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04/11/2025

Who is Dr. Riek G*i Kok?

Dr. Riek G*i Kok is a South Sudanese politician of the Lou Nuer ethnic group from Chieng Man-nyang/Diang-nyang Akoba. He has a long and varied political career spanning both Sudan and South Sudan. In the early 1990s, he served as head of the Relief Association of Southern Sudan (RASS), the humanitarian aid wing of the SPLA-Nasir faction. By the late 1990s, he was the wali (governor) of Jonglei state and spokesperson of the South Sudan Independence Movement/Army (SSIM/A).

In the 2000s, Riek G*i Kok was appointed chairman of the Southern States Coordination Council by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and was responsible for administering Southern Sudan's states. He also served as Minister of Animal Resources in the Sudanese government and was a leader of the South Sudan Defense Forces. He was a high-ranking member and chairman of the Southern Sector of the National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan and served as an advisor to the Sudanese president. Just days before South Sudan's independence in 2011, he and other Southern NCP leaders joined the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).

Post-independence, from 2013 onwards, he served as South Sudan's Minister of Health. Most recently, in March 2025, he was appointed governor of Jonglei state, replacing Mahjoub Biel Turuk.

According to Wikipedia here are major historical events and positions he have held!

Early 1990s: Head of the Relief Association of Southern Sudan (RASS), humanitarian aid wing of SPLA-Nasir. Before defecting in 1991 to Khartoum with Riek Machar.

Late 1990s: Served as spokesperson of South Sudan Independence Movement/Army (SSIM/A) and wali (governor) of Jonglei state.

2002: Named chairman of Southern States Coordination Council by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir; responsible for administering Southern Sudan states.

Early 2000s: Minister of Animal Resources in the Sudanese government; leader of South Sudan Defence Forces.

Early 2000s: Was a high-ranking member and chairman of the Southern Sector of the Sudanese National Congress Party (NCP), and advisor to Sudan's president. After Riek Machar Flip back to SPLM/SPLA.

July 2011: Transitioned with other Southern NCP leaders into the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) two days before South Sudan's independence.

2013: Appointed Minister of Health in the government of South Sudan.

2024: Appointed chairperson of the Greater Bahr el Ghazal peace and reconciliation committee.

March 2025: Appointed governor of Jonglei state, replacing Mahjoub Biel Turuk.

Stay Tune as we shall unveil different opinion articles written about him over the past 13 years.

Copied: The Nile Times

02/11/2025

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02/11/2025

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31/10/2025

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31/10/2025

29/10/2025

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27/10/2025

TO: H.E.THE PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN. GEN. SALVA KIIR MAYARDIT.

SUBJECT: REFORM OF NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Your Excellency
with a heart full of respect and love for you and our beloved nation, l write to you as a humble citizen of South Sudan, touched by the pain and struggle of our traders and business community. Mr. President, your leadership has carried this nation through storms that many thought we could never survive, you have been a father to all, a man of peace, forgiveness and vision. but today, our business community is crying. the Chamber of Commerce, which was meant to lift the dream of traders and entrepreneurs, has become a place of pain, division, and mistrust. the small traders in the market, the young entrepreneurs and hardworking men and women of South Sudan feel abandoned and voiceless.

Your Excellency, we know your heart for the people, we have seen your compassion for our country. You have a desire to see South Sudan rise as a nation of opportunities. reform the chamber of commerce, bring justice where there is confusion, bring unity where's division we believe in your wisdom. Mr. president, we believe that only your firm hand can restore dignity and direction to this vital institution.

Under your guidance, the business sector can once again become a source of hope, jobs, and national pride. The he people are waiting, the mother who sells in the market, youths who dream of owning business, the investors who still believe in our nation.

May God strengthen you as you continue to lead our nation with courage and love. South Sudan stands with you now and always.

Sincerely Admitted.
Mou Garang Arol.
Advocate for economic reform.

24/10/2025

OFFICIAL CALL FOR AUDIT OF NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

BY:MOU GARANG AROL.

TO:All the traders, business associations, and members of the business community.

We, the undersigned members of the business community,hereby call for an immediate and independent audit of the national chamber of commerce.

The Chamber exists to serve and represent the interest of traders, entrepreneurs, and investors across South Sudan 🇸🇸 .
therefore, transparency and accountability, financial management are fundamental principles that guide its operations.

This audit will restore public trust and fair representation of small-scale business associations, and it will strengthen confidence in leadership and management of chamber.

We urge all business stakeholders to support this important step toward reform and good governance.

Together, let us uphold fairness and accountability in our business institutions.

24/10/2025

Riek's arraignment and barricade

Since the arraignment of Dr Riek and the other seven Defendants at the "Special Court for National Crimes", until today, Juba, the capital city of South Sudan, experiences frequent catastrophes and an increasing volume of deadly accidents. Our enforcement law agencies have positioned barricades on public roads. As a result, drivers of cars and trucks create their own roads for passing. In response, Professor John Apuruot Akec cautioned against the rationale of positioning barricades on public roads. Subsequently, Dr Akec suggested that our enforcement law agencies remove the barricades and position them in a specific location leading to the Freedom Hall, where the Special Court is situated. In response to Akec's suggestion, our enforcement law agencies exacerbated the barricades and placed additional barricades.

Consequently, the exacerbation of the problem of barricades in Juba conforms to the Islamic theory that evil and good are not proportional. In the study of Sharia Law, good and evil do not establish equality in compatibility; however, the abundance of evil might impress the organisers, listeners and audience, and they may employ, utilise and apply it. On the other hand, people of reason and rationality pursue good acts. They strive to establish social, political and economic equality in national institutions of the nation-state, free from the anxieties of barricades, intimidation, humiliation, menacing, blackmail and threats emanating from domestic law enforcement agencies.

These contradictory practices unveil to the citizens of South Sudan and their residential population (diplomatic missions and foreign investors) that Juba embraces the binary ideologies of impressionism and rationalism. The advocates of the former theory pursue and employ a practice, conduct, act or performance that emanates from the abundance of evil derived from the monologue instructions of their superiors from the South Sudan People's Defence Forces, Police and National Security in Juba and beyond. The followers of the latter ideology pursue a rational evaluation of the consequences of positioning barricades on citizens and diplomatic missions and suggest alternative remedies such as the reorganisation of passages and barricades. At the same time, the case against the Defendants continues in the Special Court for National Crimes.

Compliance with the theory of rationalism moves the people of South Sudan to equal prosperity and eudaimonia. On the other hand, compliance with the theory of impressionism builds a nation of intimidation, barricades, humiliation, terror, hardship and blackmail in public institutions.

Consequently, the former is good because it generates a public good in the jurisprudence of the common good. The latter is evil; it manufactures hatred, antagonism, resentment, loathing, animosity, aversion, and ill feeling against one another in private and national institutions.

Finally, South Sudan is our collective home, and we must accept rational ideology and deny impressive ideology.

Kuel Maluil Jok
PhD in International Law
PhD in Political Sociology and Culture
LLM in Public Law
MA in Philosophy
MA in Sociology

23/10/2025

Back to discuss issues related to security and peace in greater Tonj.

By Dr. Riak Gok Majok

I was so happy with Tonj Community when they honoured their new Governor, H. E Amb Bol Wek Agoth, by promising him to end aimless communal conflicts. The first phase of H. E the Governor's mission was to peacefully persuade our people to refrain from cattle theft, revenge killing or any an act that undermines peaceful coexistence among the communities.

Now, our Governor is here in Juba to mobilise resources badly needed for peace maintenence and possibly security roads construction.
Unfortunately, I am hearing that the cattle theft and roads blocks have resurfaced once again in an alarming scale. This time around our Governor will not use the peaceful means to restor law and order in Tonj. He had done his best by thoroughly explaining to you during his long present in greater Tonj Counties what did entailed the state of emergency.

Now, the second phase will exclusively be implemented by the SSPDF yin mec General Dr. Paul Nang Majok. I had hoped that our people would have implemented to the letter and spirit the resolutions and recommendations of the first phase to avert the government potential heavy handed.

I am therefore, urging the Acting Commissioners, Payam Aministrators, Boma Aministrators Majok Wuut and traditional leaderships of greater Tonj to ensure that the second is avoided at all costs.

22/10/2025

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22/10/2025

‘Arrest those who labeled VP Bol Mel as ‘President’ during Horizon Business Center launch’ - Kuel Maluil

A senior academic from the University of Bahr El Ghazal has called for the arrest of individuals responsible for mistakenly referring to Vice President Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel as “President” and “Commander in Chief” in a program line-up during the inauguration of the Horizon Business Center in Juba last week.

Professor Kuil Maluil Jok, the University of Bahr El Ghazal’s Deputy Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance, described the incident as a serious constitutional violation, accusing those behind the program lineup of committing a criminal offence under South Sudan’s laws stressing that such acts confuse the public and undermine the constitutional order.

“It was a crime and an offence for the one who wrote the program to refer to Vice President Bol Mel as President and Commander in Chief,” Prof. Kuel said.

The Horizon Business Center, located in Nyakuron West, was officially launched on October 19, under the management of the SSPDF Pension Fund, which later issued a public apology for the error. Despite the apology, Prof. Kuel insists that accountability must follow.

In a lengthy post shared on his official page, the professor expressed concern over what he termed a mysterious succession narrative, cautioning that the misrepresentation could mislead citizens and threaten national stability.

“This act constitutes a blatant contravention of the Transitional Constitution of South Sudan, 2011, as amended in 2018,” he wrote.

“The author(s) of the itinerary should face criminal charges under Section 346 of the Penal Code Act, 2008. Our country is not a private entity for individuals to confuse the people about who leads the nation,” he added.

Prof. Kuel further urged state authorities to take immediate action by prosecuting those responsible, arguing that silence from the leadership could imply a mysterious presidential succession under the guise of administrative error.

“If you remain silent, citizens will assume that a shadowy succession has been created under the dark, rather than public, shadows,” he warned.

The professor’s comments have sparked public debate online, with some citizens supporting his call for accountability, while others view the incident as a minor administrative mistake already addressed by the organizers.