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 Okech Francis An aid worker has been killed in an ambush on a convoy of an organisation working with the United Nations World Food Program, the Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim in South Sudan, Matthew Hollingworth, said. The ambush, on September 17 affected three trucks of a WFP “cooperating partner,” in Mugwo Payam of Yei […]
By Simon Deng South Sudan’s government has dispatched a team to Tambura in Western Equatoria State with the aim of seeking an end to violence plaguing the area. Col. Lam Paul Gabriel, the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense told Juba Echo on Tuesday that the team included members from the South Sudan People’s Defense […]
By Ruot George South Sudan is calling on its citizens to use legal means of travelling out of the country as opposed to illegal immigration. Neighboring Sudan revealed this week that 50 South Sudanese died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. “Several perished attempting to cross to Italy. We therefor advise anyone […]
By Michael Tapeng The road linking Lafon County in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria with the State capital is impassable due to its dilapidated nature, and it has been so for ages, limiting communication between Torit and surrounding areas. Communities in Lafon are demanding the State reins in and construct the road which is limiting ease […]
PRESS RELEASE The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) in partnership with the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) are standing in solidarity with the people affected by floods in South Sudan. UJOSS and CEPO will travel to Bentiu in Unity State in a one-day solidarity visit this month. Unity State is one of […]
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 Ruot George Sudan is calm, hours after a group of military officers attempted to overthrow the transitional government, the main media reported. According to multiple other sources, over 40 military officers who are accused of being part of the team have been arrested. “The armed forces announced the abortion of a coup attempt that […]