By Malek Arol Dhieu Telling the present to alert the future is as if you are talking to today to alert tomorrow. The present is too unfavourable to write about so that it signals the future to become over-favourable for all. The badness of the present is its selectivity in[Read More…]
Commentary
Hustle is the Best Success Tool for Jobless Youth
By Thomas Akuith Ngong Being in a state of joblessness is a worrisome situation for an ambitious young person in South Sudan. Generally speaking, South Sudan is laden with income-generating opportunities, but her young population is jobless. This is a very scary phenomenon for the youth. Joblessness is a habitual[Read More…]
Gratitude to His Holiness Pope Francis and the other holy duo of God for the unforgettable historic visit to South Sudan
By Eng. Michael Wetnhialic Maluil, an Activist – Reachable at loikubai2020@gmail.com and WhatsApp at +211917771111 As all South Sudanese Christians and Christians worldwide warmly welcomed and celebrated His Holiness Pope Francis’ Visits to Africa along with his two other powerful Men of God, Rev. Dr. Justin Welby, the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury,[Read More…]
I thought politics were a competition of ideas
By Malek Arol DhieuLittle did I know that politics is all about uniting people by dividing them. In politics proper unlike politics improper, it’s platforms that are first fought for so that politicians channel their ideas through these platforms for people to assimilate and decide on the day of elections.[Read More…]
Papal’s visit; a 50 kg achievement of President Salva Kiir Mayardit
By Malek Arol DhieuYou may think Pope Francis’s visit is a simple thing, but it is not, believe me. It takes trust as a price for Pope Francis to visit a country. Do you know how expensive trust is? A one-legged country can’t afford Pope Francis’s visit.How many countries are[Read More…]
What can go wrong: pound against dollarization
By Dr. Moyi Harry Ruben The prognosis for the Gold and Dollar for the international monetary system is unattractive indeed. Without radical reform, the international system is destined to shift back and forth between fixed and fluctuating exchange rate with each system posing unsolved problems of working back, and finally[Read More…]
There are yet many wars to fight
By Malek Arol Dhieu Calm down. I do not mean those wars that are fought with weapons, but wars that are fought diplomatically. I know your temperature is still high because I have not convinced you yet, but believe me if there were a synonym for war, I would not[Read More…]
Anger consumes people more than hunger
By Malek Arol DhieuAnger is a disease of the soul. If you want to relocate your house to the cemetery urgently, feel angry for only one week. You will find yourself wasted on the eighth day.Your muscles are gone! Your mental capacity is gone! Movement becomes limited! Though breathing, you[Read More…]
The darker the today, the brighter the tomorrow
By Malek Arol DhieuFor every darker today, there is always a brighter tomorrow. Let us assume 2022 was a darker year, and on the same note, let us assume 2023 is a brighter year. This is just an assumption, not real.I know there are people who do not exactly know[Read More…]
Language discrimination in public office fosters Corruption
By Emmanuel Loro William One of the biggest ingredients of corruption is Language discrimination in my Countries like South Sudan. Public servants can end up talking in their mother tongue forgetting that he or she is in public office. One of the best scenarios happened in one of the police[Read More…]
Media is not your competitor but a development partner
By Emmanuel Loro William The best spokespersons I have known in this country are three. They mastered the art of public relation and are always familiar with any subject, when asked of one of the few living legends that I know, I can say they are Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin,[Read More…]
Whoever removed letter k from monkey has endangered the world
By Malek Arol Dhieu When you omit letter k from monkey, the remaining letters form a prestigious word called “money”. When you add letter y to mone; a similar word for admonishment, it forms a prestigious word called “money”. And so, whoever added letter y to mone has also dragged[Read More…]
The darker the today, the brighter the tomorrow
By Malek Arol DhieuFor every darker today, there is always a brighter tomorrow. Let us assume 2022 was a darker year, and on the same note, let us assume 2023 is a brighter year. This is just an assumption, not real.I know there are people who do not exactly know[Read More…]
Adapting to the new normal
By Malek Arol Dhieu From 2nd Jan to date, South Sudanese who had had what to celebrate the Christmas and New Year with are sickening of three major diseases, namely hangover, lapsus linguae and spendthrifty. Hangover; as celebrations for Christmas and New Year were hither and thither, people celebrated until[Read More…]
If you can dream it, you can achieve it
By Malek Arol Dhieu People should dismiss a belief in their medulla oblongatas that a dream dreamt while asleep is the only dream achievable, one can even dream while awake and the whole lot succeeds. It isn’t hard to dream, what’s hard is the intelligence to interpret your dream more[Read More…]
Without an enemy within, an outside enemy does no harm
By Malek Arol Dhieu From the level of Africa as a continent to that of South Sudan as a country, many gifted leaders have perished in a manner that the pointing finger does not go straight to the known enemy minus passing through a few servant-hearted Africans for the case[Read More…]
Letter to future generations [5]
By Ngor Khot Garang As I pen this letter, I want you to listen carefully and take your time. I don’t know what tomorrow holds for me. It could be the last or even the beginning of the end for me. Don’t wonder, there are people who decide who lives[Read More…]
Ask your RT-GoNU, not me, says Mr. DEVELOPMENT
By Malek Arol DhieuI, Mr Development, would like to clarify it today that whoever asks me asks a wrong person! Anybody who needs me should go and ask RT-GoNU because what took my dear life is within the Revitalised Peace Agreement which resulted in the formation of the RT-GoNU.When the[Read More…]
A letter to future generations [4]
By Ngor Khot Garang Little ones, am a weak human. Not my fault. I didn’t choose this life. Maybe God was wrong or else he must have done it by mistake. Where did I go wrong? Always down. I am drowning in my own tears. Why? I feel like there[Read More…]
The present versus the future, the duo are big enemies
By Ngor Khot Garang I want to begin this ride with a word of prayer. God, forgive or don’t forgive those who set this house ablaze and those who are fanning it. Whoever may take this prayer personal, please don’t worry. I don’t subscribe to religion, group or any ism[Read More…]