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Let Democracy Choose Its Friends Among the SPLM Contenders
In my opinion, let whoever thinks he can lead the SPLM better come up, and let democracy chooses its friend amongst the contenders in the environment of fairness and freedom of vote by the delegates. No intimidation and no insults; the time of campaign is over!  it is the time of reality choice. The time of appointments and favoritism from the leaders is gone; it is now the time of election and choice of the people for their preferred leaders who they think can deliver...
Why Dr. Machar isn't the right person for the top job of SPLM and South Now
The non-nationalistic and betrayal move by Dr. Riek Machar’s support based counties of Dok Nuers, Unity State, is too late and insignificant in its scope. The move confirmed, among other things, Dr. Machar’s lust for power. The prospect of Riek becoming leader of SPLM has been damaged beyond any repair with this last minute political rebellion by few Nuers. With due respect, Dr. Machar is weak and can not run a nation still in war footing unless the South Sudanese want the hard won CPA to go down the drain like other agreements....
A sample of opinions by southerners on those contending leadership at the SPLM 2nd National Convention in Juba
Constitutional office holders shall, during their tenure of office, neither practice any private profession, transact commercial business, nor receive remuneration or accept employment of any kind from any source other than the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS), or a State Government as the case may be.” The point I want to make is, we should not be afraid to talk negatively about any person working with the GOSS because article 28 (1) and (2) gave us all the rights to express our feeling about our leaders in the GOSS....
Nuer community endorses Dr. Riek Machar for SPLM chairmanship
Political competition in Southern Sudan has taken a dramatic turn Tuesday after Nuer community endorsed Dr. Riek Machar Teny to challenge SPLM chairman general Salva Kiir Mayardit from his position in the wake of the second SPLM national convention due later today. The community accused the SPLM leadership of secretly planning a move to kick out Dr. Riek Machar from his current position as the first SPLM deputy chairman...
NEW Impending SPLM Power Struggle: An open message to members of SPLM
The rumor that there will be some sort of power struggle among the members of SPLM is an unfortunate scenario that we should avoid by all means and at all costs dear brothers and sisters. Our struggle with the true enemy is far from over. We need to come together more than ever and consolidate our efforts to realize total freedom for which we have been fighting for decades...
Advising SPLM members to the 2nd Juba Convention: Personal viewpoint
An advice to the South Sudan ruling party, the SPLM, that the greater challenge facing all of us regardless of partisan politics are:- the corruption and the lack of development across the land. The delegations to the SPLM convention are tasked with the party's and nation's business as far as the SPLM position in the GOSS is concerned. It must come out with a very clear vision of where GOSS/SPLM is leading the South Sudan to....
Salva Kiir: Shedding the tears of failure
Crying during the funeral was a clear sign of failure and weakness of the present leadership in South Sudan; President Kirr knows that he has failed to achieve development for the people of south to the required or expected standard, that is why he is crying, that is why bad things happen and people die all the time because of this weakness to develop ourselves to international standards...
Expected Results from SPLM’s 2nd Convention NEW
The 10thMay, 2008 will mark an important point in the long awaited democratization within political parties in the Sudan before they opt to rule the Country. Here a movement which has been struggling for two decades (plus) against injustice in sharing political powers, economic wealth, and security arrangements, and also against the hegemony of Arab (Jellaba) and Islamic culture, will show the whole country, Africa and the world...
Will Oslo II be different from Oslo I?
Immediately after CPA was signed three years ago, donors and all those who appointed themselves to care for the developing world met in Oslo and promised to turn Sudan in general and Southern Sudan in particular into Paradise on earth. Huge sum of money was pledged for the reconstruction and development of Southern Sudan. The so called MDTF (Multi-Donors Trust Funds) is doing very little if any at all here in Southern Sudan...
Rumbek Plane Crash: Exposing the Fickleness of GOSS Leaders NEW
Both GOSS and the SPLM will have to do more soul-searching at this critical time in the history of South Sudan, and ask the apparently not-so-obvious question: What is development? Development is not about flying high in outdated airplanes nor is it about staying in a foreign owned 200-dollar-per-night tented hotel in Juba...
Southern Sudan locked in dependency syndrome: Southerners are grumbling
Mr. Kuol Athain, South Sudan’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning swivels in a leather chair behind a shiny mahogany desk, in an air-conditioned office that has taken the government three years to renovate, and answers why the Government of Southern Sudan won’t construct housing estates to solve a housing crisis. Despite billions in contracts, the region is not short of misery. Misery is in schools, and it’s in rundown hospitals. It manifests itself in the infrastructure, and it’s right behind Mr. Athain’s office...
The Politics of Panic in Southern Sudan
The population census saga within the framework of the government of southern Sudan (GoSS) is very painfully amusing and embarrassing. The Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) politicians in both the GoSS and the government of national unity (GoNU) appear to be operating under a tremendous weight of political confusion and uncertainty. The public does not know who is in charge of the GoSS. The GoSS looks like an institution which is being governed and managed by human impulse....

Khartoum and the One million Tactics!

After having traveled wide, I feel that I really have to say what I will be saying now regardless of those whose interests may get threatened. We the people of south Sudan have had the unique experience of being passed on several occasions from one colonial master to the other. We did experience the French and the Belgium misrule in the Lado Enclave (today’s Greater Equatoria), Fashoda, and the Greater Bahr el Ghazal...
The Challenges of Democracy in Pre and Post Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement SPLM/A
The origin of the democratic shortfall in South Sudan did not start when the so-called Sudan's CPA was concluded but rather it has been in existence since the birth of SPLA/M. This pattern of democratic deficit has been a long developed culture in liberated areas where there was no coordination between SPLA and the SPLM on how the movement should be conducted. Thus, the poor relations between president and the executive and legislature in GOSS, and the dissatisfaction...
Problems and lack of vision facing Kiir's leadership
It is perhaps not surprising that, despite the formation of the Government of national Unity (GNU) between the two main parties of Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the National Congress party (NCP), any one with modicum of common sense could have seen that the CPA wouldn’t work to bringing to an end the suffering of the black original people of Sudan....

Time for Southern Opposition Parties to Act

There is barely less than a year left to hold elections in the Sudan, a time that should call for serious groundwork on the part of all political parties. SPLM and NCP are already doing mass sensitization. Yet others are still infighting among themselves. This is the fate of most opposition parties in Africa. Early preparation is...
Why is South Sudan always Loosing At The Presidency?
The government of south Sudan (GOSS) has continuously expressed its discontent about the inadequacy in the preparation for the census. Now that the GOSS has lost at the Presidency (photo) again in regards to participation in the Census, it is time that it reviews the way it takes its decisions. Why is it that always it is the GOSS (of Salva Kiir) who looses at the Presidency? Can SPLM work out a formula which can help them win even once?....
Why the United States should support a future State in South Sudan NEW
Most African people rightly believe that the Western World and it's media are bias, unfair and racist at best, especially when the dark-skinned
Africans are concerned. A legitimate case can be made that race has everything to do with it when the West heartlessly and shamelessly stood by
while over two millions people from South Sudan (mostly Christians) were butchered over the...

Editorial:

SPLM 2nd National Convention: Ensuring SPLM Failures and Power Abuses?

Quote: “How many high sounding speeches and declarations do nothing but justify the oppression of the poor, the marginalization of certain ethnic groups, the violence and cruelty of the strong, the further victimization of the victimized.” Cardinal Gabriel Z. Wako, Khartoum, Dec. 2007

Coming almost 21 years after the last one, this Second SPLM/A National Convention in Juba is eerily a relic of State-organized and sponsored communist Soviet Union-era politburo grandiosity.

Typical of the dead communist party system, the “elected” chairman of the State Caucus becomes automatically the State governor. What a way to create ‘dictators’ in the states! In more civilized and democratic societies, the State governor and the party caucus chairman are separate to ensure primarily a check and balance system and avert abuse of power.

One pertinent issue that must now be raised and defined explicitly is the separation of the SPLM from the SPLA. The Army must remain outside of any party politics and neutral and not be always seen as the ‘muscle-boys' of the Movement politicians. In hindsight, perhaps Lt.Gen. Dominic Dim Deng and his SPLA men would be alive today if they'd stayed neutral of SPLM politics.

Furthermore, the exercise from the grassroots up to the election of the more than 1540 delegates was suspiciously undemocratic and grossly manipulated, and an unnecessarily gargantuan waste of money.

Since assuming power in Juba and in the Khartoum’s GONU, the SPLM has been deliberately evasive and secretive of declaration of its assets. This is very important because the lingering suspicion among many southerners is that our scarce money is being illegally diverted from GOSS and passed on to SPLM, which shouldn’t be.

Definitely, it is high time that the people of South, who have been irresponsibly and cruelly denied any development or peace dividends despite the billions of dollars received by President Kiir, should be acquainted of good governance, transparency and the rule of law.

It is therefore imperative that the SPLM tell the people where it got the money from and how much, to launch this classical political exhibitionism.

Already, many within the party have bitterly complained about the absolute and shameless lack of and abuse of due democratic processes in several states and regions across the Sudan.

Apparently, most delegates “elected” are mostly favorable to the leadership of Kiir, to ensure his and that of his sycophants and intriguers assured election.

President Kiir and his SPLM/A “rulers,” in a fit of bloated exuberance and super-ego, have set themselves on the path of yet another era of domination and misrule in the South.

After languorous three-year tenure, marred by poor implementation of the CPA and development deliverance, it is clear that the SPLM has practically failed the people of south Sudan and the marginalized areas.

Corruption, the bane of Kiir’s rule, is phenomenally spirally out of control, because Kiir himself is not willing to control it. Otherwise, how else can he sustain the vital political support and appease his own tribal people, who are claiming almost all credit for 'winning the war of liberation?' Are these people now being rewarded this way?

Ethnic domination, as revealed in the aftermath of the Rumbek plane crash, has become a permanent feature of the political leadership. It is absolutely incredulous to belatedly realize that there were more Twic clan (besides Gogrial county) people of President Kiir in the government than all the combined tribes of both Western and Eastern Equatoria States.

If the SPLM delegates are serious, it should be an opportunity and time for them to stop infighting and indulgence in characteristic ludicrous SPLM political shenanigans, and start solving the myriad of issues confronting the CPA and our fate and future.

Abyei and the North-South Border demarcation are issues more crucial in their resolution than looking forward to participation in the coming national elections, or proliferating an unpopular SPLM and its leader in the north, an agenda sinisterly  pursued by the minority unionists of Yassir Arman in the Convention.

It should be imperative for the delegates to declare that if these two issues and others as  stipulated in the CPA are not resolved, then there will be NO ELECTIONS IN 2009. South Sudan should demand for a binding international arbitration. Otherwise, either the 2011 Referendum on Self-determination is brought forward or else, South Sudan opted for Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

Salva Kiir and his government must not repeat the inexplicable prevarication and dithering on crucial decisions on issues, such as that witnessed during the census debacle, which has proved a total failure in the country.

Tough decisions are required of the delegates. That would be a fitting pay back and recompense to the aggrieved people of the south by these delegations, whose millions are stolen to fund and fete ostentatiously, them delegates in Nyakuron and at the 300 dollars-a-night hotels in Juba.

As some one once said: “Never in the field of human conflict has so few benefited so much from the innocent blood of so many men, women and children.” Don't over milk the South!

OPINIONS:
  • Is Somebody Slowly and Surely Killing the SPLM/GOSS? Immediately following the GoSS announcement that it will not participate in the national census that flopped, many reactions came from numerous sources, some condemning the decision, but others applauded it. Despite the prior prescribed reasons many have rushed to blame the GoSS and the SPLM party for their drastic last minute decision not to carry out the census exercise.....

  • Maneuvers within Sudan’s Census and Attempt to kill Dr. Garang’s Vision of New Sudan The current maneuvers within the Sudan’s national census to omit the questions concerning ethnicity and religion off the census questionnaire is an attempt to do away with Dr. Garang’s vision of New Sudan. If not, then any right minded person need to explain to us why the SPLA went to war with the so called Arabs in northern Sudan...

  • Let's try to reform our people: A Dinka woman's point of view on Madi land issue "Problems require solutions." I heard a lot about the on-going Madi land issue. As a women, I hope my ideas can also contribute to finding a solution. The global Madi land issue is not far from gender crisis in which as a woman, I'm greatly touched. Here's my question: why are we integrating in Equatoria since we've land larger than Equatoria itself?

 

SPLM 2nd National Convention: Ensuring SPLM Failures and Power Abuses? Read Editorial below:

YOUR LETTERS

  • let the people decide

  • Jellaba conspiracy in SPLM

  • More on leadership contest

  • Riek worked against Taban

  • It's Riek Machar's time to lead

  • I'll never endorse Dr. Riak Machar

  • Doubts on Riek Machar

  • Disappointed with fellow Equatorians

  • Can we change Kiir to rescue CPA?

  • Machar urged on to challenge Salva

  • Good to remove Riek Machar

  • Taban Gai shouldn't be SG of SPLM

  • Bravo, bravo, Darfur JEM

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    Verbatim:

    Quote: Mr. Telar Deng called on the SPLM to prove  that the SPLM is an institutional body that adheres to rules and regulations. "If they fail to do that they will not be qualified to lead Sudan during the coming period," he said. He said the methods applied by SPLM at present will lead to a dead-end and will never enable SPLM to become a democratic party. "How can you advocate democracy when you are not democratic?" he asked, stressing that SPLM should reorganize its internal affairs before calling on others to do the same. (Sudanvision, April 5, 08)

    POLITICS & FEATURES

    • Salva Kiir provokes a dangerous situation in the South The First Vice President of the Republic of Sudan, President of the autonomous Government of Southern Sudan and Chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), 1st Lt. General Salva Kiir Mayardit, has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he is not for peace and unity of the people of Southern Sudan by allowing ill-advises from his ethnic group to divide the SPLM and create a rift between him and his Deputy, Dr. Riek Machar Teny....

    • SPLM/GOSS is Politically Handicap Perhaps, I'm exulting previous SPLM political strength under the late leader, Garang de Mabior Atem, or maybe, I see unfolding events through the wrong lens. However, in my humble opinion I believe the SPLM/GOSS is politically disabled. Since 2005 up to date, the SPLM led GOSS never swing any political battle their way against NCP/NIF. This short period of South Sudan’s Government existence, the south and her people have been experiencing endless political defeats in the hand of NIF/NCP...

    • GOSS: The Worst Enemy to Itself Millions of Sudanese from all walks wonder as to why the GOSS suspended the long awaited census which they agreed on earlier. Was the SPLM-led Government in the South not aware of implications of census where questions of Ethnicity and Religions are omitted? Or did they think they can resolve the issue before the census day? Giving their blessing to census where religion and ethnicity are left out from the census...

    • Not, No Man's Land: South Sudan The saying goes that when the Dollar sneezes the rest of the world currencies catches cold. The ethnic strife Kenya went through in the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections caught most of its neighbors, including South Sudan, with cold. South Sudan's almost a replica of Kenya in ethnic diversity and also in similarities of the problems of the kind triggered by election in Kenya; problems...

    • Who's Silencing the South Sudan Leadership? I've learned since my days in high school at that the Islamic Extremists- Muslim Brotherhood -groups must not be underestimated for a host of good reasons: Firstly, they're very  organized and devoted to mastering what it takes for them to achieve and accomplish their goals and objectives. Secondly, they're financially...

    • Justice must be alive in Sudan if peace is genuine: The Abyei Problem The people of Sudan, in particular Southern Sudan, have not witnessed peace and stability under northern tyrannical regimes since Sudan’s independence. It was anticipated that a comprehensive peace agreement would put an end to Sudanese discrepancies, yet many marginalized areas still suffer under the national congress party (NCP) as if there wasn’t peace accord. Dinka Ngok Abyei had been very patient waiting for their...

    • The World Bank and NGOs in South Sudan: Keeping Poverty for the Expatriates' Benefit The World Bank and many NGOs in Southern Sudan are part of the designed continual impoverishment of the locals. The NGOs love crisis and they rush in wherever trouble splash with pretext of mitigating the effects of tragedies and disasters. Darfur is a hot case in point here. The World Bank loves post-war traps and they rush in wherever the war ends to..

    • Exposing Pagan Amum's Conspiracy against the wishes of people of South Sudan Comrade Pagan, when I read your interview with the New Sudan Vision dated Dec.22.2007, you've insulted me, and I couldn't believe how power can change the haunted lamb of yesterday into a vicious wolf directing a salvo of his vengeance guns..

    • Freedom or Slavery: Problematizing The Question of Self-Determination in the Sudan Generally, the term “self-determination” means freedom from external control or influence over decision-making. However, this definition for Sudan’s case is a bit problematic and confusing because it's open to different interpretations because it's only applicable to a country undergoing ‘foreign colonialism.’ What we're concerned with in the Sudan is the so-called “internal colonialism” of the Christian South by...

    • South Sudan: Corruption and the War on Corruption Generally, summing up the entire reason for going to war is not easy but you wouldn’t be wrong if you say: corruption, or eradicate corruption in the Sudan. Now let’s come to our own backyard and leave Khartoum behind. It has been three years, two months and ten days since the historical agreement, the CPA, was signed, and the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) born. But how correctly did the GOSS solve the issue of “bur-juaaz?” I understand, and I hope you do as well, that Juba has a lot to deal with....

    • The Common Good: An Agenda For Post-War Reconstruction Of The New Sudan The post-Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) has become for some Southern Sudanese a period of exercising Epicureanism, the philosophy based on hedonism, thus:- "the victory is won, let us eat, drink and make merry because tomorrow may not come." Some assume that political, social, economic and religious questions for building the Common Good have been answered...

    • The Yoke of Corruption in South Sudan The issues of corruption in South Sudan have become a burning issue that one can't avoid. The bureaucracy in the GOSS is very corrupt. The present Anti-Corruption commission within the GOSS has no power to deal with corruption. If GOSS is serious about eradicating corruption, why have the officials who've been accused of embezzling public funds never been convicted...

    • From Where Did Corruption in South Sudan Come Into Our Lives? Corruption in south Sudan is deeply embedded in the blood of the perpetuators and it goes back to the way the social structure most of the southern tribes is formed. Corruption and the looting of the public funds have come with us a long way as you can see it. It has become the core fabric of our society because as we corrupt and steal, we make our families feed on this immoral money. We're corrupt by the virtue of our tribal...

    • Where is the SPLM taking the South to? In its last meeting in Juba, the SPLM Interim Political Bureau (IPB) resolved on the 11th instant that its ministers in the Government of National Unity (GONU) will have to stay at home until the reshuffle of the SPLM ministers in the GONU is effected. The public should not be misled about the SPLM resolution....

    • Rigging the SPLM Convention: Salva Kiir Mayardit has gone too far! The ‘Garang boys’ are now entrusted to prepare for the second SPLM Convention. There is no doubt that they are now preparing to rig SPLM representation at the forthcoming Convention so that their supporters will be more than absolute majority, thus guaranteeing their control of the SPLM. If..

    • SPLM 2nd Convention: A Hard Test in Democratic Transformation I pay much attention to the SPLM because I value party’s self-evaluation more than finger-pointing. I look at the SPLM as a party that deserves building. Who is going to be the Chairperson and the Secretary-General of the SPLM after the 2nd Convention? Is the candidate who will win the party Chairpersonship going to become the President of the GoSS and automatically..

    • Community Land: A Critical Socio-Economic Factor to Temper with in South Sudan Until I have experienced the sensitivity of land tenure and ownership (like Thomas in the bible when he touched the nails’ holes in Jesus’ risen body), I couldn’t imagine that land was so valuable like the human life itself. When I use to see (as a child) some elders quarrelling over the borders of their villages and demarcation of their farms, I thought it was a simple thing like our children....

    • The Bari Land Issue: It'll lead to their impoverishment For generations the Bari people have watched the depletion of their river resources, sands, rocks, gravels, trees, due to the activities of the growing population of Juba. The reaction of the Bari to the grabbing of their lands is due to the fact that land is central to the history of the Baris. As Juba develops, the Bari have been pushed further and further out of the center..

    • April 2008 General Population Census: Will I be Counted a Southerner? The above title should be the worrying question for every Southern Sudanese who is not right now dwelling in the territory of Southern Sudan (in other part of the Sudan or in other countries in the world) but would want to see the South represented well in the coming..

    • Corruption, Conspiracy and Power Struggle in the SPLM Leadership: Who's going to win this dangerous game? It is a common knowledge in the Sudan that the SPLM is divided into three main groups: (1) ‘Garang boys’ who are sometimes referred to as ‘Garang’s orphans’.  (2) ‘Salva Kiir Mayardit’s supporters, some times referred to as ‘Mayardit’s boys’. (3) ‘Silent majority’.  It is necessary to make a brief background..

    • Pagan and Group Closing Noose on Kiir The appointment of Pagan Amum in GoNU did not come out of the blue. It is the continuation of the US Deployment of its agents in the centre so that while in Khartoum they can coordinate and conspire with the northern progressive political parties, Darfur rebels and elements of Eastern Front, to realize the US plan...

    • SPLM: A Party that deserves Building not Ruining The end of the so-called partnership crisis of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) with the National Congress Party (NCP), and the call off of the seventy-five days “suspension of the activities” of the SPLM cadres in the executive constitutional position of the...

    • Democratic challenges within the SPLM party: Will it break up or survive ? Anyone following up events within the SPLM right from October 11, 2007, when the SPLM and the NCP were at loggerheads over unimplemented items within the CPA will disagree to agree with me that the Party (SPLM) is fighting its own shadow as far as democracy is concerned. The Group led by Dr. Lam/Tellar/Aleu/Machar vs. that of the President. This is not any secret or design to cause trouble...

    • Mammoth Corruption among NGOs, Agencies, Development partners in South Sudan Our partners in development are part and parcel of corruption in South Sudan. Any deal on misappropriation of funds in public offices, nepotism, etc..are pure corruption sources that shouldn’t be left out and must be dealt with at all levels. In Southern Sudan, it’s not uncommon to....

    • South Sudan: Stand up against illegal purloining (stealing)! The danger of purloining inside Sudanese People Liberation Movement (SPLM) is highly a selfish act and needs to be criminalized to pave the way for reconstructions of the region without hesitancy and compromise and forgiveness. SPLM minister and commander purloining should be criminalized as governing...

    • Where does the money of the South go: SPLA Generals and GOSS leaders eating all money The issue of salaries has become a chronic disease that is paralyzing the apparatus of the state in Southern Sudan. Many southerners, including myself, have been complaining all along as to why SPLA soldiers’ salaries are not paid in...

    • How Prepared is the South and SPLM in the coming Elections in Sudan? July is fully accredited with activities by different parties, including the Peace Partners in the System, the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM). There are positive indications and signs that this important exercise...

    • President Salva Kiir must be fully in charge, decisive and firm, else he should quit! There is no doubt that the beloved President of the autonomous Southern Sudan region, Lt. Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit, was and to some degree still is a very humble, selfless liberator of his besieged people. However, now that the General is in a different position, occupying the Region's top post, he must work hard to do away with his.... 

     
     
     

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