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By: Deng Mading Gatwech March 13, 2014 (SSNA) -- This document would shed light on how the South Sudan National Security came into being and operates under whose leadership. The challenges facing the service and how those challenges be confronted in a broad mindset. Is it a Dinkanised institution or well diverse inclusive of all 64 and above ethnic compositions. Shortly before and after the South...

Nuer Youth Community Leadership Council in South Sudan and Diaspora strongly condemn and Reject SPLM-intra party Reconciliation taking place in Addis Ababa/Ethiopia Press Statement Date: 3/8/2014 March 11, 2014 (SSNA) -- We, the Nuer Youth Community Leadership Council (NYCLC) in both South Sudan and diaspora, have strongly rejected and condemned with the strongest terms possible the so-called SPLM-intra...

By Peter Gai Manyuon March 12, 2014 (SSNA) -- Base on my research findings in South Sudan, I found out that, no one will come from heaven and begin telling my fellow South Sudanese to have peace in them rather it would be the contribution of the inhabitants of the Republic of South Sudan to advocate, promote and preach about peace among themselves so that people get to know the important of the peace...

By Dr. James Okuk March 12, 2014 (SSNA) -- What brought the UNMISS to South Sudan and what will make it to continue or discontinue operating in South Sudan? This is the essential question of concern these days; especially with the repeated errors committed by some careless UNMISS staff. The UNMISS came to South Sudan by default as a result of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed between...

By: Bol Khan Rom March 12, 2014 (SSNA) -- There’s an urgent need to find out who should be responsible for the use of internationally banned cluster bombs in South Sudan current war. These bombs were essentially used in Juba-Bor road in January, 2014. It was reported by multiple reliable sources. Human Right Watch (HRW) and United Nations (UN) are among the most concerned world Organizations...

Press Release No: (1) Addis Ababa, March 12, 2014 (SSNA) -- The SPLM/A-Humanitarian office has been following the situation of 705,800 Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) across South Sudan. The situation remained volatile in Central Equatoria, Upper Nile, Unity andJonglei. The IDPs population in various UNMISS camps across the country continue to suffer from harshenvironmental conditions as well as...

By Laraka Machar Turoal March 9, 2014 (SSNA) -- The Sudanese People Liberation Movement (SPLM) that was accredited by general Sudanese populace to have been the people’s movement has turned to be one a man residence . The history of liberation of the people of Southern Sudan for more than four decades from 1955 a year or more before the full independence of the republic of Sudan remain a basic...

By: Jesus Deng Chaui March 9, 2014 (SSNA) -- Late Dr. John Garang de Mabior (June 23, 1945 – July 30, 2005) was a Sudanese politician and leader. From 1983 to 2005, he led the Sudan People's Liberation Army during the Second Sudanese Civil War, and following a peace agreement he briefly served as First Vice President of Sudan from July 9, 2005 until his death in a helicopter crash on July 30,...

By Mayian Tot March 9, 2014 (SSNA) -- Propaganda and public relation are profoundly interchangeable they are essentially use to ultra-realities and change public perception through arrays of vague slogan and mind-control manufactured news, opinion etc. To begin with, our freedom of expression enshrined on South Sudan transitional national constitution is curtail and severely violated. Independent...

Washington, DC, March 10, 2014 (SSNA) -- The Alliance for South Sudanese in Diaspora (ASSD) would like to clarify and inform its members and the general public that there is no relationship or agreement between the Alliance for South Sudanese in Diaspora and South Sudan United Democratic Alliance (SSUDA) of Gen. Biel Torkech. ASSD Leadership has learned of misinformation linking the ASSD and SSUDA....

By Margaret Akulia, Canada March 10, 2014 (SSNA) -- As sustainable peace continues to elude South Sudan, this International Women’s Day March 8, 2014, let us all take time to pay a special tribute to the women of South Sudan. You are a very extraordinary group of women because you are the glue that is holding South Sudan together during this incomparable cataclysmic war instigated by gangsters...

By: Gatkuoth Lok March 9, 2014 (SSNA) -- Kiir’s intentionality to remain president for life, the essence of the current crisis in South Sudan caused Nuer and Dinka believed they are enemies to each other but they are not other than Kiir mass-massacred Nuer in Juba, a gesture partly telling Dinka Bor, him and Makuei Lueth, the information minister have thoroughly avenged on behalf of Bor Dinka against...

s eager relationship with Khartoum, it would be convenient if the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime were no longer in the business of supporting international terrorism and no longer on the State Department list of state sponsors of international terrorism.  Of course, the domestic terrorism wrought in Darfur, Blue Nile, South Kordofan, Abyei, and among those who would resist...

t necessarily qualify someone to perfect the game of “finger pointing”! That’s why sometimes it’s referred to as the game of trading accusations. And to qualify for a good trader one must have a certain degree of wit, this too is nowhere to found in neither President SKM nor his spokesperson AWA. Don’t even talk about the Vice President or the Presidential advisor on legal...

By Yien Lam March 5, 2014 (SSNA) -- Since the helicopter crashed that took the life of Dr.John Garang in 2005, South Sudan leadership slipped into autocratic way of governing, in which nobody knew about it only party insiders. This rivalry became intensified and burst into almost a full crisis in 2008 when the president was about to remove the general secretary and his vice at the same time as he...

By Peter Gai Manyuon “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and loves have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it ….always”― Mahatma Gandhi March 6, 2014 (SSNA) -- After seven political detainees were released last month, most of the people thoughts...

By Wani Tombe Lako March 6, 2014 (SSNA) -- From 2005 to date, the current political and military leaders, in South Sudan, have been displaying themselves to the whole world, as a group of people, who have been taken by total surprise, by the trappings of political and military powers.   From 2005 to date, the same people continue to expose their ignorance of the fact that, the powers they...

t seem to agree on specifics. But make no mistake about it. It shouldn't be surprising that different view of confederation system in my humble opinion should be the answer! In spite of that; the simple legal definition of confederate system is; “a confederate government is a type of government where a treaty signed between states. However, they are allowed to preserve some independent power...

Condemn Rights Violations, Support the Commission of Inquiry and Help Build A Culture of Human Rights in South Sudan 6 March 2014 Dear Sir or Madam, March 6, 2014 (SSNA) -- We, the undersigned South Sudanese civil society organizations, with support from organizations operating in Africa, write to request that the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) issue a resolution condemning...

By Peter Gai Manyuon March 4, 2014 (SSNA) -- For the sake of peace, democracy, respect for human rights and transparency to prevails in the autonomous of the Republic of South Sudan; the two big people who calculated the current problem to exist in the territory of South Sudan, should be put aside for a while and just wait for their investigation for the crimes against humanity their forces committed...