If you want to laugh, listen to leaders during campaigns, but if you want to laugh more, try your best to attend a press conference in which a leader addresses the nation on issues of corruption and tribalism. You will laugh to death, I tell you. He talks as[Read More…]
OpEd
A Need for reform in our public institutions
By Tong Akok Anei Mawien In this fast-changing world, government and public institutions are the key drivers in providing services to the people; they are the references to the challenges facing communities in regard to solution provision. This is the main core of their institutionalization by the government from the[Read More…]
Conflict Resolution and Peace Building
By Joseph Akim Gordon Conflict is defined as an incompatibility of goals or values between two or more parties in a relationship, combined with attempts to control each other and antagonistic feelings towards each other. When human beings come together, there is bound to be conflict. This is because human[Read More…]
Initiators and funders of the South Sudan Women Social and Economic Empowerment Project have touched the right pivot of development in the country. The $70 million International Development Association (IDA) grant approved by the World Bank is a long-awaited uplifting opportunity for women in the country, as long as the[Read More…]
The fall of Sudan’s former president Omar Al Bashir has paralyzed the Sudanese politics and society. This stems from his misruled and patronage style of governance. Al Bashir ruled Sudan for three decades after he took power through military coup in 1989. Throughout his tenure, Omar relied on military power[Read More…]
Dad, a former SPLA soldier: A story of a veteran charcoal monger
By Chol Peter Majoh My father, a leftover of SPLA/M, tries to forge ‘piir ë madina'(town life) with a suit and African wear he bought with charcoal money. Yeah, not ‘oyol’ (oil) money. He never tasted oil money. Ohh! I have forgotten. He did. That was in 2006, when he[Read More…]
SPLM Response to Nathaniel Oyet’s biased opinion on SPLM and CPC relations
By Bol Makueng Yuol On Monday, 22nd May 2023, Hon. Nathaniel Oyet of Riek Machar’s group, dubbed Deputy Chairman of the group, launched a biased, negative and disinformation attack on the SPLM’s relations with the Communist Party of China (CPC). Aired out in the No.1 Citizen Newspaper, Oyet made misleading[Read More…]
Digging the Trench of Hope
By Tong Akok Anei Mawien In the streets of Juba and other towns in South Sudan, a skinny veteran whose part dwells in the graveyard wanders his way, confused about where he will go and where he will make ends meet. His hope for brighter days is totally dead. A[Read More…]
Let Us Keep our National Currency Tidy, Avoid Writing on it
By Joseph Akim Gordon Our national currency, the South Sudan pound is our national symbol of our sovereignty, a decade ago or so the rate of dollar to our pound was almost equal to the dollar, the value of South Sudan pound deteriorated due to the fact that we failed[Read More…]
Nation Talk
By Agoku Christine Taban Suicide cases among young people are rampantly increasing, based on news reports. This has been caused by different factors, which include limited possibilities for income generation, idleness, substance abuse, criminality, armed conflict, and gender-based violence. Many organizations that are supporting mental health and psychological awareness are[Read More…]
Long walk to freedom from crisis is only just starting
It is high time that the key ministries of life-affiliated issues hold public engagement and awareness events. The country needs to hear from the horse’s mouth because the citizens are drowning in the deep seas of despair, which is only getting worse by the day. The hope that would have[Read More…]
Our independence came in a blood-stained plate
By Chol Peter Majoh South Sudan liberation struggle dates back to the era beyond the 1955 Torit mutiny and mutineers, Anyanya 1 and 2 and SPLM/A. From the first line down to SPLM and A, this journey wasn’t a visionless one. The liberators had envisioned what South Sudan would become and[Read More…]
Power-offs, Dollar rate, market Prices-Let’s Talk
Our lawmakers have taken the right step, as being their role, to question the executive concerning an astronomical eruption of US Dollar rate, along with commodity prices, on a space trip, while intermittent power outages add to blast out the diminished hope of our survival. The legislators’ discourse, that the[Read More…]
Sometimes, life will bring you down on your knees
Life is unfair, that is a sad fact. Let us all face the truth and be humble. Sometimes you just have to find meaning in those difficult moments of your life. Those hard times, they last long. This hurts but not forever, of course. It is all part of human[Read More…]
A counsel to young people
By Chol Peter Majoh Quite certainly, I am sure, many of us are well aware or informed of what’s frivolously happening here in Juba and all over the Country with young people, teenagers moreover. Unlike in the past, around 2013-2016, our young people, teenagers, were not as they are currently[Read More…]
I thought that photocopy machine had a bad luck, says a veteran job seeker
Daniel graduated in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of (……..). Before receiving his degree, he spent a year applying for jobs using a transcript but, his applications went fruitless. He thought the employers looked at his transcript as a forged one. A year later, he[Read More…]
If funerals and occasions were not there, how would citizens cope with life?
It takes zero minutes for a funeral news to cover Juba. Guess why? Funeral rites and occasions have become places where the starving citizens of South Sudan break their fasting in. When two announcements are announced, for instance, the announcer says people are asked to assemble at Juba International Airport[Read More…]
Retouch: My shipwrecked nation will surely rise
By Chol Peter Majoh The country that once flourished and caught the whole world’s attention few days after her independence, South Sudan, is today living Shipwrecked like will never recover and come back to her first glory. Our beloved country, so arrayed in finest glory, endowed and featured with resources[Read More…]
Can someone remind some of our MPs of their roles to communities they represent
By Tong Akok Anei Mawien Sometimes it’s very hard to imagine some situations, it is absurd when our communities beat their chest of being represented by representatives who cannot pick a word or participate on matters that are affecting the communities they represent and the nation as a whole; as[Read More…]
Murder-suicide, Gov’t should Act
Three days after President Salva Kiir Mayardit, on 16th May, recalled the tremendous contribution of the heroes and heroines who sacrificed their lives for freedom of this nation, more blood spilt. The Friday murder-suicide involving Vice President for Economic Cluster, Dr. James Wani Igga’s bodyguards at his residence was not[Read More…]