By Michael Gatguat Tap Gatluak September 24, 2014 (SSNA) -- Recalling back the August 31, 2009 African’s head of States collective assembly in the Libyan’s capital Tripli, you would find that their main agenda was to discuss strategies to construct tranquil states in Africa by 2010. They concurred on creating states where serene and security is guarantee. I still remember their statement...
By: Bol Khan Quote “I am the president of South Sudan, and I must always remain in that position as the president, the leader of that country forever”, President Salva Kiir actor May 28, 2014 (SSNA) -- The Regional and Global Communities are already in total mystification about Mr. Salva Kiir Mayardit. That is why they are still bothering themselves by persuading Kiir Mayar to resolve...
Juba, May 28, 2014 (SSNA) -- The Government of the Republic of South Sudan said it has borrowed $200 million dollars from oil companies that operate its oil fields, adding that it plans to delay “repayments on domestic loans”, the US-based newspaper, the Bloomberg reported. Finance Minister Aggrey Sabuni did not provide the names of the companies that provided loans to Juba. But, government...
By Elhag Paul May 26, 2014 (SSNA) -- SPLM is at it again using lies, intrigues and deception to dilute the provision of interim government in the agreement of 9 th May 2014 between President Salvatore Kiir and Dr Riek Machar in Addis Ababa. It is not a secret that the government of President Kiir abhors the idea of interim government. The Vice President James Wani Igga and other members...
By Peter Gai Manyuon May 26, 2014 (SSNA) -- What does the word “I remained the President and will always be the President” signify to the citizens of South Sudan and the world at large? Well, most of people have taken the statement of the President seriously because I followed some posts on social Media pages like tweeter, face book denouncing and condemning what Mayardit said out of emotion...
Nairobi, May 26, 214 (SSNA) -- The Former Secretary General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Pagan Amum Okech has denied having authored a controversial article/document which was published by South Sudanese blogs. In an exclusive interview with the South Sudan News Agency , Amum said he did not write any article and that he is stunned to learn this morning [Monday] that a fake...
By Elbow Chuol “My people perish due to lack of knowledge and understanding of things” , Prophet Joel long ago warned the populaces in the remotes land of Judah more than thousandths years ago. May 22, 2014 (SSNA) -- The great Bull, Deng Kuajok, the Bull who walks with his children in the bush. Be not discourage my children, a watchful man is herding you. A man who prays to the sun and...
By Bayak Chuol Puoch Cairo, May 24, 2014 (SSNA) -- I am very disappointed seeing SPLM Former Detainees to be neural in this conflict while we have lost many lives in South Sudan and the killing is still continuing in the country. The SPLM Former Detainees were with Dr Riek Machar and his team to reformed the party as they mentioned last December and we the South Sudanese people thought that these...
Twic East community of South Sudan-USA Press Release Re: Twic East Community response to diminishing reputation of GBC President Deng Lueth Mayom of Twic people in the press- May12, 2014 May 25, 2014 (SSNA) -- The Twic East community of South Sudan is a legal organization founded by the sons and daughters of Twic citizens who are based in the United States. We are working collectively and tirelessly...
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By: Thudan Gai Majiok May 23, 2014 (SSNA) -- Our major disease in South Sudan is tribalism which has bred nepotism, favoritism, hatred and lack of effective governance. This disease called tribalism is the one that made Kiir and Malong recruited 15,000 armed youth members entirely from Aweil and Kuajok. This disease called tribalism is the one that made Dr. Riek Machar ran to the direction of Jonglei...
By James Okuk, PhD Quote: “If a sect or republic is to survive for any length of time, it must return frequently to its beginning.” – Machiavelli. May 23, 2014 (SSNA) -- It is the question of leadership within the SPLM that brought South Sudan to the current shame of devastating rebellion. It is also the question of the same leadership that is now being negotiated in Addis Ababa...
By Eric Reeves May 22, 2014 (SSNA) -- Ethnic violence has engulfed South Sudan in a vast humanitarian crisis, already affecting millions of people in the world's newest country. Continuing violence—which began five months ago—threatens to disrupt entirely the current planting season, ending in May. Millions are already at risk from severe to extreme food insecurity...
By Abraham Deng Lueth, B.S., MPA Introduction May 22, 2014 (SSNA) -- The ongoing peace negotiations in Addis Ababa have seen several difficulties that are caused by the confusions and misunderstandings regarding the positions of different stakeholders in the talks. In this article, I want to highlight those positions, their possible shifts, depending on the negotiation processes and the aggressors...
By Thiang Geka May 21, 2014 (SSNA) -- I hope everybody is as optimistic as I’m that peace must surely return to South Sudan. Permanent peace and everlasting Freedom for all!! No matter how long this useful and present war will last. President Salva Kiir: had this to say in Juba, that “this war which had happened in 2013 is the first and will be the last war in the Republic of South Sudan”....
Press Release Date: May 17, 2014 H.E. President of the United States of America, Barack Obama H.E. UNSC Chief Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon & Members H. E. Ethiopian prime minister & Chairperson of IGAD, Haile Mariam Desaleg African Union & IGAD Leaders All European Union Leaders Hon. Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harpher ...
By Deng Vanang May 20, 2014 (SSNA) -- From Cairo in the north to Harare in the South, Abidjan in the west to Nairobi in the east, African despots have invented one survivalist secret to remain in power. The treacherous discovery comes in handy after swindling their poverty – ridden countries of colossal sums of monies. This wanton theft has led to an infliction of heaviest tolls of regrettable...
By Luk Kuth Dak “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” - Abraham Lincoln, former US President. May 20, 2014 (SSNA) -- Most everybody in the republic of South Sudan agree that the disgraced President, Salva Kiir Mayardit’s compulsive appetite for murdering innocent civilians is what he was put on earth to do. And as far as the Nuer nation is concerned, he has done that...
By Eric Reeves May 17, 2014 (SSNA) -- While the news media in most of the world focus with relentless obsession on some three hundred girls kidnapped in Nigeria by the barbaric Boko Haram, stories of much greater human magnitude continue to unfold without so much as a glancing notice. It is hard not to feel the pain of these girls and their families; but it is dwarfed by the plight of so many...
By: Anderson Riek Nairobi, May 16, 2014 (SSNA) -- Since this crisis started in December of last year, and the months preceding this, I had decided to go underground, for reasons best known to myself. It wasn’t because there was nothing to write about – a lot of stories and events that needed another person view/bird’s eyes. Since then, a lot of water seems to have passed under the...
By Tongun Lo Loyuong May 16, 2014 (SSNA) -- When Ambassador Francis Mading Deng was appointed as the permanent representative of South Sudan to the United Nations (UN) by the end of August, 2012, I was thrilled. When he accepted the offer and took oath to represent the people of South Sudan at the world body, I was beaming with hope and was convinced that South Sudan is finally entrusted in safe and...