By William Sunday D. Tor, Juba, South Sudan Friday, 24 May 2024 (PW) — When they voted for independent nation of their own in referendum of January 2011, South Sudanese never thought about inability of their future independent state to pay the government employees for almost a year. Indeed, they never thought of nation which would not respect laws, including the national budgets and agreements between the public employees and the employer, the national government. According to the law, the salaries are chapter one and priority to any government of the day, which should be released and paid on ..read more

By Daniel Athior’o Atem, Juba, South Sudan Sunday, May 19, 2024 (PW) — It is 12 years since the Republic of South Sudan was created. Two events sealed the secession from the Khartoum Government were the Comprehensives Peace Agreement (CPA) signed on 9th January 2005 between the National Congress Party – NCP and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement / Amy (SPLM/A) and followed by self – determination referendum in January 2011 in which 98.83% voted in favor of the creation of a new nation. What is clear is that by the year 2000, relative peace had already taken root in then Southern Sudan regi ..read more

By Malek Arol Dhieu, Juba, South Sudan Friday, 17 May 2024 (PW) — As today marks the 16th of May, I send you my salutations for your heroic sacrifice for South Sudan. Your blood has truly cemented our national foundation as quoted in the national anthem. You fought tooth and nail to see South Sudan liberated. But unfortunately, the leader of the movement, Dr. John Garang de Mabior, died in a helicopter crash just 21 days after the signing of the CPA. The world still mourns for him today, not because people want him to live forever, but because people knew South Sudan after John Garang de Mabio ..read more

By Deng Madut Akech Akoon, Juba, South Sudan Thursday, 16 May 2024 (PW) — On this 41st Anniversary of May 16th, we pay tribute to our martyrs, wounded heroes, financial contributors, villagers, leaders, and parents who sacrificed immensely for our liberation struggle. We honor our leader, Kuanyin Bol, who fired the first shot and was injured, alongside the late Maker Jol Deng, who lost his life in Bor town. We remember the late Dr. John Garang de Mabior, the unwavering leader of the SPLM/A, who relentlessly fought for the freedom of South Sudan. From 1955, Joseph Lagu and other leaders united ..read more

By Danielle Del Vicario (PhD), University of Oxford Abstract: “This thesis is about John Garang de Mabior—leader of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) which waged a twenty-two-year war against the Sudanese government (1983-2005)—and the political use of history in Sudan and South Sudan. Many SPLM/A members were secessionists and, ultimately, the war created a path for South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011. Garang, however, advocated for national reform to create a socially, economically, and politically inclusive ‘New Sudan.’ I argue that history-making was a co ..read more

By Eng. Kur Manyuat Makuach, Juba, South Sudan Wednesday, 15 May 2024 (PW) — For nearly a decade, the Adiang Mayomdit community association in Juba, a proud and respected community from Twic County, Warrap State, has been struggling like a wounded animal due to a lack of competent leadership. This community has produced eminent personalities in the past, such as the late Chief Paulino Cyer Rehan, who participated in the Juba Conference in 1947, the late Major General Kharbino Kuanyin Bol, who ignited the SPLA liberation war in Bor in 1983, and the late spiritual leader Ajiingdit Deng Thiapduok ..read more

By Thokgor Reech, Bor, South Sudan Wednesday, 15 May 2024 (PW) — As a man from another planet, I am deeply interested in understanding my African roots. This research aims to foster thoughtfulness in learning about our brothers and sisters living across various African countries. It is founded on the historical bases of the Nilotic or River-lake Nilotic people, an innovative academic endeavor long ago. There has been a movement of people within Africa, connecting us through community backgrounds or intermarriage. The term River-Lake Nilotic refers to certain groups of people in Sudan, Uganda ..read more

By Marial Mangar Akol, Aweil, South Sudan Sunday, 05 May 2024 (PW) — On April 30th, 2024, Brig. Gen. Akot Lual Areech penned an ambiguous letter to national and patriotic South Sudanese, urging Hon. Benjamin Bol Mel to relinquish several positions of power and influence. These include being Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Projects, Lieutenant General in National Security, a member of the Political Bureau, a member of the South Sudan Liberation Council, and the SPLM Deputy Secretary-General for Mobilization. In his letter, Gen. Akot outlined three main points. Firstly, he accused Hon. Bo ..read more

Why the necessity, greeds and emotional response is aggravating the land grabbing in Juba? By: Ateny Wek Ateny, Juba, South Sudan “How Much Land Does a Man Need” Leo Tolstoy 1828- 1910”. A fictitious personality in Leo/Lev Tolstoy’s novel called Pakhom had a lust for wealth. He wanted to get rich by all means, and so, he had wanted to buy more acres of lands to enable him get rich. He moved from place to another. One day, the King asked him “how much of land do you want”? He said I want as much as possible”. So, the King told him to walk to any distance to find as much land as his ability c ..read more

NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC CALL FOR BENJAMIN BOL MEL TO RELINQUISH POSITIONS OF POWER By Brig.Gen Akot Lual Arech, Juba, South Sudan Introduction: This public notice serves to the national and patriotic people of South Sudan for the call for Benjamin Bol Mel to relinquish some of the positions of power and influence over public, which he recently accumulated. As a personal friend, I reached to my brother Benjamin on several occasions and through intermediary, asking him to resign some of his public positions for the interest of the country and the public. All my initiatives and efforts failed, hen ..read more