By Staff Writer South Sudan is stable enough to welcome investments after six years of crisis sent most foreign investors out of the country, the Minister of Presidential Affairs, Dr Barnaba Marial Benjamin said. Speaking at the opening of the South Sudan Oil and Power Conference in Juba on Tuesday, Benjamin urged domestic and foreign […]
By John Agok A three-day Regional Security Conference for Eastern Africa countries has kicked off in South Sudan’s capital Juba. The Conference, first of its kind, themed “The Negative Impact of Sanctions Regime to the Scio-Economic, Political Peace and Security in the Region” is being attended by participants from National Security Services of various countries […]
By Manyuon Mayen Manyuon, Juba South Sudan’s Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology has appealed to Dr. John Garang University students to be patient as he engages the Finance Ministry to clear arrears of the contractor of the learning institution. Gabriel Changson Chang said a pending bill of the contractors was already presented to […]
By Ruot George Internally Displaced Persons in Bentiu in South Sudan’s Unity State are in panic after gunmen breached the camps perimeters and injured two people. The incident occurred on Friday night. The injured are currently receiving treatment at the Medicin Sans Frontier facility in the town. Bentiu IPD camp is home to 111, 000 […]
By Awan Achiek South Sudan People’s Defense Force and armed opposition groups have signed an agreement to end all forms of violations against children, as they seek to be delisted from the global list of grave violators against children. Violations included recruitment into armed groups, killing and maiming, sexual violence including rape, abductions, attacks on […]
By Simon Deng South Sudan could suffer a deadly second wave of COVID-19 infections like it’s neighbor Uganda and Kenya due to low vaccine uptake, said an experts with the World Health Organization. Guyo Gurasha, WHO Emergency Preparedness Officer for the World Health Organization warned that the deadly new variants like the Indian variant reported […]
By Simon Deng South Sudan’s First Vice President and leader of Sudan People’s Liberation Army/ Movement-in opposition (SPLA/M-IO) Riek Machar Teny has summoned his Chief of Staff Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual to return to the capital to take a new appointment as advisor to the president. Dual recently turned down job offer to serve as […]
By Denis Ejulu The bulging youth unemployment rate in South Sudan is a threat to national security following recent violent attacks registered in Eastern Equatoria state including in Upper Nile and Unity state. In an exclusive interview with the Juba Echo on Friday last week, Louis Lobong Lojore Governor of Eastern Equatoria lamented the youth unemployment rate […]
By Onen Walter Solomon, Juba A Health official at the South Sudan’s Ministry of Health said the nine members of the delegation of the South Sudan national football team who tested positive for SARS-COV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, in Doha did not get tested from a government laboratory prior to departure to Qatar. The team […]
By Simon Deng South Sudan’s Youth Enterprise and Development Fund stipulated in the revitalised peace agreement will provide an avenue for a conflict resolution across the country according to Wani Michael, the Executive Director a civil society known as, Okay Africa Foundation. […]