By William Madouk The Juba City Council authority has arrested 20 suspected drug dealers including foreign nationals in Mauna residential area of Juba town. The Mayor of Juba City Council, Michael Lado Allah-Jabu also confiscated illicit drugs that includes; Opium, Marungi, among other types of harmful drugs. In a[Read More…]
Year: 2023
Machar rejects presidential decree removing defense minister
By Bida Elly David The chairperson of SPLM-IO political bureau Dr. Riek Machar Teny has rubbished the decree issued over the weekend by President Salva Kiir to remove the minister of defense from her political position demanding immediate reinstatement of Angelina back to her position. This response came following a[Read More…]
Cattle herders kill five in Wuji payam
By Kiden Stela Mandela An attack in Limuro center of Lainya county yesterday afternoon left five people dead and 10 others wounded when cattle herders entered Limuro trading centre. The pastoralists from Bor first entered into the barrack and what they deliberated on in the barrack is not known by[Read More…]
Police detain suspects in murder of pregnant girl in Yirol
By Yang Ater Local authorities in Yirol East County of Lakes State said area police have on Thursday arrested and detained unspecified number of men who reportedly beat and condemned their impregnated sister to dead in Yirol East County. Other close relatives of the deceased girl and the man who[Read More…]
Kiir sacks ministers of Defense and Interior, swaps ministries
By Kiden Stela Mandela President Salva Kiir Mayardit has relieved two national ministers that’s the minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs, Angelina Teny, and the minister of Interior Mahmoud Solomon via a Presidential Decree read over the State-run broadcaster SSBC on Friday evening. The two vital security sector ministries in[Read More…]
Adil laid foundation stone for Juba County Headquarter
By Emelda Siama John The governor of Central Equatoria State, Governor Emmanuel Adil has officially laid the foundation stone for the construction of Juba County Headquarter in Luri Payam, west of the state and national capital city Juba. Adil yesterday laid the foundation stone for the headquarters construction in the[Read More…]
By William Madouk The General court-martial on Friday sentenced private Yak Garang Yak to death by firing squad for killing three Syrian nationals and a South Sudanese in Akon village, Gogrial West of Warrap State. President of a general military court martial and presiding Judge Maj-Gen. Majok Micheal Chan, during[Read More…]
Mother dumps, six-days old baby in toilet
By Emelda Siama John A heartless mother reportedly forsaken her new born six-days old baby and threw it into a pit latrine in Juba’s Newsite neighborhood yesterday, but luckily enough a social worker rescued the baby from the pit and was rushed to the hospital. The director of an Orphanage[Read More…]
Ceasefire monitors down tools over 10 months’ arrears
By Bida Elly David The chairperson of peace monitoring body (R-JMEC) has disclosed that the national monitors serving under the Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (CTSAMVM) tasked to prove ceasefire violations have gone on sit down strike having raised concerns over accumulated 10 months’ unpaid arrears by[Read More…]
Funding stumbling block to graduation of phase two NUF
By Bida Elly David National transitional committee (NTC) has decried lack of funding as a stumbling block to the graduation of phase two of necessary unified forces (NUF) and deployment of batch one of graduated peace soldiers. NTC is urging the unity government (RTGONU) and its partners to speedily fund[Read More…]
Peace monitors blow R-TGoNU over delays of constitutional process
By Bida Elly David The chairperson of the Revitalized Joint Monitoring and evaluation commission (RJMEC) has punched government against delays over completion of the constitutional making process and other pending bills saying that the delays undermine the progress of the process. Speaking during the 27th– plenary of the R-JMEC in[Read More…]
South Sudan to respond to damning human rights report
By William Madouk Government of South Sudan, through national Human Rights Council has promised to response to the damning human rights reports by UN rights bodies that cite increasing gross violations. Yesterday, government began two-day workshop to analyze the two human rights reports by UN Commission on Human Rights[Read More…]
South Sudan to response to damning human rights report
By William Madouk Government of South Sudan, through national Human Rights Council has promised to response to the damning human rights reports by UN rights bodies that cite increasing gross violations. Yesterday, government began two-day workshop to analyze the two human rights reports by UN Commission on Human Rights[Read More…]
Commissioner warns Bari intellectuals of political games
By Bida Elly David The commissioner of Juba County has warned Bari intellectuals against using youth and community elders to meet their political goals saying that the practice would create division and result in total insecurity in the state. He made the statement during the handing over ceremony of the[Read More…]
Gov’t trashes Sentry report on corruption, demands apology
By Bida Elly David The government of South Sudan has rubbished the comprehensive sentry’s publication on the “under cover activities” inside the national security service’s profitable book and companies demanding its immediate withdrawal from circulation. Addressing the media yesterday, Lily Adhieu Martin, the press secretary in the Office of the[Read More…]
UN rights body rooting for regime change, says Lomuro
By William Madouk Minister of Cabinet Affairs Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro has accused the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan of compiling ‘concocted’ report in a frantic push for regime change. During a workshop to analyze two human rights reports, Dr. Lomuro criticized UN Commission on human[Read More…]
Legislator alarmed over poor roads, hospitals in States
By Bida Elly David The first deputy speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly has raised concerns over poor state of roads, medical facilities in some States across the Country saying that there is need to invest much efforts to improve connectivity before it worsens. He made the statement over[Read More…]
Court charges Syrians killer with first-decree murder
By William Madouk An SSPDF solider, Yak Garang Yak who is the prime suspect in the killing of three Syrian nationals and a South Sudanese has been charged with first-degree murder. The President of general military court martial and presiding Judge Maj. Gen Majok Michael Chan, during the sixth session[Read More…]
AU to scrap off S. Sudan from ‘list of conflicting countries’
By Bida Elly David The Vice President for service cluster, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol said the African Union(AU) has planned to exclude South Sudan from the list of conflicting countries in Africa and vowed to aid the Country in disarmament process. VP Abdelbagi disclosed the AU decision to scrap South Sudan[Read More…]
Adil cautions Terekeka citizens against violence
By Bida Elly David The governor of Central Equatoria State on Monday warned the citizens of Terekeka County against fanning conflict and violence urging them to embrace peace as a tool for unity. This call came following his peace trip to Terekeka as an initiative to proclaim the message of[Read More…]