Category: Uncategorized

Supreme Airline proprietor Ayii Duang still in jail

The proprietor of South Supreme Airlines Ayii Duang Ayii is still in jail for failing to compensate victims of the 2021 plane crash in Jonglei, according to South Sudan Prison Service spokesperson.

Major Generable Redento Tongun who is the spokesperson of the South Sudan Prison Service says, the institution is implementing the judicial issued by a Juba court last week.

In an order obtained by Eye Radio on the 31st of August, addressed to the Administration of Juba Main Prison, the Malakia court authorized the Prison to ensure Ayii Duang remains incarcerated until he clears the dues.

The said business tycoon was ordered in February this year to pay 800, 000 US dollars in reparation for victims of the 2021 Pieri plane crash in Uror County, Jonglei State.

“Since the subject has a case before this court, he failed to pay the need which is 800,000 US and the court fee, therefore he is to remain in prison until he pays,” read the order title.

According to the verdict, he was to pay 170,000 US dollars for each victim of the HK 4274 commercial plane.

But until last week, Yii Dunag did not pay the dues.

Maj. Gen. Redento Tongun confirmed Eye Radio this morning that Ayii Duang Ayii is still in Juba Central Prison for failing to pay the money including a court fee.

” Any sentence that comes from the court bearing the court’s logo, the signature of the judge, and the stamp of the court is an order or a degree or a sentence to the prison service.

“In the case of Ayii, somebody, a complainant went to court and wanted compensation, and people wanted from him money.

“I think there is this issue of court attendance and maybe no dialogue and all those things said. So, the complainant went to court and they needed compensation, so he was remitted to prison on execution meaning, he didn’t pay the money which is 800,000 US dollars,’ he said.

In March 2021, a commercial plane registered as HK 4274, and owned by businessman Ayii Duang Ayii killed at least 10 people after it crashed in the Pieri airstrip, in Uror County.

Those who died include two children, six women, and two pilots – a South Sudanese and a Kenyan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sudan’s Sovereign Council leader Gen. Burhan arrives Juba

The Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Monday morning arrived in Juba to discuss with President Kiir the crisis in Sudan, the office of the president reported.

General Burhan is accompanied by Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Ali al-Sadiq and General Ahmed Ibrahim Mufadel, head of the General Intelligence Authority, and other senior military officers.

“We in Sudan feel that South Sudan is the best country to meditate the conflict in Sudan because we have been one country for so long and we know each other, we know the problems and we know our needs,” said the Sudanese Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Ali al-Sadiq about the purpose the visit.

Meanwhile, South Sudan’s Minister of Cabinet Affairs Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro said it was in the interest of South Sudan to find a solution to the crisis in Sudan.

“It is known that President Kiir is the only person who has intimacy and knowledge about Sudan and can find a solution to the Sudanese crisis,” said Dr. Lomuro.

The Minister added President Kiir is better placed to meditate on the problems in Sudan, and that he has a solution in his hands to resolve the conflict.

Burhan’s visit is his second trip outside Sudan since the conflict erupted in Khartoum on 15th April this year.

He was in Egypt on Tuesday last week, where he reportedly held talks with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in the Egyptian coastal city of el-Alamein.

Fighting broke out in April between Sudan’s army and the Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and has since then exploded into open fighting in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere.

 

 

73 dead in Johannesburg fire at city centre building

At least 73 people have died in a fire in a Johannesburg building, South African authorities say.

More than 50 others are injured.

Officials say it is unclear what sparked the blaze at the city centre’s five-story building, which had been abandoned but was being occupied by homeless people.

The city of Johannesburg confirmed in a news conference that it owned the building but said cartels had taken it over.

A spokesman for the emergency services, Robert Mulaudzi, told the BBC that firefighters had been able to bring out some of the occupants.

He said the fire had gutted the building, and that the search for other victims was continuing.

Disaster management officials are also in the area to help provide relief for surviving residents.

Mr Mulaudzi said the scene will be handed over to the South African police service after emergency services had finished searching for victims.

We are moving floor by floor conducting these body recoveries,” Mr Mulaudzi told local broadcaster ENCA.

A video posted to the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, by Mr Mulaudzi showed fire trucks and ambulances outside the building with burnt-out windows.

Photos from the scene showed covered bodies lined up near the burned building.

One woman told journalists she was outside the building searching for her 24-year-old daughter.

“As soon as I heard the building was burning down, I knew I had to run here to come and look for her”, she said.

“Now that I’m here, I’m kept in suspense because I really don’t know what is happening. I don’t get any direction – so I’m actually very anxious, I don’t know if my daughter is alive.”

The building is located in what was formerly a business district in South Africa’s economic hub. It was being used as an informal settlement, Mr Mulaudzi said.

The inner city neighborhood is infamous for “hijacked” buildings, a term used in South Africa to refer to buildings illegally taken over by undocumented migrants, mostly from other African countries.

Mr Malaudzi told the BBC that the building had been abandoned previously, but homeless people had moved in looking for shelter during the current cold winter months.

He added that – since it was not a formal accommodation with a lease – the building was not properly looked after, and makeshift structures and debris had made it hard to search for and rescue people.

Lebogang Maile, the politician responsible for housing in the province said there was a chronic problem with housing in the area, and there were 1.2 million people looking for somewhere to live.

When asked whether his administration would take responsibility for the tragedy, the Mayor of Johannesburg, Kabelo Gwamanda, said the government was dealing with the issue of cartels hijacking buildings which was taking place across the city.

In the wake of the fire, many South Africans on social media have condemned the online xenophobic attacks that some have made against the victims and survivors of the fire.

Gabon coup leaders name General Brice Oligui Nguema as new leader

Army officers who seized power in a coup in Gabon on Wednesday have named General Brice Oligui Nguema as the West African state’s transitional leader.

Gen Nguema was earlier carried triumphally through the streets of the capital Libreville by his troops.

The deposed President, Ali Bongo, has appeared in a video at his home, calling on his “friends all over the world” to “make noise” on his behalf.

The former French colony is one of Africa’s major oil producers.

Mr Bongo’s overthrow ended his family’s 55-year hold on power.

Army officers appeared on TV in the early hours of Wednesday to say they had taken power.

They said they had annulled the results of Saturday’s election in which Mr Bongo was declared the winner but which the opposition said was fraudulent.

The officers also said they had arrested one of Mr Bongo’s sons for treason.

Within hours, generals met to discuss who would lead the transition and agreed by a unanimous vote to appoint Gen Nguema, former head of the presidential guard.

Crowds in Libreville and elsewhere celebrated the army’s declaration.

But the coup was condemned by the UN, the African Union and France, which had close ties to the Bongo family.

The US state department urged Gabon’s military to “preserve civilian rule” and urged “those responsible to release and ensure the safety of members of government”. The UK condemned the “unconstitutional military takeover” of power.

There has long been simmering resentment of the Bongo family – it ruled Gabon for 55 years – and there has been public discontent over broader issues such as the cost of living.

“At first I was scared, but then I felt joy,” a resident of Libreville, who requested anonymity, told the BBC. “I was scared because of the realisation that I am living through a coup, but the joy is because we’ve been waiting for so long for this regime to be overthrown.”

South Sudan painfully lost to Serbia in FIBA World Cup

South Sudan has lost 83 to 115 points to Serbia in the FIBA Basketball World Cup putting the country in a tricky position to move to the next round.

The bright star’s hope of making it to the next round is grime as Puerto Rico needs a win against China to drop South Sudan from second place.

If China beat Puerto Rico in their final group game later this afternoon, South Sudan will still have to hope for the next round.

The Dragons went down 89-69 to South Sudan in Manila for their second defeat of the tournament, following an opening-day thrashing by Serbia.

China that South Sudan thrashed does not see hope in beating Puerto Rico.

 

Sudan army chief labels RSF traitor, won’t accept to negotiate

The head of Sudan’s army and the country’s de facto president has responded to a statement by his rival in the country’s conflict that he is open to a long-term ceasefire, saying that “we don’t strike deals with traitors”.

Earlier, the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who’s known as Hemedti, said any settlement must set the country on the path to full civilian rule.

He also called for an end to state-orchestrated attacks on civilians.

But army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said:” We did not start this war and never sought it. They [RSF] started the war. Therefore, they will be defeated and will pay a price for it…,” stressing that “We did not start this war and never sought it. They [RSF] started the war. Therefore, they will be defeated and will pay a price for it…

“Anyone who says there is an agreement or a deal [with RSF] or someone is helping, is delusional. We don’t strike deals with traitors or any party that betrayed the Sudanese people, and will not cooperate with any side that betrayed the Sudanese people,” he added.

Sudanese pro-democracy activists have dismissed Hemedti’s earlier comments as highly hypocritical, seeing as he has played a key role in organizing attacks on civilians and ensuring the military retains power in Sudan.

The conflict between the RSF and the army began on 15 April after the two leaders fell out over the future of the country and the transition to civilian rule.

Thousands have lost their lives and more than four million people have fled their homes.

EES police grapple with few cars to combat crimes – Gen. Enoka

Police in Eastern Equatoria say the shortage of vehicles has crippled their mandate to combat crimes in the State.

James Monday Enoka, the State Police Commissioner says a police station is supposed to have at least three vehicles for emergency response, reinforcement and fuel supply.

But the 36 stations across the state only have about 10 cars with most of them having none.

He told Eye Radio that the insufficient number of vehicles has paralyzed the work of the law enforcement agent in the State.

” You find even most of the police stations do not even have a single vehicle, it can be one vehicle for the whole county, not police station.

“It is a challenge because we cannot respond to crimes when we don’t have enough mobility.

“We have 36 police stations  and when you come to the number of vehicles we have, I can tell you it is less than 10, you can now see the gap”.

This week, the UN World Food Program donated a vehicle help the officers in Kapoeta.

“ Kapoeta is a priority, there is a lot of insecurity than other counties. If we receive another vehicle, we will also send it to another country,” he said

Indians celebrate as spacecraft lands near south pole of moon in historic first

India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon in a historic moment that drew cheers at watching parties around the country.

Chandrayaan-3, which means “mooncraft” in Sanskrit, put down its Vikram lander shortly after 6pm (1230 GMT) near the lunar south pole in a world first for any space programme.

“India is on the moon,” said Sreedhara Panicker Somanath, the chair of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), as the Vikram landed.

For India, the successful landing marks its emergence as a space power as the government looks to spur investment in private space launches and related satellite-based businesses.

People across the country were glued to television screens and said prayers as the spacecraft approached the surface.

“This is a victory cry of a new India,” said the prime minister, Narendra Modi, who was seen waving the Indian flag as he watched the landing from South Africa, where he is attending the Brics summit.

As well as making history by becoming the first country to touch down near the south pole region, India has also joined the US, the former Soviet Union and China in achieving a moon landing.

The mission launched nearly six weeks ago in front of thousands of cheering spectators, taking much longer to reach the moon than the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s, which arrived in a matter of days.

India is using rockets much less powerful than the US did back then. Instead, the probe orbited Earth several times to gain speed before embarking on its month-long lunar trajectory.

Rough terrain makes a south pole landing difficult. The region’s water ice could supply fuel, oxygen and drinking water for future missions.

This was India’s second attempt to land a spacecraft on the moon. In 2019, ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission successfully deployed an orbiter but its lander crashed.

On Monday Russia said its first moon mission in 47 years – which also targeted the south pole – had failed after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon. Russia’s head of the state-controlled space corporation, Roscosmos, attributed the failure to the lack of expertise due to the long break in lunar research that followed the last Soviet mission to the moon in 1976.

A six-wheeled rover is scheduled to roam the lunar surface gathering images and data. The rover is expected to remain functional for two weeks, running a series of experiments including a spectrometer analysis of the mineral composition of the lunar surface.

Five foreign teachers arrested over alleged Aweil rape case

Police in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state have arrested five foreign teachers in connection with the defilement of a 16-year-old student in Aweil town.

According to the State police spokesperson, the unnamed five foreign teachers are staff of Corner Stone, a private school located in the area.

Captain Guot Guot Akol says that the detained teachers are under investigation but cites one of them is at large.

“The five teachers that we arrested yesterday [Tuesday] evening belong to Corner Stone,

“We arrested them for preliminary investigation of the alleged rape case of a 17-year-old girl and this girl is a student of that school. 

Captain Guot Guot could not reveal the identities of the detained teachers for investigation purposes.

“The investigation still going on, and one suspect is still at large and we also want them [teachers] to help locate the person that is still at large because they are living together.”

When contacted by Eye Radio, the Headteacher of Corner Stone Primary and Secondary School confirmed the arrest.

Valentino Achak said the teachers were arrested on suspicion of hiding a suspected colleague.

“We have teachers who have been arrested by the state police on allegation that they have hidden the teachers who were accused of defiling 16-year-old girl students,” he said.

“What I am aware of is,  they have to produce the person and that is what they [police] are holding them for,” he said.

error: Alert: Content is protected !!
Exit mobile version