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President Salva Kiir says he was shocked, deeply touched, and even trembled when His Holiness Pop Francis knelt down and kissed his feet. He described his experience of the spiritual retreat in Rome as a historical event that showed how whole world cares about South Sudan. “Off course I trembled,” he said. “Not only did […]

President Salva Kiir has reiterated his call on Dr Riek Machar, and this time to other opposition leaders still outside the country to return for formation of an interim government in May. According to the September peace deal signed in Ethiopia’s Capital, Addis Ababa, the parties shall form a reconstituted transitional government of national unity […]

An MP representing Morobo county at the national legislative assembly has called on government and opposition forces to remove road blocks along the way to allow free movement of people. Honorable, Janet Ayaa Alex told Eye Radio that people who are returning to their homes from the refugee camps are finding it difficult due to […]

Amnesty International is urging the new Sudanese leadership to hand over their former president Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court. Al-Bashir, who was ousted last week and later detained at Kobar prison by the army after intensified protests calling on him to step down, is wanted by the ICC which indicted him in 2008. The […]

Traditional chiefs in Jonglei say they are being forced by the local government to implement a local order that requires them to collect head tax on every native, including those living outside the state. In March last year, the state legislature passed the Social Services Tax Act, where an individual is tasked to pay 300 […]

A senior peace delegate has been kicked out from his hotel room in Juba for causing a disturbance in the posh hotel earlier this week. On Monday, security personnel stormed Dembesh Hotel to round up Peter Mayen. Mayen, the member of the pre-transitional committee, is accused of hosting a married woman in his hotel room. […]

A member of the South Sudan Political Alliance – Joseph Bakasoro, says he will never leave Juba until the peace agreement is fully implemented. The former governor of the defunct Western Equatoria State left Juba in 2016 shortly after he was released from the national security detention facility where he spent months over alleged rebellion […]

The civilians have added their voice to calls for the need to professionalize a national army. Several past reports carried out by UN agencies and humanitarian groups accuse the army of misconduct. In the reports, some soldiers are said to have looted civilian property, raped women and girls as young as 12 years. Some top […]

The Chairman of the SPLM-IO has returned to Khartoum from Italy, where he was stranded for days after the toppling of Omar al-Bashir. Dr. Riek Machar left Khartoum for the Vatican a day before long time ruler was ousted. He went there to take part in the spiritual retreat hosted by Pope Francis at his […]

The deputy chief of defense says the army is training 3,000 soldiers in line with the new peace agreement. The revitalized peace agreement calls for security reforms. Previous reports indicate that most soldiers are untrained, illiterate, loyal to individual generals, and controlled by political leaders. Besides, the army is often accused of committing human rights […]

The Kakuma wrestling team beat the Nairobi Cougars team 7-5 in a wrestling match on Saturday at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya.

Education officials in South Sudan’s Fangak State say there are many challenges hampering education in the state since its inception in 2015.

The Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) in South Sudan’s Torit State says it will aid in reintegrating ten families who arrived in the state on Saturday from Jonglei State.

Police authorities said they arrested on Friday 42 suspected criminals believed to have been terrorizing people in two residential areas of the capital, Juba during the Easter holiday.

A youth activist in South Sudan’s Aweil State has encouraged groups of gangs to embark on agriculture and refrain from criminal activities committed by their various networks.

Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has reiterated calls for opposition chief, Riek Machar to urgently return to Juba ahead of the formation of an interim government in May.

At least one person was killed and three others critically injured in an accident along the Juba-Bor road on Saturday, a local official said.

Sudan’s security forces have found "large sums of cash" at former president Omar al-Bashir’s residence, the military council said.

The Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Wau State, Moses Deng Bol has urged political leaders to make use of the rare gesture of humbleness performed before them by Pope Francis during their recent visit to the Vatican.

The recent wave of uprising in some African countries shows the new means of contesting the African rulers who stayed in power for so long and are hardly to be unseated through the ballot box. This new dispensation of uprising marks the emergence of new middle class in Africa that is educated, informed, connected and […]