By Staff Writer The Acting Managing Director of the Nile Petroleum Corporation (NILEPET), Stanslaus Tombe says challenges like lack of awareness and budget allocation to the national ministry of environment and forestry is hindering execution of environmental projects in South Sudan Speaking at an event to mark the World Environment Day on Saturday, Stanslaus Tombe […]
Juba City Deputy Mayor for Infrastructural Development, Thiik Thiik Mayardit has been accused of dictating to the Veterans Security Service (VSS) Company the wages and work conditions for employees. This past week, Thiik Thiik Mayardit is said to have orchestrated a violent attack on two English ‘expatriates’/foreign managers at the VSS headquarters in Gudele in which the […]
By Simon Deng The Minister for Gender, Child and Social Welfare has urged the newly reconstituted parliament to pass the Gender-Based Violence Bill into law. Ayaa Benjamin Warrile, said that the GBV bill will help reform, consolidate and harmonize laws and provisions related to GBV including domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, harmful customary […]
By John Agok The Association for Media Development in South Sudan or AMDISS has on June 4 unanimously nominated its former seven executive members instead of voting. Mary Ajith, the former Chair maintained her position, Josephine Achiro became a new Secretary General among other five executive members for the second term of roughly two years. […]
By Staff WriterSouth Sudan’s government on Friday resolved to prosecute those that will be found with fake academic documents.“The resolution was passed to the effect so that these people are traced, arrested and taken to court because if you are honest person, you are not supposed to acquire fake documents and use it for employment […]
By Awan Achiek COVID-19 vaccination will commence next week, Saturday, June 12 in Warrap State of South Sudan, according to a government official. This came few days after the state received 6,800 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines from the national Ministry of Health in Juba on June 3rd. Ring Deng Ading, Warrap State Minister of […]
Thirty officers from the Juba Central Prisons are attending a capacity building training in Juba this week. The exercise ends on Friday today. The workshop brought together 18 males and 12 are female officers. The training being conducted by the Justice and Human Rights Observatory (JAHRO) is focusing on equipping the officers with skills on […]
By Okech Francis South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria has stopped for a week, the operations of all United Nations and other agencies’ operations in the State capital, Torit, after aggression from disgruntled youths. The youths, the Monyomiji, a Lotuko word for “the ruling youths” are displeased with the agencies for allegedly employing foreigners from regional countries […]
By John Agok The Special Representative of the Secretary General in South Sudan has called for inclusivity in the on-going Permanent Constitution –Making process. Mr. Nicholas Haysom echoed a call on Thursday during his first ever press conference in Juba where he urged the peace parties to be committed towards implementing the agreement’s provisions. “Constitution – […]
By John Agok Police in Wau Town of Western Bahr El Ghazal State have handed over the recovered properties of the Catholic Diocese Bishop after the arrest of the suspects. On Saturday, the police arrested seven suspects believed to have been behind stealing at Catholic Bishop’s Residence in Wau. “We recovered 70,000 SSP, 20,000 USD and […]