Tagged: CoHA

Five Enemy Combatants Killed

The revolutionary forces of the National Salvation Front (NAS) have disrupted yet another planned joint offensive by the regime in...

Eid al-Fitr message from NAS Chairman Thomas Cirillo

On behalf of the Leadership of The National Salvation Front (NAS) and on my own behalf, I congratulate all South Sudanese Muslims in South Sudan and outside the country on the occasion of the Eid al Fitr Al Mubarak.

NAS Destroys Kiir, Riek Offensives

Sixty-one (61) government soldiers killed. Three (3) vehicles and one (1) armored Personnel Carrier (APC) destroyed. Forty-three (43) AK 47 rifles, two (2) 12.7 machine-guns, nine (9) RPG-7 and different assorted ammunition captured.

20200515 NAS Latest Press Release on defeat of SSPDF/SPLA-IO joint offensive

20200515 NAS Latest Press Release on defeat of SSPDF/SPLA-IO joint offensive

The National Salvation Front (NAS) has announced that it has effectively defeated and “neutralized the first phase of the joint SSPDF and SPLA IO military offensive”, and hope that Kiir and his allies learn that “the futile offensive and the subsequent defeat sends a clear message that military [superiority] will never defeat human desire for freedom and justice.”

Analysis: The Fallacy of Legitimacy

The era in which the regime in Juba can ride on the back of history has long passed. Power associated with liberation ideals previously espoused in the names of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement has long decayed.

20200512 SSOMA Press Release on Juba violation of CoHA and attack on NAS

20200512 SSOMA Press Release on Juba violation of CoHA and attack on NAS

A press release by SSOMA on the continuous CoHA violations by the Juba regime against the South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance (SSOMA).

SSOMA is troubled and very concerned with the ongoing violations of CoHA 2017 by the Juba regime against the positions of SSOMA’s alliance member (NAS), despite the recommitment to the Feb 13 2020 Rome Resolution on CoHA.
SSOMA would like to inform the government and the IO, the people of South Sudan and the International Community that any attack on its members is an attack on the SSOMA as a whole.

Civilians advised against using roads leading in and out of Juba

The National Salvation Front (NAS) is strongly advising civilians to avoid all types of travel on roads leading in and out of the capital Juba due to the ongoing joint military offensive by Kiir’s SSPDF and Machar’s SPLA-IO on NAS positions.

The advice is also aimed at protecting civilians from imminent atrocities by these joint forces after the SSPDF, on May 04, barred UNMISS and all other NGOs travelling along these roads – a move that provides cover while denying these NGOs access and evidence of the humanitarian catastrophe in the making.

SSPDF cancels all road movement for UNMISS and NGOs

Ahead of the ongoing SSPDF/SPLA-IO joint all-out military offensive against NAS positions, the SSPDF cancelled all road movement by the UNMISS and all other NGOs in a move that is believed to provide cover and deny NGOs access to areas where atrocities by the SSPDF- SPLA IO on civilians are most likely to happen.