By Ustaz Mark Bang We have been seeing ourselves as this nation had been and continues to be. I feel so surprised when the situation is becoming harder and harder yet there are thousands of individuals whose secret motive is to suck innocent blood. Say be calm and things[Read More…]
OpEd
Hunger beats South Sudanese home and away
From one meal per day to zero meal per day! From you will get your salaries next month to salaries suspension! From hopefulness to hopelessness! Having seen that South Sudanese are vulnerable beyond vulnerability, hunger has sharpened its teeth and started scavenging the starving people of South Sudan. As hunger[Read More…]
DUPLICITY DESTROYS LEADERSHIP CREDIBILITY
By Very Rev. Nathaniel Garang Aduotdiit (Proverbs 20:10 NLT) “False weights and unequal measures— the Lord detests double standards of every kind.” There is no greater joy in a Father’s heart than a son being trusted and spoken well of. A son that has a reputation is indeed the pride[Read More…]
Life is a marathon, not a sprint
Sometimes, when we see others ahead of us, we put it the wrong way that, we are left behind and forget even where we are, forgetting the need to appreciate what we are and what we have, though there are sometimes in our life when God can really break our[Read More…]
Don’t pay for a child to study if you can’t follow her or him
By Ustaz Mark Bang Here are 7 key lessons parents need to carry on with if they really want their child to better person in future, please the future of your own child matters. The Importance of Self-Reflection: emphasizes the need for parents to reflect on their own[Read More…]
The sound of heavy gunfire that shocked the city on Tuesday night between 10th and 11 o’clock left the population in the city feeling unsafe and seeking answers to what had happened. Citizens feel uncomfortable whenever they hear a gunshot in the country. This time, it was an encounter between[Read More…]
You cannot control diarrhoea by closing the anus
When I see leaders of South Sudan addressing a problem, it kills me with laughter. They abandon the problem and shoot its shadow. They do not completely know how to put an absolute end to a problem. When a problem arises, it is always good to find its root cause.[Read More…]
In agreement with SSP fluctuations
With SSP fluctuations, we are able to know whether the citizens are optimistic or pessimistic. Optimistic citizens know things will change very soon. Pessimistic ones have no hope for change. Those who are optimistic in life treat things as normal. They don’t complain. They look for solutions. They smile when[Read More…]
Digitalism in wrong hands
By Agar Mayor Gai-Makoon What is unique about our age is that so much transformation has happened in the ways we communicate and work. It is possible today to pass your information to thousands of people in various places in just minutes through social media. YouTube and Spotify have[Read More…]
Leadership as God intended: It takes a commitment to keep your heart pure (Proverbs 20:9 NIV)
By Very Rev. Nathaniel Garang Aduotdiit “Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin?” Living in our World today with all sorts of things popping and cropping randomly in our space, our environments; languages we hear, papers or pictures we consciously or[Read More…]
Live the life you love
By Ustaz Mark Bang There is this compulsion of things that makes our lives tough and stressful. Now that you realize and accept that this life is momentary and is going to end with whatever you achieve or don’t achieve, the end result is to perish, you become less[Read More…]
Forced Labour devastates a child
By Theem Isaac Machar Akot Although training a child in skilled types of work is helpful and mandatory, exposure to heavy-force labour constitutes mistreatment. The concerned Ministries of Labour and Gender and Social Welfare should pay attention to the appalling situations South Sudanese children are going through. Parents in[Read More…]
Imagine individuals arrested at the Uganda border post for attempting to smuggle concealed pistols without any reasons submitted. This is a serious situation; this is a very bad practice that may not lead this country ahead, and the question that may arise is, what is wrong with the Nimule border[Read More…]
If the truth kills them, then let them die
By Ustaz Mark Bang We live in a community where all people desire to live while others continue to perish, where socialization is dying, where culture is swept off, and where pride is the focus of the day. Those in government are not serving us but eating our resources,[Read More…]
Can Samuel Kot Mading step aside for James Woja Igele?
Hats off to President Joe Biden! One of the most annoying things on earth is to win a competitive marriage, but you produce only one child and become infertile. You and your dear wife are still brand new spouses, but one of the rights that forces a woman to divorce,[Read More…]
It would be proficient for those aggrieved in a nation to seek amity to resolve any discontent than through abduction of citizens and subject them to misery. As the rest of South Sudan grapples with economic turmoil, citizens trying to come to terms with high cost of living, those in[Read More…]
In 1983, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLA/M), led by the late Dr. John Garang, emerged as a key player in the conflicts. They advocated for the South to gain independence after witnessing human rights violations, mass displacement, economic hardships, famine, and other harmful atrocities committed in southern Sudan. The[Read More…]
LEADERSHIP AS GOD INTENDED: The ripples effects of a leader who walks in integrity Proverbs 20:7 NKJV
By Very Rev. Nathaniel Garang Aduotdiit “The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.” Little do leaders often know that it’s not always about them only, but the generation they are called to stand for. Human life is often compared to a seed. Once[Read More…]
Elections 2024 in Ruckus
By James Aniceto Batikayo Chairman of the Real SPLM, Mr. Pagan Amum has of late revealed in a Radio Interview that the end result of the ongoing Tumaini Peace Talks in Nairobi – Kenya would be “a National Constitution Conference” to be held first in Kenya before it is officially[Read More…]
Damn! They award those who prosper at the expense of others
Instead of awarding herbivores, they award carnivores. They award those who eat other people’s flesh. To me, some awards are buyable. Carnivores who want to purify their tinted legacies can secretly donate money to award-giving institutions in order to award them. Once awarded, they think that they are distinguished, little[Read More…]