August 11, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan called on the Sudanese officials to actively cooperate with him to end impunity and achieve justice in Darfur. On Wednesday, Khan met with Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, the head of the Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan his deputy and other members to demand concrete decisions from the transitional government, two years after the collapse of the former regime. According to the different (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

August 11, 2021 (JUBA)- South Sudan will expedite unification of forces to avoid tension and deteriorating security situation resulting from long stay of troops in various training camps across the country, the presidency announced on Tuesday. The decision to expedite the unification of forces was reached in a meeting attended by President Salva Kiir and his First deputy in coalition government Riek Machar and three other deputies. James Wani Igga, Taban Deng Gai, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol (...) - News / South Sudan, Military, South Sudan Defense Forces (SSDF)

August 11, 2021 (JUBA) – South Sudan's Mining minister, Henry Dilah Odwar has resigned, barely two years after the formation of the country's Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU). “With effect from today 24.00hrs, Wednesday, 11th of August, 2021, 1, Henry Dilah Odwar resign from being the Minister of Mining,” reads the letter addressed to President Salva Kiir. Odwar, a member of the armed opposition party (SPLM-IO) in the coalition government, cited no reasons in the brief letter, (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, SPLM/A In Opposition, Politics

August 10, 2021 (JUBA)- The United States on Tuesday said it supported South Sudan's independence in order for the landlocked East African nation to become a fully united, peaceful, just and prosperous society based on respect for human rights and the rule of law. “These ideals are enshrined in the Transitional Constitution and the Revitalized Peace agreement which provides the framework for the conduct of politics and governance while upholding the values of human dignity and equality”, (...) - News / United States (US), South Sudan, Protest & Activism

August 10, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has downplayed activists' calls for him to step down, warning that social fabrics could be torn down as the young nation disintegrates. His remarks come against the backdrop of calls from civil society groups, demanding for political changes in the country 10 years after it attained independence. The group, People's Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA), said South Sudan had "lost its moral, political, economic and cultural bearing with (...) - News / South Sudan, Politics

August 10, 2021 (JUBA) – South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has called for the immediate unification of the command of the forces and directed the country's First Vice President, Riek Machar and Vice President Hussein Abdelbagi Akol to present their list of nominees for the unified command. The unified command, Kiir said, include South Sudan People's Defence Forces, South Sudan National Police Services, National Security Services, National Prisons Service, Wildlife Forces as well as the Civil (...) - News / South Sudan, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

August 9, 2021 (NAIROBI) - South Sudan Opposition Movement Alliance (SSOMA) has “strongly” condemned the harassment, intimidation and arbitrary arrests of citizens exercising their rights in the country. The condemnation comes a week after a coalition of South Sudanese civil society groups unveiled a public campaign demanding for political changes 10 years after the country's independence. The group, calling itself the People's Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA), said South Sudan had lost its (...) - News / South Sudan, Politics, South Sudanese Opposition

August 9, 2021 (KHARTOUM ) - A member of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances said that the committee had found that some bodies of the victims of the attack on the pro-democracy sit-in had been buried before to identify them. Over 200 people were killed and others are still missing following the brutal attack by a security force and militiamen on a pro-democracy sit-in on 3 June 2019. "The committee concluded that bodies related to the incidents of the sit-in massacre were buried (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Democratic Transition in Sudan

August 9, 2021 (KHARTOUM ) - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan arrived in Khartoum on Monday night to discuss cooperation on Darfur crimes with the Sudanese government. The newly appointed prosecutor is accompanied by Julian Nicholls Senior Trial Lawyer, Dahirou Sant-Anna ICC International Cooperation Adviser and Thomas Lynch Senior Adviser to General Prosecutor. The official Sudan News Agency said Khan will meet government officials to discuss ways to (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

August 9, 2021 (JUBA)- South Sudan President Salva Kiir is in talks with the armed opposition (SPLM-IO) commanders, amidst widespread fears that an internal division and split within the movement's military leadership could unravel and undermine the ongoing peace process. Multiple sources directly linked to the SPLM-IO commanders disclosed that Kiir has assembled a team to negotiate with the defected armed opposition military leaders. “His excellency the president of the republic has (...) - News / SPLM/A In Opposition, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, Politics

August 8, 2021 (JUBA) - Heavy rains have affected an estimated 90,000 people in South Sudan, destroying homes, agricultural fields and forcing families and their livestock to higher grounds, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. In a statement, OCHA said, a mission comprising of humanitarian representatives and government officials from Juba and Bor visited Ayod and Canal counties on August 4 to understand the impacts of the ongoing flooding and (...) - News / South Sudan, Floods | Flooding, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

By Roger Alfred Yoron Modi It is said that the Council of Ministers of IGAD will hold its Extraordinary Council of Ministers meeting via video conference on Monday on the disagreements that have come out within the SPLM/A-IO and so far led to armed clashes that reportedly killed 30 soldiers on Saturday. Indeed peace-making is a process, not an event. The South Sudan peace process that started in 2014, leading to the peace agreement of 2015 and the 2017 revitalization process that led to (...) - Comment & Analysis

August 8, 2021 (JUBA) – Armed confrontation within the different factions of the armed opposition movement (SPLM-IO) interferes with the implementation of the peace deal, government said. South Sudan's Foreign Affairs ministry, in a statement issued on Sunday, urged the leadership of the country's largest opposition movement to peacefully resolve their differences to avoid loss of lives. “We therefore urge the leadership of the SPLM/A-IO to use all the necessary wisdom and peaceful mechanisms (...) - News / South Sudan, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, SPLM/A In Opposition

August 8, 2021 (GEDAREF) - Sudan opened the fourth camp for Ethiopian refugees who continue to cross into Sudan fleeing war in their country. «The locality has opened a new centre to accommodate Ethiopian refugees,» the Executive Director of Basenda Mamoun Al-Daw told the Sudan Tribune on Sunday. The centre is the fourth of its kind, as the three refugees camps are overcrowded. Al-Daw said that the new centre will be dedicated to the Gumuz and Komint nationalities, as it will accommodate (...) - News

August 8, 2021 (JUBA) - Heavy rains have affected an estimated 90,000 people in South Sudan, destroying homes, agricultural fields and forcing families and their livestock to higher grounds, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. In a statement, OCHA said, a mission comprising of humanitarian representatives and government officials from Juba and Bor visited Ayod and Canal counties on August 4 to understand the impacts of the ongoing flooding and (...) - News / South Sudan, Floods | Flooding

August 8, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan has recalled its ambassador from Ethiopia on Sunday after Ethiopian statements claiming ownership of the al-Fashaga border area. A spokesperson of the office of the Ethiopian Prime Minister on Friday declined a Sudanese offer to mediate between the federal government in Addis Ababa and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) pointing to the lack of trust due to «the Sudanese army incursions into Ethiopian territory». The Sudanese government rejects the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Ethiopia

August 6, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir is not sponsoring the defection of key members of the armed and non-armed opposition in a bid to bolster and consolidate his rule in the country, a senior official clarified on Friday. In an interview with Sudan Tribune, Presidential Affairs minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin said Kiir's acceptance of the nominees of the main opposition movement into key positions shows his commitment to the peace process. “His excellency the president (...) - News / South Sudan, Politics

August 7, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese government on Saturday said «deeply concerned» about the eruption of clashes between SPLM-IO factions near the border with South Sudan and dismissed accusations of harbouring splinter leaders in Sudan. Forces loyal to First Vice President Riek Machar and a splinter group led by Lt-Gen Simon Gatwech Dual clashed in the Magenis area of the Upper Nile State on Saturday. In a statement issued about the clashes, Paul Lam Gabriel said that Lt Gen Dual and Lt (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, South Sudan's transition

August 7, 2021 (JUBA) – A South Sudanese civil society entity has urged the leadership of the armed opposition movement (SPLM/A-IO) to cease military confrontations and resolve their grievances peacefully. On Saturday, forces of the former SPLM-IO chief of staff, General Simon Gatwech Dual and those allied to First Vice President Riek Machar clashed in Magenis area of Upper Nile State, with each side claiming victory. “Community Empowerment for Progress Organization strongly condemned the (...) - News / Politics, South Sudan

August 7, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Deadly fighting erupted in North Darfur state between former rebel fighters and Arab armed men on Friday, as each party accuses the other of igniting the fighting. Clashes between the Gathering of Sudan Liberation Forces (GSLF) and the Arab tribes took place in Kalogui near Tawila locality southeast of El-Fasher the state capital on Friday morning. There is no official statement about the number of human casualties, as eyewitnesses say three were killed and ten (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Democratic Transition in Sudan

August 5, 2021 (JUBA) - Heavy flooding has displaced at least 30,000 civilians in Ayod county of South Sudan, a United Nations relief official said Thursday. Arafat Jamal, acting humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan told reporters in the capital, Juba that persistent rains have washed away crops forcing women and children to survive on grass. «One of the most moving and shocking things for me is when someone threw pieces of grass on the ground and said this is what we have to eat,» he (...) - News / South Sudan, Floods | Flooding

August 5, 2021 (JUBA)- South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar convened on Thursday an emergency meeting and dismissed claims that he had been ousted and replaced by the armed opposition (SPLM-IO) chief of staff, General Simon Gatwech Dual. The development follows what appears to be a power struggle within the leadership of the country's main opposition movement after Dual opted to stay out of Juba, preferring implementation of all provisions of the 2018 revitalized agreement, such as (...) - News / SPLM/A In Opposition, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, Politics

August 5, 2021 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia declined Sudan's offer to broker a negotiated settlement to end the armed conflict in Tigray and allow humanitarian access to the troubled region. Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok who chairs the East African bloc of IGAD proposed to mediate between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Several leaders in the region and the international community support the offer which the Sudanese premier had also discussed (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, Ethiopia

August 5, 2021 (JUBA) - South Sudan has shut down The Sudd Institute, a leading think tank, days after a coalition of civil society activists launched a campaign calling for change in the country. The institute's acting Managing Director, Augustino Ting Mayai said the board met and passed several resolutions in response to the current situation and would update the public on the progress being made with authorities. “The institute's board has met and passed several resolutions in response to (...) - News / South Sudan, Civil Society

August 5, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - El-Obeid Court in North Kordofan state Thursday sentenced to death six members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for the killing of student protesters two years ago. On July 29, 2019, six students were shot dead by the RSF militiamen as they dispersed angry protests in the capital of North Darfur state over food and fuel shortages and high inflation. The death sentence did not include one of the RSF recruits who took part in the killing of protesters many of (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY

August 4, 2021(NAIROBI) – The African Union Commission's failure to advance justice for the countless victims of atrocities in South Sudan raises concerns about the regional body's commitment to accountability, rights groups said. On August, at least 34 South Sudanese, regional, and international rights organizations write to the AU Commission demanding accountability for crimes committed during more than five years of civil war in the country. The people of South Sudan “entrusted the AU to (...) - News

August 5, 2021 (JUBA) – The Political Bureau of the armed opposition movement (SPLM/A-IO) has in the “strongest” terms condemned a decision by its military wing to oust chairman Riek Machar. On August 3, the SPLM/A-IO military command under the Chief of General Staff First Lieutenant General Simon Gatwech Dual denounced the leadership of Machar and appointed the former as the new interim chairman of the armed opposition movement. The decision to oust Machar, it noted in a statement, emerged (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, SPLM/A In Opposition

August 5, 2021 (JUBA) - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has welcomed the swearing-in of 504 members of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) and 84 Council of States members, describing it as a positive step in the peace process. In a statement issued on Tuesday, UNMISS said the legislature is responsible for passing new laws and reforms that will help progress the full implementation of the peace accord, including the permanent constitution-making process and (...) - News / South Sudan, UNMISS - United Nations Mission in South Sudan

August 4, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The families of the victims of the revolution and the ousted regime demonstrated in Khartoum on Wednesday demanding to purge the government institutions and the judiciary from the supporters of the ousted regime, two years after the change. The families of the martyrs of the 28 Ramadan and the bloody raid of 3 June 2019 and other civil groups organized a sit-in outside the Republican Palace and another one in front of the headquarters of the Empowerment Removal (...) - News

August 4, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan is preparing to launch a mediation between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), with the support of the international community. The Sudan Tribune learned that Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok is in contact with the Ethiopian government and the TPLF leaders to bring the two parties to the negotiating table to discuss a peaceful solution and allow humanitarian aid to civilians. Hamdok, also, informed of his initiative the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Ethiopia

August 3, 2021 (JUBA) - The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) has welcomed the swearing in of the new members of the reconstituted Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) as well as the Council of States of the Revitalised Transitional Government of National Unity (RTGoNU). A total of 503 TNLA and 92 Council of States members took oath at a ceremony witnessed by Chief Justice Chan Reec Madut in the capital, Juba on Monday. The peace monitors, in a (...) - News / South Sudan, Politics

August 3, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, pledged to keep supporting the democratic change in Sudan and called for build a single army. Before leaving Sudan, Power had a lecture at the University of Khartoum where it was an opportunity for her to meet Sudanese intellectuals and elite after visiting Darfur and meeting with the government officials. In a very passionate and long speech, she moved reassured Sudanese who (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

August 3, 2021 (MALAKAL) - The SPLM/A-IO military command under the Chief of General Staff First Lieutenant General Simon Gatwech Dual has denounced the leadership of Riek Machar and appointed the former as the new interim chairman of the armed opposition movement. The decision to oust Machar, the SPLM/A-IO said in a statement, emerged after a three-day meeting held at Magenis (Kitgwang) Sector One headquarters in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. “During the meeting, the military command (...) - News / South Sudan, SPLM/A In Opposition, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY

August 3, 2021(KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese cabinet on Tuesday approved a draft law to join the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). «Today, during the cabinet's regular meeting, we unanimously approved a draft law on Sudan's accession to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, before a joint meeting between the Sovereign Council and the cabinet for approval,» said Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok in a statement on Facebook. "Justice and accountability are the (...) - News / FRONT_PAGE_DISPLAY, Democratic Transition in Sudan, ICC and Darfur

August 2, 2021 (JUBA) - Government security agents in South Sudan on Monday shut down The Sudd Institute, an independent research think tank and arrested one of the organisation's directors. “The Sudd Institute has been shut down by national security and our colleagues, including our acting managing director, Dr. Augustino Ting Mayai has been taken to Blue House for interrogation”, said Jok Madut Jok, a senior analyst at The Sudd Institute. He accused the leadership in the country of (...) - News / South Sudan, FRONT_PAGE_SECONDARY, Protest & Activism