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Six journalists are detained after footage of South Sudan’s president wetting himself leaked on social media

January 9, 2023 No Comments

Six journalists in South Sudan have been detained over the viral footage that captured the embarrassing moment President Salva Kiir Mayardit wet himself at an official event.

The clip from December 2022 showed what appeared to be urine spreading down the 71-year-old president’s grey trousers as he stood for the national anthem at a road commissioning event.

The video never aired on television but it went viral on social media.

President of the South Sudan Union of Journalists, Patrick Oyet has confirmed that the journalists, who work with the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation, were detained on Tuesday and Wednesday January 4.

The detained journalists are camera operators Joseph Oliver and Mustafa Osman; video editor Victor Lado; contributor Jacob Benjamin; and Cherbek Ruben and Joval Toombe from the control room, Oyet said.

‘We are concerned because those who are detained now have stayed longer than what the law says,’ he added.

By law, South Sudanese authorities are allowed to detain suspects for only 24 hours before bringing them before a judge.

Kiir has been president since South Sudan gained independence in 2011. Government officials have repeatedly denied rumours circulating on social media that he is unwell

Politics

Hunger, Diseases Killed Over 200 South Sudan Soldiers During Training

August 31, 2022 No Comments

The Vice President of South Sudan, Riek Machar, has revealed that diseases, hunger killed over 200 soldiers during their training.

Machar said this at the graduation ceremony of the nation’s new security operatives at the Dr. John Garang Mausoleum in Juba on Tuesday.

The Voice of Nigeria quoted him as saying,

“Over two hundred of your comrades have died in the eighteen training centres, some died because of disease and no medication, some died because of hunger as food was not available.”

Thousands of fighters including former rebels from rival camps in South Sudan’s civil war were integrated into the country’s army in a graduation ceremony originally scheduled for 2019.

South Sudan gained independence in 2011 from Sudan making it the world’s youngest nation.

World News

Ghastly plane crash in South Sudan leaves 10 people dead

March 3, 2021 No Comments

At least ten people, including the two pilots, died when a plane crashed at an airstrip in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, the region’s governor and the airline said.

It was reported that the commercial plane crashed late afternoon Tuesday, March 2, when it took off from the airstrip at Pieri on a return flight to Juba.

According to aviation authorities, all aboard the commercial plane lost their lives.

It could not give a specific death toll, saying up to 24 people could have been on the flight.

“It was with great shock and horror to receive the news of the plane crash (HK-4274) of South Sudan Supreme Airline,” Governor Denay Jock Chagor said in a statement sent to AFP Wednesday.

Ten people including the two pilots lost their lives,” he added.

Ayii Duang Ayii, director of South Supreme Airlines, told AFP Wednesday that it was “not clear how many people” were on board the flight.

“But the first information communicated to us was that there were 11 people on board,” the director said.

“We are still working to send a team… to establish for us the facts. All onboard died,” he said.

“The plane left to Pieri well, landed well and when it was taking off back to Juba that was when it crashed,” Ayii Duang Ayii added.

Lifestyle

South Sudan President invites T.B. Joshua again

October 12, 2020 No Comments

SOUTH Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has re-invited the General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) Prophet T.B Joshua to the East-Central African country.

Mayardit said Joshua’s November 12, 2019 prophecy on the country’s unity had come to pass and RSS was now at peace under the terms of a revitalised peace agreement that came into effect on February 22, this year.

During his first visit to the world’s newest sovereign state last year, Joshua was personally received by Mayardit and he led the president and government officials in a prayer for peace

“Time has come for us to put our differences behind us,” Joshua told the thousands of South Sudanese, who gathered to hear his message.

“This is the voice of God. Our leaders should overcome their division and agree to work together for the good of the country,” he insisted in the address, which was televised live on South Sudan’s official broadcasting channel SSBC.

In the invitation letter, the President noted that global organisation’s tried but failed to negotiate peace in Sudan, but God intervened.

He explained that the invitation would enable Joshua “to harvest what you planted”, adding that the entire nation of South Sudan is ready to receive the Nigerian once again.

Mayardit said: “With due respect and honour, I am privileged to write to your highly prophetic esteemed office in reference to the above mentioned subject.

“First, I would like to thank you, humble servant of the most high God and the higher grace and anointing upon your life.

“And for your love and humility by coming on your prophetic and historic visit on 12th November 2019, when the nation was in a desperate situation, whereby the country was experiencing civil war violence for many years.

“The world organisation tried to negotiate peace but where human wisdom failed, God has the final answer.

“As you have prophesied that, it shall be a new beginning for the nation and we the leaders should overcome our divisions and our differences and come back to develop our youngest nation in the world.

“Hence we, the government and the opposition have come together to implement the revitalised Peace Agreement and now the nation is at peace followed by the formation of Revitalised Transitional Government of National Unity (RTGONU), which signifies a new beginning indeed.”