THERE IS NOTHING WHICH WE CANNOT SOLVE The long-awaited graduation ceremony finally started off with the first batch marching in joy amid screams and ululations from the public for history that has been made and that finally we have made progress of trying to finish up with completing some of[Read More…]

Cheers to the first batch of the Unified Forces! Finally, the first batch of the Necessary Unified Forces of South Sudan is graduated today! It is a great day for the country after all the procrastinations that have been going on which frustrated the public. It is a great day[Read More…]

STOP VIOLENCE, IT’S CAUSING STARVATION AND RELATED DEATHS Being a Christian country, the love language that the Christ encourages in the Holy Bible should be our guiding light in this dark world that we are living in. Servants of the Most High have highly condemned the killings in this Christian[Read More…]

SHUN TRIBALISM AND EMBRACE LOVE FOR PEACE Tribalism can be best defined as segregating people in relation to anything for instance like resources, products, services, opportunities and the like because of the tribe that they are. In our country, we have witnessed on many occasions time and again when somebody[Read More…]

Gov’t should look forward to redemption within the extended transitional period  Vice President Dr. Riek Machar amplified the very limited time left available for the government to implement the remaining yet critical parts of this transitional period. In his statement, he stated, “we are all cognizant that in the next[Read More…]

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…]

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…]

THE COUNTRY’S HIDEOUS DEBT BURDEN IS ENSLAVING IT   When ministers, governors or other people in high places are fired by the same person who appointed them, one would assume that the replacer is going to be genuinely better than the former. Unfortunately, for our country, we have seen appointees[Read More…]

Breastfeeding is important to everyone According to reports, breastfeeding for the first six months is particularly crucial right now as South Sudan is currently going through a nutrition crisis and malnutrition rates have continued to worsen. More than 300,000 are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition in 2022 which[Read More…]

Gov’t should frustrating the unified forces The government should guarantee graduation of the unified forces so that the country does not hear more such news of fleeing, deserting training camps/cantonment sites by the already trained soldiers who are only waiting to be graduated so that they officially start their duty.[Read More…]

Improve midwifery services to save lives Midwives are very important people in any society. In South Sudan, we need them to save many lives; of new born babies, their mothers and even the fathers. Imagine how ruined the family would be if they lost their fully developed child before it[Read More…]

Include youth in the country’s developmental projects The regional Inter-Ministerial conference on Migration, Environment and Climate change, a three- day Conference on Climate Change facilitated by the International Organization for Immigration, that concluded yesterday with our President and his delegates attending the last day was meant to be a uniform[Read More…]

Empower Judges to boost justice If less pay and poor working condition forced judges to quit their jobs, who then will provide justice to the victims of the hideous crimes happening in the country? A 2018 report by the African center on Strategic Studies, indicates that the conflict has devastated[Read More…]

Tame food, fuel prices before doom falls on us   The citizens are demanding a sustainable solution for the increasing prices that are soaring while their hopes are going down the drain. Food is getting more expensive, fuel prices are going higher! Increasing transport costs are shocking people daily – they[Read More…]

AGRICULTURE AS SAVIOR AMID FOOD CRISIS  With the hunger crisis worsening and told to get worse by analysts, what does South Sudan have as a backup plan for the time when hunger hell is expected to break loose? The country falls under 10 countries in the world where extreme hunger[Read More…]

Daily boring talks on inflation won’t revive the economy Edmund Yakani once reported that mismanagement of resources by the leadership to serve individual interest instead of fighting for food security has impacted the country’s economy and stated that “corruption does not mean walking away with public money but manipulating decision[Read More…]

THE ROADMAP TO ELECTIONS AND PEACE The roadmap to elections and peace should be clear “Dutch Diplomat doubts South Sudan’s free, credible elections next year.” With the country’s much anticipated – or rather much mumbled elections next year but with other people or other spectators saying nay pessimistic opinions and[Read More…]

There should be an end to futile firing and appointing of officers Firing and replacing leaders, chiefs, governors, ministers at will does not guarantee that the latter will not be the same or worse than the former was before they were kicked out of office. There should be a deeper[Read More…]

Celebrating 2 years! It has been a milestone achieved for No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper A newspaper that started as an online paper in 2019 but morphed into hard copy on 14th July 2020; operating both online and physically during the Coronavirus Pandemic has stood its tide to become the country’s[Read More…]

Making promises repeatedly that one does not keep makes them a liar eventually Murders, sexual abuse, hunger, poverty, disease, civil wars are some of the issues that this country has been painfully going through from the time she gained independence and now issues of flooding and dredging of the Sudd[Read More…]