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SSPDF needs to reflect on success and failures since it’s transformation from a rag tag rebel movement
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The National Salvation Front (NAS) under Gen. Thomas Cirilo Swaka, the former deputy chief of logistics in the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) is not taking part in the ongoing Nairobi peac e process. Most of the opposition groups…
The South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) will on Thursday, May 16 mark the day of it’s formation. The SSPDF is a nucleus of the former rebel movement Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), which fought decades of the liberation war…
President Salva Kiir in January 2024, ordered security forces to evict Nuer spiritual leader Gai Machiek from his hideout in Warrap State. Machiek was accused of fomenting the intermittent deadly clashes between the Ngok Dinka of neighboring Abyei Administrative Area…
The peace talks set to start soon in the Kenyan capital, between the transitional unity governments and hold-out opposition groups that refused to sign the 2018 revitalized peace agreement offer the last chance for peace. The only disappointment is that…
Reports that 8 people including two soldiers suspected of murder and cattle raiding in Warrap State were held in a shipping container, leading to death of 7 due to suffocation is barbaric. The soldiers who detained these people belong to…
The ongoing deadly massacres in Tamura County are politically motivated and the solution is to sit down the rival politicians behind this sad episode of violence. The fighting between the Balanda militia with alleged support from Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in…
The Bank of South Sudan is undergoing transformation that should inspire other key government institutions to follow the blueprint. Ever since, James Alic Garang was appointed to head the central bank; there has been massive transformation of the apex bank…
The renewed fighting in Tambura County has displaced nearly 17,000 civilians, and yet there seems to be an end in sight to this carnage that could spill over to neighboring areas that are peaceful. The Avungura-led militia reportedly backed by…
Nearly 9 million people are food insecure in South Sudan, according to credible reports by the United Nations agencies. These are in urgent need of humanitarian support, and yet the current impasse after the government imposed taxes on humanitarian goods…