By Abebe Haile-Gabriel, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa With Moctar Sacande, Coordinator of the Action Against Desertification Programme in Support of Africa’s Great Green Wall, FAO’s Forestry Division and Danilo Mollicone, technical officer, FAO’s Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment. Africa’s world-first environmental data […]
By Onen Walter Solomon Part of a Rapid Credit Facility the International Monetary Fund provided South Sudan in 2020 were diverted to individuals, a report from the country’s auditor general said. The country received $52.33 million in November 2020 meant majorly for payment of salaries amid an economic setback caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According […]
By Okech Francis South Sudan has slashed the 2021-2022 fiscal year budget by more than half due to funding shortfall to run an earlier proposed budget, the Deputy Minister of Finance, Agok Makur said. The crude producing nation’s government prepared a new budget of 287.04 billion South Sudanese Pounds ($700 million) way below a 613 […]
By Richard Sultan South Sudan has suspended plans to stop production of its crude oil after export from Port Sudan on the red sea resumed on Monday, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Petroleum Awow Daniel Chuang said. Tribal protestors closed the terminals at the sea port and blocking all exports of crude from both […]
By Tapeng Michael South Sudan government has agreed to a new 2021-2022 fiscal year budget of 287.04 billion South Sudanese Pounds ($700m) way below a 613 billion SSP ($1.8bn) it first proposed in July. According to Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth, the estimates will be funded through oil and nonoil revenues as well as external […]
By Okech Francis Protests in Port Sudan in neighboring Sudan has blocked exports of crude oil from neighbouring South Sudan, South Sudan’s information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth said. Protestors closed Port Sudan and the airport on Thursday leaving South Sudan stuck with its crude exports, Lueth told reporters in Juba on Friday. “With the closure […]
By Onen Walter Solomon Uganda announced this week it is scrapping visa fees for South Sudanese travellers, leaving many people who commute between the two countries jubilating. Augustin Onyango, a South Sudanese driver, said the decision by the southern neighbour reduces cost for him while visiting his family in Uganda. Uganda’s Minister of East African […]
By Richard Sultan In a church compound in South Sudan’s Tombura County, Oliver ponders on what has gone through his life in recent weeks. The 38-year-old employ at a national nongovernmental organization fled for dear life when armed men stormed his village one early morning. “It was rampaging and indiscriminate,” Oliver told Juba Echo of […]
By Deng Machol South Sudan’s Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Martin Elia Lomuro summoned the media in Juba after a Kenyan court cleared him this week of allegations of unlawful money laundering. Lomuro who has been sanctioned by the United States for obstructing the reconciliation process and peace talks in South Sudan was facing an account […]
By Deng Machol Women and Children have been brutally raped before being murdered in atrocities ongoing in South Sudan’s Tombura County, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said. The conflict in Tombura has so far displaced 100, 000 people and killed 200 others, according to the UN. The displaced have sought […]