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…]
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Nation Talks
THE US DOLLAR IS A GIANT MONSTER IN THE MARKET By Loro Louis Yugu [Guest Writer] I have never come across a country where even a mad person knows about the value and the influence of the US dollar in the local market over the local currency. The case of[Read More…]
Victims of Gender Based Violence (GBV) need trauma healing
By Lisok James Moses Dear South Sudanese Social Workers, Especially those ones that are educated, informed and learned; I would like to take this opportunity to invite you for a special Gender Base Violence [GBV] Program. This invitation doesn’t require a lot from you but it also intends to inform[Read More…]
What’s corruption?
By Akol Arop Akol One of the injustices that almost every leader is accused of is corruption. Young nations that are still under developing are ranked as leading in misuse of public funds. Some corrupt leaders with powers are always the suspects when it comes to the thing called corruption.[Read More…]
Editorial
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…]
Editorial
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…]
Nation Talks
WHY DETAIN PEACEFUL PROTESTERS? By Kiden Stela Mandela The critical economic inflation in the country had caused innocent civil servants to come out over the weekend (Sunday) to call on the government to improve the situation in the country and fight for their rights. Now it is almost six months[Read More…]
Editorial
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…]
Nation Talks
The roadmap should lead to peace By Kiden Stela Mandela South Sudanese Citizens have been in deem light as they waited to hear good results about the Transitional period but only to hear the extension for 24 months which is two years. Yesterday the political parties to the peace agreement[Read More…]
Editorial
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…]
Entrepreneurship for Peace
By Akol Arop Akol Peace is not all about paper agreement or words of mouth, it is seen in behaviors and coexistence with others. Fighting and faking reconciliation at the end without talking to your brother, sister or visiting your neighbor is not peace. Silencing guns is not the only[Read More…]
Sprawl is tandem, prowl is Inescapable! (Part 5)
By James Ayiek Bath Acuoth Having witnessed the politics of armed rebellion which is mastered by many politicians in South Sudan and the rest of Africa, has become the easiest political dagger used by warlord politicians to get into power. This is vividly portrayed by the current divide and rule[Read More…]
South Sudan Transitional Period Extension Talks: What Matters?
By Roger Alfred Yoron Modi As the term of the Transitional Period established under the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) nears expiration, obvious matters that the current intensified discussions around these topics and related issues need to focus on include:[Read More…]
Talking or fighting
By Akol Arop Akol Human conflicting desires involve two things: When you don’t want people to talk, you want them to fight and vice versa. In illiterate community, people tend to solve their problems through fighting while the modern society always uses dialogue or peaceful negotiation, that’s sitting around the[Read More…]
Nation Talks
No need to extend the transitional period By Kiden Stela Mandela Parties should not think of extending the transitional period. It is better if they follow the 2018 peace Agreement because within these 7 months, the parties can do something to accomplish the transitional period. The remaining issues are the[Read More…]
The Demise of Educational Standards in Africa
By Venansio T. Muludiang, PhD University of Juba At the entrance gate of a university in South Africa, the following message was posted for contemplation: “Destroying any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or the use of long range missiles… It only requires lowering the quality of[Read More…]
Editorial
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…]
Editorial
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…]
Editorial
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…]
Nation Talks
The missing piece in our Economy, as inflation bites citizens By Kiden Stela Mandela The economy is what lives of people rely on, without functioning economy people live in a degrading situation. Economy is confined in production, distribution and trade, including consumption of goods and services. According to economic literature,[Read More…]