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What if best friend bleached skin on her wedding Day?

My closest friend is about to go for her traditional wedding. The family is pressuring her to ‘beautify’ herself, because she is, after all,...

How Garang’s wartime currency, before Sudan peace, was swiftly sabotaged

The Company that had been printing the currency was identified and was intimidated and threatened until it decided to abandon the work. Before the...

Tribute to heroes, heroines and martyrs who sacrificed for freedom from slavery

The undersecretary, the Senior Management and the entire staff members of the Ministry of Animal Resources & Fisheries wish to congratulate H.E. 1st Lt....

Aids Commission: We salute our beloved martyrs who paid the ultimate price for this freedom

Republic of South Sudan HIV/AIDS COMMISSION Congratulatory Message The Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson, and the Board of Directors of the Republic of South Sudan HIV/AIDS Commission send...

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If we gather- rather than throw- stones, we will build that cornerstone to unity

The jubilant gathering of thousands of people at Dr. John Garang’s Mausoleum is a lasting testimony of joy during this occasion. This degree of...

With such leaders, what is to stop us from holding the begging cup?

“Instead of using their own experts, the leadership resorted to using foreign experts. This de-motivated our own experts, some of whom resorted to finding...

We’re not lazy, domino-playing youth; we just can’t live on what you pay us

Challenging the youth that they don’t know how to work because they are sipping tea and playing cards and dominos under trees of juba...

What if Kiir names a representative and lean, but tribal cabinet?

“Our ministries should be run by people of high integrity who are qualified for the job. They should be people who can perform and...

Time to get Juba off its sewer bomb

“Environmental pollution is becoming a serious issue in South Sudan. This is because the populations in the large cities of Juba, Wau and Malakal...

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How a South Sudanese Village Lured Government with $7 Contributions to Gravel a Flooded, Muddy Road

Joyce Angee, walks to nearby Jebel Kujur rock every morning to collect rocks.  She splits the rocks into gravel for sale. “It’s not really easy my son, but when they tell you it’s the government, what do you do?” Angee, tells timeoftheworld.com about why she contributed money...

In South Sudan, a Band of Risk-takers Quietly Trek to Violence-ravaged Farmlands to Save their Crop – and their families

Magwi county was fast becoming the country's food basket, its farmers supplying more than 200 metric tonnes of humanitarian food to World Food Programme (2021) before communal violence broke out in a region that was already filled with rebel fighters, displacing thousands of farming families. ...

In Sudan-South Sudan Contested Abyei Region, Farmers Embrace Hoes, Group Work, and Guns – But, At Least, They Come in Peace

“Young people carry out patrols to fend off surprise attacks on their farming parents - to ensure no one could launch a surprise attack on us in our farms." Communities, responding to gun-related forced displacement of farm labour and to fears of impending attacks, farm in groups,...

Search for Healing: For Families Whose Loved Ones Where Disappeared, It Takes a Village to Overcome

“Most of us had psychological problems. Our husbands were young; they went missing, were killed, imprisoned when we were young and we had to raise our children single handedly. As women, we did not have sources of income to support our families. There was need for...

Michele Anekeya’s Next Task is Deepen Hudson Sandler in E.Africa

Michelle Anekeya joins Hudson Sandler from Hill+Knowlton Strategies, as a Partner, bringing with her 16 years’ experience in integrated marketing and communications, to develop Hudson Sandler’s East African operations. “Africa is a key strategic market for Hudson Sandler. We are proud to work with Africa’s leading businesses, foundations...

South Sudanese, Suffering Highest Data Rates in the Region, Face New Rate Raises

The increase, effective September 15, is meant to enable telcos expand across the country, the regulator, the National Communications Authority announced. Yet, going by the comments of some, the country might end up with expanded physical infrastructure, but with fewer users as citizens give up. Based...

Costly Fertiliser: In Kigali, AGRA Pledges Bold Action; Activists Have A Different Idea of Bold: Defund AGRA

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)’s annual forum takes off in Kigali, Rwanda, pledging “Bold Action for Resilient Food Systems.”  But the ‘bold action’ activists want is for AGRA’s donors to stop funding an initiative they say reinforces dependency on foreign inputs, such as expensive...

Up Next: 12,600 census jobs funded by the World Bank

Except, it is all a scam, the World Bank has said, as the advert makes rounds on social media, part of a growing trend in which scammers use the allure of international agencies to entrap South Sudan’s jobless youth. “The World Bank Group would like to confirm and...

Anti- Synthetic Fertilizer Sentiments As AGRA forum Comes to Kigali

Sanctions and war-related disruptions in the supply of synthetic fertilizer raw materials, effectively weaponizing fertilizers and hurting farmers call for a shift away from synthetic fertilizers. This is the gist of the report released by INKOTA, a German development organization. Meanwhile a network of over 200 African civil...

Bruised South Sudan Employers Figure it Out: Bring Attitude, not Diplomas or Skills, to Job Interviews

Cecilia Nyawut, an usher at a clinic in Juba applied for a new job opening at an international franchise simply because someone had told her that the potential employer, a five-star hotel that was coming to town didn’t need potential recruits to have expertise. “I reluctantly dropped...

U.S to South Sudan: Five years later, family of slain US journalist deserves closure

A credible inquiry into the death of American journalist Christopher Allen, killed at the frontlines of war between rebels and government forces in 2017 would give the family the closure the family deserves, the US. Embassy has said. Says an Embassy statement: “Today marks five years since...