By Simon Deng The South Sudanese army is demanding the team monitoring ceasefire in South Sudan to look into an attack that left at least 7 people dead. The attacks, by suspected rebels of the National Salvation Front occurred at Loka on the Juba-Yei road, followed by an ambush on a commando unit traveling on […]
By Awan Achiek Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in opposition (SPLA-IO) on Friday welcomed President Salva Kiir’s directive ordering soldiers who either deserted or in assembly areas to return to training and cantonment sites. “It is a positive move toward the implementation of the security arrangement which every soldier has been expecting,” said Col. Lam Paul Gabriel, […]
By Staff writer The Medical charity (MSF) has opened a new project in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA). According to a statement issued yesterday, the project will benefit a vast area near the border with Ethiopia, where people live scattered over long distances and where there are few health facilities. Many people are semi-nomadic, moving from […]
By Staff writer The Office of the Vice President Mama Rebecca Nyandeng DeMabior has donated 130,000 facemasks to the 10 states to enable them fight COVID-19. “The office of Mama Rebecca Nyandeng is producing local facemasks to support vulnerable people who couldn’t afford to buy facemasks in the market, the facemasks are made locally and given […]
By Okech Francis South Sudan’s 2021/2022 fiscal year budget is billed to be mouthwatering for civil servants after the government reviewed and adjusted their salaries six-fold. While not yet discussed by cabinet or sent to parliament yet, the huge budget has been agreed to and passed at the economic cluster level, the Deputy Minister of […]
By Manyuon Mayen Manyuon, Juba The newly elected executive members of the Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) is set to launch its website on June 12, two weeks after the formation of the new body. It is the first of its kind the Alliance is starting to implement its manifestos as they pledged […]
YECO signpost as it stands along the Yei – Lasu Road | Courtesy Photo Author: Bida Thomas Yei Electric Cooperative (YECO) has stopped the distribution of power in Yei town less than a month after it resumed electricity supply for only seven hours daily at the rate of five hundred (500) South Sudanese Pounds per […]
By Awan Achiek Three public universities in South Sudan will remain closed because they do not have food for students. Closed since April last year because of the advent of COVID-19, the Universities of Bahr El-Ghazal, Dr. John Garang Memorial, and Rumbek Universities, will continue to remain closed due to delay by government to settle […]
South Sudan and Malawi on Thursday signed trade agreement that will see the latter export it’s surplus food to Juba to help ease it’s widening cereals deficit. Kuol Athian, Minister of Trade and Industry revealed that the deal will allow Malawian businesses to export food to South Sudan which is facing this year, it’s highest […]
By John Agok South Sudan’s army General and his bodyguard who exchanged gun fire on Tuesday at army’s Headquarters in Juba are responding well to the treatment as both have been discharged from the Hospital. Dr. Chut Chep, Juba Military Hospital’s Director General told Juba Echo on Wednesday that the two didn’t have fractures instead […]