By Ijoo Bosco – Torit Over thirty practicing journalists have started a three-day media outreach training in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State. The three-day training is organized by AMDISS through funding from USAID and MDI to build the capacity of media personnel across the State. The Executive Director for AMDIS, Mr.[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The Investment Committee of South Sudan Football Association (SSFA) yesterday held a meeting to validate the Association’s businesses and investment plans. Recently, South Sudan Football Association organized a fundraising Initiative meant for supporting South Sudan National Team Bright Stars as a way to prepare them for[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The former governor of Warrap State, Lewis Anei Kuendi has refuted allegations made against him and his associates by a lawmaker accusing them of attempting illicit conspiracies to over throw the current community leadership in the State.   No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper in its publication[Read More…]

By Ephraim Modi D.S The Director General for Food Security Policy at the National Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security Jacob Mogga Bandazi has raised a concern of a 10 percent allocation of the country’s national annual budget to agricultural sector. The World Food Program (WFP) on 14th June announced[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The Chairperson of the National Commission of Land and Public Utilities has accused high authorities among many others for depriving laws and orders as they continue land grabbing. Mr. Robert Lado Loki made the remarks during a consultative workshop on the deliberation of Central Equatoria State[Read More…]

By Ijoo Bosco – Torit The Former Kenyan Minister of petroleum and mining is asking the Ateker cluster to maintain peace and harmony along the borders. Hon. John Munyes Kionga said Toposa of South Sudan and Turkana of Kenya speak similar language and should share available resources peacefully. The ex-minister[Read More…]

By John Sylivestor The population of Mundri West has received its first raindrops during weekend on 18th June 2022 after nearly a month without the rainfall following a traditional ritual was held by chiefs and those responsible for rain making. Last Thursday, the Paramount chief of Mundri West County, Alexzander[Read More…]

By James Innocent The Director for military-civil relations in Yei River County, Michael Machar has called on residents of Yei to turn up and witness final ruling on militaries who committed atrocities against civilians. The General Military Court martial that had been convened in Yei River County of Central Equatoria[Read More…]

By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei The First Deputy Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA), Oyet Nathaniel Pierino has blasted the Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs; Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; and the Ministry of Interior, for their inadequate response on border encroachment by Uganda People’s Defense[Read More…]

By Akol Madut Ngong South Sudan government in partnership with stakeholders on Tuesday, June 2022 has launched a revised National Development Strategy (NDS) of 2021/2024, presided by the Presidency. Addressing the participants, the First Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan, Dr. Riek Machar Teny who read out the[Read More…]

By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei At least five hundred and ninety-eight (598) youth have graduated with vocational skills in various areas including; plumbing, carpentry, hair dressing, hair condition, and car driving among other services. The over 500 youth that graduated on Monday acquired their vocational and technical skills at the Multi-Services[Read More…]

By Matia Samuel Timatio The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said this year the world has reached a stark milestone of over 100 million children, women and men who have been uprooted from their homes by war, violence, persecution and human rights abuses. The UN Refugee Agency made[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David A civil society organization has urged South Sudan Government to review the law and policies pertaining promotion and full protection as well as equal enjoyment of rights for persons living with disability (PWDs) in the country. This call came following recommendations derived from a two-day workshop[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The Governor of Central Equatoria State has called on the people of South Sudan and most particularly those in Central Equatoria State to fully engage in agricultural activities and produce what they eat as the only remedy to food security in the country. Governor Emmanuel Adil[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David At least 13 teachers were reportedly arrested and detained by security personnel in Lakes State, Rumbek for allegedly rejecting a two months’ salary pay which was not in conformity with the new 100% salary structure increment by the National government. Meanwhile on the contrary the Lakes[Read More…]

By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei The National Minister of Labour, James Hoth Mai has called on the cattle owners to start converting their cattle wealth into other commercial investments, rather than using them only for paying dowries. Minister Mai made his appeal to the wealthy cattle keepers in the country while[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The Department of the corpse keeping segment(Mortuary) at the Juba Teaching Hospital has disclosed that over seventy (60) corpses have been hanging up in the mortuary as relatives to the departed souls couldn’t turn up to remove them for burial. The mortuary at the Juba Teaching[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The President of the Republic of South Sudan H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit yesterday left Juba for Nairobi to join his East African Community Counterparts at the septet summit of the heads of States. He was accompanied by a number of delegates from the government of South[Read More…]

By William Madouk Garang Members of Parliament at the Central Equatoria State’s Transitional Legislative Assembly have opposed and pushed back a report compiled by Specialized Committee for Gender, Child Social Welfare during their courtesy visit to State Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare. The objection came after the Acting[Read More…]

By Kiden Stela Mandela The political crisis in South Sudan that plunged the country into civil war in December 2013 and July 2016 has destroyed the wellbeing of the ordinary South Sudanese citizens forcing over 2 million of them to move to the neighboring Uganda as refugees, leaving them to[Read More…]