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In seeking divorce over gun-related violence, Viola Riak tests South Sudan’s justice system

For VIOLA ALUEL IAK, a gender analyst at UNFPA, who has had a gun shot at her - not once – by her husband,...

Veronica’s harrowing story of those who never ever stepped out of Juba during 21 years of bombings

Veteran journalist VERONICA LUCY GORDON has passed on the baton, but not before telling the intriguing story of life inside enemy lines as the...

Girl’s Talk Club: Pay attention to a guy’s tone; not every guy who says he loves you does

JACKLINE BAGA sits down with JENIFER JAMES to talk about youth, generally, and Let Girls Talk club. Growing up in a family of twenty...

Alfred Taban, Jacob Akol, Nhial Bol: How veteran journalists shaped a young woman’s media advocacy

AYEN ACHOL DENG Following the fight in Juba, in July 2016, veteran journalist Alfred Taban was jailed over an opinion article, leading to frantic calls...

Inspired by Lual Deng, 23-year-old Awate takes road less traveled

The employer wanted sex for a job. “He was actually abusing me: 'What kind of woman are you? How do you think you will...

Bruised by battles fought over the years, Ann Itto still makes time for another

when I arrived at the airport, he never came to receive me. I went straight to his office and he started:'Oh, you know, I...

The One that Got Away: Escaping rebel conscription grounded Na-Siwa’s activism

Trekking through the jungle, sometimes staying for as long as a month before moving again to the next village, Nassiwa found rebel fighters waiting...

Father’s arrest turned her against politics, but husband’s abduction has fosted politics onto Aya Benjamin Warille

I must confess: I never liked politics. My dad was a politician and I remember, in 1986, how they came and arrested him in...

One among men: The woman who lowered Sudan’s flag and raised South Sudan’s

climbing atop a military platform, BRIDGET NAGOMORO held onto the flagpole rope and lowered Sudan's flag, replacing it with south sudan's. she stepped back...

Child bride, ex-cleaner and cook, Atong rises to the top, helped by humility

“It was in the airport that I was told, ‘you see that man? That’s  your husband,” Atong says years later. Those days, culture treasured marrying off girls over educating them

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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...