By: Maulana Deng Gai Gatluak January 4, 2016 (SSNA) — It is with a great honour and pride that am sending you this congratulatory message to congratulate you on your well-deserved promotions to the distinct ranks in the military hierarchy of the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) and am earnestly sure that you will once…
By Elhag Paul December 30, 2015 (SSNA) — The attack on Equatoria is evidenced by the series of abductions, detentions and killings of Equatorians in South Sudan and neighbouring countries. The recent abduction and detention of Dr Leonzio Angole Onek demonstrates this calculated attack to eliminate Equatoria leadership in South Sudan, as a means to…
December 28, 2015 (SSNA) — The Government of South Sudan is falling to the verge of anarchy. The aftermath of Juba Nuer killing, creation and amendment of 28 (twenty-eight) states are the signs leading South Sudan to the verge of anarchy. Conversely, the government of South Sudan becomes a tribal government which rejects all conventional…
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A no-nonsense agency works to remove bottlenecks Note to editor: Thirty years ago, as famine hit drought-stricken Ethiopia, the world responded by rushing to the country’s aide, including through charity. Today, Ethiopia is again faced with a crisis – a crop failure triggered by erratic rainfall. But Africa Renewal’s Masimba Tafirenyika, returning from Adis-Ababa, argues that…
By Salah Shuaib December 25, 2015 (SSNA) — In following what is happening in Sudan, one cannot be sure about what issue should be addressed first. Perhaps people are unable to read all the bad news pouring out of the country via social media every day. Such stories reveal some of what is going on,…
By Juma Mabor Marial December 24, 2015 (SSNA) — Due to the civil war and economic hardships that has prevailed in the country for the past two years, citizens’ attention has been completely switched from scrutinizing their leaders and concentrated on how to achieve peace and exit from these unprecedented economic difficulties. In doing so,…
By James Okuk, PhD December 24, 2015 (SSNA) — Getting water and food, sleeping in peace at homes without fear of being harmed, and celebrating seasonal festivals for all citizens should have been the most immediate responsibility of the Government of South Sudan (GRSS) like any other normal governments in the world. Alas! This is…
By Eric Reeves December 20, 2015 (SSNA) — I have written on a number of occasions about the implausible, self-contradictory, and deliberately distorting nature of UN figures for displaced persons in Darfur (see Appendix B). The problems seems endemic at this point, and reporting is neither consistent with itself nor with the evidence that comes from…
By Ban Ki-moon New York, December 16, 2015 (SSNA) — Seventy years ago, the United Nations was created from the ashes of the Second World War. Seven decades later, in Paris, nations have united in the face of another threat – the threat to life as we know it due to a rapidly warming planet….
By J. Nguen December 14, 2015 (SSNA) — Tomorrow marks the 2nd anniversary of Dec. 15th, when 20,000 innocent Nuer civilians including women, elderly and children were summarily executed by their President, in cold blood. My own mother died too in this conflict. She was innocently and had to die because she was denied access…
By Tor Madira Machier December 14, 2015 (SSNA) — Today, the 15 of December 2015, marks exactly two years since a state-sponsored, planned and calculated massacre against the Nuer people was executed. In a move which seemed to be a discourse for the annihilation of the Nuer people. Thousands of Nuer men, women, children and…
By Lul Gatkuoth Gatluak December 14, 2015 (SSNA) — My dear country men and women, tomorrow is marking the beginning of current crisis when our fellow compatriots were discriminately killed in Juba and beyond. December 15.19 2013 must remain fateful days not only among the Nuer but all South Sudanese who witness the brutal mass…
By Eric Reeves December 15, 2015 (SSNA) — Radio Dabanga reports today that one of the major International Nongovernmental (Humanitarian) Organizations (INGOs) still operating in Darfur was assaulted yesterday (December 14, 2015) by security forces in Nierteti (formerly West Darfur, now part of a factitious “Central Darfur”). The character of the assault on UK-based Tearfund augurs…
By Eric Reeves December 10, 2015 (SSNA) — Gayle Smith, who has long worked as a senior Africa specialist in the Obama administration’s National Security Council, was recently confirmed by the Senate to be the new head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (the agency had long been without a permanent Administrator). Smith has…
By Gai James Kai November 9, 2015 (SSNA) — To begin with, these so-called clans/counties associations in Kampala were formed to establish civilized ways and means of policing and attending the issues for the good of all stands in the fabrics of Nuer community in Uganda. Uppermost is the dismantling of clannish ways of life…
By Elhag Paul November 30, 2015 (SSNA) — The behaviour of the SPLM/A since its inception has demonstrated symptoms of organisational illness, but this has continued to be ignored by the people either due to ignorance or opportunism. Pathological organisations often reflect the collective ill mind of its members and this comes out clearly in…