Washington, DC/Juba, December 5, 2016 (SSNA) — The United States says it is worries and alarmed over the escalation of violence in South Sudan, particularly in the Equatoria region, State Department’s spokesman, Mark Toner said. The announcement comes as the US wrestles to get enough votes at the UN Security Council to pass its proposed…
Addis Ababa/Khartoum, December 2, 2016 (SSNA) — South Sudanese First Vice president Taban Deng Gai says governments of Ethiopia and Sudan agree with South Sudan to ban rebel leader Dr. Riek Machar from traveling in East African region, suggesting that Khartoum and Addis Ababa agreed to Juba’s request to isolate the armed opposition leader from…
Juba, December 1, 2016 (SSNA) — A United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) has warned Thursday that a campaign of ethnic cleansing is underway in South Sudan. The chilling warning raises fears the war-ravaged young nation could witness the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The commission sent a three-person team to South Sudan to investigate reports…
Juba, November 29, 2016 (SSNA) — A house belonging to the independent medical humanitarian agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been robbed in Mundri on Saturday. In a statement extended to the South Sudan News Agency, the aid group said it has evacuated of its team after “an armed robbery” took place and that its…
Juba, November 26, 2016 (SSNA) — A missing British pilot who takes part in vintage biplanes rally across Africa has been found in South Sudan Saturday after his plane went missing for the second time. Maurice Kirk, the pilot in question, was reportedly found by locals in an isolated area. The locals first alerted a…
Kampala/Nairobi, November 23, 2016 (SSNA) — The Speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) Daniel Kidega tells Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta that pulling troops from South Sudan is not good for the region, arguing that Kenya has been an advocate for the regional peace and stability, Kenyan-based newspaper, The Star reported. Backed by at least…
Juba, November 21, 2016 (SSNA) — Japanese peacekeepers from Japan Self-Defense Forces have arrived in South Sudan today (Monday), making Tokyo one of UN troop-contributing countries in war-torn South Sudan. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a parliamentary committee early last week that Tokyo will send a combat-ready military unit to the young African nation…
New York/Juba, November 18, 2016 (SSNA) — The United States proposed an arms embargo and targeted sanctions proposal seek to blacklist South Sudanese rebel leader Dr. Riek Machar, SPLA army Chief Paul Malong Awan, and information minister Michael Makuey Lueth, the South Sudan News Agency has learned. The proposal, circulated to the Security Council Friday,…
Tokyo/Juba, November 14, 2016 (SSNA) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told a parliamentary committee that Tokyo is ready to respond to urgent calls from the United Nations personnel and employees of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) anywhere in troubled South Sudan. The announcement comes as Japan passed a bill, allowing its troops to play greater…
Geneva/Nairobi, November 6, 2016 (SSNA) — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) accuses Kenya of violating human rights over forced deportation of South Sudanese prominent rebel official and criticized Nairobi for violating what it described as violation of “international refugee law. The accusation comes as Kenyan police kidnapped a South Sudanese rebel spokesman…
Nairobi/New York, November 2, 2016 (SSNA) — Government of Kenya has strongly criticized decision by the United Nations Secretary-General to dismiss a Kenyan General who was appointed in May to head the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. The protest came a day after Lt. Gen. Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki, a Kenyan, was fired Tuesday…
By Eric Reeves October 29, 2016 (SSNA) — As I argued in the first part of this large retrospective—covering the past five years of Darfur’s desperate, ongoing agony—human suffering and destruction continue without respite or diminishment. On the contrary, the past five years have seen an extraordinary acceleration of Khartoum’s genocidal counter-insurgency in the region, one that…
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