By Joseph Akim Gordon Our national currency, the South Sudan pound is our national symbol of our sovereignty, a decade ago or so the rate of dollar to our pound was almost equal to the dollar, the value of South Sudan pound deteriorated due to the fact that we failed[Read More…]
OpEd
Nation Talk
By Agoku Christine Taban Suicide cases among young people are rampantly increasing, based on news reports. This has been caused by different factors, which include limited possibilities for income generation, idleness, substance abuse, criminality, armed conflict, and gender-based violence. Many organizations that are supporting mental health and psychological awareness are[Read More…]
Long walk to freedom from crisis is only just starting
It is high time that the key ministries of life-affiliated issues hold public engagement and awareness events. The country needs to hear from the horse’s mouth because the citizens are drowning in the deep seas of despair, which is only getting worse by the day. The hope that would have[Read More…]
Our independence came in a blood-stained plate
By Chol Peter Majoh South Sudan liberation struggle dates back to the era beyond the 1955 Torit mutiny and mutineers, Anyanya 1 and 2 and SPLM/A. From the first line down to SPLM and A, this journey wasn’t a visionless one. The liberators had envisioned what South Sudan would become and[Read More…]
Power-offs, Dollar rate, market Prices-Let’s Talk
Our lawmakers have taken the right step, as being their role, to question the executive concerning an astronomical eruption of US Dollar rate, along with commodity prices, on a space trip, while intermittent power outages add to blast out the diminished hope of our survival. The legislators’ discourse, that the[Read More…]
Sometimes, life will bring you down on your knees
Life is unfair, that is a sad fact. Let us all face the truth and be humble. Sometimes you just have to find meaning in those difficult moments of your life. Those hard times, they last long. This hurts but not forever, of course. It is all part of human[Read More…]
A counsel to young people
By Chol Peter Majoh Quite certainly, I am sure, many of us are well aware or informed of what’s frivolously happening here in Juba and all over the Country with young people, teenagers moreover. Unlike in the past, around 2013-2016, our young people, teenagers, were not as they are currently[Read More…]
I thought that photocopy machine had a bad luck, says a veteran job seeker
Daniel graduated in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of (……..). Before receiving his degree, he spent a year applying for jobs using a transcript but, his applications went fruitless. He thought the employers looked at his transcript as a forged one. A year later, he[Read More…]
If funerals and occasions were not there, how would citizens cope with life?
It takes zero minutes for a funeral news to cover Juba. Guess why? Funeral rites and occasions have become places where the starving citizens of South Sudan break their fasting in. When two announcements are announced, for instance, the announcer says people are asked to assemble at Juba International Airport[Read More…]
Retouch: My shipwrecked nation will surely rise
By Chol Peter Majoh The country that once flourished and caught the whole world’s attention few days after her independence, South Sudan, is today living Shipwrecked like will never recover and come back to her first glory. Our beloved country, so arrayed in finest glory, endowed and featured with resources[Read More…]
Can someone remind some of our MPs of their roles to communities they represent
By Tong Akok Anei Mawien Sometimes it’s very hard to imagine some situations, it is absurd when our communities beat their chest of being represented by representatives who cannot pick a word or participate on matters that are affecting the communities they represent and the nation as a whole; as[Read More…]
Murder-suicide, Gov’t should Act
Three days after President Salva Kiir Mayardit, on 16th May, recalled the tremendous contribution of the heroes and heroines who sacrificed their lives for freedom of this nation, more blood spilt. The Friday murder-suicide involving Vice President for Economic Cluster, Dr. James Wani Igga’s bodyguards at his residence was not[Read More…]
It is very difficult these days to distinguish between a true servant of God and the fake prophets who only want to enrich themselves. Prior to the arrival of missionaries, Africans believed in their ancestors as their gods. They were worshipping mountains, hills, big trees, and cows, and they were[Read More…]
The only undisarmed weapon is education
Among weapons stands an intangible weapon which is never disarmed though disarmament is carried out worldwide. Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world, said Nelson Mandela. Because education, as a weapon like other weapons, is never disarmed, I see no reason why people are still in possession[Read More…]
Why unemployment rate is so high in South Sudan
By Tong Akok Anei Mawien South Sudan is one of the countries that tops the list of the highest unemployment rates in the world, though with big portion of uneducated population, still the small percentage of the population who has gone inch in education is not employed throughout the country[Read More…]
Prostitution Impacts Negatively to Our Cultural Values and Traditions
By Joseph Akim Gordon God created humanity in his own image and likeness, because of our misbehavior we broke God‘s commandment and for this reason, He has punished humanity, that we must labor for our livelihood; that is to have food we must toil for it or work hard that[Read More…]
We are no longer at ease
By Chol Peter Majoh Just a glance at the above title, a book worm has already known where I got it from. This title reminds you of the greatest Africa’s novelist, Chinua Achebe, who died in 2013. I will not go the same direction as Achebe in his book, “No longer at ease”, but[Read More…]
Why women continue to suffer during season of peace
By Esther Aurelio Agira Lohutuhureng Women continue to suffer even during seasons of peace as we are in transitional period, I am quite sure that many people in Juba city have seen women breaking stones or making aggregates in different places within Juba city. Nevertheless, they are working with their[Read More…]
Change does not erupt like volcano, it is called for
Among the words or statements extremely abused, change comes the second after ‘be job creators’. How can one create a job in this “hyper-taxative” era of Juba City Council? Anyway, that is not my subject now. Let’s get to the subject at hand. Many people talk about change, but they[Read More…]
HEAVY CROWN OF PEACE LAYS UPON PRESIDENT KIIR
A heavy burden of ensuing peace in Sudan and a greater block of Africa rests on South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit, in Juba, as Kenya’s William Ruto’s recent comment doesn’t sooth a livid heart. On Wednesday, during the Pan-African Parliament Summit in South Africa, the Kenyan leader was tasked[Read More…]