As obvious as the fact that Gudele is highly populated, the truth that it is using only one road is a problem looking for a solution. A day hardly passes without an accident occurring on Gudele Road and this is brought about by a quotidian jam to and fro. For[Read More…]

Not long ago, a man, hailing from a poor family, struggled so hard to break the chain of poverty in his family. By the grace of God, he gained wealth and became rich. Most of his wealth were cattle. When he was about to marry, be bought a prestigious bull[Read More…]

During the liberation struggle, many then Southern Sudanese paused their studies and joined the movement to have a country of their own while a majority joined without knowing how to read and write. And a fraction of Southern Sudanese who scattered abroad to financially support the movement had had chances[Read More…]

By Theem Isaac Machar Akot   Miracles are no longer mystical occurrences that do not follow the law of nature as defined in the English dictionary. They are normal parts of our today’s life. This is to say that life itself is a miracle. About 90% of the country’s population[Read More…]

Long time ago, there was a village located far away from water bodies. Not even a single borehole was fixed in the entire village. The inhabitants used to get enough water during the rainy season, where rainwater used to be collected in pools. During the dry season, the inhabitants used[Read More…]

By Ustaz Mark Bang   Here in our country, it’s so controversial that it’s now up to weak people to forgive and ignore. To forgive their leaders and sometimes ignore the facts of suffering. When vulnerable people open their mouths to utter things out of their senses because of their[Read More…]

The soil of South Sudan is highly fertile. It sounds like an insult when it is only called the land of South Sudan without adding the word ‘fertile’. It is agriculturally fertile; do you know that? If a few feddans of the land, which are cultivated, sustain people until the[Read More…]

The global education campaign is “back to school”. Is back-to-school only limited to primary school children? Is it only the secondary children to go back to school? Doesn’t it apply to you also, my teacher? I think it must apply to you too! But why should you? Don’t you want[Read More…]

If the poor and the rich were chemical reactions, they would be reversible chemical reactions with two arrows, one above, pointing at the products and one below, pointing back at the reactants. This is to say that if two poor men are reacted with “commitment” as a catalyst, they can[Read More…]

By Ustaz Mark Bang   Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it (KJV Proverbs 22:6). This nation is in the hands of looters, thieves, sycophants and greedy individuals who always pretend to serve the nation in[Read More…]

  By Theem Isaac Machar Akot   Mourners are not only those who have lost their loved ones or are the pained ones who are undergoing extreme agonies in the sickbeds. They are also those who have floating plans for the future. I had big plans for myself to accomplish[Read More…]

Many people know what integrity means; yes, Integrity in leadership means having strong moral principles, standing by your words, and doing the right thing. It’s a highly valued trait since most employees look to their leader for cues on how to act. A leader that demonstrates the company values in[Read More…]

I have chosen to chase a good living standard in a rightful way. As for other ways, as you can see, I’m too fit to gain a good living standard by any other means. I’m dam fit to join my uncle’s political camp and use my writing ability to earn[Read More…]

By Ustaz Mark Bang   As people continue crying for years, hopping for poverty to end, trying to say I will get rich to do this and that. Majority have forgotten what it means to suffer by working in order to get rich. The worst enemy of the world, is[Read More…]

In South Sudan, life begins in the morning and ends at noon. Many people don’t get the chance to see the new dawn. They are cut off from the queue the same morning or during the day. It is disheartening to start a life with an ending, but it is[Read More…]

Don’t look at diversity as a new word, it is a very old word in the manifesto of the SPLM. In fact, before SPLM, diversity was existing. For every opportunity that used to come, the leaders made sure it was divided equally so that every community felt represented. If the[Read More…]

By Ustaz Mark Bang   We all know that our current administration depends on loan from International Monitory Fund (IMF) that keep endowing cash to our country. This money isn’t for free but loans that we, our children and children’s children will face its challenge in paying it as debt.[Read More…]

By Theem Isaac   When the people in the village heard of you to have made it to Juba city, the place village people perceive abounds with jobs opportunities and money; they think you have made it in life. You would always receive a couple of phone calls from cousins[Read More…]

Even scientists who deny the Bible are in concurrence with the verse which says a house built in a sandy place is less durable than that house built in a rocky place. When one’s foundation for education is weak, the likelihood of the whole education being weak is possible. From[Read More…]