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By Jacob K. Lupai March 21, 2014 (SSNA) -- This is a response to an emotive and provocative article, “Why is States Parallel with National Government in Foreign Investment?” that appeared in the Opinion Column of The Citizen Vol. 8 Issue 701 of Wednesday March 19, 2014. The article was written by one Anthony Agiem Akot. I read the article with keen interest as the author raised a number...

By Peter Gai Manyuon “RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are...

By David Mabior Atem Kuir March 20, 2014 (SSNA) -- The Ukraine and Russia’sproxy war has overshadowed South Sudan crisis as international community’s pressures are exerted toward Ukraine, Crimea. Ukraine political crisis started as people protesting and demanding their leaders to redirect country’s bilateral relations to Europe instead of Russia. Those demands were not met that...

By Tongun Lo Loyuong March 20, 2014 (SSNA) -- Much has happened since the last time I posted an opinion piece. Most provokingly is the so-called arms trafficking scandal. The United Nation Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has come under intense and sustained fire for allegedly transferring weapons to rebel groups fighting the government of Salva Kiir. As a result, the relationship between Kiir’s...

By Eric Reeves March 19, 2014 (SSNA) -- At the same time that the Khartoum regime is aiding, sponsoring, and countenancing renewed large-scale militia violence in Darfur, a parallel—and potentially more destructive—campaign is underway.  As Radio Dabanga reports today, the latest international humanitarian organization to be shut down and thrown out of Darfur is the French ...

TO: The Troika countries (United States of America, Norway and the United Kingdom) COPIED TO: The United Nations Security Council The people of the world The people of South Sudan and Civil Societies The African Union SPLA in opposition who are in agreement with our stance IGAD DATE: March 18, 2014 APPRECIATIONS TO IGAD, RESOLVE TO BRING ABOUT LASTING AND SUSTAINABLE PEACE IN SOUTH SUDAN, RECOGNITION...

“Is it the last kicks of a dying horse”? By: Justin Ambago Ramba March 19, 2014 (SSNA) -- It was barely eight months ago when President Salva Kiir tried to fool the world when he staged the July 23, 2013 president led coup in Juba.  At first he dismissed all his ministers together with his long time deputy Dr Riek Machar. Asked as to why such a mega purge? The president who was clearly...

Press Release Nairobi, March 18, 2014 (SSNA) -- The IGAD assembly of heads of states and government held its 25 th Extra-ordinary summit on 13 th March, 2014 in Addis Ababa, under the leadership of H.E Hailemariam Dessalegn, the Prime minster of the federal democratic republic of Ethiopia and current chairman of IGAD assembly of heads of states and government. In the summit, the IGAD heads of states...

By: Kuach Y. Tutkuay "It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings"--Mahatma Gandhi Mrach 18, 2014 (SSNA) -- In the wake of December armed conflict that had plunged the country into civil war, the civil population of south Sudan witnessed the worst forms of crime against humanity committed on them by militiamen of both groups...

By Deng Vanang March 18, 2014 (SSNA) -- Season of mushrooming parties is steadily on the rise again in South Sudan. The new craze is in the emergence of peace talks in an Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The old craze flashed back to 2010 elections and has something to do with old guerilla commanders forced into membership of liberation movements in which they heatedly argued with subsequent parting...

By Yien Lam March 17, 2014 (SSNA) -- To begin with, the proposed IGAD troop’s deployment in South Sudan is one sided case that cannot be accepted by any living creature ever. It is not good and should not be even discuss at all. It is purely a political ploy intended to replace the UPDF in South Sudan that the regime wanted. The IGAD member states should have known that this will in fact hinder...

By Kenyi A. Spencer, PhD March 17, 2014 (SSNA) -- Juba is really in the wrong place, geologically and geomorphologically speaking. The person who planted Juba here never looked into what the plate tectonics below us are doing. He never looked closely at the geological maps of the African continent. In the first place, Juba is perched right at the knife-edge of the western part of the East African...

By Deng Bachech “An author who was afraid to tell the truth about the ugliness of the regime and who tells about its viciousness after the regime had fallen off the throne shall be a dog that barks after the hyena had already gone. So the author should reflect the visions of a nation to the systems that reined at the time and not the government that comes after it falls.” March 15, 2014...

By Kuir ë Garang March 15, 2014 (SSNA) -- The case of the remaining four political detainees accused of plotting to remove President Kiir in the unsupportable claim of ‘coup attempt’ is going to take South Sudan to a new low. This is a mockery of the country and our judicial system. The world has laughed at us more than enough and we are giving it another reason to laugh even louder....

By J. Nguen Nyol March 14, 2014 (SSNA) -- It is now official that 6,430 innocent Nuer civilians were killed in Juba between December15 th & 19 th 2013 by Dinka militias. Among them were children, women, and elderly.They all perished in the hands of their own countrymen and not Arabs. They were butchered for no other reason than being Nuer ethnic group. This is the fact and the world is aware of...

By Eric Reeves March 14, 2014 (SSNA) -- Even by the extraordinary standards of the National Islamic Front/National Congress regime, the past few weeks have seen exceedingly grim news throughout Sudan, but especially in Darfur.  No doubt convinced that the world’s attention is focused on the massive humanitarian and political crises in South Sudan, the ruthless survivalists of Khartoum...

Dear Your Excellency, March 14, 2014 (SSNA) -- I am hereby sending to you this appeal for urgent consideration. Following the abrupt fighting in Juba which took place on the 15 th December 2013, within the Presidential Guards at Tiger Barracks which later on ignited the ongoing war between the government of South Sudan and the SPLA – In Opposition under leadership of Dr. Riek Machar, former...

By Miyong G. kuon March 14, 2014 (SSNA) -- South Sudan is a great nation foundedby great people, under shared principles.Diverse ethnically and linguistically, South Sudan is made up of more than (60) sixty tribes living side-by-sidein harmony for centuries. Together, they collectively endorsed the independence of South Sudan in 2011 through an internationally monitored referendum. It was this...

By  Bona Machar March 13, 2014 (SSNA) -- Politics is a branch of human endeavour that is fundamental to the running smoothly of human institutions. The players may be filthy-minded, nay, arrogant, ego-centric, eccentric, self-centred, self- serving; weird fellows for whom right and wrong are concepts that change with circumstances under their own control. The average politician cares for nothing...

March 13, 2014 (SSNA) -- The ongoing conspiracy against me was not a new thing. Since my appointment in 2011, there was a lot of roar from certain ethnic community who see themselves as right people for every public office in South Sudan. It was real a tribal greed and lust for power. When Dr Cirino was appointed Minister of Youth, there was serious and heavy pressure on him to remove me from office...