Breaking News
By Correspondent The Vice President for Economic Cluster, Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel yesterday (on Wednesday), while chairing his first official meeting with his Economic Cluster team, sought to align the Cluster’s agenda with the country’s pressing needs. The Vice President emphasized the urgent need to sustain economic momentum by ensuring continuity, coordination, and tangible impact. […]
Business National
The decision to ease the strike was influenced by a commitment made by the Vice President and Chairperson for the Economic Cluster, Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel, to pay salaries promptly By Aguok Chok The University of Bahr El Ghazal’s Academic Staff Association and Workers Trade Union have announced the partial lifting of their strike after […]
Education National
By Ajah Jennifer and Yien Gattuor Unity State agricultural sector marked a new dawn after the State harvested its first yield of rice from the Bentiu Rice Scheme. The rice project was launched in December last year, with aid from the Coalition for Humanity Organisation, to support the first of a kind of the agricultural […]
Agriculture National
The new Minister of Finance and Planning, Agak Achuil Lual, has warned government officials against submitting fake financial requests to the ministry. Mr Lual said that some government officials often go to the ministry of finance with fake papers to get money for their personal use. “I am not here in this ministry to fight […]
National
The South Sudan Football Association (SSFA) and the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) have expressed their readiness to promote football in the two countries. This came after SSFA President Gen. Augustino Maduot met with Ahmed Al-Bakri, the General Consul of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Juba, at the SSFA headquarters on Wednesday. Speaking after their […]
Sports
The East African Community Sectoral Council on Finance and Economic Affairs (SCFEA) has resolved to use a hybrid model to finance the East African Community budget. At a two-day retreat that ended in Mombasa, Kenya, yesterday, SCFEA recommended to the Council of Ministers of the bloc to approve the model as the new mechanism of […]
Regional
The eight national ministers summoned by the Members of Parliament in the Reconstituted Transitional National Legislative Assembly (R-TNLA) to answer queries relating to flood mitigation are yet to appear before the house. The RTNLA Information Committee Chairperson Designate, Paul Yoane, said the ministers were expected to appear on Wednesday, 17/11/2021, as it is the last […]
National
The communities of Rumbek East County of Lakes State have completed a voluntary disarmament drive before the December 1, 2021, deadline set by the state government, the police said. Last week, Governor Rin Tueny Mabor launched voluntary disarmament across the State and called on all local leaders, including chiefs, to help in the mobilization process. […]
Lakes State
The World Food Programme (WFP) with support from the Kingdom of Netherlands has completed the rehabilitation of a 49-kilometre road that links Magwi County to Torit capital. The $ 3.95 million worth of rehabilitated road aims to connect local aggregation centres to agribusiness markets to enhance food security in the state. It was officially handed […]
Eastern Equatoria State
First Vice President Dr Riek Machar has said the Revitalised Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU) is planning to establish an institute of democracy and governance as a separate institution from the ministry of parliamentary affairs. Machar said the purpose of establishing the institution is to make it accessible and more effective for states and political […]
National
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the government of accountability in all spheres of government services. Speaking at a press conference in Juba yesterday, the IMF Director of African Department Abebe Aemro Selassie urged the government to observe transparency and accountability in all government expenditure. He said the IMF recognised the impacts of financial […]
National
Juba Central Prison has raised concerns over the increased number of inmates which has outstretched the facility. The prison said the number of inmates was increasing by 10 per cent per year, a rate which is alarming and quite unsustainable. Currently, there are 2,100 inmates in the prison. South Sudan National Prison Services Spokesperson, Anthony […]
Special Report
It is one month ago since the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) raised concerns over the United Kingdom’s (UK) position to not recognise COVID-19 vaccines administered on the continent for travel to Britain. In September, the UK government said, “a person in Africa who has received a jab of a vaccine […]
Editorial
The national Ministry of Health yesterday received additional 60,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. This was the second shipment of the COVID-19 vaccines donated by the government of France. The first country to donate COVID-19 vaccines to South Sudan was India. George Azania Legge, the Extended Program on Immunization (EPI) Manager at the Ministry […]
Health
Medical staff at Bor hospital have closed down the facility on Tuesday to resume strike as they accused the Jonglei State government of failing to honour promises. In an interview with The City Review, Mabior Madit Mabior, a doctor working at the emergency department, said they resorted to strike over unpaid incentives. He said Care […]
Jonglei State
