By Richard Sultan As South Sudanese work up to prepare for merrymaking on a Saturday morning, journalist Chuol Jany’s plans were to follow up on an interview he scheduled with a news source. Things however took a twist when Juba City Council had other plans-a huge demolition exercise that weekend. Chol got wind of it […]
By Richard Sultan When COVID-19 hit South Sudan in early 2020, life simply went banana. The tales from China and Europe were harrowing with tens of thousands, and later hundreds of thousands of deaths on a daily basis. Without treatment, the World Health Organization was forced to announce a global pandemic. Countries joined health organizations […]
By Deng Machol The number of South Sudanese affected by heavy floods in the country is into their hundreds of thousands and is re-displacing thousands of people returning home from an earlier displacement. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said heavy rains have damaged infrastructure, limiting physical access to areas affected […]
By Denis Elamu Ten years of China-South Sudan exchanges that commenced prior to independence of the latter in 2011 have transformed careers of several students in the youngest nation. Biar Chagai Atem, a 31-year-old South Sudanese is among the early group of students who traveled in 2010 to attend undergraduate studies in China. He went […]
By Liatile Putsoa, IOM South Sudan Media and Communications Officer Malakal – Twenty-six-year-old Nyaluok Malith was out in the fields plucking wild leaves to cook when a neighbour’s child came running, shouting, ‘Mama, come home, come home. The baby has been hurt’. Nyaluok says her heart sank immediately, even though it was not clear who […]
By Denis Ejulu At least 20,000 local farmers are set to benefit from the new Agricultural Markets, Value Addition and Trade Development (AMVAT) Project launched on Thursday by the UN Food Agricultural Organization (UNFAO). The project funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to a tune of 14 million U.S dollars will provide farmers and […]
By Richard Sultan It’s a bitter cock tale of problems that are countering peace efforts in South Sudan where the government and several opposition groups are implementing a pact aimed at ending six years of crisis that brought the oil rich nation to its knees. Three years after the pact was reached, communities are still […]
By Simon Deng Women traders in South Sudan capital, hit by economic problems chose to reduce cost by choosing locations on roadsides to sell their commodities, but the idea is not being bought by the authorities in Juba who have gone about running them down. Along several streets and roads in the capital and the […]
While nutrition centres provide therapeutic food to treat malnutrition, mothers are counselled on the nutritional benefits of breastfeeding By Robin Giri Maluakon, South Sudan – The shy mother turns her head the other away when asked how often she breastfeeds her child. Her child lies limp on her arms, as she is prodded again by […]
By David Malaak Ring Deng Mangong is not a normal child but despite his disability, the 11-year-old boy born without arms, has faced the challenge with heads high. Mangong, who goes to school in Abyei on the border of South Sudan and Sudan, has learned to write with his feet. “I sit at the window, […]