E. Abdalla Hamdok, that the South Sudanese parties have failed to resolve […]
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Opening Statement By Maj. Gen. Desta Abiche Ageno Chairman At The 11th CTSAMVM Technical Committee Meeting Juba, South Sudan. June 11th 2019(Nyamilepedia) — Dear CTC members, Dear Colleagues, Representatives from the Board members and partners, Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the 11th meeting of the CTSAMVM Technical Committee. The past month is the first month into the extended Pre- Transitional Period and the […]
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READ MORE: Press Release-Pre-High-Level Revitalization consultations continue as Special Envoy Ambassador Ismail Wais meets IGAD partners in Juba 10
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JOINT PRESS STATEMENT BY THE AU, IGAD AND THE UN – CONSULTATIONS ON SOUTH SUDAN, Jan 30, 2017(Nyamilepedia) —— The African Union (AU), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and the United Nations (UN) held a joint consultative meeting on South Sudan on January 29, 2017 on the margins of the African Union 28th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of […]
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A Letter to: H. E. Hailemariam Dessalegn, the Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Chairman of the IGAD, Office of the Prime Minister, Po Box 1031 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Subject: Lack of Willpower and obstruction of the Peace Accord by the Juba Regime. Your Excellency, April 18, 2016(Nyamilepedia) —-—The South Sudan’s Peace implementation process would most […]
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By Biel Boutros Biel, Feb 09, 2016(Nyamilepedia) —- Arguably, as we stated in Part I, it remains to appear that most of the commentators on the Communiqué have had a fair settlement on articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 11 and 15 of the Communiqué as being less controversial. Having analysed article 7 as one of […]
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By Biel Boutros Biel, Feb 09, 2016(Nyamilepedia) —- Since its wake, the month of February 2016, for South Sudanese public spectrum, on various media outlets, continues to witness different interpretation of the Communiqué on South Sudan which was issued by the Council of Ministers of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The IGAD Council of Ministers in its 55th Extraordinary […]
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Jan 31, 2016(Nyamilepedia) —- The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional bloc tasked to peacefully intervene into South Sudan conflict, has issued a comprehensive Communiqué urging South Sudan warring Parties to the conflict to form the Government of National Unity on the basis of Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (ARCISS) signed in August 2015. […]
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Jan 20, 2016(Nyamilepedia) —- Despite many outstanding differences between the main warring parties in the Republic of South Sudan, TROIKA which compromises of the United States, United Kingdom and Norway has been trying all it could to generate a quick solution to South Sudan’s two-year-old conflict. In a press statement obtained by Nyamilepedia Press, TROIKA has come forward to clarify […]
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Jan 02, 2016 (Nyamilepedia) —- Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission led by former Botswana president Festus Gontebanye Mogae will convene a meeting on 6th of this month in the matters of the South Sudan peace Agreement Implementation Process signed in August by the warrying factions, a reliable source who spoke to Nyamilepedia Correspondent on Saturday revealed. “JMEC is meeting on […]
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Kir Riek Majiok, Dec 27, 2015 (Nyamilepedia) —- The office of the SPLM/A-IO in Perth Western Australia (‘WA’) with its members, supporters and friends are profoundly appalled and dismayed by the 24 December 2015 presidential degree that unconstitutionally ‘dissolved’ the constitutionally recognised 10 states of South Sudan, and sought to replaced them with 28 ‘new states’ and 28 state governors. […]
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Oct 15, 2015 (Nyamilepedia) – The IGAD has called the sudden attempt to create 28 new States in South Sudan by President Salva Kiir a “Violation” to the IGAD-Plus mediated Compromise peace agreement. In a statement released early this week by the IGAD Special Envoys for South Sudan, who mediated the Compromise Peace Agreement for resolution of the conflict in […]
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September 26th, 2015 (Nyamilepedia) – The Army in Juba has announced it is preparing to redeploy it’s forces outside the capital Juba in line with implementation of the IGAD peace agreement. The Army Chief of Staff Gen. Paul Malong and the Presidential Guards commander Gen. Marial Chunuong told media in Juba that they had started to survey areas were the […]
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September 26th, 2015 (Nyamilepedia) – The Chairman and C-in-C of the SPLM/A (IO) Dr. Riek Machar has issued orders promoting several senior Army Commanders to the ranks of Major Generals, Lieutenant Generals and First Lieutenant General. In a series of orders released to the public and media the Chairman and Commander in Chief of the Armed Opposition announced promotion of […]
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Sept 03, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — After meeting the former Vice President and the would be First Vice President of the Transitional Government of National Unity, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, President Alpha Omar Konare, the former President of Mali, has visited the capital of the war-torn South Sudan, Juba, yesterday to meet with President Salva Kiir and his […]
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August 26, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — Many South Sudanese politicians, journalists and regional leaders are converging at the freedom hall to witness the signing of the IGAD-plus proposed compromise peace agreement which is expected to follow this evening. Among the diplomats who have arrived at the venue is the head of UNMISS and special representative of the United National secretary general Ellen […]
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August 26, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — The rival forces of South Sudan’s SPLA factions under President Salva Kiir and his former Deputy Riek Machar have renewed heavy battles this morning in more than four states. According to James Gatdet Dak, the Spokesperson of SPLM/SPLA[IO] chairman, rebels forces have repulsed and captured the capital of Magwi County in Eastern Equatoria State. “SPLM/SPLA forces […]
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August 26, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — East African leaders travelled to South Sudan on Wednesday to witness President Salva Kiir’s expected signing of a peace deal with rebels, amid threats of the United Nations sanctions in the absence of an accord. Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, who has hosted months of talks aimed at ending the 20-month war that has killed tens […]
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August 25, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — South Sudan’s president, Mr. Salva Kiir Mayardit, has succumbed to signing the peace agreement that he refused to sign last week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. According to the latest circulations, Mr. Kiir will sign his part tomorrow, August 26th, during a Mini-summit in Juba, South Sudan. The summit was to be convened yesterday, however, it was […]
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August 21, 2015 (Nyamilepedia)—The SPLM/A Mission in Australia take this opportunity to congratulate Your Excellencies, Dr Machar Teny Dhurgon, Chairman and Commander-In-Chief of the SPLM/A, for signing the Compromise Document. Signing the Compromise Document to end the suffering of our people and to rescue our nation from foreign occupation and internal fragmentations demonstrates that SPLM/A is for the people, by […]
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BY JUSTIN S KWAJE | JUBA. AGUSUST 20, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — In an apparent move taken by the south Sudan president in protest against what he calls forced and imposed Peace agreement rammed on the people of south Sudan by IGAD and western nations, in particular the US, UK, Norway and EU, President Kiir orders and dispatches all the representatives of […]
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