By Duop Chak Wuol April 12, 2019 (SSNA) — On April 11, 2019, Pope Francis did what I viewed as a rather astonishing move. His decision to kiss the feet of President Salva Kiir, SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar, current First Vice President Taban Deng, and Mama Rebecca Garang de Mabior was undeniably dramatic—in fact,…
By Duop Chak Wuol March 30, 2019 (SSNA) — There has been an ongoing debate about the possibility of reuniting the factions of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party. There are people who believe that the only way to resolve South Sudan’s civil war is through the reunification of the party. Other people…
By Deng Akok Muoradid March 20, 2019 (SSNA) — Juba University is one of the five universities of South Sudan. It was established in 1972 as a result of the Addis Ababa Peace Agreement between Gen Nimeri’s regime and Anya Anya One movement under the leadership of Joesph Lago. The University was later temporary transferred…
By Achuil A. Achuildit March 13, 2019 (SSNA) — The national ministry of finance and economic planning under the leadership of Salvatore Garang Mabiordit, is no longer serving the objectives for which it was established. Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabiordit has turned the public ministry into family financial transaction center for his relatives, friends, business associates,…
By Moses Nyara March 3, 2019 (SSNA) — Rights over land in South Sudan are never lost or abandoned so as to become res nullius. The idea that the land must belong to the government is not only a deliberate plan to extinguish seisin of the land in South Sudan but a threat to the…
By Duop Chak Wuol March 2, 2019 (SSNA) — Salva Kiir claims his government does not have the necessary financial means to finance the implementation of the September 2018 peace agreement and demands that the international community finance the process so that peace will prevail. It is no secret that the rationality of investing money…
By Deng Akok Muoradid Sub: Appeal for the withdrawal of registration certificate from Twic Mayardit Intellectual Forum March 2, 2019 (SSNA) — First and foremost, allow me to congratulate you and your entire administration on the strong relationship which you have built with the relief agencies in the country. I commended the initiatives which your…
By Deng Akok Muoradid February 26, 2019 (SSNA) — Twic Mayardit Intellectual Forum commonly abbreviated as TMIF is a sectional political organization established under the pretext of a non-governmental organization by a group of disgruntled, demoralized and disoriented youth from Twic Mayardit. The hopeless group of youth created the so-called TMIF last year after their…
By Deng Akok Muoradid February 5, 2019 (SSNA) — In response to peter Mayuk’s article in which he attributed the whole liberation struggle to the efforts of the current president H.E Salva Mayardit, I would like to clarify to all of you that he was seeking the attention of president to his financial rescue. Cde…
By Lul Gatkuoth Gatluak February 5, 2019 (SSNA) — The five years old South Sudan civil war between the government and multiple rebel groups in the country, is set to come to an end by September 2018 Peace Agreement. Though it seems guns had silent between the government and all the signatory oppositions, especially the…
By Roger Alfred Yoron Modi January 28, 2018 (SSNA) — The latest South Sudan peace deal signed between the government of President Salva Kiir, various armed and unarmed opposition groups and other parties, including the SPLM/A-IO led by the former First Vice President Dr Riek Machar is facing implementation challenges and at the centre of…
By Dr. Achai Bulabek January 22, 2019 (SSNA) — My name is Achai Bulabek. I’m a 28-year-old female physician from South Sudan. I graduated from medical school at Ahfad University for Women in 2015. After that, I did my internship for one year in Sudan and then decided to come back to my homeland to…
By Kor Chop Leek January 21, 2019 (SSNA) — I wrote an article in November last year 2018, which I tilted “Oil Production and Environmental Pollution: a serious concern that needs to be addressed with urgency”. It was published on the 3rd and on the 4th December consecutively on the South Sudan News Agency and…
By Jacob Aguer Ajang, Ph.D January 14, 2019 (SSNA) — First off, let me share my background with you. My name is Aguer Ajang Aguer, from Kongor County, Jonglei States, South Sudan. I have lived in the United States for 18 plus. I have been married to my beautiful wife, Elizabeth Abuk Ajang for over…
By Peter Reat Gatkuoth ABSTRACT January 3, 2019 (SSNA) — Following the commercial discovery of oil and gas resource in the country, Uganda has instituted a detailed policy, legal and institutional regime to direct the exploration, development and production of oil and gas resource. Research reveals that Uganda has incorporated the concept of punishment and…
By Tut Kuany Kok December 13, 2018 (SSNA) — Before the tragedy of the 15th of December 2013 happened, President Salva Kiir Mayardit have privately trained a tribal army as well as the village boys from Warrap and Aweil in which their base was in Luri for the surreptitious purpose nobody knows. The fact behind…