By Dr. Bior Kwer Bior, Jr. Dear brother Butrus Ajak, May 3, 2014 (SSNA) -- Your recent post is a violent departure from your usual sober approach to the crisis raging in our country. It seems like you have been roughed up in a bad way by someone from the Bhar El Gazel (BEG) region, which is the only context in which this outburst could be understood. Don’t be unmindful that every community has...
By. Mak Banguot Gok May 3, 2014 (SSNA) -- John Kerry, the US Secretary of State during his recent tour to Africa , dedicated to the South Sudan and the CAR crisis, people of South Sudan have not satisfied of what Kerry brought to result the bloodiest conflict in South Sudan. John Kerry should first stopover the December Nuer Mass Graves in Juba prior to his ascription of Salva Kiir as Legitimate President. ...
By Stephen Par Kuol May 3, 2014 (SSNA) -- Any SPLM/A insider would know that Salva Kiir and his Dinka Bahr el Ghazal coterie of primitive warlords and pseudo intellectuals in the likes of Telar Riing,Aleu Ayeny, late Dominic Diim, Malong Awan,Salva Mathok Gengdit, Garang Mabil, Bol Madut, Matur Chut, Daniel Awet Akot and Bol Akot have been on a protracted mission of establishing an ethno-...
Re: Victoria Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) Chapter’s Position Paper 30 April 2014 Revolutionary Salutations Whether you are in position of leadership or not you have a moral duty to be the change you seek to be Victoria, Australia, April 30 , 2014 (SSNA) -- Fellow comrades, we are hereby declaring to you all at your respective locations around the globe that we the Victoria SPLM Chapter...
By Margaret Akulia, Canada “They are Obama girls” my friend jested in reference to two gun toting elegant looking American women of Nuer descent! “They are Americans” he continued as I stared at a photograph that was making the rounds on various South Sudan fora in utter disbelief. A caption accompanying the photograph declared something about being born Nuer and dying Nuer...
By Gabrial Pager Ajang April 30, 2014 (SSNA) -- If there is anything that I have learned about Juba government, it is that government is run by COWARD. And if you are a coward, Mr. President Politics isn't for you. Our government had no confident at its core leadership and that continues to exacerbate panic and anxiety in its executive. The president has accused Oyai Deng Ajak one time, Majak D’Agoot...
.jpg)
1. Political Situation: April 30, 2014 (SSNA) -- Following the last reshuffle of the government of South Sudan on 23 July 2013, which resulted to the removal of the entire cabinet members including the Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny by President Salva Kiir Mayardit, tensions had abruptly flared up within the SPLM ruling party. Before his dismissal from the position of Vice President, Dr. Riek...
By Deng Mading Gatwech April 30, 2014 (SSNA) -- Salva Kiir has been an intelligent officer for a very long time before and after he joined the SPLA/M liberation struggle incepted in 1983. The traditional training of intelligence course for Salva Kiir open up so many avenues to manipulate people at will, the like of Gen. Hoth Mai and Mac Paul who in the past attended cadet schools combined with basic...
By Eric Reeves and John Prendergast April 29, 2014 (SSNA) -- With Secretary of State John Kerry traveling to Ethiopia today, site of the peace talks for South Sudan, he will be greeted by a bracing reality: no civilians in the world are in greater danger than those of South Sudan. Not in Syria, Central African Republic, or Darfur is the threat of targeting on the basis of identity so immediate...
Press Release Juba, April 29, 2014 (SSNA) -- The Naath Students Union in Universities and Higher Institutes (NSUHI) in South Sudan are hereby, however, again announcing the disappearance of its members after Wau’s incident. The Wau’s incident, as you all know or might have heard, came about as a result of the Mapel’s massacre which took place in the training center. The same scenario...
By Abraham Deng Lueth, B.S. and MPA Introduction April 26, 2014 (SSNA) -- Our nation has been put to test by the devastating conflict that is ripping the country apart. To go direct to the point, I want to begin by thanking President Kiir Mayardit for releasing the four political detainees today. Deep in my heart, I knew that President Kiir was not the cause of their detention and throwing of our...
Juba, April 26, 2014 (SSNA) -- Over the past week, details have emerged about atrocities committed by various groups in Bor and Bentiu, two state capitals in South Sudan’s Upper Nile region. In Bor, a group of armed protesters stormed the compound of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and opened fire on some 5,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who had sought refuge there....
Minnesota, United States, April 26, 2014 – Members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in the U.S. state of Minnesota have declared their support to the SPLM-in Opposition (SPLM-O) who is now under the leadership of former South Sudanese Vice president Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon. The members of the SPLM-O blasted President Kiir of the SPLM saying he was “intolerant...
By: Tut Daub Jiah April 25, 2014 (SSNA) -- It becomes crystal clear to the well informed communities that the South Sudan political sale men and women, who have been going around in an attempt to sell an unmanufactured good (Coup d’état) are not giving up, despite the call from the would-be consumers of the said unfounded item for Juba to produce it. The doggedness of the regime in Juba to continue...
By James Gatdet Dak April 25, 2014 (SSNA) -- The genocidal regime in Juba under Salva Kiir has once again attempted to set up our movement – the SPLM/SPLA armed resistance – by doing in Bentiu, Unity state capital, what they did many times in other areas we captured from them. This is by targeting and murdering innocent civilians from other ethnicities as they withdrew and then rushing...
By Dr. Peter Kopling April 25, 2014 (SSNA) -- The Juba government has been pulling wool over the eyes of its subjects the South Sudanese as well as the international communities but the US government in particular which tend to fall for the deceptions coming from Juba each times.It is thus very thinkable that the US did not see this conflict coming and if they did then they have led down the suffering...
By: Weirial puok Baluang April 25, 2014 (SSNA) -- The government of Salva Kiir Mayardit has been a tribal government for the whole of its term since the than autonomous government of southern Sudan in 2005 till 23rd of April 2014 when he reduced it from the tribal government to the regional one (Bhar el Ghazal Government) . The case of Gen, Hoth Mai and Gen. Mach Paul According to the decree read...
By: Tut Daub Jiah April 25, 2014 (SSNA) -- It may sound outlandish for some, but the truth of the matter is that all Eastern African Countries are sharing one thing in common with the current genocidal regime in Juba. And that is the rule by one-party under the absolute control of one tribe. Many circles with some direct or indirect interest in South Sudan politics would agree with this writer, in...
By Kuir ë Garang April 25, 2014 (SSNA) -- Pathetic and excruciatingly sad! That’s what I’d say about what is happening in South Sudan. I’m sorry for only a small number of South Sudanese will like this article. No one in South Sudan can assume a moral pedestal. While some people/tribes may carry more blame than others, it’s not presumptuous or erroneous to say that we are all...
Juba, April 23, 2014 (SSNA) -- The president of South Sudan Salva kir Mayardiit has removed his longtime army chief, Lt. General James Hoth Mia. Kiir issued a presidential decree on Wednesday removing Mai and replaced him with Paul Malong Awan. Awan is the Governor of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The president also sacked the head of military intelligence, Major General Mac Paul and replaced him...