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• Bor doctors abandon Covid-19 center over incentives
  At least 34 health care workers in Jonglei state have laid down their tools demanding unpaid risk allowances. The health workers at Critical Care Centre, a Covid-19 facility in Bor Town say the government and its partners have not been paying them for two months. He says all the medical personnel stopped working on the […]
• Tanzanian President Suluhu in Uganda to sign oil pipeline deal
  President Samia Hassan Suluhu of Tanzania is in Uganda to sign the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) deal with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Total, the French oil giant. Suluhu arrived at Entebbe International Airport Sunday morning and was welcomed by Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kutesa, among other officials. She was then ushered to State […]
• Kiir relieves Nhial Deng, JJ Okot among others in sweeping changes
  President Salva Kiir has just issued series of republican decrees dismissing and appointing senior officials in his office and the national security sector. He dismissed Nhial Deng Nhial as Minister of Presidential Affairs and appointed Dr. Barnaba Marial as the replacement. Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin Dr. Barnaba Marial was Southern Sudan’s first Minister of Regional […]
• Trucks enter Nimule after days of grounding
  Hundreds of commercial trucks loaded with goods have arrived at Nimule border point this morning after days of protests by truck drivers who refused to cross into South Sudan. “The truck have started entering Nimule custom yard and actually this morning we have received so far nearly a hundred cargos and the rest are still […]
• Do South Sudan’s juvenile offenders reform after leaving the correctional centers?
  There are currently more than 250 children in Juvenile center in Western Barh el Ghazel state, and Juba Central Prison in Central Equatoria state, this is according to the record obtained by Eye Radio from the South Sudan Prisons Service.  Most of these young offenders –who are aged between 10 and 17 have been charged […]