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LRA's Kony and other ICC-wanted Sudanese must go to The Hague
We need a safe South Sudan and the LRA’s Kony MUST join the Congolese Bemba at The Hague, to be followed by the notorious Haroun, Ali Kussheb and their protectors. These three most wanted people right now live in the Sudan and under the immediate protection of the Sudanese authorities with immunities provided to them by the Parliaments of Khartoum and Juba. At a glance one can understand that what is in reality happening in the Sudan government versus ICC is not an incidental issue....
Despite their Problems, all Southerners need Each Other
I went keenly through an article written on July 3, 2008, in 'Sudan Tribune Website' by Gatkuoth Lam titled "The 1991 historic move is a blessing to Southern Sudan." The article generated a lot of controversies between Dinka and Nuer because of its reminder of their bitter past. Each side tried to praise or condemn Dr. Garang and Dr. Riek. I found nothing but more truth in this article. I admire and agree with the message conveyed....
Kiir's Disregard for Institutionalism: What's the Judiciary doing about it?
Governments are usually divided into three branches: the executive, legislative and the judiciary. In normal situations each branch operates independently of each other through the principles of the separation of powers and checks and balances. President Kiir has defied all these norms of good governance and usurped the powers of the three branches into his own hands thereby becoming an authoritarian leader....
President Kiir Rules By Decrees: A Point of View
In the controversial Rumbek SPLM leadership council meeting in 2004, Salva Kiir criticised Dr. John Garang for being greedy, a dictator and a murderer and absolved himself from all the mess that characterised the SPLM/A since its formation in 1983. Unashamedly he presented himself as the “good Guy” and Dr. Garang as the bad guy. Many of the attendees by then knew that Salva was not honest particularly to himself. Many were asking off record such questions as: can Kiir tell Southerners
Forming an Effective Nonprofit Entity:  A scenario that does not solely require Commitment but Understanding NEW
The center point for writing this lengthy article is to tip some concerns that engross in shaping an Effective Nonprofit organization from other organizations. The author will try not to censure other entities for not becoming sufficient enough to be considered effective since it is not the intent of the article; the difference between the Effective Nonprofit from other organization sectors and what involves to have the Effective Nonprofit organization will then be explored....
The Assault On PAGAN AMUM is and assault on Democracy and freedom of speech NEW
The Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) has finally done what was expected of it in the first place, to denounce the systematic and relentless assault on its Secretary General and Federal Minister for Cabinet Affairs Ustaz Pagan Amum, by the most vicious bigots of political machine of the ruthless and brutal regime of tyrant Omar Al-Basheer, in the wake of the aftermath of his most publicized remarks that Sudan is a “Failed and corrupt state....
The Selfish Domination Thinking of Arab Northerners Toward the Southerners must Stop
The Arab Northerners' domination toward the Southerners and the rest of Sudanese people would be uplifted by nothing but transforming the Mighty SPLA force into a professional army.  It was not really a surprising to those who believed in the GOSS and its military department (SPLA Affairs) by announcing the proposal of Southern Sudan’s Air Force. However, it was a huge shock from our northern neighbor (NCP) and it’s military leaders of hearing this kind of development....
President Salva Kiir's Abuse of power and Rule by whim in Malakal NEW
In the recently held SPLM Convention in Juba, General Salva Kiir was unanimously elected the Chairman of the SPLM. It is general knowledge that that convention was rocked by many internal squabbles of different sorts: factional, personal ambitions, conspiracies, power struggle, etc. For any leader of such desperate views and positions to succeed, he must try his utmost to be seen as fair and a father to all, so to speak. What took place in Malakal yesterday is the most glaring example not only of that bias but more....
Geopolitics: Governance, Money and Elitism- do they promise a future democracy in the Sudan?
Sudan has been waiting for decades and far behind in the building of full participatory democracy since colonial era of Africa partition and border demarcations. This has made Sudan an autocratic state and tyrannical nation internationally. The call for elections next year will suggest and determine whether Sudan will establish democratization and constitute fairness in the elections. If that dream election happens to be fair then we can bet that we -the Sudanese have moved toward civil...
Blaming a tribe: Important ideas wrongly presented
In simple language, most of our people in the South Sudan form very helpful ideas in their minds, but the surprising amount of wrong presentation of those important ideas ruin their reputation. Should someone wonder how this topic came into its structure, one should not take several miles searching for the evidence of my argument far away from Gabriel Gardluch Mech...
 SPLA Air Force: Hope for South Sudan Independence
The White Paper on Defense, which established South Sudan Air Force (SSAF) under the historic name of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) heightened my spirit and gave me the necessary motivations for the future of South Sudan; the awaited richest African State in the heart of the continent. This is the best Bill that has been ever passed by the Interim Southern Sudan Assembly (ISSA) since its inception in 2005....
Would Sudan’s inflexible National Congress Party (NCP) honor a World Court’s Verdict on Abyei?
Sudan’s inflexible and tetchy National Congress Party (NCP) had long repudiated and blatantly refused to honour the ABC document, insisting and flimsily arguing that the syndicate had exceeded their mandate in producing the report. The obdurate NCP stalwarts now believe that they will triumph and clutch Abyei through a Court sanction. This appears to be an erroneous assumption, as Khartoum does not possess convincing claim and argument on Abyei....
Dr Machar, a self-proclaimed Psychiatrist, thinks he can handle the crazy Kony of LRA
Since the day the citizens of the Western Equatoria State of the Sudan came out on an overall demonstration against the ills of the Ugandan's Lord’s Resistance Army rebels on the 10th of June 2008, in the States capital of Yambio, little has been achieved. The inertia demonstrated by the SPLM-dominated GOSS towards this extremely important issue stems from the basic fact that the authorities in Juba in the person of Dr. Riek Machar
Why is it difficult for GOSS to enact enabling laws?
I had chance of talking to people from different commissions in the government of Southern Sudan here in Juba. One thing seems to be hindering the work of almost all the commissions is the lack of enabling Bill/Act. Most of these commissions have actually drafted their laws using professional lawyers and advocates in this country. These Bills/Acts have been forwarded to the concerned authorities of the government of Southern Sudan for endorsement, but to no avail....
U.S. government policies towards South Sudan need to change
No doubt that the people of south Sudan remain grateful and appreciative to the role played by the US government under president George W. Bush (photo, Bush and Kiir) in bringing  peace to the war torn south Sudan by exerting pressure on the warring parties to sign what is today known as the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). What I'd suggest at this stage, would be for the US to seek a more realistic policy in the Sudan. These....
Abyei Roadmap incomplete: Disarm the Misseriya Militia A Viewpoint
Following the recent clashes between the SPLA and the joint might of Sudan Armed Forces with the Misseriya Militia, the presidency of the Sudan came up with a ‘roadmap’ peace solution that will ensure stability in the area. This deal has fooled the people of the Sudan, the presidency itself and the international community in failing to include in the roadmap the disarmament of the Misseriya..
Position of the communities of Jonglei State on the Development of Oil in Jonglei: Petition to Pres. Salva Kiir
The French Oil giant, Total, recently announced that it was resuming operations in Block 5B. We've no objection; in as far as the decision of National Petroleum Commission is concerned and as stipulated in Articles 3.1.5, 3.1.6 and 3.1.7 respectively, of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement [CPA]. It's deeply disturbing that ‘‘persons enjoying rights in lands that are to be developed’’ by Total have neither...
We Bring to You The Complete List of Newly-elected Members of the SPLM Politburo ....CLICK HERE TO READ
Open Letter to GOSS: Who is to blame for the moral decay in South Sudan?
A MUST READ ARTICLE: One Sunday I heard one of our church leaders complaining bitterly to God about the moral corruption that has hit our country, but on behalf of God, this blame, complaint or prayer, is very unfair and misdirected. Is He to blame also for anything wrong with our physical, social and political lives? I'm hereby redirecting this prayer from God to GOSS, our government of southern Sudan, especially the organ that claims to be responsible for the laws that safeguard the lives of the citizens. As a mother, I know that a family is the nucleus, the foundation of a nation. This is the nation I refer to as collapsing from moral decay. For instance....
Editorial:

Open Letter to Pagan Amum: Resign your ministerial post in Khartoum or just Shut up!

Quote: “By criticizing government policies, the media not only serves the nation, but helps the rulers correct themselves,” an Asian reporter, 2007

It is oddly surprising that you have not so far already handed in your resignation letter to Jellaba Arab President Bashir of Khartoum following your public condemnation of his very government you’re sworn to serve in “honor and respect,” which you somewhat correctly labeled as a “failed and corrupt” state.

I dare you to quit instantly! Otherwise, how can you, Mr. Pagan Amum, SPLM Secretary-general and Politburo member, reconcile with yourself and continue to justify, both morally and ethically, your continued subservience, humiliation and acquiescence under such a “failed and corrupt” system?

Indeed, Mr. Secretary-general, your daring pronouncement was the first ever of its kind by any serving appointed minister from the South Sudan in the Jellaba Arab so-called national governments of Khartoum under various presidents or prime ministers.

But, really, Mr. Pagan, by continuing to embarrassedly cling to the job, I am prompted to ask, perhaps on behalf of other millions of southerners and the marginalized: was your motive to take the high moral ground or was it a simplistic and cheap show of political hypocrisy?

Anyhow, whether it is one or the other, frankly you, as one of the untested political leaders now unfortunately and undeservedly forced down our throats, literally and figuratively speaking, you haven’t demonstrably shown the kind of moral and ethical leadership so far.

When I said you are perhaps the first ever serving minister from the south to label the Jellaba Arab Khartoum government as such, it isn’t to praise you in anyway. Because, who exactly doesn’t know that all previous Northern governments since independence in 1956, but more especially, the current NCP of El Bashir, have all been “failed and corrupt” governments?

What really transpired since your appointment to prompt you to audaciously vocalize your now famous condemnation? Yes, I asked this question because other lesser mortals from the south, including your SPLM/A heroes and heroines, have eagerly looked upon such appointments in the Khartoum governments in whatever insignificant portfolios, as a blessing for their selfish interests, to go and corruptly amass wealth “up to the head.”

Certainly, I won’t be surprised if your other bewildered SPLM/A colleagues silently serving in that failed and corrupt government, have not distanced themselves from you, by looking at you as an embarrassment, a spoiler and an aberration.

Immediately after appointment as minister in Khartoum, the Jellaba Arab government has graciously and gratuitously, pampered you the southerners ministers with dream houses, cash and other ostentatious and "corrupt" perks that many have not declined. “To hell with morals or ethics—we’ve to make up for lost time and suffering,” that is the common explanation our southern ministers give for their indulgence in all the corruption opened up for them by Khartoum.

Mr. Pagan, I would very much like to give you the benefit of the doubt that you must, as an exception, heroically rejected previous enticements showered on you by the Jellaba government. But then there was the story of the 60 US million dollars allegedly donated by El Bashir to the SPLM, which came to the surface in Juba in 2007….but that is still a mystery rather be left buried and forgotten.

But should you in any way have benefited from the system immorally and unethically, I dare you to give those things up and walk away. Donate every illicit wealth your got to some poor souls in Malakal, please. 

Mr. Pagan, here is a perplexingly significant  contradiction. Your very SPLM/A leader, Lt.Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardiit, has, on numerous occasions, encouraged southerners who receive El Bashir “sell-out” monies to just pocket the blood money and then refuse to fulfill the intended undertaking.

Personally, I don’t accept your leader’s immoral advice. You are certainly fully aware of the massive and endemic corruption that Mr. President Salva Kiir himself has systematically abetted, accepted and have done nothing much to minimize or eradicate even a little bit in South Sudan.

Here is, near and dear to your good-meaning heart, a “failed and corrupt” SPLM/GOSS of President Kiir in the South, which has disappointedly failed to deliver the peace dividends promised to the suffering but resilient compatriots in the south.

Your political party, the SPLM, allegedly continues to be a financial liability on the meager resources of the south, as we continue to wonder what your budget is or what the sources of your revenues are. There has never been any transparency in that honored organization under your able leadership as the Secretary-general.

My final advice to you: Come back home and rectify the impending ‘failed and corrupt’ South Sudan nation now under the mismanagement of the SPLM. Editor Comment...Click Here

OPINIONS:
  • The Marginalized Toppling the Centralized: Delusion of ‘New Sudan’ Ideology As the idea for writing this article lingered in my mind, a young friend and a grand father of mine told me to stop writing on sensitive issues.  The young friend told me that I have to be quiet and timid until I become a well off person. If silence is gold when there are pending issues of equitable development to be addressed, then I don't want to wear that gold. If expressing one’s ideas freely ...

  • SPLM 2nd Convention: Nothing new was achieved The much-awaited SPLM convention did finally take place in a mess of contradictions, political blackmail, tribal alliances, several groupings and all the like. After long heated debates that went for several days and long hours, finally the convention came into an amicable end. But question is, what was Southerners waiting to see? What were their expectations? The convention went as predicted by those who wrote earlier that it will be rigged..

  • 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...

  • 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.....

 

Open Letter to Pagan Amum: Resign your ministerial post in Khartoum or just shut up!     Read Editorial below:

YOUR LETTERS

  • Why should South fight for Abyei?

  • Bye-bye to past war behaviors

  • SPLA Air Force: Peace needs power

  • Who're are the real culprits?

  • Dismiss UPDF but control LRA with deadline

  • SPLA: Pay soldiers or expect insecurity

  • Pagan rumored to have resigned his post

  • Breach of democratic rights normal for Kiir

  • SPLM officials have a lot to answer for

  • Old dog doesn't learn new tricks, Pres. Kiir

  • Kiir remote-controlled by Pagan

  • Pagan exercising his freedom of speech

  • One day, Dinka will leave Madiland

  • Torit brothers- Don't be driven by tribal hatred

  • Robberies everywhere in the south

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    Editorial Cartoon

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    Who wants UNITY? "Some years ago we looked at the unity of Sudan as an attractive option; the way to maintain the unity of Sudan is with the help of you here in Egypt and the Arab world in general"...Dr. Garang to Egyptian president, 05

    Pres. Salva Kiir, June, 2008: "Unity of Sudan is the basic option for all the South Sudanese  in their different components. The political cooperation between North and South...as well as support of Egypt and Arab countries, would make unity attractive in the South." Speaking to Egyptian delegation.


    POLITICS & FEATURES

    • 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.... 

     
     
     

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