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…]
Politics
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Citizen’s worst enemy empowered by poor economic turmoil.
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…]
What if this country was a movie?
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…]
Why today’s diversity divides more than yesterday’s
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…]
The youth ride on bewilderment
By Theem Isaac Machar When a hunter wounds a hyena, just slightly on the leg, it keeps on eating the flesh on the edge of the wound, claiming that it is rounding it. It is something dangerous to its health because the result is obviously the elimination of its[Read More…]
Over dependency will kill us one time
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…]
Dollar hike is a great misery in juba
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…]
The weaker the foundation, the poorer the education attained
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…]
Never attempt to dive when you fail, life has no referee
In football, diving sometimes awards diver a ball but the story takes a different course in life. It happens in football because a diver and referee are two different people, but in life, a diver is the diver and the referee at the same time, making it hard for judgement[Read More…]
A child of a Ph.D holder cannot inherit his father’s accolade after death
Education is not a monarchy where a prince or princess waits for the inheritance of the kingdom after his/her father’s death. Everyone has to study on his/her own. No one should inherit someone’s academic credentials. A child whose father is a Ph.D holder, after his father’s death, cannot inherit his[Read More…]
LAMENTATIONS OF SOUTH SUDAN
By Angello Akhol Oh, beloved nation! For how long shall we endure the same afflictions that are wringing countless hearts of tears and blood? Consequently, our lives have become the hospital ward where we are taught the divine art of comfort, power for each moment of weakness, hope[Read More…]
Can Elections Bring Salvation? The Confluence of Crisis
By Gama Hassan Oscas South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, has been plagued by a myriad of socio-political and economic crises since its independence in 2011. The once hopeful dreams of peace and prosperity have been shattered by rampant corruption, escalating violence, and institutional decay. As the country grapples[Read More…]
Is South Sudan National Youth Union a lift to the RT-GoNU?
When something is done twice or more, it becomes a culture. People begin to incorporate it into their ways of life and believe in it. South Sudan National Youth Union is a youth body which coordinates the affairs of youth with the government. It makes sure youth are capacitated to[Read More…]
I KNEW NOT OF POLITICS
I knew not of politics! I thought being a politician Means stealing the money of the country! That was the reason why I appreciated my uncle Who stole the country’s money? Please, I repent. I was just very ignorant about politics. I knew not of politics! I didn’t know[Read More…]
It’s a popular call to end conflict, re-establish a peaceful state, and reunite our people
By Ustaz Mark Bang We are mercilessly ignoring the state of being free-minded citizens—citizens that never opened their eyes to see what is killing our people; citizens conspire for things that divide us; and citizens always keep mouths open to be fed by those to whom we rally behind[Read More…]
How Saul became Paul
Are you Saul wanting to replace the first letter of your name with the letter P to become Paul? Do you have challenges in making it so? But before that, have you really changed from a life-terminating person to a life-loving one? In case you are Saul who does not[Read More…]
The nation that deprives us of our families and resources
By Ustaz Mark Bang Had it been known to us that all our resources—sons, daughters, fathers, and mothers—would have been missed for these sufferings, we would have surrendered to the Muslim north. I feel naive if my people happen to see my heroes wounded soldiers suffer yet their generals[Read More…]
Ruweng Oil; an adapted dilatory death
By Joseph Maker Mijok Since the beginning of oil operation activities to date, the oil industry management in South Sudan has never shown a suitable attitude towards people’s health and their environment. Although oil companies failed to perform their legal and ethical duties mandated in the national and international[Read More…]
How much is South Sudan?
By Theem Isaac Machar This country is not ours. It is a secret the masses have never known. We are a million miles away from the citizenship of this nation. We must know this bitter truth, though there’s nothing anybody can do about it. Besides the lack of good[Read More…]
Not just over 9millions, say the entire country is under hunger threat
By Chol Peter Majoh Relieve and Rehabilitations Commission (RRC) just a few days ago reported that 9 million South Sudanese are under threat of hunger. If you are a good follower of this paper, then you must have seen that story on Tuesday. Upon seeing the headline “Over 9 million[Read More…]