By Bida Elly David The Authority of the Juba City Council and a delegation from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Thursday held a meeting to lay a strategy in regards to waste management project in Juba city. This came following a long term plan that the City Council in[Read More…]

By Adia Jildo The youth of Murle community in Juba have condemned the act of defaming them citing accusation of several incidences of raids, attacks that lead to death and abduction alleged to Murle armed youth. The chairperson of Murle Youth Association in South Sudan David Ngiro Yangkon said the[Read More…]

By Patrick Godi Upper Nile Youth Development Association (UNYDA), a civil society organization with focus on Environmental and natural resource governance in South Sudan has highlighted the looming effects of climate change in South Sudan. In a workshop organized in Melut county of Upper Nile State to increase knowledge on[Read More…]

By Adia Jildo Traders in Konyo-Konyo market have blamed price hike on rampant tax charges often without copy of receipts. They cited that most tax collectors levy heavy and irrelevant tax leading to collapse of their businesses and increase in commodity prices. On Wednesday, the National Minister of Finance Agak[Read More…]

By Akol Madut Ngong The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (R-JMEC) is urging the Ministry of Finance and Planning to fast-track disbursement of an estimated budget of 2,000 US dollars approved by the National Transitional Committee for repatriation of ex-combatants currently in the training Centers. This appeal came on[Read More…]

By William Madouk Garang The Kit-gwang splinter group under Lt. Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual has resounded “alarm bell” accusing his peace partner the SPLM-IG under President Salva Kiir of dishonouring the Khartoum peace agreement. The Kit-gwang and Agwelek delegations signed peace agreement on Mid-January 2022 with government representatives led by[Read More…]

By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei The Commissioner of Mayom County of Unity state and eleven others have been killed yesterday in a deadly fresh attack. The South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) and the South Sudan People’s Movement (SSPM) have traded accusation on the fresh clashes in Mayom County of Unity[Read More…]

By Innocent James The Deputy Director for Agriculture Forest and Environment in Yei River County of Central Equatoria State, Dudu Emelia Kenyi appealed to all the communities living in and around Yei to continue cultivating hard to fight hunger. She said as the second cultivation season looms people should cultivate[Read More…]

By Akol Madut Ngong The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) has called on the government to consider the rights of persons with disabilities following the latest statistics where ten cases were noted in communal violence. Edmund Yakani, the Executive Director of CEPO, denounced killings and called for government intervention,[Read More…]

By Ijoo Bosco The Governor of Eastern Equatoria State Louis Lobong Lojore has urged youth in Kapoeta to desist from the culture of cattle raiding and revenge attacks that jeopardizes security situation in the area. He made his appeal on Thursday as he arrived in Kapoeta town on a tour[Read More…]

By Alex Digi The inmates in Yambio Central Prison have received food assistant from the government of Western Equatoria State following an official courtesy visit to assess the conditions of the prison services by the Deputy Governor and the Minister of Local Government and Law Enforcement. This came after the[Read More…]

By Adia Jildo The Chairperson of the standing specialized committee of Finance and Economic Planning at the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Changkuoth Bichiock Reth said they adjourned a meeting aimed at intervening on the issue of standoff between transporters and Kenyan and South Sudan transport authorities over relocation of South[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The Central Equatoria State Ministry of Education has urged parents to prioritize girls’ education as their performance declined in the recent Certificate of Primary Education results. This came following the poor results and performance of female learners in the recent declaration of the Certificate of primary[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David SPLM-IG and their rival SPLM-IO as well as other parties’ signatories to the peace agreement yesterday agreed to jointly work towards implementing the peace roadmap that was earlier presented on the pending provisions and deliberated on how the country would move forward towards elections after the[Read More…]

By Ephraim Modi D.S A representative from the National Transitional Committee (NTC) on Transitional Security Arrangements, Mr. Stephen Par Kuol said they have submitted a budget of over 14 million US dollars to the Ministry of Finance and Planning. He disclosed this at the 23rd Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation[Read More…]

By Ephraim Modi D.S The Minister of Cabinet Affairs Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro yesterday disclosed that the President has called on the representatives of the parties to the peace agreement for an extended meeting to listen to the roadmap and make contributions whereas necessary. Dr. Lomuro made the statement while[Read More…]

By Martha John Savio A lady by the names of Abalo Lilian from Agago district imprisoned for 8 month prison in Patong reprimanded by the Grade One magistrate after being caught last night around 12:00pm at the ancestral home of Uganda chief justice Owiny Dolo Chigamoi Alphonse planting unknown substance[Read More…]

DREDGING THE SUDD WETLANDS IS STILL A NO GO There are still talks about the dredging of the Naam River and digging the Jonglei Canal, a confusing and disturbing series of talks, convincing and events held to address the serious national issue of dredging of the Nile basin covered by[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The authorities of Juba City Council together with Juba County Commissioner have agreed to crackdown criminal activities in Juba County and make a market set-up to reduce overcrowding and mitigate road occupancy for commercial activities. This came during a meeting between the City Council Mayor and[Read More…]

By Ijoo Bosco The press secretary in the office of the Eastern Equatoria State Governor said calm has returned to the Eastern Equatoria border town of Ikwoto and businesses started to move on as usual with the deployed forces in the ground. Aliardo Lotok said, the two days incident that[Read More…]