By Okech Francis South Sudanese aid workers face a new dilemma while delivering humanitarian assistance-ethnic based attacks which are already threatening to disable the distribution of aid in a very difficult country. Delivering aid across the country hugely depended on these local group of people who are now being battered and brutalized by members of […]
By Staff Writer South Sudan’s Pound is strengthening against the US Dollar, a month after the country’s central bank began auctioning $5 Million dollars weekly to commercial banks and forex bureaus in the capital Juba. The country’s apex bank says it intends to reduce inflation. However, many residents of the capital, Juba say prices of goods […]
By Garang Malak, Juba Inter-communal clashes and road attacks in various parts of the country have left at least twenty-six people dead on Friday alone according to local authorities. As per data acquired by Juba Echo on Saturday, local authorities say they are concerned that there is increase in insecurity across the country. Most […]
By Okech Francis Trucker Al Hadji Mohamed hits the road between South Sudan’s capital Juba and the border town of Nimule-his prayers are he does not fall preying to kidnappers and murderers marauding the 195-kilometer stretch. “That is the one thought that keeps lingering on my mind, the fear of being kidnapped or even killed,” […]
By Awan Achiek A South Sudanese political analyst called on the government to establish anti-riot police units to prevent, combat and eradicate communal violence in the country. Inter-communal fighting has been on the rise across South Sudan. It is often triggered by cattle raids and child abductions, and heightened by ethnic tension and revenge attacks […]
By Okech Francis Ululations of joy rang across South Sudan when President Salva Kiir and rebel leader turned First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar signed an accord in 2018, to finally end a bitter crisis that sent the country on its knees. That was a second pact since fighting broke out in the oil-rich country […]
Speaking to Juba Echo via phone from Yambio town on Thursday, Western Equatoria State Information and Communication Minister, Hon. William Baiki said the three day peace rally which began on Monday this week was constructively led by Governor Alfred Futuyo Karaba and the National Minister of Public Service Bangasi Bakasoro. He dismissed earlier media reports […]
An economist is warning that the current increase in the level of insecurity along major highways across South Sudan will result in rise in commodity prices and it will negatively affect residents. Abraham Matoch an Economist and Vice Chancellor of Dr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology said if cargo trucks don’t come […]