South Sudan: BREAKING NEWS, media & analyses
August 1, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The Chinese ambassador to South Sudan, Hau Ning, met on Thursday the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Special Envoy for South Sudan, Ismail Wais, and discussed the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement, according to the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs. “Special Envoy Wais briefed Amb. Hua the implementation status of the revitalized peace agreement […]
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July 27, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The SPLM-IO nominee for Upper Nile state governorship, General Johnson Olony Thambo has rejected a request by First Vice President and SPLM-IO chairman, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, to go to Juba, saying he will not be there before he is appointed. The rejection by Olony to go to Juba comes as a standoff between President […]
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July 27, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny, has said that it has completed the nomination of its members to the would-be revitalized transitional parliament. The revitalized peace deal signed by President Salva Kiir and Machar in 2018 provided for the reconstitution of the Transitional National Legislative […]
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July 26, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) has continued to attack several SPLA-IO positions in the country’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state, days after a senior opposition commander was arrested and detained, opposition officials said. The fighting escalated last week when a group of SPLA-Io soldiers traveling to a village in Western Bahr el Ghazal state […]
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By Kuek Deng Kuek, July 24, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – It is crystal clear that legacy is what people worked for and it is an important thing that cannot be bought using money. Legacy in it layman definition, it is defined as the gift by God and by will and a bequest of an individual in the society. It is always […]
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July 21, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s former army chief and holdout opposition leader, General Paul Malong Awan Anei, has said that he did not intend to take up arms against anyone, but was forced to do so. Malong who rebelled in November 2017 following his dismissal as army chief a few months earlier had been a close ally of […]
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July 18, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – SPLM-IO nominee for governorship of Upper Nile state, General Johnson Olony Thambo, is not going to Juba on Monday as being reported on social media, James Gatdet Dak, the spokesman for First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar said. Olony – a senior member of the SPLM/SPLA (IO) – was nominated last month […]
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July 17, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The Chinese embassy in South Sudan on Friday handed over 58 oxygen concentrators to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in the east African country. The oxygen concentrators were accompanied by over 2,000 consumable components of ventilators. Hua Ning, Chinese ambassador to South Sudan, said the equipment will be installed at the China-aided Juba Teaching Hospital. […]
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July 16, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) has said that a Ugandan national has been arrested for selling dog meat to locals. The spokesman of the police Major General Daniel Justine Buolo said in a statement to journalists this morning that the foreigner was arrested on Thursday morning when locals in Juba reported his case to […]
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By Zechariah Makuach Maror July 16, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – If we youth stop for a moment to think honestly, and finally asked the following questions. Do our leader/elders have enough time to devote to guiding young generation in the right direction? Am I wrong if I say that they themselves would have been victims of today’s competitive era if we […]
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July 15, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has fired the minister of higher education Denay Jock Chagor and appointed him as the governor of Jonglei state, according to a decree read out on the state-run SSBC. He was appointed on the ticket of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA). In separate decrees, the South Sudanese president also […]
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July 15, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A local South Sudan rights group has urged the parties to the revitalized peace agreement to end disagreements and reconstitute the law-making Transitional National Legislature Assembly (TNLA). According to the revitalized peace agreement, the parties to the deal shall reconstitute the legislative assembly and the council of states which make up the country’s bicameral parliament. […]
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July 15, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Representatives of South Sudan’s coalition government will meet members of holdout opposition groups in Rome, Italy, this month to continue talks which were halted in January by the outbreak of coronavirus, the Nyamilepedia has learned. Holdout opposition alliance, the SSOMA, which comprises Real-SPLM, South Sudan United Front (SSUF), and National Salvation Front (NAS), has been […]
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July 15, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has hailed the parties to the South Sudan peace process for the progress achieved during the last five months despite challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a statement by the country’s presidency Tuesday. “I wish to note that in the last five months, we have witnessed a positive political […]
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Jul 13, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) — The prosecutor general for Upper Nile state, Justice Thoma Aban Akol Ajawin has been murdered in the state capital Malakal, according to family sources. The top state judicial official who was Dr. Lam Akol’s brother was gunned down near his home in Malakal by gunmen who are still not known, according to one family source. […]
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July 13, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Fierce fighting has broken out at Wau central Prison between prisoners and prison guards leading to the killing of one prisoner and wounding of three prison guards, sources with direct knowledge have said. The fighting – one police source said from Wau – started at 2:45 PM this afternoon when three inmates were able to […]
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July 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A huge fire has broken out in Gudele 2 market destroying an unknown number of shops and a huge number of goods, residents, and businessmen have said this morning. According to one businessman, the fire broke out at 6:30 at a shop and went on to consume several other shops whose owners were yet to […]
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July 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Eleven (11) members of South Sudan’s COVID-19 medical workers have been forced by their families to resign as fears grow that the front-line coronavirus fighters could be source of infections in their families and community, according to the international medical corps. Speaking during the opening ceremony of a newly opened unit of Dr. John Garang […]
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By Beek Mabior July 11, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Industrialization is a backbone for national economy just like agriculture and I’d like to appeal to our government and citizenry to embrace this magnificent analysis and recommendation on how to make South Sudan an industrialize and technological state in Africa. We all know that industrialization, technology and scientific discoveries are the massive […]
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July 10, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – This July marks the ninth anniversary of the physical disappearance of a prominent community leader in the history of the Nuer community, the death of the Paramount Chief Malual Wun Kuoth. Wun, who ruled the Nuer community as a paramount chief for decades, died on July 2, 2011, at the age of 103. So, who […]
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July 10, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The United States of America has reiterated its support for the people and the implementation of South Sudan’s revitalized peace agreement which ended the six-year-old civil war. South Sudan on Thursday marked nine years since becoming independent from Sudan in 2011 following over two decades of war which has so far killed about 2.5 million […]
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By Gisma R. Mou Mou July 9, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) — Yesterday 9th July, we celebrated our Independence Day. The martyrs gave us this freedom symbolized in the Independence Day. And so, independent South Sudan is not a give for free, the people have struggled and worked hard for it, and the people won it through the struggles. From this perspective, […]
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July 9, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party caused the war in December 2013, and in July 2016, according to prominent opposition leader, Dr. Lam Ajawin. Akol, the chairperson of the National Democratic Movement (NDM) and Secretary-General of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), made the remarks in a statement to mark South Sudan’s […]
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