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Home Opinion Archive by Category "Columnists" (Page 49)

Now is the Time to Act to Prevent Mass Starvation in the Nuba Mountains

February 22, 2012ColumnistsNo Commentssouthsudannews

By Samuel Totten and Hannibal Travis February 21, 2012 (SSNA) — This past summer, the Government of Sudan (GoS) attacked and destroyed a slew of villages in South Kordofan, the home of the Nuba Mountains, and the Blue Nile. Some 200,000 civilians in the Nuba Mountains, alone, disproportionately non-Arab and Christian, fled bombings, shelling, and…

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Southern Sudan’s Struggle for Freedom

February 21, 2012ColumnistsNo Commentssouthsudannews

“FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, FREE AT LAST!” M. L. King, Jr. By Maurice (Maury) Clark Maury Clark is a retired investment banker/broker, as well as a Called and Commissioned Deacon in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Northwest Washington Synod. He served under Bishops Appointment as pastor of Shepherd…

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Action Needed Now to Avert Famine in Nuba Mountains

January 27, 2012ColumnistsNo Commentssouthsudannews

By Hannibal Travis and Samuel Totten January 27, 2012 (SSNA) — This week, President Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, Princeton Lyman, warned reporters in South Africa that half a million people risk famine on the border between Sudan and newly-independent South Sudan.  An anonymous State Department official told Canada’s The National that the United States…

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Only wicked men rejoice each time women and children are massacred

January 8, 2012ColumnistsNo Commentssouthsudannews

By: Justin Ambago Ramba January 8, 2012 (SSNA) — This 2011/2012 is going to go down in books as the worst Christmas & New Year ever to be celebrated in the history of South Sudanese as an independent people since it was marred by the inter-tribal massacre in Lokwangole and the Pibor counties of Jonglei…

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Open Letter to the President of the Republic of South Sudan

December 10, 2011ColumnistsNo Commentssouthsudannews

Presidential Palace Juba, South Sudan Date: Friday 9 December 2011 Mr. President, December 9, 2011 (SSNA) — Observing the sequence of the current unwholesome political developments in my country of South Sudan, I feel inclined to offer a contemplative comment which may assist in addressing the quandary afflicting the Republic of South Sudan. With this…

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The so-called President’s Kiir “amnesty” deserves scrutiny!

December 1, 2011ColumnistsNo Commentssouthsudannews

Quote: “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” Martin Luther King, Jr. By: Deng Riek Khoryoam, South Sudan December 1, 2011 (SSNA) — There are times when certain things or policy…

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Former SPLA general George Athur and the greed of 21st century!!!

November 26, 2011ColumnistsNo Commentssouthsudannews

By: Daniel Abushery Daniel (USA) “None of the quick fixes to the world’s problems are going to work, unless we change the dream of greed and scarcity that the world is dreaming” Said by: John Perkins. November 26, 2011 (SSNA) — While I was reading the news about a secret meeting between the President of…

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Listen, Bank Managers: “The Customer is King”

November 10, 2011ColumnistsNo Commentssouthsudannews

By James Alic Garang November 10, 2011 (SSNA) — It is human to give credit where it is due and offer constructive criticisms if warranted. South Sudan—a nation born out of long struggle and unsurpassed yearning for liberty, justice and prosperity— is no exception to this golden tenet. To make light of public criticisms, our…

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Dr. Lam Akol in Juba: The Return of the Prodigal Son?

October 11, 2011ColumnistsNo Commentssouthsudannews

[We] agreed that as new nation, we need to cooperate, we need to work together, we need to have consensus on how we approach the challenges that are facing our country. Nobody, however small, is not important in this exercise. It is our duty as sons and daughters of this nation to build it so…

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A comment on “Diversity, Unity, and Nation Building in South Sudan” by Dr. Jok Madut

October 1, 2011ColumnistsNo Commentssouthsudannews

The struggle for freedom from the grip of the Khartoum government has been the most unifying force for South Sudanese. Now that this struggle has borne fruit and there is no more north to blame, what will unite South Sudanese is the desire to build a nation with a shared identity—Dr. Jok Madut Jok of…

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