Letters

Dear Rita Lopidia, Congratulations on receiving the USIP’s Women Building Peace Award

September 22, 2020 Letters, Opinions

A graphic image of Rita(left) and the author, Francis Banychieng Jor, a former youth leader at USIP(Photo designed: author)

By Francis Banychieng Jor, Dear Rita Lopidia, Sep 22, 2020(SSNN) — Congratulations on receiving the USIP’s Women Building Peace Award, 2020. Through your zeal, commitment and passion for service you have exemplified the spirit of empathy and worked towards making the community a better place to live. I join your family, friends, the entire United States Institute of Peace fraternity, […]

Support Ayod Flood Victims

August 27, 2020 Letters, Press Releases

August 27, 2020(SSNN) — Many villages in South Sudan, especially in Gawaar areas or Ayod county of Jonglei State, have been hit by a devastating flood that has destroyed houses and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Unlike anything witnessed here before, the ongoing flood, which was triggered by heavy tropical rains that caused the River Nile to overflow , […]

Opinion: Generation of ‘Congratulation messages’

July 26, 2020 Letters, Opinions

South Sudan youth raising the flag during the independence celebration in 2011(Photo credit: supplied)

Part two, By Zechariah Makuach Maror, July 26, 2020(SSNN) — Former manager of crew at musician by Nickname ‘big brother’, Mr. Paulino Lukudu once wrote on his Facebook Wall, and I quote “Digital Generation, Rule by Analog Generation in a Digital World, because the digital generation are praising the analog Generation to get food,” end quote. This great quote has […]

VOLUME 1, LETTER NO 001: Dear Anjelina Teny, regarding your recent Anniversaries,

June 6, 2020 Analyses, Letters, News, Newsbeat

Hon. Angelina Teny's birthday cake(Photo credit: FVP Press Unit)

The Voiceless, June 6, 2020(SSNN) — To begin with, may these letters find you in good health and wealth. Hon. Angelina Teny, the Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs, we would be proud to introduce ourselves by names to you and your sympathizers but at this moment in time that does not matter because it is not us, the authors, […]

Open Letter to the New Minister of Interior Hon Paul Mayom AKech

March 29, 2020 Letters, Newsbeat, Opinions

Hon. Paul Mayom Akech, South Sudan Minister of Interior of the RTGNU(Photo credit: SSNN)

cc Deputy minister of Interior Hon Mabior Garang BY Emmanuel Malual Honourable Minister March 29, 2020(SSNN) — Your appointment as the minister of interior has come at a significant juncture in the history of the South Sudan hence the decisions and actions you in your protfiolio hence forth will determine not only a political post but peace […]

Open letter: Violence Against Women In South Sudan Must Cease

November 4, 2019 Letters

Open letter to General Gabriel Jok Riak | Chief of General Staff, By: South Sudanese Women’s Coalition for Peace (SSWCP) Nov 5th, 2019 (SSNN)-Dear General Riak, South Sudanese Women’s Coalition for Peace (SSWCP) is aggrieved by the recent and rather unfortunate incident involving the physical assault of two female journalists who were preparing to cover the 7 military command council […]

An Open Letter to the Sudanese People By Capt. Mabior Garang de Mabior

May 10, 2019 Analyses, Letters, Opinions, Sudan

Attn: Open Letter to the Sudanese People, By Mabior Garang de Mabior, Greetings in the Name of Allah, the Beneficent and the Merciful! My Fellow Sudanese, May 10th, 2019(SSNN) — I would like to start by honoring the memory of all the men and women who sacrificed their precious lives to push the struggle forward in this generation. Your sacrifices […]