Featured 22 May 2013
A C-turn and SPLM is full swing into Regionalism
Regionalism has made it back into the South Sudanese politics, thanks to the leadership of the ruling SPLM that sees these as a way to grainer regional loyalties before the 2015 general elections. So far three regional conferences have already been sponsored and held by the SPLM ruling party that brought together party leaders from the three states that comprise the Greater Equatoria Region. But although other quarters did voice some criticism to the holding of these conferences, it’s now clear that the top leadership in the country was indeed not only directly involved in planning and executing them, but is in fact the primary beneficiary. We don’t need any more evidence to prove that these regional gatherings are being used by the SPLM as alternatives to the party’s national conference (or so-called convention). The resolution adopted at the Greater Bahr el Ghazal Region’s first ever re...
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Dr Barnaba Marial: Communitarian and prudential politics of...
Dear Dr Barnaba Marial, Minister of information: The birth of the R...
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The Fight of the Beasts in the luak
The hedonistic, unholy and belligerent three decades old sacred cow named Oyee has become haunt...
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Federalism based on Regionalism vs that based on partisanism...
Lately, I have been monitoring the political development in South Sudan and I am in awe on how ...
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The Case for Reconciliation as the Mandate of the Church in ...
One is truly left bemused when one reads statements against the assignment by President Mayardi...
Politics
The deficit of civility and travesty of Self-determination in South Sudan
The insidiousness of violent civil strife in South Sudan (SS) is undermining all local, national, regional, and international confidence, in the peoples of SS abilities, to look after themselves by themselves within the remit of the nascent sovereign Republic of South Sudan (RoSS). These communities of interests are justifiably perturbed by the foreseeable unstable fu...
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South Sudan needs visionary leaders not some habit...
The wonderful readers may agree with me that the problems of the nasce...
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The South Sudan’s Coming Apocalyptic Election of...
Throughout the ages, various self-declared prophets have warned about ...
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Thumps up for officials who speak against corrupti...
Let’s start by answering the basic question of whether the SPLM led...
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Reflection on Justice Peter Sule’s indefinite in...
It is now one and half year since Sule’s indefinite incarceration. ...
National
National unity: A project for each and every South Sudanese
South Sudan has just attained independence from an imposed unity that had failed miserably to take into account the objective realities on the ground. In the old Sudan people did not take national unity as a project for each and every Sudanese. Greed and insensitivity preoccupied people’s minds and the result was the breakup of Sudan into two independent nations, t...
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Oil: Is it a curse or a blessing in South Sudan?
In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern...
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Delaying federalism is to invite regionalism in RS...
As the SPLM politics in South Sudan starts to get terribly tribal, the...
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Worrying signs that South Sudan has leaders but no...
The oil in South Sudan has started to flow again. This means South Sudan will soon see substant...
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Gov. Kuol Manyang: South Sudan rulers are birds of...
It's socially, culturally, morally, religiously, politically, and in s...
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South Sudanese proletariat must be united irrespective of tribe, religion or political affiliation
The Second Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the Central Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. It was largely a continuation of the first Sudanese Civil war of 1955 to 1972. Although it originated from Southern Sudan, the Civil war spread to the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile, it lasted for 22 years. Roughly two million people have died as a result of war, famine and disease caused by the conflict. Four million people in Southern Sudan were displaced at least once (and often repeatedly) during the civil war. The civilian death toll was one of the highest of any war since world war two. The conflict officially ended with the signing of peace Agreement in 2005. The war was often characterized as a fight between the Central government expanding and dominating peoples of the periphery. Raising allegations of marginalization or rather as ethnic conflict (Arab...
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Justice thrown away: Who’s who in the SPLM?
In South Sudan, barrages of earlier and current offences by senior SPL...
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Education as an apparatus for quelling tribal conf...
South Sudan is a country characterized by serious and weighty brutal t...
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Nationalism or Tribalism in South Sudan?
It’s a no doubt that there are a total of sixty four (64) South Sud...
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A Petition letter from Buya and Didinga Community ...
Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan, ...
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Equatoria States Governors: Shameless hypocrites or SPLM stooges?
Editorial Analysis MAY/12/2013, SSN; Whilst the combined stature of Equatorias' trio of Governors Bakasoro, Wani and Lobong can't certainly match that of world-famous South African Archbishop Emeritus D...
SPLM party a wrong platform to stage a brutal dictatorship leadership
BY: J. Nguen, CANADA, MAY/9/2013, SSN; “Truth alone will obtain a lasting victory” –Antoine Nicolas. Human’s perfectibility before the law and above all else is what defines truthfulness and...
Attaining sustainable national unity through federal system of government
BY: Jacob K. Lupai, JUBA, MAY/01/2013, SSN; In the old Sudan, South Sudan had demanded a federal system of government to sustain national unity. However, the narrow minds of the old Sudan rejected the S...
The Battle for Winning the Hearts and Minds of South Sudanese
BY: Tongun Lo Loyuong, SOUTH SUDANESE, APR/29/2013, SSN; Recent political developments in South Sudan are promising and encouraging. The series of Republican decrees issued by the President of the Repub...
The Moral Discrepancy at Higher Echelon of Political Power in South Sudan
The Moral Discrepancy between Traditional Ethical Values and Practice at the Higher Echelon of Political Power in South Sudan BY: Tongun Lo Loyuong, FINLAND, AP/23/2013, SSN; While we are at it, kind...
Tribal war in South Sudan is unavoidable in 2014-2015
BY: Koul Bol Deng, JUBA, APR/19/2013, SSN; In this article, I would like to emphasize the title “Tribal war in South Sudan is unavoidable” and justify why war is unavoidable in South Sudan. I’m no...
The President and his advisors have created unnecessary political tension in the country
BY: Juma Mabor Marial, lawyer, JUBA-SS, APR/17/2013, SSN; It is two now days since President Kiir issued his presidential decree No. 3/2013 withdrawing the delegated powers from the vice president, Rie...
Why South Sudan’s liberation is gone awry: Reloading the debate
BY: Tongun Lo Loyuong, HELSINKI, MAR/31/2013, SSN; In view of some of the counter-discourses that have surfaced since we last expressed our opinion on why South Sudan’s liberation is gone awry, it see...
Kiir-iminality and misrule by Generals: Is South Sudan forever doomed?
QUOTE: "In the absence of inspired leadership, the more powerful side wears down the weaker." Bevin Alexander EDITORIAL ANALYSIS: MAR/28/2013, SSN; If ever the word 'kiir-iminality' could be incorpor...
A Federal system and Kokora are two different things
BY: Jacob K. Lupai, JUBA, MAR/18/2013, SSN; The concept that a federal system and kokora are two different things is to address some confusion in people’s minds. In the context of South Sudan some peo...
The change we need in South Sudan!
BY: Justin Ambago Ramba, UK, MAR/17/2013, SSN; Change is indeed needed in South Sudan and this is a fact which no two should differ on. Equally concerned compatriots have made this very observation ea...
Why South Sudan’s liberation is gone awry
BY: Tongun Lo Loyuong, RSS, MAR/13/2013, SSN; The renowned and influential non-violent philosopher and activist and the founding father of India, Mahatma Gandhi, is widely cited to have admonished tha...
Worrying signs the 2015 elections in South Sudan may be done without a new permanent constitution in place: Advice to government
BY: SINDANI IRENEAUS SEBIT, NAIROBI, KENYA, MAR/13/2013, SSN; When the President of South Sudan issued a decree on 9/1/2012 appointing a Constitution Review Committee (CRC) that would write the permanen...
Federalism in South Sudan is the only way-out of the current political quagmire
BY: John Omunu, RSS, MAR/06/2013, SSN; Khartoum has always been a unitary state with political power vested in the center. We, the oppressed people of Southern Sudan then rejected their centralized syst...
Worrying signs that may lead to another call for self determination by Equatorians: Advice to government
BY: DR. SINDANI SEBIT, Kenya, MAR/01/2013, SSN; It appears Equatoria is being forced to call for the right to self-determination in South Sudan. I have this strong feeling because it appears the Governm...
