Oil: is it a curse or a blessing in South Sudan?
By Jacob K. Lupai May 16, 2013 (SSNA) — In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern Sudan there was euphoria that poverty would…
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Ethnic Politics in Kenya: A History South Sudan Should Learn From
By: Kuach Y. Tutkuay May 15, 2013 (SSNA) — South Sudan as a young nation that has just attained her independent seems to be following a path once followed by…
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South Sudan needs visionary leaders not some habitual constitution violators!
By: Justin Ambago Ramba May 15, 2013 (SSNA) — The wonderful readers may agree with me that the problems of the nascent state of South Sudan is not confined to…
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Boma That Fell: The ‘Al-Qaida’ of SSDA Rebellion
By Martin Garang Aher May 15, 2013 (SSNA) — The South Sudanese town of Boma in Pibor County had fallen to South Sudan Democratic Army, SSDA, a gubernatorial rebellion led…
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S. Sudan Should Adopt Stronger Stance on Border Issues with Sudan
By: Philips Al-Ghai May 15, 2013 (SSNA) — With the murder of Chief Kuol Deng Kuol as the latest in the series of Sudan’s continued aggression against S. Sudan, it…
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South Sudan’s Transitional Constitution and the Issue of Decentralization
By James T. Mathiang May 14, 2013 (SSNA) — The newly independent state of South Sudan is faced with enormous challenges of nation-building particularly the need to set up a…
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Federalism base on Regionalism vs Federalism base on Partisanism
By: Chol Ajak Demac May 14, 2013 (SSNA) — Lately, I have been monitoring the political development in South Sudan and I am in awe of how fast the situation…
Read More The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Citizens from the Organized Crimes and Systematic Killings
By Peter Reat Gatkuoth Both Human Rights violators must be alerted that the days of non-accountability (Revolutionary bush days), where one can slaughter group of people without questions are over.…
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Juba’s Geomorphologic Puzzle
By Kenyi A. Spencer May 13, 2013 (SSNA) — Africa, south of the Sahara, is urbanizing faster than ever in the history of the region. Many of the youth and…
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Delaying federalism is to invite regionalism in RSS
By: Justin Ambago Ramba May 12, 2013 (SSNA) — As the SPLM politics in South Sudan starts to get terribly tribal, the three states of Greater Equatoria have since then…
Read More Some reflections on the invisibility of Darfur
By Eric Reeves May 11, 2013 (SSNA) — I’m often asked, "Is the Darfur situation still awful? is it still a humanitarian crisis?" It’s a painful question to have to…
Read More Abyei: Misplaced Civility at the Heart of an Intractable Conflict
By: Deng Vanang May 11, 2013 (SSNA) — Until death do us part, seem to be the rapturous echoes ripping through the throbbing heart of bewildered Ngok Dinka citizens in…
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The Other Side of Presidential Decrees
By: Philips Al-Ghai May 10, 2013 (SSNA) — For those whose sun ascend and set within the perimeter of S. Sudan, the fuss brought forth, often, by the presidential decrees…
Read More Killing UN Peacekeepers: A Ruthless Proclivity of Khartoum’s SAF, Militia Proxies
By Eric Reeves May 9, 2013 (SSNA) — The recent (May 4, 2013) deaths of two UN peacekeepers in Abyei have a chilling familiarity, though to this point there has…
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Tribes are our Diversity; Greedy Politicians are our Common Adversity
By Philips Al-Ghai If the ancient proverb still holds true, at least in the 21st century, then it ought to be that ‘A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to…
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I am Dinka and Ngok is me!
By Deng Mangok Ayuel May 9, 2013 (SSNA) — The change that Abyei needs is inside, And together we can if we all decide As such, you and I are…
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