South Sudan: Senior prisons police officer dies in Juba
June 3, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A senior South Sudan Prisons Service (NPSSS) officer has died in the county’s capital Juba after reportedly battling unidentified sickness...
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South Sudan defense minister to return to work tomorrow – official
June 2, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan defense minister and senior member of the SPLM-IO Angelina Teny has recovered from COVID-19 and is due to...
Taban rejects replacement of Hussein Abdelbaggi as head of coronavirus taskforce
June 1, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s vice-president Taban Deng Gai has turned down a request by President Salva Kiir Mayardit to have him replace...
South Sudan MP allied to Taban “lost interest” in parliament
June 1, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A member of South Sudan South Sudan’s Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) has resigned saying he has lost interest in...
South Sudan vice-president tests positive for coronavirus
May 30, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) — A third South Sudan vice-president has announced that he has tested positive for coronavirus becoming the third in the presidency...
VP Hussein Abdelbaggi has coronavirus – official
May 27, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Latest reports here in Juba, South Sudan, confirms that the fifth Vice President Hussein Abdelbagi, who is also the chairman...
South Sudan’s Machar, wife test positive for COVID-19
May 18, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny and his wife Angelina who is also the country’s defense minister...
COVID-19: South Sudan cases surpass 300 as 57 others test positive
May 18, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Coronavirus cases in South Sudan have surpassed 300 after 57 more people tested positive on Monday, a senior health ministry...
Nuer community in Europe condemns Murle attack on Greater Akobo
May 18, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The Nuer Community in Europe’s Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg) has condemned the ongoing Murle attack on several villages in...
Armed youth from Ruweng attacks Unity state’s Guit County
May 18, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A large group of heavily armed youth from South Sudan’s Ruweng Administrative area have attacked a village in Guit County...
Rebels abduct senior SPLA-IO military officers following an ambush
May 14, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, said on Thursday that holdout opposition movement, National Salvation Front (NAS) led by...
South Sudan peace monitor urges IGAD to address states deadlock
May 13, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (R-JMEC) calls on IGAD to step in and address the states allocation...
Kiir urged to investigate finance minister for corruption
May 13, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been urged by a local advocacy group to investigate finance minister, Salvatore Garang...
South Sudan road ambush kills three days after rebels’ warning to attack Juba
May 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A road ambush in South Sudan’s central Equatoria state where the capital Juba is located has killed at least three...
NAS mobilizing funds to finance Juba planned onslaught – leaks
May 12, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s National Salvation Front (NAS) led by former SPLA deputy chief of staff General Thomas Cirilo Swaka is mobilizing...
South Sudan: COVID-19 cases jumps to 120
May 8, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan government announced that coronavirus cases jumped to 120 after thirty more people – all of whom are South...
Machar’s SPLM-IO rejects presidency statement on states allocation
May 7, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) — South Sudan’s main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, has rejected a statement by president Salva Kiir’s office saying that the parties...
South Sudan to graduate Necessary Unified Forces
May 6, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s Joint Defense Board (JDB) has announced that it is graduating the Necessary Unified Forces (NUF) being trained currently...