By Duop Chak Wuol May 3, 2019 (SSNA) — When South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir, began planning a civil war in the name of a bogus coup in 2013, he did not mobilize Americans to help him wage such a brutal campaign against South Sudanese he sees as his political opponents. What he did was…
By Kuir ë Garang May 2, 2019 (SSNA) — Now that President Kiir Mayardit and Dr. Riek Machar will be meeting in Addis Ababa on May 2 to breathe some hope into the stalled peace agreement, it is important to reiterate the major leadership problem in South Sudan: the inability to solve problems or devise…
By Deng Akok Muoradid April 18, 2019 (SSNA) — The desperate protesters in Sudan are criticizing their former President Omar Hassan Al Bashir for the partition of Sudan and they recently called for the urgent reunification of the two Sudans after they ousted him from power. The traumatized Sudanese wrongly conceptualize the separation of South…
The Holy See, Pope Francis Apostolic Palace, Vatican City Vatican City State, 00120 Your Holiness Father, Re: President Salva Kiir and Dr. Riek Machar unfit to lead peace in South Sudan April 15, 2019 (SSNA) — Appreciating the interest of Your Holy Father in the suffering of our people who immensely endured gross violations of…
By Lul Gatkuoth Gatluak April 15, 2019 (SSNA) — The news headline in the second week of April 2019, is dominated by a popular uprising in Sudan, which resulted into the downfall of Omar Hassan Al Bashir who came to power through the similar military coup in 1989. Sudan is recognized as an authoritarian or…
By Duop Chak Wuol April 12, 2019 (SSNA) — On April 11, 2019, Pope Francis did what I viewed as a rather astonishing move. His decision to kiss the feet of President Salva Kiir, SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar, current First Vice President Taban Deng, and Mama Rebecca Garang de Mabior was undeniably dramatic—in fact,…
By Duop Chak Wuol March 30, 2019 (SSNA) — There has been an ongoing debate about the possibility of reuniting the factions of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party. There are people who believe that the only way to resolve South Sudan’s civil war is through the reunification of the party. Other people…
By Deng Akok Muoradid March 20, 2019 (SSNA) — Juba University is one of the five universities of South Sudan. It was established in 1972 as a result of the Addis Ababa Peace Agreement between Gen Nimeri’s regime and Anya Anya One movement under the leadership of Joesph Lago. The University was later temporary transferred…
By Achuil A. Achuildit March 13, 2019 (SSNA) — The national ministry of finance and economic planning under the leadership of Salvatore Garang Mabiordit, is no longer serving the objectives for which it was established. Hon. Salvatore Garang Mabiordit has turned the public ministry into family financial transaction center for his relatives, friends, business associates,…
By Moses Nyara March 3, 2019 (SSNA) — Rights over land in South Sudan are never lost or abandoned so as to become res nullius. The idea that the land must belong to the government is not only a deliberate plan to extinguish seisin of the land in South Sudan but a threat to the…
By Duop Chak Wuol March 2, 2019 (SSNA) — Salva Kiir claims his government does not have the necessary financial means to finance the implementation of the September 2018 peace agreement and demands that the international community finance the process so that peace will prevail. It is no secret that the rationality of investing money…
By Deng Akok Muoradid Sub: Appeal for the withdrawal of registration certificate from Twic Mayardit Intellectual Forum March 2, 2019 (SSNA) — First and foremost, allow me to congratulate you and your entire administration on the strong relationship which you have built with the relief agencies in the country. I commended the initiatives which your…
By Deng Akok Muoradid February 26, 2019 (SSNA) — Twic Mayardit Intellectual Forum commonly abbreviated as TMIF is a sectional political organization established under the pretext of a non-governmental organization by a group of disgruntled, demoralized and disoriented youth from Twic Mayardit. The hopeless group of youth created the so-called TMIF last year after their…
By Deng Akok Muoradid February 5, 2019 (SSNA) — In response to peter Mayuk’s article in which he attributed the whole liberation struggle to the efforts of the current president H.E Salva Mayardit, I would like to clarify to all of you that he was seeking the attention of president to his financial rescue. Cde…
By Lul Gatkuoth Gatluak February 5, 2019 (SSNA) — The five years old South Sudan civil war between the government and multiple rebel groups in the country, is set to come to an end by September 2018 Peace Agreement. Though it seems guns had silent between the government and all the signatory oppositions, especially the…
By Roger Alfred Yoron Modi January 28, 2018 (SSNA) — The latest South Sudan peace deal signed between the government of President Salva Kiir, various armed and unarmed opposition groups and other parties, including the SPLM/A-IO led by the former First Vice President Dr Riek Machar is facing implementation challenges and at the centre of…