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The visit builds on the previous engagements between President Kiir and UAE investors, with an aim to outline the next steps for advancing these partnerships and projects, the office of the president said By James Chatim President Salva Kiir yesterday (on Saturday) afternoon left Juba for a three-day working visit to the United Arab Emirates […]
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So far one confirmed case – a nurse from Mulago National Referral Hospital in the capital Kampala – has been reported By Correspondent Following the confirmation of an outbreak of Sudan virus disease- belonging to the same family as Ebola virus disease – in Uganda Yesterday (on Thursday), World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that […]
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By Correspondent In its effort to support higher education in the state, the administration of Northern Bahr el Ghazal University on Thursday received a collection of two thousand four hundred seventy one modern university books from the Office of the Governor of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The books were handed over to the university’s […]
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South Sudanese artists say lack of proper infrastructural development has derailed efforts to catch up with the digital economy. For Jeremiah Malish Okuta, who is known by stage name Silver X, earning through YoutTube has never been easy despite having a combined 90k number of views in the account. He says the digitalised his music […]
Entertainment
Chelsea avenged their 1-0 loss in the FA Cup against Leicester City by registering a 2-1 win on Tuesday night to redeem their top-four finish hopes. Thomas Tuchel men approached the game injecting intensity and energy to attack the Foxes from the first whistle. With a high-line, the Blues kept pumping balls and passing in […]
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South Sudan has reported a significant low turnout for COVID-19 vaccination as over 126, 000 doses are yet to be administered. Since early April when the exercise began, the Ministry of Health has vaccinated less than 10, 000 people, the health authorities reported on Sunday, May 16, 2021. “In terms of vaccination we are still […]
Health
The Central Equatoria State (CES) government Minster in the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare (MGC&SW) Martin Mauli Dodo is dead. Mauli Dodo died while receiving treatments for unknown illness at Juba Medical Center, a private hospital, on Monday, the governor office reported. Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony described the late as a distinguished, hardworking […]
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Barely three months after President Salva Kiir led a midwifery of peace deal to put an end to ethnic violence in Greater Pibor Administrative Area, a costly inter-communal conflict that claimed hundreds lurks. Pibor youth secretary-general for external affairs told City Review that armed youth from Jonglei State carried out an attack causing tensions […]
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COVID-19 could cause erectile dysfunction and men who have suffered from the virus are six times vulnerable to developing the health problem. One of the studies published in the World Journal of Men’s Health observed the difference in tissue composition between men who had contracted the disease and men who had not. It deducted that […]
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South Sudan is battling a gap in policymaking and resultant poor service delivery accruing from the weak data management and processes. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)—a government’s custodian of such crucial information—does not have the capacity to collect and manage data due to financial constraint. The last time it collected data on the social […]
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The Other Opposition Parties (OPP) has called for immediate revocation of an order suspending their representative in the Central Equatoria State cabinet over the weekend. On Sunday, May 16, Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony (pictured) issued a gubernatorial order No:19/2021 suspending the state Minister of Information and Communication, Paulino Lukudu Obedo from duty indefinitely. Mr. Adil […]
Politics
A high court has suspended a case pitting Kiirdit and Company Advocates against Juba Electricity Distribution Company (JEDCO) over electricity billing for sixty days to allow the plaintiff to file more suits against more parties. Last month, Kiir Chol Deng Acuil of the Kiirdit Company Advocates in Juba filed a case against Juba Electricity Distribution […]
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It takes the heart of a lion and the courage of a veteran serviceman to wear a hat of a journalist in South Sudan. This statement summarises the risky path that journalists tread in and have to watch their backs all their time even with no guilt of conscience. As for Bullen Bala, 28, having […]
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President Salva Kiir buried the promise to reconstitute the National Legislative Assembly on May 10, appointing a number of legislators picked by the parties to the Revitalised Agreement on Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCISS). It was fanfare as another milestone under the 2018 peace accord was finally achieved to […]
Politics
Residents in the outskirts of Juba have raised concerns over unprecedented rise in water prices and called on the government to impose a regulation on charges levied on residents by water bowsers. Commercial water suppliers—on whom Juba residents rely—have initially pegged a 240-liter drum at SSP300. Amid a deteriorating economy, the price scaled up to […]
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