South Sudan army increasing militarization of Juba
August 20, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) is increasing its militarization of the country’s capital Juba, a document obtained by Nyamilepedia...
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Opinion: Lessons to R-JMEC and the Rome peace process
By Roger Alfred Yoron Modi August 20, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) — In one of my articles in August 2018, I made some arguments quoting Chapter Seven,...
NAS confirms it killed Igga’s bodyguards
August 20, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s holdout opposition group, the National Salvation Front (NAS) led by General Thomas Cirilo Swaka has confirmed that it...
SPLA-IO general detained by SSPDF in Tonj released
August 20, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Senior SPLA-IO general who has been detained since late last month by the South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) in...
S. Sudan VP’s guards killed in clash with unknown gunmen near Juba
August 20, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Six bodyguards of South Sudan’s vice-president for economic cluster James Wani Igga have been killed after unknown armed men attacked...
China sends medical experts to South Sudan to help fight coronavirus
August 20, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A team of Chinese medical experts arrived in South Sudan on Wednesday to strengthen the east African nation’s fight against...
SSPDF personnel who killed 2 people in Juba this morning arrested – police
August 19, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A member of South Sudan People’s Defense Force who killed 2 people at a house of an army general in...
South Sudan army accused of raping women in Tonj
August 18, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A South Sudan women leader at Romich Center has accused the South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) of raping women...
South Sudan rebels blame Tonj fighting on government
August 18, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan holdout opposition group has blamed the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit for the deadly fighting which took...
General Hemeti urges Kiir to appoint Olony as governor
August 18, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The deputy chairperson of the Sudanese Sovereign Council General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo who is better known as Hemeti has urged...
R-JMEC inaugurates its new chairman
August 18, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The newly appointed chairperson of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evacuation Commission (R-JMEC) Major General Charles Tai Tituai has been...
IGAD Executive Secretary meets Machar in Juba
August 17, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The IGAD Executive Secretary, Mr. Workneh Gebeyehu, has this afternoon met South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny...
Boat carrying cattle capsizes near Bor town
August 17, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A boat carrying a good number of cattle has sank into the river Nile this evening, according to several sources...
Opinion: So much to do, so little time
By Mabior Garang de’Mabior August 17, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – As we continue to face man-made and natural disasters in our land, it is becoming clearer...
Kiir agrees to let Akol Koor stay as NSS chief until 2023
August 17, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has agreed to let General Akol Koor stay as director of the Internal Security...
Israeli spy chief says country will normalize ties with Sudan before 2021
August 176, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Israeli intelligence chief Eli Cohen has said that his country is nearing an agreement with Sudan to normalize ties, days...
Swedish group says “silent” media blocking continue in South Sudan
August 17, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – A Swedish media organization has said Monday that silent media blocking in South Sudan by government security agencies has continued...
Gov’t urged to intervene in Panyijiar flooding
August 17, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan government has been urged by a local advocacy group to intervene and help people in Unity state’s Panyijiar...
Tonj disarmament to continue despite deadly fighting
August 15, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – The disarmament in South Sudan’s Tonj area of Warrap state will continue despite deadly fighting last week which led to...
Opinion: The puppeteers and the puppets
By John Adam Lual August 15, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Using traditional retrogressive politics of barbarians which have put back the country into an anarchic state;...
No disarmament for Jonglei this season – army spokesman
August 15, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan army spokesman Major General Lul Ruai Koang has said that no disarmament plan for the country’s Jonglei state...