S. Sudan president cuts short 3-day visit over security issues
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President Salva Kiir addresses delegates during the swearing-in
ceremony of FVP Taban Deng Gai at the Presidential Palace in Juba,
July 26, 2016. (Reuters/Jok Solomun)
April 22, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudan president Salva Kiir on Friday cut
short a three-day visit to Kapeota, a town in South Sudan’s Eastern
Equatoria state and returned to the capital, Juba.
The decision reportedly follows the advice provided by his security team.
President Kiir, his office said, was expected to hold a series of
peace rallies and community sensitization in Kapeota concerning what
his administration was doing to end the war and bring peace in the
nation.
A source within the presidency said the South Sudanese leader had to
cut short his visit as there were other important matters requiring
his attention in Juba, citing security issues as being at the
forefront.
The official, unauthorised to speak to the media, did not, however,
mention whether the president was eventually briefed on security.
Unconfirmed reports claimed Kiir’s visit was cut due to the fighting
which erupted at a military base near the state headquarters.
Local officials told Sudan Tribune on Friday that clashes involving
government forces against local armed youth took place at Loriok, best
known as camp 15. The area is located at the Chukudum-Kapoeta-Torit
’highway’ junction.
Although it was not immediately clear as to what caused the clashes,
military and local sources attributed it to the killing of a local
administrative officer by the government forces, resulting in tension
and escalation of violence.
“We are now in Torit as part of the force going to Kapoeta to provide
protection to the high-level officials who includes the president now
in the area but we are now told to stop because the president has cut
his visit. We don’t know why but it could be because of the ongoing
fighting in Loriok,” said a military officer.
The presidential press secretary, Ateny Wek Ateny, however, said the
president had successfully completed his visit after he addressed the
population and promoted the two payams of Karukomugie and Katiko into
counties.
The number of counties increased from 8 to 10 after the president’s visit.
The president, during the visit, also proposed that a secondary school
in Chukudum be named after John Garang, the founder of South Sudan
ruling party (SPLM) movement, as a reward for the people in the area
for hosting the first SPLM national convention in 1994.
Kiir pledged to build the largest conference hall in Chukudum so that
future SPLM conferences and conventions are held there. He further
pledged to build a hospital in Kapoeta town to serve the population of
the state capital.
Meanwhile, the president donated assorted food items for immediate
supply to the people in urgently in need of food. Another donation of
SSP400,000 was given to the youth in Kapoeta and a similar amount was
given to women groups within the area.
Ateny, however, said he was not aware of any fighting and denied
reports that the president cut short his visit due to security-related
matters.
(ST)
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22 April 21:36, by Khent
I believe around 5% of what I read on this website. There is
virtually never a named source and people are just expected to take
what claim at face value. Don’t get me wrong, Salva Kiir and his
entire criminal, murderous and corrupt ’government’ need to go, but
this site is untrustworthy.
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22 April 22:04, by Khent
..whatever claim at face value.
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22 April 22:29, by Mi diit
Khent,
You have so far reached to the Online (Website ) Copyright
Infringement violation.
Sudan Tribune is always factual and independent than your SSTV Aka SSBC.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.southsudannation.com/sstv-must-not-preach-dinka-tribalism/&ved=0ahUKEwjKwvnT8bjTAhVEtxoKHV-QAfkQFggfMAI&usg=AFQjCNGeNozwKyp0D0ExcjJPcbE6uuWP2A
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22 April 22:41, by Mi diit
Atoney Tony Motot ( Ateny Wek Ateny) is nothing but a copy
and paste of former Iraqi Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf.
Remember:His pronouncements included claims that American
soldiers were committing suicide "by the hundreds" outside the city,
and denial that there were any American tanks in Baghdad, when in fact
they were only several hundred meters away from the press conference
where he was
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22 April 22:43, by Mi diit
Continue:
was speaking and the combat sounds of the nearing
American troops could already be heard in the background of the
broadcast.
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22 April 22:47, by Mi diit
Put in mind that anything that comes from the
mouth of Ateny is a propoganda just like coward Michael Makuei of Bor.
I can only buy Philiph Aguer’s information.
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23 April 16:33, by Khent
Mi diit
What is this babble? I suspect that you don’t
even know what you’re saying. I’ll leave you to your intellectually
challenged, demented self as it’s abundantly clear that you’re
ignorant, incorrigable and proud of it.
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23 April 03:36, by Kush Natives
The president wasn’t going to Kapoeta as a Zoo tour, he was going
for visit. Therefore, there’s no needs for him to stays in Kapoeta for
three days, doing what over there for three days? The ones who should
stays there for 3days is Paul Malong Da Awan. Not let IOM members make
a deal out of this. Why is it bothering IOM?
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23 April 09:05, by Eyez
Mr. Tribal President, you are an embarrassment to the people,
nobody is interested in your cunning sugar-coated claims for peace.
You have lost all credibility and reduced yourself to a tribal leader,
who is clinging to power by all means necessary.
Your leadership failures have broken all imaginable records, time
to step aside, we need young fresh people to take over, regardless of
their tribe.
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23 April 09:39, by Eastern
Kiir was scared by the attack on SPLA outpost at Camp 15 just on
the way to Kimotong. That outpost will be overrun soon!!!
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23 April 09:56, by South South
Eastern,
Just keep lying as you want. IO soldiers we saw in Al Jazeera
TV are starving and dying for not having food. They are weak and
tired. They can do not capture one inch of land. When generals escaped
and registered themselves as refugees in a foreign country, it means
that those rebels are dying. Sweet, sweet, sweet.
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23 April 10:30, by Eyez
South Sudan
So you think the situation with a few rebels suffering
from hunger in one part is the same all over everywhere? Is that why
your abnormal cow brain is making you jump up and down thinking they
are all going to surrender like their officers, well you wait and see.
Your tribal government is falling apart, you idiots go
back to your luaks, ya BGz ita.
X1
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23 April 10:42, by South South
Eyez,
You are just a stupid person. Who is abnormal? Someone
who owns cows or someone who eats rats and monkeys? If I were you, I
would shut up and find something to do. The only thing will make you a
human being in South Sudan is to accept peace, other than that, you
are nothing but monkey’s eater.
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24 April 00:28, by Eyez
South Sudan
Ita ya goromut, adana taki fi juwa ginitak wele
sunu...itakum nas ta wen zede sai?
You are like a whore who pretends not want a fuck,
but still opens her legs as wide as a shopping mall’s door. You Dinkas
are stuck in Equatoria because of the food and the civilisation, you
people eat birds, lizards and insects in your semi desert states.
Yom arubeyin takum gi jaa gerib, ya kilab juzur
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23 April 10:43, by jubaone
Eyes,
This explains the fact that all what jienges do
revolves around food and also the reason for inconsistency, shifting
alliances with direction of food. These jienges and a few nyagateen
are buyable like cheap whores where the best payer has a service.
Well, how could seniors cmdrs just give up without fighting and where
are their junior soldiers? This is MTN bullshit.
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23 April 10:36, by Eastern
South Sudan,
Keep dreaming. Do you know how many SPLA soldiers died
between 1983 and 1988 due to hunger alone? So Al Jazeera showed all
the SPLA-IO battalions including all the forces opposed to Kiir? Why
did Kiir cut short his visit to Kapoeta where he wanted to woo the
Toposa to fight for him ahead of a possible attack on Kopoeta? Did
Kiir fail to convince the Toposa people this time?
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23 April 10:49, by jubaone
Eastern,
Bro, you’re being very analytical and academic for our
lazy and dull jienges. You will only confuse them the more. They need
simple questions and have to be treated like those savages that have
limited cognitive senses. We still have to babysit them for a while
cos they are still primitive. We need patience at worst throw them
away.
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23 April 11:18, by South South
Eastern,
If I were you, I would put up video clips of SPLA in
1983 and 1988 and compare them with what we saw from Al Jazeera TV two
days ago.You will see huge different. SPLA in 1983 and 1988 was well
organized, very active and was fighting real war. Do you think IO
commanders are stupid just to show dying soldiers to Al Jazeera? These
are the only soldiers they have. Generals in refugees camp.
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23 April 11:59, by jubaone
South South,
Good luck 😊 so now you can march forward without
armed resistance. By the way you could also read on hunger in
Malualkuel N. Bahrel ghasal. Just check up in google search engine and
you find updates. Funny though, there’s no war in junk jienge states
yet the still starve. How pathetic 😎
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23 April 13:04, by Eastern
jubaone,
Thanks. If we allow imps to eduacte us on what
we know, South Sudan as a country will remain a Gogrial of sorts. I
was reading recently about a dinka man mourning the disappearance of
his family of 4 who had ventured out to visit their next of kin in the
Sudan. The man must have been lured by Malon to join the Mathiang
Anyoor to fight for Kiir in southern parts of South Sudan....
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23 April 14:16, by South South
Eastern,
You are nothing but very naive person.
Kiir was young during liberation in 1980s and that why he was thin.He
is older than before and in real life people gain weight when they are
old. Show me video clips of SPLA in 1983 and 1988 dying from
starvation like the one we saw two ago from Al Jazeera TV of IO
soldiers. War is not easy and people who want it will pay very heavy
prices.
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23 April 14:24, by South South
Jubaone,
Please go back and read your previous
statements. You told us that there is no starvation in Equatoria, but
now you are trying to compare it with N. Bahr El Gazal. When the
soldiers are dying for not having food, when the generals ran to
refugees camp, and when villages are very empty from people. This
means the situation on the ground is very hot, the heat is too high to
be handled.
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23 April 12:43, by Eastern
South Sudan,
If I was that naive, Iwould have started with
giving the videos of the now fat cat occupying J1, Salva Kiir. The man
was a bag of bones spotting a goatee, William Nyuon Bany was a
grosteque sight to behold, etc. Dr Garang could afford the round face
with fat cheeks thanks to his glob throtting where he has access to
free meals from well wishers. Most of you the hapless folks know....
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23 April 12:48, by Eastern
....little or nothing about that war. The current onslaught
against Kiir is fought on multiple fronts: by the armed foot soldiers
in the front lines, the Internet warriors across the world, including
inside South Sudan, etc. SPLA of Dr Garang encountered untold
suffering which nobody in Kiir’s government is ready to honestly tell
South Sudanese! War as you know is not a walk in the park!!!!
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23 April 14:19, by South South
Eastern,
You are nothing but a big coward. Keep singing with intent to
win the war.
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23 April 15:20, by Eastern
South Sudan,
Eastern, You are nothing but a big coward...........I have
heard you!
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23 April 20:52, by Naath
Dinka tribal’s chief Kiir ran away quickly like ostrich from
Kampoeta for 2 reasons: 1, the battle that took place outside
Kampoeta, he thought that would cut him off from the road. 2, he fears
that Malong Awan would make real coup that he has been accussing his
opponent off. Tension is so high in Juba as we speak because Paul
Malong is suspected of coup. Mathiang Anyoor and Nuerwew are with
Malon
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