South Sudan: BREAKING NEWS, media & analyses
August 6, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s Unity state governor Joseph Nguen Manytuil Wijang has met the Leek community in his office in Bentiu on Wednesday, according to a statement by his office. The statement seen by Nyamilepedia said the longest-serving Unit state governor discussed a range of issues that includes, but not limited to, employment of youth, security, and […]
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August 6, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO led by the country’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has condemned the harassment of its members in Lakes state by members of the country’s security forces. In a statement extended to Nyamilepedia on Wednesday, the SPLM-IO members in Lakes state urged for the respect of the […]
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August 5, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLA-IO, led by the country’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, has accused the South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) of provocation and violation of the revitalized peace deal for calling a senior SPLA-IO officer a high-way criminal. On Sunday, SSPDF spokesman Maj. Gen. Lul Ruai Koang told […]
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August 5, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Prominent opposition and National Democratic Movement (NDM) leader Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin has removed his military chief, General Nicodemus Deng Deng. In an order seen by Nyamilepedia, Dr. Lam Akol who did not state the reasons for Deng’s removal as chief of staff also thanked and praised the military officer for his service during his […]
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August 5, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A South Sudan journalist who previously worked for the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) as a news anchor and reporter has spoken, revealing why he was forced to flee the country to join an armed opposition group. Chol Duang, who worked for SSBC for almost five years, said in an exclusive interview with Nyamilepedia […]
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By Bol Joseph Agau Adhil August 5, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The current deafening silence in Khartoum, Sudan is not a private affair, it is a public secret. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Bloc inherited the most serious political turmoil that Sudan is undergoing. It is likened to the Nilotic phrase that it is the wrestling game of a pregnant […]
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August 5, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – At least three people have been killed and five others wounded when armed youth from Ruweng Administrative Area’s Parieng attacked villagers in Upper Nile state’s Tonja on Monday, according to officials in Tonja. The attack, one official said on condition of anonymity, took place at Liri village 11 AM on Monday when traders working between […]
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August 4, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Fire has swept through much of Bentiu’s protection of civilians site which is manned by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) destroying many shops as well as many properties. Speaking to Nyamilepedia from Rubkona, one internally displaced person said the fire began at 1:00 PM and remained on for around 1:30 destroying many […]
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August 4, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s National Taskforce on coronavirus has said that it will send technical teams to the ten states and the three administrative areas to conduct COVID-19 awareness. This was revealed by the vice-president on service cluster, Hussein Abdelbaggi Akol, who is also the chairperson of the national taskforce on COVID-19. “I have chaired a meeting […]
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August 4, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s Son, Manut Salva Kiir, who sexually assaulted his sister in 2014, has been spotted driving a luxurious car in the streets of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Several eyewitnesses told Nyamilepedia from Nairobi that the South Sudanese man who has been driving the luxurious car known as “Bugatti La Voiture Noire” […]
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August 4, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Tensions are high at Unity oilfields in Unity state after armed soldiers from neighboring Ruweng Administrative Area attacked oil workers wounding one person, according to several sources. The incident, one source said from Unity oilfield, began after authorities in Parieng called for a meeting with the administration of the GPOP to discuss environmental pollution and […]
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August 4, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan government has said that relations have improved with the government of Sudan since the removal of President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir in a nation-wide protest in 2019. The comments were made by the undersecretary of the ministry of health Awou Daniel Chuang during an exclusive interview with S&P Global Platts in the capital […]
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August 4, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The World Bank approved a $45 million International Development Association (IDA) grant for South Sudan to continue to improve access to basic infrastructure and strengthen community institutions. The South Sudan Enhancing Community Resilience and Local Governance Project (ECRP) will benefit as many as 630,000 citizens who live in 21 of the country’s 79 counties by […]
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By Chol Duang August 3, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – In one of our casual conversations with a J1 reporter sometime in 2015, he told me how he shares his trip allowances with Ateny Wek by half. I couldn’t believe him, looking at Ateny Wek, a man who publicly abhors corruption. By then I was an intern with SSTV, now SSBC. J1 […]
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August 3, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has reportedly ordered the closure of a private airport opened in June by National Security Chief General Akol Koor in a remote village in Tonj North County. The revelation comes as reports of escalating tensions between Kiir and Akol circulates on social media after claims the NSS chief was […]
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August 3, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The United States Embassy in South Sudan has called on the parties to the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU) as well as holdout opposition groups and ethnic militias to de-escalate unfolding tensions in several parts of the country. The United States statement came almost two weeks after clashes erupted in Western Bahr el […]
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August 2, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan army has said that detained SPLA-IO military officer, Brigadier General Gabriel Bol Wek, is a highway robber and criminal and was arrested after an attempt to ambush members of the SSPDF forces who are carrying out disarmament process in Tonj County. Last month, General Wek who is said to be a member of […]
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By Joshua Craze August 2, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Since becoming an independent country in 2011, a military elite has strengthened its hold on power in South Sudan, emboldened by Western governments and donors willfully ignorant of its history. Charting the role of security services since the end of civil war in 2005, Joshua Craze explains why peace processes in South […]
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August 2, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s head of internal security bureau at the country’s national security service General Akol Koor Kuc is reportedly working to topple the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit. One source said the intelligence chief came into disagreement with Kiir when he unilaterally arrested Kiir’s advisor on minority affairs General Akot Lual and later on […]
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August 1, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A senior opposition official in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state has urged the youth in the area to join the main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, under the leadership of First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny. Dut Majokdit, the advisor for political affairs for SPLM-IO governor in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, said […]
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By Gabriel Kuot Akok Dengdit August 1, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – On this day, the 30th July 2005, His Excellency the First Vice President of the Sudan TGoNU and the President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS), H.E. Dr. John Garang De Mabior died in a helicopter crash. As South Sudanese are commemorating their martyrs today, I would love to […]
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August 1, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – President Salva Kiir’s press secretary, Ateny Wek Ateny, has said that the killing of businessman and former national security service detainee, Kerbino Wol, does not need the approval of President Salva Kiir saying commanders who killed him do not need to take permission from the president. In late June, South Sudan military forces in the […]
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August 1, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s prominent opposition and National Democratic Movement (NDM) leader, Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin, has urged the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit to provide education to the children of those killed during South Sudan’s war of independence. Akol who is also the Secretary-General of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) made the call in a […]
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