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The lawmaker said the insecurity along the Lafon, Mogiri-Juba Road is rampant and traumatic as children disappear and people lose lives along the highways. By Theophilous Ochang A lawmaker representing Lafon County in the Eastern Equatoria State Assembly, Visor Likali has called for joint cooperation to end the insecurity along the Mogiri-Juba Road. This comes […]
Eastern Equatoria State
Meanwhile, the mediation team presented a draft framework highlighting both points of agreement and areas of contention, distilled into four agenda items By Emmanuel Mandella Discussions at the Tumaini peace talks resumed with renewed optimism as both the Government of South Sudan and opposition groups expressed focus on crafting a durable peace framework. Government spokesperson […]
National
The bishop appealed to the Government of South Sudan to take responsibility in ensuring the safety of its citizens in Sudan and elsewhere, including their safe return to the country. By James Chatim The South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) is calling on the Government of South Sudan, Regional and International Community to hold Sudan […]
National
Kenya has been forced back into stringent COVID-19 measures following the recent increase in cases when the East African country entered the third wave. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (pictured) on Friday announced cessation of movement in five counties identified as the hotspots that have recorded alarming cases since the year began. “All gatherings and in-person […]
World
African Private Television Union has feted President Salva Kiir Mayardit for his contributions to peace in South Sudan and Sudan. The event was held at the Freedom Hall in Juba on Wednesday. The State House tweeted: ‘‘President Salva Kiir received the African Peace Award 2021, which he won for his tireless efforts to bring Peace […]
Politics
The recent Ebola outbreak in Guinea may have been triggered by a case where a patient harboured the virus for five years unknowingly only for the disease to show up later, a study has revealed. GAVI, a vaccine-oriented organisation, published an article on March 17, explaining how scientists who conducted genome sequencing on patients revealed […]
Health
132,000 doses of the 862,000 of Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccines arrived at the Juba International Airport on Thursday morning as South Sudan embarks inoculating first line target groups. The vaccine, which will be shipped to the country in batches, enjoys the support of COVAX Facility which has played a pivotal role in extending the jab […]
Health
South Sudan failed to mount a challenge for the first ever qualification for African Cup of Nations after the Bright Stars fell to Malawi by a solitary goal on Wednesday. The match which was played in Khartoum was set to be the game-changer should the boys have pulled a win. Heading into the game with […]
Football
Close to 100,000 South Sudanese refugees residing in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp face an uncertain future after the Kenyan government petitioned the UN for a plan to close camps. According to Kenyan media, the country’s Cabinet Secretary for Interior Dr Fred Matiang’i, and his docket Principal Secretary Dr Karanja Kibicho, issued a directive to Kenya’s […]
Justice & Conflict
The government and education partners have launched the distribution of first locally processed teaching guide textbooks to schools in the country. The 112 million textbooks—printed by RAK Media Group—will go out to benefit a total of 3, 700 schools across South Sudan. More than 15 million children including 1, 449,219 pupils in 3, 391 primary […]
General
First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar’s Sudan People ‘s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) is demanding that the ceasefire body probes the recent attack on its base that resulted in killing of one of its senior officers in Eastern Equatoria State. An unidentified armed group launched an attack on the SPLA-IO cantonment site in Lowereng […]
Justice & Conflict
The government has termed calls for the 2022 elections premature and unjustified. The Minister for Presidential Affairs Nhial Deng Nhial said in a statement on Monday that actualising the Revitalised Transitional Government of National Unity (RTGoNU) took time and it would only be prudent to recoup that lost time to complete the implementation of the […]
Politics
When rumours started going around about the health and whereabouts of my friend President John Pombe Magufuli, I placed several calls to him. Later, I sent him a text message. Both went unanswered. I then resigned to expect the worst while hoping I was wrong. When his death was confirmed as I was self-isolating after […]
News
President Salva Kiir has urged senior four candidates sitting for exams to embrace courage and champion their fear and fever. Kiir revealed that there were 34,536 candidates who are sitting for the examination and out of these 11,716 females and 22,820 males this difference will have to close so that boys and girls are always […]
General
The Minister of Presidential Affairs Nhial Deng Nhial has opposed a recent assertion by Peter Biar Ajak that President Salva Kiir’s leadership lacks legitimacy. In an expansive statement released to the media on Monday, March 22, Nhial argued that President Kiir came into power on an ‘interim arrangement’ which was not conceived in a vacuum […]
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