By Taban Gabi It’s been 6 days now a colleague journalist and one humble Diing Magot who practices with the Voice of America (VOA), has been kept in incarceration without any form of fairness. Diing has not committed any crime but her fault was conducting a media coverage on a[Read More…]
Author: Number One Citizen Daily Newspaper
Persons with disability demand closure of communication gap
By Martha John Savio/Kitgum Uganda Persons living with disabilities in Kitgum district had asked their representative to seek for all possible ways to close various challenges affecting them especially communication. In a meeting yesterday (Thursday) at Kitgum District hall the (NUWODU) National Union of Women with Disability of Uganda, a[Read More…]
Victims of Gender Based Violence (GBV) need trauma healing
By Lisok James Moses Dear South Sudanese Social Workers, Especially those ones that are educated, informed and learned; I would like to take this opportunity to invite you for a special Gender Base Violence [GBV] Program. This invitation doesn’t require a lot from you but it also intends to inform[Read More…]
What’s corruption?
By Akol Arop Akol One of the injustices that almost every leader is accused of is corruption. Young nations that are still under developing are ranked as leading in misuse of public funds. Some corrupt leaders with powers are always the suspects when it comes to the thing called corruption.[Read More…]
Tender notice
Beijing’s white paper refuses to unfriend Taiwan
By William Madouk Garang Xi Jinping’s administration has echoed that Taiwan is an integral part of China in a newly released white paper of Beijing’s State Council of Information office and the Taiwan Affairs office. Taiwan Affairs Office of the state and the State Council of Information Office of the[Read More…]
Editorial
Vision of a peaceful nation should be bold in all our minds On Martyr’s Day, President Salva Kiir called on the holdout groups to hold peace as a way of honoring the people who died for the sake of the country’s independence. Recently, the Presidential Advisor on Security Affairs also[Read More…]
Youth Union demands release of detained protesters
By Taban Henry The Secretary General of the South Sudan National Youth Union is calling for the release of the detained journalists and the other four protesters arrested after they protested over the increasing prices of commodities in the market. This came as the country prepares to join the world[Read More…]
Minister cautions suspended national youth president
By Taban Henry The national Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr. Albino Bol Dhieu has cautioned the chairperson of the National Youth Union to stop arrogance. He made this to the media in a press conference as the country prepares to join the rest of the world in celebrating the[Read More…]
City Council vows to punish town cattle roamers
By Bida Elly David The authority of Juba City Council has cautioned pastoralists who have taken advantage of using the town as their cattle stage and vowed to arrest any of them who will be caught and found roaming with cows in the city streets. Recently, reports from drivers, pedestrians[Read More…]
Gov’t ready to dialogue with armed groups
By Bida Elly David The chairperson of the National Transitional Committee (NTC) on Wednesday called on the holdout armed groups fighting against the government to seek for peaceful dialogue to pave way for successful amity and graduation of the unified forces. The Presidential Security Advisor and the NTC chairperson Tut[Read More…]
Editorial
Citizens should be responsibly clean in this rainy season The catastrophic rains of this season that are destroying infrastructures in other countries have not yet hit the country. Why would they come to destroy an already hard-hit nation with many terrific issues like poverty, violence, conflict, malnutrition, disease, poor service,[Read More…]
Nation Talks
WHY DETAIN PEACEFUL PROTESTERS? By Kiden Stela Mandela The critical economic inflation in the country had caused innocent civil servants to come out over the weekend (Sunday) to call on the government to improve the situation in the country and fight for their rights. Now it is almost six months[Read More…]
City Mayor warns residents against protest
By Adia Jildo The Mayor of Juba City Council Michael Ladu Allah Jabu has called on the citizens to take their grievances to relevant authorities rather than protesting which might cause destruction and public alarm. Allah-Jabu made the statement while briefing the media in regards to the protest that was[Read More…]
Tender…Invitation for quotation
Japan donates $9millions to WFP to support over 200,000 people
By Ephraim Modi D.S The government of Japan has on Wednesday provided the World Food Program (WFP) with $3 million from the Japanese Food Assistance Grant and $6 million from Japan Emergency Grant that sums up to $9 million to support 200,000 people who are food insecure in South Sudan.[Read More…]
We didn’t cut food assistance in SSD-Says WFP
By Ephraim Modi D.S The World Food Programme (WFP)’s Acting Country Director Ms. Makena Walker has assured that they did not suspend any food assistance to the people of South Sudan. This statement came after the WFP reported on June, 14 this year that they had suspended food assistance to[Read More…]
Aid workers killed in Ikwoto road ambush
By Ijoo Bosco At least two humanitarian workers have been killed and one other injured in a road ambush in Ikwoto County of Eastern Equatoria State. The Eastern Equatoria State Minister of Local Government and Law Enforcement, Peter Lokeng confirmed the incident to No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper via phone. He[Read More…]
Threatening is not the position of Juba City Council
By Adia Jildo The Mayor of Juba City Council Michael Lado Allah-Jabu has reiterated a threatening statement from his subordinate saying the city council is not to threaten but to provide the city services as well as maintaining peace, order and public tranquility. Earlier this week, the Juba City Deputy[Read More…]
UN condemns Mayom extrajudicial killing
By William Madouk Garang The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has joined the government in condemning the extrajudicial killing of four suspects accused of murdering Mayom County Commissioner, Chuol Gatluak Manime. In a statement, the head of peace mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Nicholas Haysom said the executions which[Read More…]