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By Ajah Jennifer South Sudanese kick boxer, James Majok Gau has advanced to the semi finals of the 2025 World Muay Thai Championship in Pattaya, Thailand after beating Italian opponent Alberto Grimando in the knockout rounds of mixed martial arts. The championship that has been running from March 9 to 17, 2025, had brought together […]
National Sports
This comes after the U.S State Department issued a travel advisory on South Sudan, urging non-emergency staff to leave the country. By Chuol Chanyong The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation assured the international community and the diplomatic mission of the security situation in the country amid the travel advisories issued by some foreign […]
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IGAD emphasized its commitment to ensuring peace in the country, reaffirming its role as the principal guarantor of the South Sudan peace process By Aguok Chok and Lodu William unconditionally cease hostilities. [Photo: Courtesy] The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has urged all parties in South Sudan to de-escalate tensions in Upper Nile State, warning […]
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The Ministry of Health has said Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccination will start this week. The Chief of Planning and Information at the Public Health Emergency Operation Centre in Juba, Mabior Kiir Kudior, said 25 health workers in Wau and Juba have been trained to administer the vaccine. However, he failed to mention the commencement […]
COVID-19 Health
The Minister of Cabinet Affairs Dr Martin Elia Lomuro has revealed his lawyers in Scotland and Britain have started filing a lawsuit against the United States government for sanctioning him in 2019. On December 16, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individual Ministers in South Sudan. […]
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The designated Chairperson of the Specialised Communication Committee at the Reconstituted Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Paul Yohanes, has said the Members of Parliament are ready to receive the long-awaited 2021/2022 budget for discussion. He said they were expecting to receive the budget from the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in the third week of […]
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The Bright Stars senior team have jetted in Rabat, Morocco, for international friendly matches. South Sudan is expected to play three countries in friendly matches including Morocco and Malawi. “…they will play Morocco, Malawi and Sierra Leone before coming back,” said Joseph Archangelo Apai, the South Sudan Football Associations Deputy Secretary-General. According to the deputy […]
Football Sports
The Central Equatoria State government has revealed a plan to cushion ordinary consumers from inflation by selling imported food commodities at half of the market prices. The State Investment Authority and Cooperation, Commissioner General, Tereza Angelo Lazarus, said they have finalized the list of prices and that it will soon be out. “We have been […]
Business
Unity State authorities have noted an influx of convoy of trucks from Sudan bringing goods to the state’s capital Bentiu. This comes after South Sudan and Sudan made the final preparation for the border reopening yesterday after more than seven years of closure. Sudan closed its borders with South Sudan in 2012 following the decision […]
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The country’s main outlet bridge on the River Nile will undergo rehabilitation today, the presiding engineer Kenyatta Warille has revealed. Juba Bridge, which has undergone several maintenances by national companies since South Sudan’s independence, will this time have foreign experts to fix the damaged lane. “Now we have agreed to bring the expert from England […]
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The news bombarded beyond her imagination as she stood tall as the only lady among the worthy male contenders in pursuit of journalistic excellence. Dressed in her casual jeans and red top, communicating her athletic physique; Keji Janefer walked majestically to the podium as she served a grin to the audience to claim her dummy […]
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The Nile Petroleum Cooperation (NilePet) has decried the impacts of ravaging floods in the country which it says has affected the construction of a road leading to an oil refinery in Unity State. The Managing Director of NilePet Eng. Bol Ring Muorwel who visited the site in Unity State to inspect the local refinery said […]
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A faction within the South Sudan National Movement for Change (SSNMC) has raised concerns over the credibility of recently concluded elections where the party picked a new chairman to replace Joseph Bangasi Bakosoro. In their extraordinary convention held in Juba on September 25, the SSNMC elected Maj. Gen. Moro Isaac Jenessio as the successor of […]
Politics
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has welcomed the commitment by communities in Jonglei and Greater Pibor Administrative Area to end the abhorrent practice of abducting women and children and repatriate those affected safely to their families. The communities agreed to establish committees on tracing abductees and mechanisms of returning them. There was […]
Pibor Administrative Area
Electricity consumers within Juba City and its environs who are connected to the grid can now buy tokens electronically. The new development comes after Juba Electricity Distribution Company (JEDCO) electricity partnered with mGurush to launch a payment platform yesterday. The two companies noted in a joint press release yesterday that the platform was long overdue […]
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