By Correspondent A three-day intergenerational peace conference, which aims to bring peace in two Payams of Longiro and Bule of Lopit West, Eastern Equatoria State, kicked off in Imehejek Administrative Area on Friday. The conference urged communities to accept change for total peace to prevail in the area, with over 500 people attending. Pasquale Atari, […]
Western Equatoria
By Emmanuel Mandela The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio, His Lordship Eduardo Hiiboro Kusalla has called on citizens to embrace the spirit of charity and forgiveness to promote love and peace among them. Speaking during the launching of Jubilee at St. Mary Mother of God Parish in Yambio, Bishop Hiiboro urged every Christian […]
Western Equatoria
Anybody found composing hateful songs targeting others will face arrest and prosecution, which are among the 24 resolutions agreed upon by the three communities By Makur Adut The Mony-Tiek, Ajiek, and Boor of the Rup Community in Lakes State have finally agreed to end the years of bloody conflict among them. The community agreed on […]
Lakes State
South Sudan is currently involved in a discussion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to get the money to finance economic recovery. According to Bloomberg, Central Bank Governor Dier Tong Ngor revealed the plan on a phone call interview expressing confidence that he was sure that Juba would get more money to finance the currency […]
Business News
A group allied to the Fourth Vice President Taban Deng Gai has protested what it terms as total exclusion from the government appointments invoked by the presidential decrees. Addressing journalists outside the premises of Parliament in Juba on Tuesday, February 23, the members of SPLM/A-IO said the precedent set in recent appointments could be a […]
Politics
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has raised a red flag saying a crisis is looming in five South Sudanese states as a result of conflicts, hunger and flooding. NRC Country Director in South Sudan Alexander Davey decried the situation adding that it could degenerate into a full-blown crisis if mitigation measures will not come into […]
Justice & Conflict
It took a 68th minute overhead bicycle kick from Olivier Giroud for Chelsea to beat the stubborn defence of Atletico Madrid and nick a 1-0 win. The Uefa Champions League round of 16 match which was played at Arena Nationala in Bucharest, Romania, had no fans but the stakes were unchanged. Diego Simeone lined up […]
Football
South Sudan has increased border surveillance to prevent any possibility of influx of Ebola into the country, the Ministry of Health has said. The vigilance comes following the outbreak of Ebola Virus Diseases (EVD) in Congo and Guinea. The ministry says in a February 2021 EVD plan that the country has an overall readiness of […]
Health
Spanish La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid are welcoming English side Chelsea in yet another round of 16 Uefa Champions League match. Chelsea goes into the game having topped their group while Atletico finished second in its group. The Spanish side boast of attacking frontline of Suarez, Joao Felix, Correa plus other great players in midfield […]
Football
Kenya is certainly headed for a referendum which may come as soon as June this year after more than 24 counties passed the Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2020. Tuesday, February 23, 2021, was a defining day for the bill seeking to introduce new changes to the Nairobi governance. The country had already gathered the backing of […]
Africa
Christoper Nihal alias Chris Nevi (above) is seven-feet tall and is an embodiment of a typical South Sudanese man. Just at 24, Nihal, a model and a law student at Juba University is juggling to ambitions. He aims to not only compete with the world’s best in the modelling industry but also fighting for the […]
General
They left empty-handed when deafening sounds of the guns bridled Terekeka villages. And just like they left, the Mundari Internally Displaced Persons are ready to stream to their settlements with nothing but hope. Their tribulations began when a fierce fight broke out among the Mundari cattle keepers in the areas of Magurkule Payam, Lutepe, Kworojik […]
Justice & Conflict
South Sudan will be receiving 35 to 40 per cent of the 800,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses by the end of February 2021. Officials from the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization (WHO) addressed a joint press conference over the weekend where they said that South Sudan would receive at least 300,000 jabs to […]
Health
The government has tailored a plan to revive the economy through various fiscal policies among them the change of the local currency. With stubborn inflation rates, piling wage bill and oil-dependent non-performing one-way economy; the state is seeking a way through which it can spur growth. And according to the Deputy Minister for Finance and […]
Business News
The government has pledged to clear the arrears of civil servants that piled in 2020 as the country battled a cash-crunch. Agok Makur Kur, the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning told The City Review that plans were underway to clear the salary arrears accrued last year. He said the government only managed to […]
Business News