By Ustaz Mark Bang   Lies are meant to destroy anything they are introduced into, be it a friendship or a relationship. The most fundamental thing in any workplace is truth, and if you can’t keep telling the truth and base your interest on lies, this won’t help you, be[Read More…]

By Steady Ayuen   Everything in this world is in pairs; when you choose to do good to yourself and the people around you, it will surely turn around. As an American proverb states, “What goes around comes around.” Nobody has ever lived life to the fullest because we do[Read More…]

The richest, mostly, those who made their money on the backs of the poorest don’t really care about lifting those at the bottom of the economic pyramid. They want to perpetuate conditions that make people poorer so that they can stay atop it all.  The world is too big for[Read More…]

By Ustaz Mark Bang   If all people are building their ways of doing things based on lies, even the whole world, I will never condone it. If this had never been part of my life I lived when I was young in the family, peer, and other groups. I[Read More…]

By Theem Isaac Machar   To those who are living a happy life in South Sudan. It baffles me how you make it through these tough times. Imagine, to me, laughter these days is extremely hard. Even if someone cracks the funniest joke that I have ever heard before. Sparing[Read More…]

By Steady Ayuen   For more than a decade since independence, the desire for a democratic government became everyone’s dream in South Sudan. Youth, civil society and vulnerable population of South Sudan apprehend elections as the turning point for a democratic nation where the rule of law must prevail. Elections[Read More…]

  By Agar Mayor Gai-Makoon Implementation tool (b) Three years ago, this problem-finding series came into being. It stemmed from the fact that we are in crisis and it is unclear to many suffering citizens why they have to experience such in their new heaven, the independent South Sudan. Though[Read More…]

There was this woman, I don’t know her name but what I know about her is that she is a very hard-working woman. Her work is one of the hardest ever, often with little or no pay at all. She is a street sweeper. The government doesn’t pay the civil[Read More…]

By Ustaz Mark Bang   Most of the people never know choosing who to marry but remember to be vigilant, wise and optimistic before coupling up with the wrong person in life as a husband or wife. Is there that great person in your life loving you good? Don’t push[Read More…]

By Agar Mayor Gai-Makoon   The role of government is contentious and ever-changing in South Sudanese society. Just as we have different cultures, the government has got different understanding of that lens. But that does not entail that truly, the government roles are variably determined. And perhaps, we have gone[Read More…]

It may look like you have conquered the world, but you have not. Even if you have conquered the world, you cannot conquer it forever. You conquer the world today and someone else conquers it tomorrow. That is why it is advisable that when the world is under your conquest,[Read More…]

A thief is a thief only when he is not your relative. When a thief is caught and taken for punishment, the relatives shout here and there. Sometimes, they take guns and threaten to initiate violence if the thief is not released. For the sake of peace, the thief is[Read More…]

Today we are going to take a walk through the streets of the forest. Let us assume it is early morning and everyone is awake. If you don’t wake up very early in the morning, something will do it on your behalf.  If it is not hunger, it could be[Read More…]

I heard you saying that it is none of your business whether youth get empowered or not. Which society can live without young people? Do you forget that the population of young people is bigger than the population of the elderly? I don’t think you mean it. Young people are[Read More…]

By Ustaz Mark Bang   Personal development can be understood as a growth process aimed at building a better version of yourself. Identifying your life goals and taking action to achieve them. There is always something about ourselves we can improve on. The human potential is limitless, so it’s impossible[Read More…]

By Chol Peter Majoh   Aside ending suffering or completely avoiding it, life itself is an endless struggle. It’s a 24/7/365 circle struggle from one’s birth to death and there’s no rest in it. In it (life), there is a lot to bear and that’s what we term as suffering.[Read More…]

By Agar Mayor Gai-Makoon   Water is as good as it is dangerous. There is no life without water. Besides, it is bad news that there can be water without life. Unsafe water and poor sanitation services do not support life. And lamentably, most deaths in our society have their[Read More…]

Happy belated posthumous birthday to you, Dr. John Garang de Mabior. Born on June 23rd 1943, if Dr. John Garang de Mabior lived to-date, he would be 81 years and 8 days old today. The founding father of the Republic of South Sudan, I wish I were an expert in[Read More…]

It is too expensive to be a president. And if you don’t know, most of the presidents live as if they hold the keys to heaven.  They spend like there is no tomorrow. If they have problems, money is not one of those problems.  They have a lot of money[Read More…]

June is gone! It is nine months now without the salary. Since when the salary delay started, it never exceeded six months. It usually used to hang between four and five months. Something must be wrong. Maybe the salary has reached a menopausal age, forcing me to coin a word[Read More…]