Tame food, fuel prices before doom falls on us   The citizens are demanding a sustainable solution for the increasing prices that are soaring while their hopes are going down the drain. Food is getting more expensive, fuel prices are going higher! Increasing transport costs are shocking people daily – they[Read More…]

AGRICULTURE AS SAVIOR AMID FOOD CRISIS  With the hunger crisis worsening and told to get worse by analysts, what does South Sudan have as a backup plan for the time when hunger hell is expected to break loose? The country falls under 10 countries in the world where extreme hunger[Read More…]

Daily boring talks on inflation won’t revive the economy Edmund Yakani once reported that mismanagement of resources by the leadership to serve individual interest instead of fighting for food security has impacted the country’s economy and stated that “corruption does not mean walking away with public money but manipulating decision[Read More…]

THE ROADMAP TO ELECTIONS AND PEACE The roadmap to elections and peace should be clear “Dutch Diplomat doubts South Sudan’s free, credible elections next year.” With the country’s much anticipated – or rather much mumbled elections next year but with other people or other spectators saying nay pessimistic opinions and[Read More…]

There should be an end to futile firing and appointing of officers Firing and replacing leaders, chiefs, governors, ministers at will does not guarantee that the latter will not be the same or worse than the former was before they were kicked out of office. There should be a deeper[Read More…]

Celebrating 2 years! It has been a milestone achieved for No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper A newspaper that started as an online paper in 2019 but morphed into hard copy on 14th July 2020; operating both online and physically during the Coronavirus Pandemic has stood its tide to become the country’s[Read More…]

Making promises repeatedly that one does not keep makes them a liar eventually Murders, sexual abuse, hunger, poverty, disease, civil wars are some of the issues that this country has been painfully going through from the time she gained independence and now issues of flooding and dredging of the Sudd[Read More…]

What next, after 9th July 2022 celebrations? It is 11 years today that South Sudan is operating under the fact of self-sovereignty. For a country still so young and growing, there are many times that she has fallen. We learn through our mistakes, they say. They also say that it[Read More…]

Being sovereign is going to need more than words of promise but evident progress As the country celebrates her 11th year as a sovereign state, she is still fragile given the many loopholes facing the people of the beloved country. As concerned citizens, they give solutions to lasting peace for[Read More…]

Character and skills are a great stepping stone for development Guiding the citizens to the right path for the benefit of the country is vey important and that means correcting the mistakes that are appearing like normal in the eyes of the country. With the alarming level of unemployment in[Read More…]

Would you leave home permanently to save your life from floods? “Simply building dikes is not the solution!” then what is? Over time from the first flash floods that the country experienced and which completely devastated the communities living in the lowland plains in the area of Unity, Bentiu and[Read More…]

Foregoing independence celebrations for graduation of forces seems solid For all the green lights for this country’s first general elections to hopefully be held next year that have been killed by a continuous series of destructions which according to the citizens would have been avoided, had dialogues held to create peace[Read More…]

Experts are what we are now waiting for to dredge or not to Continuing from yesterday’s “to drain or not to drain” a conflict that has not left the country the same from the time that the secretive agreement between the government and Egypt came to light after dredging equipment[Read More…]

Happy second anniversary No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper Kiden Stela Mandela Today marks the second year after the birth of No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper, the print media house operated by young competent staff with the vision to be providers of information that fosters growth and development in all aspects of the[Read More…]

Since charity begins at home, parents ensure that your children receive quality education With the country celebrating her 11th year of independence very soon, the government is lobbying for the provision of equal access to quality education for all children in the country; especially the special children living with disabilities[Read More…]

It is high time we copied enforcement of no gun policies too to save us all “Under no circumstance should someone or group be shot at unless it’s in legitimate operations of law enforcement agencies with justifiable reasons with the state of lawless killings, we are slowly becoming ungovernable,” citizens[Read More…]

Government should take action on all sexual violence perpetrators  “Laws regarding women remain dormant in the state,” government reported and added that the national legislation provides a comprehensive legal framework to all forms of sexual violence as a crime and protect all individuals who may fall victim of it. On[Read More…]

It makes more meaning, only if roads and bridges liter the country Holding business meetings, trainings, expos with other neighboring countries is a good initiative right now with how there seems to be a worsening situation with trade versus business and versus the rough consumption by the last people in[Read More…]

A solution at a time provided is better than none given at all It is hopeful to see tangible solutions to crises in the country like the convoy of food trucks leaving Sudan and into our country soon to hopefully settle down the food scarcity and deepening hunger crisis in[Read More…]

We need to teach our children to love being African and the greatness there is in it Day of the African Child, a very important day for the child of African descent set annually to celebrate the milestones that them as children of Africa have achieved both through hard and[Read More…]