By Noah Issa Philip June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Your Excellency, with due regard and rectitude to you and your colleagues, I hope this letter will find you although you and your wife and other colleagues are battling with COVID-19 pandemic, it’s my hope and prayers to see you and other colleagues of yours to be healthy again as the […]
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By Deng Mangok Ayuel June 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Tribalism, understood as “groupness” or “group affiliation,” is rooted in human psychology. Everyone, everywhere, has tribal instincts and belongs to any tribe. However, these instincts don’t operate in the same way. When people talk of tribalism, they often think in binary terms—two groups, two tribes with different social and cultural norms. […]
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June 14, 2020 (SSNN) – World over, very few people would suggest to take their own lives. They say Death has no Friend, but in South Sudan, the reverse seems true. There are those who are friends with death. When you are living, and doing your things, your work, ideas would be opposed and fought. Today, you are a friend […]
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By Ayuen John June 14, 2020 (SSNN) – My dear country men and women – especially the resilient youth of South Sudan who are subsisting with hardship of numerous predicaments and pandemic within the country and abroad. I humbly salute you in the name of our beloved nation. Indeed some of the youth may wonder about the question put forward […]
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By Gatkuoth Kutei Chany June 11, 2020 (SSNN) – The fact that SPLM has two houses, the ‘owners and servants’ is likely scenario indisputable to deny given the situation to which the government is formed in South Sudan. Those who own the SPLM “take it all” and those who are servants continue to wash dishes and gets home with peanut; taking the […]
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June 9, 2020 (SSNN) – While I was writing these lines I was- and continue to be- full of sorrow over loss after loss of many people- all over the world in general and South Sudan in particular-due partly to Covid-19 and other causes. Some of the departed South Sudanese public figures were either friends or individuals I have worked […]
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By Ayuen John June 8, 2020 (SSNN) – My dear country men and women who have been gripped by tears and sorrow for the bereavement of your lovely died in merciless massacres of unarmed civilians by president relative in Shirkat neighborhood, capital Juba on 3rd of March, 2020. Allow me to express my sincere and heartfelt condolences for the lost […]
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Opinion, By Dr. Sunday de John Nairobi, Kenya, June 6, 2020(SSNN) — President Salva Kiir Mayardit on June 4, 2020 in the Swearing-In Ceremony of Hon. Nhial Deng Nhial; the newly appointed Minister of the Presidential Affairs of the Republic of South Sudan expressed in a faint tone one of the reasons that led to his dismissal of Former Minister […]
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By Latjor C. Gakah June 6, 2020 (SSNN) – Land is an asset which its value appreciates with time and that is the bottom line. Land grabbing is a judiciary debacle in South Sudan that is both silently claiming the lives of many innocent South Sudanese and leaving others homeless. The number of land grabbing cases depicts a full blown […]
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By Emmanuel Malual June 6, 2020 (SSNN) – The level of Army brutality witnessed in Sherikat shooting on Wednesday when hundreds of residents pour on the streets shows that there is more reforms to done in our National Army to so that they will protects the citizens The army profession is built on a foundation of discipline and standards during […]
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By Bor Gatwech Kuany, June 5, 2020(SSNN) — After signing the agreement in 2018, the President was invited by his Chinese counterpart for state visit a head of 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation where he managed to meet with Chinese political and business leaders. During that visit, the President and his team managed to sign bilateral […]
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By Dak Buoth Riek-Gaak, June5, 2020 (SSNN) — I derived this thought from the conversation I had with someone in the dream on 31st May 2020. We met and he told me I would have been appointed as a governor if I had expressed my interest to the President. I asked him when were the state Governors appointed? He replied […]
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By Deng Vanang, June 5, 2020(SSNN) — In a Nuer youth heated reconciliation meeting around 1999 in the office of his fortnight magazine, South Sudan Post along Adams road, Nairobi, Kenya,, Muolana John requested the erratic rival factions to let Deng Vanang jot down minutes of the meeting for he is a good writer to their affirmative. The recognition not […]
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By Gatgong Thany, June 5, 2020(SSNN) — The glowing preamble of the revitalized agreement on the resolution of the conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCISS) that is currently suffocating and in a comma had the following commitment statement‘’ mindful of our commitment under the transitional constitution of the Republic of South Sudan 2011 as amended, to lay a foundation for a […]
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By Latjor C. Gakah, June 3, 2020(SSNN) — Land is an asset which its value appreciates with time and that is the bottom line. Land grabbing is a judiciary debacle in South Sudan that is both silently claiming the lives of many innocent South Sudanese and leaving others homeless. The number of land grabbing cases depicts a full blown war […]
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By Brown Akoon Yel Dut, Rummarial, June 2, 2020(SSNN) — Garang Malong Awan, who went to Nairobi two years ago and stayed there for his benefit had published a fake post on his Facebook wall status on May 31,2020 combating military professional Gen Akol Koor, who is presently serving as Director of National Security and Internal Security Breau in the […]
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By Nhial Gatkuoth Chung June 2, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudanese had foreseen the failure of the SPLM leadership just months after we hoisted our independence flag, the warning signs that emerged as a result of leadership crisis inside the SPLM party were the emergence of both political and military camps within the SPLM- leaders, all top military commanders and […]
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By John Jur Chol Dhuol, June 1, 2020(SSNN) — With the current pandemic, South Sudan like any other country in the world has begun the year 2020 as a new decade that promises to be one of dreadful disruption in the world where South Sudan like other African countries is holding the weakest end of the stick in coping with […]
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By Dr. Laura Nunu June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – From 1983 to 2020, it is exactly thirty seven years in which more than 3.5 millions lives lost in SPLM/A war of liberation but did that struggle have a hidden evil agenda with it? It is now crystal clear if not to every single South Sudanese, but all Ma’di community what […]
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By Tom Gatdel Malou June 1, 2020 (SSNN) – Concerning the above subject, South Sudan Students’ Association in Kenya, (SSSAK) and Uganda being the countries with a good number of students schooling on their own and also not benefited from the Covid-19 funds released two months back. The leadership of South Sudanese students in Kenya decries, regrets and blames the […]
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By Dak Buoth Riek-Gaak May 31, 2020 (SSNN) – This little known fella called Akot Lual think he is smarter than other South Sudanese; that is why he went to an extent of going public to repeat his irresponsible statement in writing. With all due respect, I would say his reckless words emanated from his lack of integrity and patriotism […]
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By Comfort Ero May 28, 2020 (SSNN) – By easing access to basic services, schools and farms, and allowing civilians to travel once again between villages and towns, the South Sudan peace deal signed in September 2018 was a much-needed boon for the country’s population, whose lives had been decimated by years of brutal fighting and a man-made humanitarian crisis […]
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By Wani Gore Kosa, May 27, 2020(SSNN) — Before I narrate how the above two crooks snatched into South Sudan National Youth Union, let me highlight the facts that both of them are non SPLM members. Both Tarir Makoi and Gola neither have SPLM registration identity cards nor participated in any SPLM activity. Tarir Makoi has never passed near any […]
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May 26, 2020 (SSNN) – Has South Sudan reached the stage of anarchy?? That is a question, I know many South Sudanese are struggling to answer, personally I am not finding any better terminology to describe this stage, where our country find itself today.When the authorities in a country can not grantee the safety and security of the Citizens under […]
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By Dak Buoth Riek-Gaak, May 25, 2020(SSNN) — I felt that a week cannot pass without me uttering a word on this sensitive matter of life and death of our people. On a matter of this magnitude, silence is not recommendable largely because it works in favour of the wrongdoers who are behind the attackers of the Lou Nuer one […]
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By Isaac Thok Moses May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – When you look deep into current South Sudan political discourse in a close proximity, you came to realize that our political elites are here to open the old stitched wounds of 1985, 1991 and 2013. These events occurred as a political showdown between our leaders, but they had devastated results and […]
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By Yom Mageer May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – Dear fellow countrymen and women, I’d like to takes this fantastic opportunity to elucidate and exhibit the most powerful and excellent responsibilities and duties of a woman in our precious nation. A woman is a shining star, a developmental warrior, a second God globally and a wonderful massive reformer in any civilized […]
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By Dak Buoth Riek-Gaak, May 21, 2020(SSNN) — The South Sudanese citizenry became extremely nervous and worried on learning that nearly all members of the High Level Task Force (HLTF) contracted the covid-19 disease. This committee was formed and chaired by none other than President Kiir, and deputized by his immediate deputy, 1st vice President, Dr Riek Machar. Going by […]
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By Paul Ruot Bayoch Revenge: May 20, 2020(SSNN) — For how long shall you enslave and keep us captives in your ugly cycles? For how long shall you rob us of our joys and ambitions? For how long shall you be traumatizing us? For how long shall you make our mothers and sisters widows? For how long shall you […]
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By Gattiek Gatkuoth Wichar May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – It is this evening when I came across a document written by Mr.Tarir Makoi, a spokesperson for South Sudan National Youth Union (SSNYU), informing the public that the national youth organization had issued an arrest warrant against Mr. Meen Gabriel Chol Kuac whose criticism went viral against Mr. President of the […]
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This opinion article has been thoroughly edited to aid reading… By Mariak Madut Thiik Riiny, May 20, 2020(SSNN) — My fellow citizens of the Republic of South Sudan, I picked my phone today to write an article for the removal of the so-call Tutkew Gatluak Manime, the security advisor in the office of the president. I am a mere citizen […]
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By Ajang Langar, May 20, 2020(SSNN) — It’s really absurd that recently a group of three men raped a young girl of 8 years in South Sudan. As we await their arrest, and conviction once their case is proved beyond reasonable doubt, I want to salute all those people that went to the streets to protest against rape and demand […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – Angelina Teny, has been the President of the Initiative of Change (IofC) South Sudan, since its official registration in the new nation in 2012. She is the current Defense and Veterans Affairs Minister, and wife of Dr. Riek Machar, Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan. The South Sudan IofC Constitution outlines the following challenges and plans […]
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