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By Jacob K. Lupai April 4, 2014 (SSNA) -- On the 15 th December 2013 gun fire flared up in the headquarters of the presidential guards (Al Qiyada) and within hours it spread across the capital of Juba. Precisely in two days, fighting had engulfed the length and breadth of Greater Upper Nile Region. The uninformed in the world must have been wondering what on earth was happening in South Sudan with...

By: Justin Ambago Ramba April 4, 2014 (SSNA) -- Kiir’s minister of misinformation Michael Makuei was reported to have gone bananas on hearing president Obama’s authorization of the “ground sweeping sanctions” against all south Sudan's warlords in government and in opposition, obviously including both President Salva Kiir and his ex-deputy Dr Riek Machar. Makuiei who looks and...

By Manyok Mabiei April 3, 2014 (SSNA) -- From my field of Criminal Justice System, “a false allegation” is considered in which a person deliberately accuses another person of a crime that he did not commit and does so with the full knowledge that the accused person is not guilty of that crime. It is sometimes as a form of revenge, an attempt to divert attention away from a guilty side,...

Washington, DC, April 3, 2014 (SSNA) -- The president of the United States Barack Obama on Thursday signed an executive order, clearingthe way for the U.S. to impose sanctions against anyone the Obama’s administration sees as a threat to peace in the war-wracked South Sudan. The order also threaten to punish people who target the United Nations’ peacekeepers and those who commit atrocities,...

By Elhag Paul April 2, 2014 (SSNA) -- The solution to the gross failure of governance in RSS is simply not only a problem of replacing President Salva Kiir with other SPLM leaders. It goes further than that. It entails honesty and the ‘will’ to confront the reality of the ugly things that have taken place in the country in order to set South Sudan on the right track under the...

By Abraham Deng Lueth, B.S., MPA April 3, 2014 (SSNA) -- It has been my position since the very first days of the conflict that there was no coup and that the world has not recognized and will never come back and recognize it and it remains the fact up to now. While I am so saddened by the conflict, its consequences and on the government of South Sudan for planning it against it people, I would not...

By Deng Vanang ‘’Is he a professional soldier asserting independence of the army divided by ethnic loyalties or a political tactician weighing survival options at the military helm, asks Deng Vanang ?’’ April 3, 2014 (SSNA) -- The double edged question posed above vividly reflects the hard times General James Hoth Mai is currently sailing through ever since the beginning of...

Press release Nairobi, April 2, 2014 (SSNA) -- The Republic of South Sudan became independent on July 9, 2011 and the first elected President of the Republic of South Sudan, Gen. Salva Kiir, was sworn in to protect the constitution, the right of people, and to defend the integrity of the nation. Soon afterwards, President Kiir violated this solemn duty and began to lead the nation alone and ruled...

By: Justin Ambago Ramba April 2, 2014 (SSNA) -- To be drunk with power is one thing. And to be drunk with alcohol is another thing. But to be drunk by both is completely in a class of its own. Think about the above opening statement to this article and think about President Salva Kiir and his leadership styles. Then think about the degree of misery this intoxicated leadership and its followers of...

By Dennis E. Paul An open letter to the Citizens for Peace and Justice April 1, 2014 (SSNA) -- I have been observing events in South Sudan since before independence.  The recent events - intertribal conflict and deteriorating social and judicial structures and the merciless unconscionable deaths of innocent and defenseless - are beyond heartbreaking.   My sympathy goes out to all South...

Date: 25/03/2014 To: Dr. Riak Machar Teny Leadership of SPLM/A In Opposition Subject: GEYL Absolute Support to SPLM/A In Opposition Rebel Movement Dear Sir, March 31, 2014 (SSNA) -- The Greater Equatoria Youth Leadership (GEYL) affirmatively, offers absolute supports, and declared unwavering political, and militarily commitment to realized the success of this an all inclusive objective movement of...

Addis Ababa, April 1, 2014 (SSNA) -- South Sudanese rebels have denied the death of their leader, Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurghon, and described the report as fake and unfounded. The deputy spokeperson of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in Opposition (SPLM/A-O), Mabior Garang de Mabior, has issued a statement, condemning Sudan Tribune for what he calls a bogus news. The Sudan Tribune has...

By Deng Turuk Liem Worse still, Should Salva Kiir still alive in 2020 and president altogether, he will insist to seek third term in office as chairman and president April 1, 2014 (SSNA) -- Facts concerned root causes and rapid escalations of current conflict in South Sudan have been libelously distorted by certain opportunists who dared to lengthy the courses for status quo as baseless, useless and...

By Peter Gai Manyuon March 31, 2014 (SSNA) -- There have been a lot of debates and confrontations from the Juba government about civil society participation in the peace process in the Ethiopian capital, Addis-Ababa. Partly, there are some individuals within Government of South Sudan who do not want full participation of the civil society working groups due to what is best known to them and when you...

Committee on Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Citizens for Peace and Justice (CPJ) Juba, South Sudan African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, Chairperson Justice Sophia A.B. Akuffo, Member Ms. Bineta Diop, Member Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, Member Prof. Pacifique Manirakiza, Member 31 March 2014 Re: Initial Recommendations on the Implementation of the Mandate of the Commission...

By Eric Reeves In a series of recent reports, the Satellite Sentinel Project has provided substantial, professionally analyzed satellite imagery indicating unambiguously the continuing escalation of assaults on Darfuri civilians, primarily those from ethnically African tribal groups.  Numerous reports from the ground confirm these findings (my commentary appears following these texts).  The...

Press Briefing (2) Addis Ababa, March 29, 2014 (SSNA) -- The security situation of IDPs in Juba UN camps and across the South Sudan is deteriorating exceedingly. The IDPs continue to suffer brutality in the hand of Kiir Militias who are killing IDPs always at the gate of UN camps or on their way back to UN compounds. The continued mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Nuer ethnic group, who fled into...

‘’How South Sudan socially mutated from Western favorite brain child during the war into a post – war’s spoiled one and eventual failed State at independence.’’ By Deng Vanang March 29, 2014 (SSNA) -- With the 2 nd civil war entering its eight year homestretch between north and South, then plunked in the Self-inflicted defeat against the latter. The blow by blow...

By Kuir ë Garang March 28, 2014 (SSNA) -- South Sudan’s young scholars, Nhial Tiitmamer and Abraham Awolich, wrote a remarkable policy update paper for their weekly review for The Sudd Institution on March 11, 2014. In that paper, Nhial and Abraham presented arguments against two different proposals presented by ‘South Sudanese analysts’ as possible ways forward for South Sudan....

By: Daniel Wuor Joak March 27, 2014 (SSNA) -- It is so sad that a nascent country of nearly three years old could venture into unplanned and destructive war, unfortunately orchestrated by none other than the incumbent President Salva Kiir Mayardit. He hastily did it out of greed and jealousy to outstripped his competing colleagues over the SPLM leadership. President Kiir believes in “authoritarian...