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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...

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...

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...

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...

Know irony? It’s Blacks skin-bleaching, while whites sun-tan

The more one bleaches the uglier one becomes because you become 50 percent light, 50 percent dark -- Fanta and Coca Cola (lighter on...

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,...

When the Speaker read the Declaration of Independence with a cheery voice, my heart beat anxiously

It was a was spectacular day. I wore a new suit donning our flag and colors, ensured I sat high in the VIP podium,...

Coming of marriage age, I wonder what price tag to put on my body

-How much is my bride price? Value my worth before any negotiations or transactions begin (I feel like a company trading on the...

Coming of marriage age, I now wonder how much men want to pay to own me

High bride wealth is causing girls to elope or fall pregnant (coming through the shubak).Young men are delaying marriage, fearing the exorbitant bride price....

Thanks to Viagra, 65 years is the new 20

| Asantewaa Eriyani Lo Liyong |Columnist | Old men, young girls. It’s the new trend in town. Such couples have become more prevalent and more socially...

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