By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei At least five hundred and ninety-eight (598) youth have graduated with vocational skills in various areas including; plumbing, carpentry, hair dressing, hair condition, and car driving among other services. The over 500 youth that graduated on Monday acquired their vocational and technical skills at the Multi-Services[Read More…]

By Matia Samuel Timatio The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said this year the world has reached a stark milestone of over 100 million children, women and men who have been uprooted from their homes by war, violence, persecution and human rights abuses. The UN Refugee Agency made[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David A civil society organization has urged South Sudan Government to review the law and policies pertaining promotion and full protection as well as equal enjoyment of rights for persons living with disability (PWDs) in the country. This call came following recommendations derived from a two-day workshop[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The Governor of Central Equatoria State has called on the people of South Sudan and most particularly those in Central Equatoria State to fully engage in agricultural activities and produce what they eat as the only remedy to food security in the country. Governor Emmanuel Adil[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David At least 13 teachers were reportedly arrested and detained by security personnel in Lakes State, Rumbek for allegedly rejecting a two months’ salary pay which was not in conformity with the new 100% salary structure increment by the National government. Meanwhile on the contrary the Lakes[Read More…]

By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei The National Minister of Labour, James Hoth Mai has called on the cattle owners to start converting their cattle wealth into other commercial investments, rather than using them only for paying dowries. Minister Mai made his appeal to the wealthy cattle keepers in the country while[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The Department of the corpse keeping segment(Mortuary) at the Juba Teaching Hospital has disclosed that over seventy (60) corpses have been hanging up in the mortuary as relatives to the departed souls couldn’t turn up to remove them for burial. The mortuary at the Juba Teaching[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David The President of the Republic of South Sudan H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit yesterday left Juba for Nairobi to join his East African Community Counterparts at the septet summit of the heads of States. He was accompanied by a number of delegates from the government of South[Read More…]

By William Madouk Garang Members of Parliament at the Central Equatoria State’s Transitional Legislative Assembly have opposed and pushed back a report compiled by Specialized Committee for Gender, Child Social Welfare during their courtesy visit to State Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare. The objection came after the Acting[Read More…]

By Kiden Stela Mandela The political crisis in South Sudan that plunged the country into civil war in December 2013 and July 2016 has destroyed the wellbeing of the ordinary South Sudanese citizens forcing over 2 million of them to move to the neighboring Uganda as refugees, leaving them to[Read More…]

Fathers take back your role of leading exemplarily, children are getting crooked Fathers – the patriarchs and leaders to the young ones. As we celebrate fathers, we also hold accountable those who are doing wrong and who are greatly misleading the young children. It is normal that a child’s behavior[Read More…]

By Ephraim Modi D.S Authorities of Juba City Council in Central Equatoria State have vowed to bridge the gap of unemployment in the city through creating more employment opportunities to the redundant young South Sudanese by ensuring that most businesses in the country are operated by the citizens. The pledge[Read More…]

By Bida Elly David Foreign merchants last week demonstrated their commitment of interest to reduce South Sudan’s balance of payment and external borrowings through investment in various fields. The development transpired during an official meeting between the President of the Republic of South Sudan Salva Kiir and business tycoon from[Read More…]

By Akol Madut Ngong The first food grain consignment of at least 70 trucks fully loaded with Sorghum (Dura) from Sudan’s Sennar, Blue Nile and Northern Kordofan States respectively, and destined for South Sudan are expected to arrive the country in a week’s time. The convey of the 70 trunks[Read More…]

By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei The Minister of Petroleum Puot Kang Chol has admitted that the country is facing an enormous environmental pollution from the oil exploration while urging the oil companies to accept the Environmental Audit that the government has been pushing for. Speaking during a workshop organized by the[Read More…]

By Akol Madut Ngong The Transitional Government of Jonglei State has accused an army commander belonging to the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) for instigating the recent communal clashes that claimed lives in the State.  In a press statement issued by the office of the Governor of Jonglei[Read More…]

By William Madouk Garang A lawmaker at the Transitional National Assembly (TNLA), Kanaj Kuol Kuol has accused the former governor of Warrap State, Lewis Anei Kuendit and his associates of having illicit conspiracy to ‘overthrow’ the current Community Leadership. According to the legislator who represents Tonj North County at TNLA,[Read More…]

By William Maduok Garang The first Vice President, Dr Riek Machar has eulogized the fallen minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Manawa Peter Gatkuoth as a committed ‘nationalist’ who believed in reforming the country. According to officials, the South Sudan Minister of Water & Irrigation who was appointed to the[Read More…]