By Emelda Siama John The President of the Republic of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit and the First Vice President and chairman and commander-in-chief of the SPLM\SPLA (IO) Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon have adjourned the meeting which was supposed to take place yesterday to Thursday 9 March 2023. The meeting[Read More…]
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Kiir backs Bright Stars in Basketball World Cup
By William Madouk President Salva Kiir Mayardit has promised to stand and support the South Sudan’s men basketball in upcoming FIBA World Cup campaign scheduled for August 2023. President Kiir said this on Saturday during his meeting with Bright Stars team to congratulate them for qualifying for FIBA World Cup.[Read More…]
Humanitarian minister calls for perfection of agriculture and security
By Bida Elly David The National minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management has called on commercial banks and operating companies across the country to promote agriculture and support affected states suffering from both natural and manmade disasters. He made this call during the inauguration of the Cooperative Bank Visa[Read More…]
Awut launches wall fence construction and renovation of Rumbek Secondary school
By Yang Ater Yang The National minister of General Education and Instructions Awut Deng Achuil and Governor of Lakes State Rin Tueny Mabor launched the foundation Stone for the construction of wall fence and renovations of Rumbek National Secondary School in Rumbek on Friday 3rd March 2023. The occasion was[Read More…]
Mukaya community calls for urgent humanitarian assistance
By James Innocent Internally displaced communities of Mukaya Payam in Lainya County in Central Equatoria State are calling for urgent humanitarian assistance to rescue the situation of the IDPs where hundreds of households live without food, medicines, clothes and house belongings. The displacement was caused by armed cattle herders who[Read More…]
Mayor apprehends 20 drug dealers in Juba’s suburb
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…]
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…]
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…]