By Kuek Deng Kuek, July 25, 2020 (SSNN) – It is crystal clear that legacy is what people worked for and it is an important thing that cannot be bought using money. Legacy in it layman definition, it is defined as the gift by God and by will and a bequest of an individual in the society. It is always […]
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By Deng Gatpan Wang July 23, 2020 (SSNN) – On 22nd July 2020, the sole anti-government radio station known as Eye Radio, broadcast a fabricated audio report that implicates the current Director of South Sudan Customs Service in financial corruption and nepotism. The Eye Radio reporter broadcast the report inform of audio which he claims to have been recorded from […]
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By Dak Buoth July 23, 2020 (SSNN) – Socrates the Teacher of Plato who in turn was the Teacher of Aristotle once said and I quote ‘‘if you’re a good listener you will benefit even from those who talk badly.’’ Again, the residents of Panyijiar County are abandoned and left in the cold; they are now grinding their teeth and […]
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By Koang Chol July 22, 2020 (SSNN) – Throughout of human life, many changes evolved out of calamitous circumstances that brought up an incredible and unimaginable practice. Historically, it has been a pattern whether it was meaningful change or impractical change. Certainly, pandemics and wars are the leading cause of deaths for so many people across the world over the […]
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By Polit Gok Waar July 22, 2020 (Nyamilepedia) – Countries can change for better. But outsiders cannot fix stat failure. Insiders are largely as responsible for their recovery as for their decline, since it is local politics, customs and rules that overwhelmingly shape their choices and thus their destiny. South Sudan is, at first glance, such a Potemkin State, with […]
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By Beek Mabior July 20, 2020 (SSNN) – Female circumcision is satanic and I’m deeply dissatisfied and unhappy with this practice in our nation that fuel indignity and attack against women’s rights and freedoms in South Sudan and beyond. We all need to come together and eliminate this meaningless and disgraceful cultural practice in our country. A woman is a […]
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By Ayok Thon Akoon July 18, 2020 (SSNN) – Before I respond to the baseless articles, written by the disgruntled and desperate former speaker of defunct Gogrial State against the respected veteran Hon. Machok Jong, I would like to highlight in details what prompted me to pen this article in defense of Hon. Machokdit. I felt much concerned to see […]
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By Chol Duang July 16, 2020 (SSNN) – Even after the formation of the so-called R-TGONU, violence continues to flare up everywhere, including in areas known to enjoy peace and good neighborliness. Hate speech has heightened unprecedentedly, as hatemongers inundate online space with highly inflammatory comments and fear traders exchanging threats, widening schism further. The self-appointed government in Juba has […]
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By Zechariah Makuach Maror July 16, 2020 (SSNN) – If we youth stop for a moment to think honestly, and finally asked the following questions. Do our leader/elders have enough time to devote to guiding young generation in the right direction? Am I wrong if I say that they themselves would have been victims of today’s competitive era if we […]
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By Longar Mathiec Wol July 13, 2020 (SSNN) – Ladies and gentlemen, let me take you briefly on state of oil revenue and ownership in our country. Based on evidences I found in brief research I carried out to find out how exactly is oil revenue being distributed between the oil operating companies and the government. Shockingly, the results were […]
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By Agany Geng Ayiei Agany July 9, 2020 (SSNN) – On Wednesday, July 06, 2020, Pal Chol Nyan who calls himself a political analyst and a commentator published an article against Gen. Salva Mathok on Paanluel wel website following an article wrote by Gen. Salva Mathok on the Dawn newspaper on the same day. Dear Pal Chol Nyan, I would […]
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By Duop Chak Wuol July 6, 2020 (SSNN) — President Salva Kiir through his press office recently claimed that he is against the appointment of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-In Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) General Johnson Olony who is the nominee for Upper Nile State governorship. He alleged that the SPLA-IO General is anti-peace and that General Olony refused to allow his […]
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By Beek Mabior, Nairobi, Kenya July 6, 2020 (SSNN) – Hi citizenry of my country, kindly allow me to spell out and read this magnificent analysis why South Sudan; a nation with billions natural resources have millions of her people living below the disgraceful poverty line and chronic hunger yet there’re billions of natural resources that the country is endowed […]
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By Charles Bol Makuet June 29, 2020 (SSNN) – Yesterday, the public was surprised to see a very deadly attack on the most loyal Police General who has devoted his entire life to serving the government of South Sudan without running his tongue loosely on anyone. The article was allegedly written by certain Gabriel Akech Dhieu, a proxy name which […]
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By Kuol Abraham Tong June 24, 2020 (SSNN) – I would like to thank the SPLM/SPLA for the consistency they have portrayed during the liberation struggle that has resulted into our independence and foundation of the principles that many of us were drawn to. The SPLM/SPLA waged the longest war in Africa that is the 21 years of struggle creating […]
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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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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 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 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 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 Mabior Garang de Mabior May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – those questioning the status of the allocation of States should understand that the entire Agreement is in question, not just the issue of the States. The SPLM/SPLA (IO) – wittingly or unwittingly – went to Juba to implement the Agreement before the critical tasks related to the pre-transitional period had […]
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By Duol Malow Jamlah May 10, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan politicians took up the responsibility to deliberately fight the global pandemic. One challenge, however, the South Sudan political team took the challenge over themselves and forgot to include the most important health constituent in the country, the South Sudan Doctors’ Union (SSDU) With this, I don’t think it carries […]
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