Tag: South Sudan news today

August 13, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The body of senior SPLA-IO officer who died in the Sudanese capital Khartoum last week has been transported and laid to rest in his home town Rubkona, according to close friends and relatives. Brigadier General Nhial Bol Thak died in Khartoum last week after a failed head surgery, according to relatives and senior SPLA-IO officials. […]

August 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and leader of the SPLM-IO, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, has on Wednesday met the UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and deputy head of UN mission in South Sudan, Guang Cong, in his office in Juba. Speaking to SSBC following the meeting with Machar, Cong said he discussed with […]

August 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS) General Abbas Kamel, and health minister Hala Zayed, have paid a surprise visit to South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit. The Presidency did not mention the visit by the intelligence chief but only acknowledged, in a statement, the visit by the minister of health which according […]

August 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Traditional chiefs and community leaders in South Sudan’s Tonj East County are calling on President Salva Kiir Mayardit to remove the army’s director of intelligence, General Ring Tueny, who is overseeing the violent disarmament campaign in the area. Fighting broke out between the army and armed civilians in Tonj on Monday killing at least 127 […]

August 11, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Thousands of residents of Western Bahr el Ghazal state’s capital Wau have turned out to welcome the state’s first female governor, Sara Cleto Rial, who was appointed in June as part of a 2018 peace deal signed by President Salva Kiir and now First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny. Cleto is a member of […]

August 11, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan army has said this afternoon in a statement that at least eighty-two (82) civilians and forty-five 45 servicemen have been killed in Tonj as death toll from the fighting instigated by disarmament increases. Earlier today, army spokesman Major General Lul Ruai Koang said only 81 people were killed in total including 55 servicemen […]

August 11, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The SPLA-IO has denied that there was defection among its rank and file, saying the main armed opposition group had only learned about what it said is a “fake political maneuver” through social media. Earlier this week, military officers who identified themselves as SPLA-IO officers accused Machar and his family of monopolizing the movement and […]

August 10, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan parties to the revitalized peace agreement and the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU) have this afternoon reached an agreement to divided power in the state, a senior opposition official said. The latest development marks a crucial step in the implementation of the 2018 peace agreement which ended the seven-year-old civil war […]

August 8, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and Vice President James Wani Igga have discussed ways to stabilize and introduce economic reforms in the world’s youngest country. Speaking following the meeting which took place at Machar’s office, the minister of agriculture and food security Josephine Lagu said the meeting discussed the alarming increase […]

August 7, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan presidency has this morning accused economist and civil rights activist Peter Biar Ajak who fled to the United States of America last week of collusion with foreign entities so as to radicalize the young people. Speaking to reporters at the presidency on Friday morning, Ateny said the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit […]

August 7, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) has appointed a South Sudanese refugee and athlete, Yien Puoch Biel, as its Goodwill ambassador, according to the refugee agency. A refugee, Pur was forced to flee the conflict in South Sudan in 2005, journeying alone to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya when he was only ten […]

August 7, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has accused the SPLM-IG under President Salva Kiir Mayardit of tactically delaying the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement. This comes after the government of President Salva Kiir proposed during talks on Monday, that other parties in the states […]