The roadmap should lead to peace By Kiden Stela Mandela South Sudanese Citizens have been in deem light as they waited to hear good results about the Transitional period but only to hear the extension for 24 months which is two years. Yesterday the political parties to the peace agreement[Read More…]
OpEd
Editorial
Breastfeeding is important to everyone According to reports, breastfeeding for the first six months is particularly crucial right now as South Sudan is currently going through a nutrition crisis and malnutrition rates have continued to worsen. More than 300,000 are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition in 2022 which[Read More…]
Entrepreneurship for Peace
By Akol Arop Akol Peace is not all about paper agreement or words of mouth, it is seen in behaviors and coexistence with others. Fighting and faking reconciliation at the end without talking to your brother, sister or visiting your neighbor is not peace. Silencing guns is not the only[Read More…]
Sprawl is tandem, prowl is Inescapable! (Part 5)
By James Ayiek Bath Acuoth Having witnessed the politics of armed rebellion which is mastered by many politicians in South Sudan and the rest of Africa, has become the easiest political dagger used by warlord politicians to get into power. This is vividly portrayed by the current divide and rule[Read More…]
South Sudan Transitional Period Extension Talks: What Matters?
By Roger Alfred Yoron Modi As the term of the Transitional Period established under the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) nears expiration, obvious matters that the current intensified discussions around these topics and related issues need to focus on include:[Read More…]
Talking or fighting
By Akol Arop Akol Human conflicting desires involve two things: When you don’t want people to talk, you want them to fight and vice versa. In illiterate community, people tend to solve their problems through fighting while the modern society always uses dialogue or peaceful negotiation, that’s sitting around the[Read More…]
Nation Talks
No need to extend the transitional period By Kiden Stela Mandela Parties should not think of extending the transitional period. It is better if they follow the 2018 peace Agreement because within these 7 months, the parties can do something to accomplish the transitional period. The remaining issues are the[Read More…]
The Demise of Educational Standards in Africa
By Venansio T. Muludiang, PhD University of Juba At the entrance gate of a university in South Africa, the following message was posted for contemplation: “Destroying any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or the use of long range missiles… It only requires lowering the quality of[Read More…]
Editorial
Gov’t should frustrating the unified forces The government should guarantee graduation of the unified forces so that the country does not hear more such news of fleeing, deserting training camps/cantonment sites by the already trained soldiers who are only waiting to be graduated so that they officially start their duty.[Read More…]
Editorial
Improve midwifery services to save lives Midwives are very important people in any society. In South Sudan, we need them to save many lives; of new born babies, their mothers and even the fathers. Imagine how ruined the family would be if they lost their fully developed child before it[Read More…]
Editorial
Include youth in the country’s developmental projects The regional Inter-Ministerial conference on Migration, Environment and Climate change, a three- day Conference on Climate Change facilitated by the International Organization for Immigration, that concluded yesterday with our President and his delegates attending the last day was meant to be a uniform[Read More…]
Nation Talks
The missing piece in our Economy, as inflation bites citizens By Kiden Stela Mandela The economy is what lives of people rely on, without functioning economy people live in a degrading situation. Economy is confined in production, distribution and trade, including consumption of goods and services. According to economic literature,[Read More…]
OPINION: Why businesses fail and how to mitigate business to succeed
Why businesses fail and how to mitigate business to succeed By Dr. Moyi Harry Ruben In many cases anybody thinks he or she can do business, but many only do not know that their effort is being enjoyed by other people, you think you are in business, but are you[Read More…]
OPINION: Sprawl is tandem, prowl is inescapable! (Part 4)
Sprawl is tandem, prowl is inescapable! (Part 4) By James Ayiek Bath Acuoth The President recently made a statement on agriculture, urging youth to get involved in farming while visiting his farm at the outskirt of Juba. That would have chuffed people to bits, if the President had made that[Read More…]
Editorial
Empower Judges to boost justice If less pay and poor working condition forced judges to quit their jobs, who then will provide justice to the victims of the hideous crimes happening in the country? A 2018 report by the African center on Strategic Studies, indicates that the conflict has devastated[Read More…]
Editorial
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…]
OPINION: The 20 types of interesting people (Part1/2)
The 20 types of interesting people (Part1/2) By Akol Arop Akol When interacting, sharing and living with people, what matters is who they are and what they do, not where they are from or what they have. Look at your friends and consider their personalities, characters and attitudes without judging[Read More…]
Nation Talks
TO GOD BE THE GLORY By Loro Louis Yugu (GUEST) I can’t imagine how the world has become wild to the current human generations. Life has become tough for men and women in the Republic of South Sudan characterized by quarrels in the houses due to shortage of food and[Read More…]
Nation Talks
Bring total peace to ease agricultural production By Kiden Stela Mandela If the recent findings of the World Bank that South Sudan humanitarian crisis reads at 8.9 Million domiciles in desperate Demand of Humanitarian aid with a total increase of over 600,000 in the past years are true, then it[Read More…]
Editorial
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…]