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• War against the North isn’t over The war against the North or Khartoum, my fellow Southerners, isn’t over yet. Signs and symptoms are what you read on Abyei and what other armed groups in the North are doing. Don’t take it for granted that we have the army, the money and the people as well as the international community to foil anything that might affect the CPA. We...

• Who Makes the Laws in South Sudan THE president of Southern Sudan sits at the top of one of the great spoils systems in democratic politics. In addition to the usual power to place allies in ministries, he has more than jobs in his gifts, including some crucial offices in state-controlled companies such as Petroleum Commission, Sudan’ powerful energy giant. The political value of these baubles is not all great since the president doesn’t have to work hard to...

• Corrupt Process for Appointments in the Government of South There is currently a lot of murmuring and discontent with the process of appointments within the various departments of the Government of Southern Sudan. While some of these may be motivated by selfish political interests, a lot of them are not. Some of these criticisms come from very responsible, professional people who have served the movement for twenty years...

• LRA Menace in Western Equatoria: Why is SPLA doing nothing about it? The Lost Ruthless Animals (LRA) of Joseph Kony a.k.a. Uganda's the Lord’s Resistance Army, has for the last few years undergone successions of changes which at the present makes it a real regional threat to the neighboring countries of South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. Why did the SPLM approve and allow this ruthless internationally wanted criminals into the once peaceful Western Equatoria State? Is this SPLM/A's reward to the...

• 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...

• Us Against Them: South must learn the past for a better future As we struggled as a country, it's very understandable to say that we don't appreciate our history nor understand our struggle. As corruption, nepotism, scandals, and tribalism are becoming major catastrophes of South, many of us just wonder what is going to become of us if we become actually an independent nation. But it is very easy to blame our leaders without being able to understand why they are failing us....

• Is the CPA in jeopardy because of Abyei? First, I would like to register my sincere condolence for the people of Abyei, the civilians and SPLA soldiers who have died in the attack. Waging the war in Abyei is a justified war because it is the right time for SPLA to retaliate for the attack launched by the Sudan Army Forces (SAF). The objective of National Congress Party (NCP) is to threaten the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) fragility by engaging in a fight with SPLA through their sponsored militias. This kind of tactic is very astonishing to people of Abyei and SPLA...

• 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?

• Three Years Later: The Future of South Still Gloomy Three years later, the future of a person remains grim in Sudan. Three years later, the innocent people are continuing to die from gun shot. Three years later, the Sudanese civilians, are moreover being deliberately displaced from their homes, by complex soldiers. Three years later, their villages are still being burned out. Three years later, there is yet suffering of Sudanese, displacing of civilians, and burning of villages happening before us. Three years later....

• SPLM Democracy: Leaders Choosing Their Own Voters Actually, from what occurred in Juba the SPLM failed the test by mocking the awaited democracy. My unceasing wonder is: why do we have to waste a lot of money, much time, more energy and valuable human lives just for a pretentious democracy that is camouflaged with dictatorial tendencies? Why do SPLM leadership preach what they do not live? Why don’t we be sincere with our condition and kick democracy back to where it was imported to us into Africa and to Sudan?

• 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..

• 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...

• 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...

• 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....

• 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..

• 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....

• 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....