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Is South Sudan economic independence at risk?
The question whether South Sudan economic independence is at risk will be answered in the light of the boda boda clash in Bor. Other industries will be discussed in the light of answering this question. The boda boda incident in Bor highlights what is currently happening in South Sudan. This was not an isolated case but a sign of discontent among South Sudanese...
 New State of Politics in Unity State: A Government of the Nuer, by the Nuer, and for the Nuer?
While we acknowledge that your government appears to be making commendable progress, albeit, faltering occasionally as expected, we would like to once again, bring to your attention, as we did before, the alarming rate of Nuerisation of the state government in Unity State or Western Upper Nile State...
 New The Good Old days of our lives as South Sudanese!
I am pretty sure that there are many words that could be used to describe our life experiences. Most of all, I know that all of us have a thing or two that we can be proud of in our past, or what I always referred to as "Good old days."
New Promoting mutual understanding between security organs and media for harmony in South Sudan
Promoting mutual understanding between the security organs and the media for harmony is a concept borne out of an observation of frosty relations between the two bodies. Recently South Sudan has come under international scrutiny after it detained journalists...
New All South Sudanese citizens should get paid monthly
It has been already 7 months since South Sudan was declared an independent state. And since then, more have been probably going on in terms of economic building which is being started from scratch. It is true that South Sudan produces 1,000,000 barrels of oil a day. Most of oil money is being looted daily by officials in Juba and the rest of states...
Unity State should be renamed either Western Upper Nile State or Liech State
The oil- rich State situated at the Western Upper Nile bank bordering the sisterly embattled State of Southern Kordofan (Nuba Mountains) under captivity in the northern political map  as well as bordering the Contested but constitutionally southern territory of Dinka Ngok chiefdom of Abyei; once dubbed ironically by the parasites in the north as a “Unity State”, meaning...
Kuol Manyang Juuk: A typical governor of dead, wounded and displaced persons in the state of Jongulei
The immoral activities which we have witnessed in Jongulei state ever since the signing of the (CPA) have distinctively bred a sense of doubts whether the government of South Sudan has an ability to control its citizens when it comes to a real meaning of national sovereignty...
 Why Juba is courting a velvet revolution in South Sudan
I am not Ngundeng, the Nuer Prophet, who prophesized the unfolding events bedeviling South Sudan—and perhaps Sudan—but I can assert, and with precise certainty, that the federal authority of South Sudan in Juba is unknowingly sitting on a deadly political volcano. It is just a matter of tolling the bell and the youth will soon launch a mass movement ...
South Sudanese must take part in writing their constitution
The Government of the Republic of South Sudan has chosen 45 members Committee to guide the process leading to Final Constitution for the Republic. There has been a Constitution known as the Transition Constitution in place that must be revamped, furnished to meet the demand of the new political dispensation. There've also been problems associated with the types of individuals selected to guide the exercise. But that is a sideway show for another discussion. Some of them are coming...
Battle between South Sudanese insiders and outsiders over the question of who fought the war?
After the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), many South Sudanese who fled the country during the war had instantly began to return to the country they believe is their own. Given the high hopes and expectations of South-Sudanese in all walks of life, after the independence, the accommodation...
Will Khartoum kneel to Juba or adopt brinkmanship policy after Juba halted endless pilfering of its oil?
I candidly laud the efforts of the government of South Sudan in relentlessly pursuing the battle against the Khartoum regime in its endless practices of pilfering South Sudan’s oil. The triumphant decision arrived at by the Council of Ministers in Juba that pronounced the shutdown of the oil production...
Ongoing Jonglei Massacres Epitomize the general lawlessness in South Sudan and Chronic Inability and Incapacity of our Governments
Rule of law and Justice for all is urgently required in our new Republic, if we want to have a peaceful, harmonious and progressive country where citizens can enjoy doing their individual and collective developmental activities without fear for their lives anywhere any time throughout the country...
Who'll bring to an end the tribal fighting: GOSS or International intervention?
Since the protracted Sudanese civil war ended in 2005, South Sudanese communities have turned on each other with viciousness! Both inter and intra-tribal fights have risen. Attack by one community is met with counterattack by the other, and the cycle continues over and over...
Only wicked men rejoice each time women and children are massacred
This 2011/2012 is going to go down in books as the worst Christmas & New Year ever to be celebrated in the history of South Sudanese as an independent people since it was marred by the inter-tribal massacre in Lokwangole and the Pibor counties of Jonglei State. For all practical purposes whether we are Christians or believers of indigenous African religions, as a people of one country...
 
 
 
 
 
 
  New Jonglei Tribal Conflict is NOT Kuol’s Creation
  Immature calls for Jonglei State governor Kuol Manyang Juuk’s resignation won't bring any immediate and sustainable resolution to tribal fighting in that state. Those who wrote articles uttering that the governor ought to be replaced by someone else are naïve and illegitimate in their attempt...
  New President Kiir's security motorcade escort is a threat to Juba residents
  President of the Republic in most cases is always escorted for fear of the unknown. Symbolically, the practice also is about power and importance and not necessarily about protection or security.  In the developing world, some leaders go extra...
  New What a paradox to see the Pro-North, the Islamists and the Re-Unionists’ Review our Permanent Constitution!
  This is not in anyway an attempt to suggest that there do exist some conspiracy theories within South Sudan’s polity, but since  much rat can already be smelt in what is now the earliest steps in the long preparation to write the country’s so-called Permanent Constitution...
  New President Kiir: Act on Jonglei Crisis Now
  Despite South Sudan external problems of oil with Republic of Sudan, internal matters are equally important. Jonglei crisis is a case in point for a quick but decisive action to bring the situation under control. The tribes of Murle, Nuer and Dinka aren’t going to pay a damn attention to any peaceful means of resolving their differences...
  AU Blueprint to resolve South-North oil Dispute is Deficient and Lopsided
  The new proposal advanced by the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP), and designed for a feasible panacea to settle the oil dispute between the Republic of South Sudan and the government of Sudan does perceptibly make intriguing loci for deliberations. On the outset, it...
  How can foreign enigmas in South Sudan be tackled?
  The increased proliferation of foreigners in the country, which in the past lacked strong measures to decipher the wanted and unwanted foreigners in this nation, has led to negative consequences. People, especially the locals, sometimes wonder whether the brothers and sisters from the neighboring Countries are really...
  New South Sudanese need for good governance vs. Ignorance and Utopianism
  As the end of the Cold War marks the demise of global disparity, what becomes paramount in the mess of transitions is the norm of good governance in which the rulers conform, not only to seek public consensus, but to the rule of law which harbours selflessness, concerns and responsibility...
  Oil fields in dispute along the North-South border must halt their operations
  Differences over oil charges between the two countries of the former Sudan have reached an alarming stage. The two sides accuse one another of failing the agreement on the oil negotiations. There have been simmering problems before and after independence of South Sudan, but oil dispute is the latest, yet a confrontation each side doesn’t want to lose...
  Open Letter to Pres. Kiir: South Sudanese Women Groups Working on Constitutional Development
  As concerned citizens and South Sudanese women from the civil society organizations, we're deeply apprehensive about the lack of participation of women in the process of developing a permanent constitution for our new State and at the gross un-representation of diverse female members in the NCRC
  Government should try a different approach to disarmament in Jonglei: Analysis of the best way
  During the war, the people’s dreams and hopes were peace and development at the end of it. But those hopes were dashed when the CPA dawned with more curses than the desired peace dividends. This is most conspicuously seen in Jonglei state..
  Does cabinet’s decision to halt oil production require us to tighten our belts?
  As a matter of brute facts, the decision taken by the cabinet to halt production of oil - though it’s executive decisions- it is indeed a right step which would have gone far earlier than this given the magnitude of mistrusts and breaches of several accords by the NCP in partnership with SPLM...
  South Sudan Oil Business and Leadership Ineptness
  The hottest news about Sudan these days, especially at international arenas is the case of conflict of interests on oil business between the Republic of the Sudan and its separated former territory that has declared its independence on 9th July 2011. The case at focus here is the decision of the council of ministers of the government of...
   
   
   
 
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MORE FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS FROM POLITICS
Who killed Garang?: Questions still abound the circumstances of his death The circumstances which led to the untimely death of the South Sudanese leader, Dr. John Garang de Mabior (pic. left), in a tragic helicopter crash will never be fully known...

Either A Nationwide and Broad-based Emancipation Movement or a Predator State as it is! Whether the Republic of South Sudan can make it this time around to an all embracing Permanent National Constitution

For South Sudan to Have Happy New Year: From Retrospect to Prospects If asked to retreat in order to remember the most profound past events (i.e. retrospect), there is no doubt that many South Sudanese wil..l

2011 Blues & achievements and prospects for 2012 People everywhere across South Sudan have tested the fruits of their struggle albeit at times indirectly due to poor quality of leadership of Kiir Mayardit.....

Open Letter to: Mr. Kiir Mayardit Observing the sequence of the current unwholesome political developments in my country of South Sudan, I feel inclined to offer a contemplative..

Pres. Kiir’s promised 100 days & his engendered political ambience through security puppies It’s been more than 100 days now and we're still waiting for a...

A Nation Lost Between Challenges and Priorities Since the issue of relocating the country’s capital city to Ramciel kept coming on and on, one wonders as to whether there actually exists any sensible government...

‘The Resource Curse’-- Isn’t South Sudan already there? t was a long time ago when the people of South Sudan became aware that they practically sitting right..  

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NATIONAL CRISES IN NEW NATION                                                       

Killing is not a solution, resort to rule of law South Sudan is now an independent country but we the people are yet to be free and the struggle surely must continue until those in Juba...

The ‘Oyee party’ of president Kiir on the constitution The Government of the Republic of South Sudan (GOSS) has made a positive step in introducing the registration of foreigners. The need to have an accountability of the...

All I want for Christmas is for the Ruling Party in Juba to rethink its Domestic Policies The moral message of Christmas is universal and readily clear. The path of liberation from sin and corruption Christ set us as...

South Sudan Army (SPLA): A critical analysis of its performance and ability to provide security The SPLA won the trust and confidence amongst the South Sudanese citizens when it altruistically defended the South...

Is media the ultimate threat to the Government of South Sudan? Unlike those who joined the bandwagon of the newly acquired right to criticise the government..

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Islamic religion versus the National Identity & pride of South Sudanese citizens This piece of article may generate mixed feelings such as emotions, anxiety and antagonism amongst South Sudanese...

Governors Forum in RSS: Who monitors What & When? For the last six years of Southern Government existence, a lot have come and varnished with nothing significant for the common man. And all has been said...

The Freedom to be you under Kiir's dictatorship First it was Onyoti Adigo, then Ngor Garang, then James Okuk, then again Ngor Garang and Dengdit Ayok.  These sequential incarcerations give the lie..

President Kiir: Between the rock and the hard place Pres. Kiir committed himself to democracy (photo Kiir votes) and to clean South Sudan of corruption at the UN General Assembly on 23rd September 2011. As always he might have..

Holding our National Government to Account The South Sudanese people have been too patient with president Kiir since his accidental ascendency to power after the tragic death of his predecessor John Garang...

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Quotable Quotes

  • An Outsider's View of South Sudan: Report from Juba I have worked abroad for many years now, in places such as Afghanistan, Algeria and Kenya to name but a few. I am now resident in Khartoum and have watched with anticipation the emergence of a new country come to fruition. I visited Juba...
  • Joining East African Community is a suicidal action for South Sudan I believe this country lacks directives and national guidance. Individuals in leadership think that joining East African Community is just about having their families, Hummers and V8s in East Africa.  This desire has an element of ignorance and lack of care for future generations...
  • South Sudan has to grow its economy before it can join the EAC trade bloc The expression by South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir of his desire to have South Sudan join the East African Community (EAC) sounded to me, at first, like a good idea. Not any more. Actually, I think it is a downright bad idea from South Sudan’s perspective...
  • South Sudan Collapsing Before It Even Begins?! The President of the Bank of Southern Sudan Mr. Elijah Malok, says that resources of the new emerging state should be planned and coordinated well in order to satisfy all its citizens. “I am afraid the state is collapsing before it even begins. In as long as you aren't straight, the economy won't be straight, because, a few of you'll control the economy. You'll be tycoons. We already know of people who've millions in their accounts, whether in Ivory or Buffalo Banks. Where did you get the money from, it's simply because you got it wrongly. Those who won't have anything to do with the state will go to the street. What's happening in Tunisia, Cairo can easily come here. Let's look at what the resources of the State are. And let's see how they're rationalized to the public so that they're satisfied.” Elijah Malok, speaking Tuesday in Juba to journalists, warned that the current trend of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer may lead the new state to political and socio-economical unrest in the future. USAID-sponsored Sudan Radio Service, Feb. 2/2011
 
 

PRESS RELEASES

  1. LATEST Nuer and Dinka White Army will launch 'Operation Savannah Storm' against Murle

  2. Fangak Youth Union condemns the illegal detention of civilians at the military barracks by the commissioner

  3. Jonglei Peace Initiative: For Immediate Release

Your LETTERS- click here

  • Central Equa. State facing Dinka Bor influx

  • Gov. political immaturity to govern

  • GOSS vehicles embezzlement

  • VP Machar no credit for self-determination

  • All should be involved on insecurity

  • No political will on Jonglei crises

  • Muslim representation not a conspiracy

  • Bentiu should be the name for Unity State

  • Southerners must be first employed

  • No utopian Nuer state in Unity State

  • Build pipeline not refinery in Kenya

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OPINION/EDITORIAL

2011 - Kiir's broken promises, broken vows and the bleak future

QUOTE: “What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.” Former Czech president, Vaclav Havel.

In as much as we’d have liked to keep looking optimistically forward after more than six years of Kiir’s SPLM/A total domination rule in South Sudan nation, there is seemingly a diminished momentum in the actualization of and delivery of the promised peace dividends to the people.

2-Since, the Kiir government is undisputedly a virtual one-man, one-tribe and one-party government, it already emblematizes all the signs of a failed state with still-born institutions of governance and an incapacitated and redundant parliament that’s wholly indebted to the president.

3-Despite the numerous challenges we’re going to confront as a new nation, and the palpable constraints of capacity we’ve, the SPLM/A leader and president of GOSS fallaciously embarked on too many hurriedly misconceived priorities that are now proven unattainable.

4-Contrary to the popular cliché that ‘we’re starting from the scratch,’ which is often peddled by SPLM/A government leaders, South Sudan was fortunately blessed to start a new country with billions of real American dollars accruing from the oil directly paid to the Kiir’s government.

5-But, unfortunately, the paradise promised is still a dream as most of the gargantuan priorities tabled by the ministers and top bureaucrats were more or less projects devised to loot all those billions the GOSS received.

6- So, whilst millions of South Sudanese remained impoverished, their rightful money was carried in broad daylight abroad despite Kiir's often expounded promises and avowals, nationally and internationally to practice good governance:

A- Lost fight on corruption:  i) Overwhelmingly, the main concern raised by international leaders at the recent Washington Engagement meeting was the well-known pandemic of corruption that has characterized and dogged the Kiir’s government since coming to power in 2005.

ii)- Evidently, Kiir is totally incapable to stop corruption that is so blatantly perpetuated by his government simply because those engaging in it are people who, one way or another, have close umbilical connections to the top, and therefore they are totally immunized.

iii)- Up to this point in time, the president has seemingly lost any sense of embarrassment or moral courage to stop and prosecute his very own appointees stealing the people’s money

iv)-Telling more lies won’t end this scourge; if Kiir is really sincere, he’d be the first to declare his own and his family assets NOW before the newest dateline of end of January, 2012, and then have every minister and party officials and the army generals declare theirs after him.

B-Sustainable Development and Stability:  (i) Currently, the paradigm of development envisioned by the Kiir government already veers toward that of a failed state because of wrong development priorities, corruption and inertia on democracy.

ii) Since the country is totally dependent on the one income, oil revenue, the future is predictably un-assured unless other sources of revenues are sooner found to ensure economic and political stability.

iii)- We’d never emulate Kenya as our idol, neither should the GOSS remain too much under the spell of foreign donors, foreign advisors and dubious so-called NGO’s who’ve mesmerized a leadership that in actuality never was prepared to handle the responsibility of running an independent country.

iv)  We’ll never develop with the current bloated centralized government bureaucracy in Juba which consumes nearly 90% of the national government budget while the States where most of the suffering population resides, only get next to nothing.

C-Human Rights Abuses:  i)  Alarmingly, even during this auspicious Christmas season whilst Kiir and his cronies publicly lie about tolerance and respect across the country, the State security organs continue inflicting gross human rights abuses and acts of inhumanity including loss of innocent lives.

ii) As human rights abuses spiral unabatedly, the rule of law is severely curtailed; South Sudanese freedom thinkers sleep uneasily because of Kiir’s bush totalitarianism to suppress freedom of speech.

iii) Where is the freedom when SPLA soldiers randomly shoot and kill Christian worshippers at Pigi without provocation, or when civilian detainees die in government detention centers and prisons and being denied any recourse to trial in the courts of law or the  presumption of innocence?

iv)  Even after more than six years out of the forest, the SPLM/A machinery is still practicing its despicable jungle laws of arbitrary and illegal arrests, torture in Bashir-like ghost houses and state terrorism to subdue any opposition.

D-Security Deterioration:  i) In spite of having a massive Army that consumes more than 40% of the national budget, the prevalence of inter and intra-tribal wars and killing of women and children continue unabated especially in the very areas and amongst the very tribes that most of the government leaders originated from.

ii)  If President Kiir or vice/pres. Machar or these state governors can’t pacify their next of kin to desist from militarism and to seek peaceful means of resolution to their perennial problems, then the obvious question is whether these persons can really be true national leaders.

iii)  In a civilized political environment, the abovementioned would have either voluntarily submitted their letters of resignations or simply voted out by the people. How long will our nation continue to bleed under an incapable tribalized leadership?

D-War with the Sudan: i)  The Year 2011 is ending with grave trepidation due to the evolving permanency of war of attrition along the northern border with Sudan in which President Kiir’s government is highly suspect of abetting their former allies perpetuate cross-border incursions.

ii)-Totally needless, a war with the North so early in our infancy is unnecessary especially when we still have a million fellow citizens un-repatriated from the north and vital issues still remain unresolved with the north.

iii)-A war again with the North is disadvantageous and inevitably devastating since money for deliverance of the peace dividends will be inevitably diverted to the war effort and to supporting the thousands of displaced peoples from those ‘marginalized’ areas.

E-Dysfunctional governance:  i)-As the Year 2011 ends, the Parliament has been exhibiting such sardonic buffoonery and incompetence that it’s totally unable to deliberate and legislate on pending crucial issues.

ii) Whilst the official universities in South Sudan remain non-operational due to budgetary problems, President Kiir ill-advisedly allotted 11 million dollars to the head of Ramciel Capital Relocation commission to built houses for his government officials, not in Ramciel but in Juba.

ii)-If this isn't sheer stupidity, then something awfully mysterious is unfolding in the country. Even if Kiir still has an appetite for Juba, he has barely done nothing to even revitalize the hospital or even improve the supply of clean water or build a sewage system in the city that he still loves not to abdicate.

iii)-But more significantly is the clear desperation prevalent among the young educated South Sudanese who, despite making up the majority of our nation’s population, can’t find a job.

iv)-Today, in the GOSS, what matters is whom you know and not what you know; the situation is further aggravated by the inability of the government to expand the economy so as to create more employment.

v)- It’s utterly deplorable that GOSS is importing those thieving Kenyans as experts when it’d have been cheaper and nationalistic to train its own citizens for those jobs.

vi)- Finally, instead of empowering true South Sudanese to indulge in business or other modes of investment so as to create jobs and improve their own people, the Kiir’s government has cynically facilitated the total takeover of our economy by those Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis adventurers and conmen and -women who are literally fleecing our country.

As Kiir always sermonizes to the people, “it’s too early to see the changes so soon.” How long will the people wait and remain patient? (Dec. 28/2011)

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