Why the notion of a regional solution to South Sudan’s conflict is irrational
Flags of IGAD member countries. Photo: File By Duop Chak Wuol April 29, 2018 (SSNA) — It has been more than four years since the civil war broke out in…
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A Nuer boy from Nyangore: Eulogy for Daniel Wuor Joak
Late Daniel Wuor Joak. Photo: Daniel Wuor Joak’s social media file By Margaret Akulia April 25, 2018 (SSNA) — The journey to Malakal took us about five hours and we…
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IGAD and the question of impartiality
Photo: YouTube/Filer/Getty Images By Duop Chak Wuol April 19, 2018 (SSNA) — One of the main reasons the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) was formed was to maintain peace in…
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Salva Kiir regime’s self-indictment
Kiir. Photo: File/Getty Images By Hoth Giw Chan April 12, 2018 (SSNA) — In their desperate move to contain the announcement of Gen. Malong, to form a new rebel Movement (South…
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Truth will always prevail over falsehood and humanity will live forever!
Biel Boutros Biel. By Biel Boutros Biel Kigali, Rwanda, April 7, 2018 (SSNA) — 2018 marks the 24th year of Genocide commemoration in Rwanda. The Genocide that happened on 7th…
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IGAD’s unpardonable contradictions
IGAD leaders. Photo: IGAD/File By Riang Y. Z. Nyak Introduction March 30, 2018 (SSNA) — Since the outbreak of the war in South Sudan in December 2013, IGAD, as a…
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There is absolutely nothing Youth would learn from Michael Makuei Lueth Leadership
South Sudanese youth… Photo: paanluelwel.com/File By Cde. Sirir Gabriel March 29, 2018 SSNA) — Michelle Grace Phiri a 19-year-old university student from Malawi who is also an active member of…
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Is IGAD complicit in the confinement of Riek Machar?
Photo: File By Duop Chak Wuol March 28, 2018 (SSNA) — In most organized societies, keeping someone in detainment who did not commit any crime is a criminal act punishable…
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IGAD: An impediment to the South Sudan peace process
Logo of IGAD By Hoth Giw Chan March 28, 2018 (SSNA) — Chinua Achebe, the African Icon in literature once narrated a story of a Royal Court composed of the…
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Salva Kiir’s gestapo mentality
Salva Kiir. Photo: The Independent/Getty Images/File By Duop Chak Wuol March 22, 2018 (SSNA) — It was a common perception in Adolf Hitler’s Germany that working as an assassin for…
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Responding to Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba’s article entitled, “Where the Machar-let SPLM/A (IO) Faltered: Latest Serious Criticism from Inside,” that appeared on southsudannation.com on March 5
SPLM/A-IO leader Machar. Photo: Reuters By Hoth Giw Chan March 9, 2018 (SSNA) — As an elder statesman in South Sudan, Prof. Adwok Nyaba, is known to speak his mind…
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A shattered hope: Revisiting the horrors of Juba’s massacre
Photo: Getty Images/File By Duop Chak Wuol February 21, 2018 (SSNA) — Sometimes it is better to immerse yourself in other’s experiences to get an understanding of your own imagination.…
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Kiir, Museveni, and the absurdity of revitalizing peace in South Sudan
Museveni (R), Kiir (L). Photo: African Union/File By Duop Chak Wuol February 8, 2018 (SSNA) — There are valid reasons to believe that the ongoing revival of the August 2015…
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Why arming South Sudanese rebels could end the war
SPLA-IO soldiers. Photo: AP By Duop Chak Wuol January 24, 2018 (SSNA) — There are those who believe that the main armed opposition, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-In Opposition (SPLM/A-IO),…
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South Sudan’s vicious tyrant
South Sudan’s Kiir. Photo: Reuters By Duop Chak Wuol January 13, 2018 (SSNA) — The Republic of South Sudan is being run by a man with a reputation for having…
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Is revitalization of peace in South Sudan credible?
Kiir (left), Machar (right). Photo: Reuters By Duop Chak Wuol December 31, 2017 (SSNA) — Countries are created in line with international treaties and norms, and the United Nations Security…
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