PHOTO: Alinur Mohamed spread fake news that president Salva Kirr has passed away

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Alinur Mohamed spread fake news that president Salva Kirr has passed away.

Taking to social media, Alinur Mohamed, said that Salva Kiir is dead, which is actually a lie.

Alinur Mohamed wrote: “BREAKING: I hear President Salva Kirr of South Sudan has kicked the bucket. Let’s wait for official communication.”

The 1993 Plane Crash That Changed Salva Kiir’s Life—But Left a Village Waiting

On a foggy December morning in 1993, a small chartered aircraft carrying Salva Kiir Mayardit, then a senior commander in the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), went down in the eucalyptus thickets of Sawmill village near Eldama Ravine, Kenya. The crash was sudden and violent—one passenger died instantly. The rest were severely injured. READ MORE HERE

Villagers, hearing the explosion, ran to the wreckage. They didn’t know who the passengers were, only that they needed help. With pangas and bare hands, they cut through the twisted metal and dragged out the wounded. Among them was Salva Kiir, barely conscious.

The villagers transported him in a local lorry to the Torongo Health Centre, then to Mercy Mission Hospital in Eldama Ravine. From there, he was airlifted to Nairobi, his life saved by the quick actions of strangers.

In his recovery, Salva Kiir promised the people of Eldama Ravine that he would return and build a hospital. A place where lives, like his, could be saved. A promise made in pain and gratitude. But as the years passed, and as Salva Kiir became the President of South Sudan, that promise faded into silence.

For decades, the people of Eldama Ravine waited. The memory of the crash lived on in their stories, their children, and in the scorched bark of the trees that still stood at the crash site. But the hospital never came.

It wasn’t until 2023—thirty years later—that a South Sudanese delegation returned. They brought words of thanks, gestures of reconciliation, and plans for a trauma center. But for many, the moment had passed. The feeling was bittersweet.

This is not just a story about survival. It is also a story about memory, about promises made in desperation, and about what happens when gratitude is delayed for too long.