"I am grateful to the East African Association of Anti-corruption Authorities for inviting us to attend the Conference in Bujumbura, Burundi. I believe this...
I hereby direct as follows: All Criminal proceeding initiated against Major General David Yau Yau, Officers NCOs and men under his command, severally or...
BY ANTHONY K. BOSCOCorrespondentAnthony covers Eastern Equatoria for New Times
Airlines are cashing in on Independent celebrations, as passengers rush in, fearing the government may...
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...
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. ...
“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,...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
