SSNA website is under maintenance
Colorado Springs, April 12, 2016 (SSNA) -- The South Sudan News Agency’s website is currently under maintenance. Publication will resume within the next few days. The Management Team South Sudan News...
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S. Sudan humanitarian group to hold its annual conference next week in the...
Omaha, April 4, 2016 (SSNA) -- A South Sudan’s aid agency, the Relief Organization for South Sudan (ROSS) said that it will hold its 2016 humanitarian annual conference next week in the United States...
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Fangak Community in UNMISS POCs welcomes the arrival of SPLA-IO in Juba
Press statement 31 March 2016 Re: Fangak Community in UNMISS POCs (Juba) welcomes the arrival of SPLA-IO security forces in Juba March 31, 2016 (SSNA) -- Fangak Community in UNMISS POCs, Juba, welcomes...
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SPLM-IO to train diplomats for foreign service
Addis Ababa, March 29, 2016 (SSNA) -- The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) has released a statement with a list of its diplomates who will be send to diplomatic trainings to...
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UN forms a “three-person commission” to investigate South Sudan’s war crimes
March 26, 2016 (SSNA) -- The United Nations (UN) has set up a commission to investigate South Sudan’s atrocities committed in the more than two year civil war. The rights body, the United Nations Human...
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S. Sudan Foreign Minister accuses Troika of refusing to pay rebel...
Juba, March 22, 2016 (SSNA) -- South Sudan’s Foreign Minister, Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, said his government will no longer pay accommodation fees of members of rebel advance team who were sent to...
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South Africa’s Haysom appointed UN special envoy to South Sudan
Pretoria/New York/Juba, March 19, 2016 (SSNA) -- The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-Moon on Friday appointed Nicholas Haysom of South Africa as his special envoy to South Sudan and...
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UN says 28 states expansion plan “inconsistent” with peace agreement
New York/Juba, March 18, 2016 (SSNA) -- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called on South Sudan’s parties to the conflict to respect the IGAD-Plus brokered power-sharing deal which was...
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Leader of rebel splinter group arrives in Juba; vows to achieve...
Juba, March 13, 2016 (SSNA) -- Leader of a rebel splinter faction which broke away from South Sudan’s armed opposition last year arrived in Juba on Sunday after launching behind the scene negotiations...
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Media under siege in South Sudan
Press statement For immediate release March 12, 2016 (SSNA) -- Journalist Afendi Joseph Deng went missing on 04 March 2016, after being abducted by security agents and dumped in a graveyard on Tuesday...
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Rebels accuse government forces of fresh attacks, warn of delay in peace...
Pagak/Addis Ababa, March 13, 2016 (SSNA) -- The military command of South Sudanese rebels has accused government forces of launching surprised attacks on their outposts located in Northern Bahr el...
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Twelve people dead, 30,000 displaced in Darfur
Kalokiting/Golol/Tawila/Nierteti, March 8, 2016 (SSNA) -- More than ten people were killed in Darfur's Jebel Marra as of Thursday. Seven people were killed and 20 others injured in attacks by the...
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Meeting of Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring...
Juba, March 7, 2016 (SSNA) -- The Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring Mechanism (CTSAMM) meeting which was first scheduled take place tomorrow has been rescheduled for March 16, Spokesperson...
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SPLM-IO chapter in Kenya elects new leaders
Nairobi, March 7, 2016 (SSNA) -- SPLM chapter in Kenya last Saturday elected new Country coordinator and deputy coordinator. The Kenyan-based chapter elected its new leadership in a successful function...
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Twic East Community Letter to Hon. Philip Aguer Panyang, Governor of Jonglei...
TO: Hon. Philip Aguer Panyang, Governor of Jonglei State CC: Hon. Dau Koi Jurkuch, Commissioner of Twic East County CC: Hon. Michael Malual Wuor, Commissioner of Duk County CC: Hon. Isaac Mamer Ruk,...
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Human Rights Watch says arms embargo and war crimes court needed in South Sudan
Juba, March 7, 2016 (SSNA) -- Human Rights Watch has said South Sudan’s government troops have expanded their abuses by carrying out numerous killings, rapes, enforced disappearances, and other serious...
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A response to the statement of the so-called “Eastern Nile State Political...
Press release Date: March 2, 2016 March 2, 2016 (SSNA) -- This is a response to the press statement of the so-called “Eastern Nile State Political Activists” published on January 28, 2016 carried a...
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Malakal death toll climbs to 25
Juba, March 4, 2016 (SSNA) -- The United Nations (UN) has announced Friday that the killing which was carried out last month by armed men dressed in the SPLA uniforms has claimed at least 25 lives,...
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Enough Project urges Senate to pass tough anti-poaching law, halt profits to...
World Wildlife Day as Elephants Face Extinction in Bloody Ivory Trade Washington, D.C., March 2, 2016 (SSNA) -- As tomorrow marks World Wildlife Day, the Enough Project speaks out against the slaughter...
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Sudan says UN Jebel Marra attacks claim and displacement figure is inaccurate
Golo/Khartoum, March 1, 2016 (SSNA) --The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed reports by the UN on the number of people who have been displaced by the fighting between the army and rebel...
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