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13/01/2023

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23/12/2022

Bobby Longar Akok sentenced to death by hanging after Rebecca’s family rejected compensation.

The High Court in Juba has sentenced Bobby Longar Akok to death by hanging for killing his wife and another man in Juba in June this year.

The court found the National Security officer, Akok guilty of violating section 206 of the South Sudan Penal Code 2008.

The court delayed the verdict until early this week to allow the family of the victims to consult on whether to choose blood compensation or the death penalty.

But today, the family rejected the compensation, allowing the court to pronounce the final verdict.

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11/12/2022

South Sudanese Joy Adu and her family moved to Kenya due to the civil war before relocating to the US to study. The graduate returned home to practise farming.

07/12/2022

JUBA – South Sudan presidency on Wednesday evening issued a statement backtracking from remarks by President Salva Kiir Mayardit in which he told a gathering of the National Liberation Council meet…

18/11/2022

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25/10/2022

BREAKING: Dr. Riek says Kiir has no powers to dismiss him from SPLM political Bareau and the party.

Dr. Riek machar, the South Sudan’s First Vice President and leader of the main armed opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) have rejected the decision by the SPLM political bureau to invalidate his membership from the SPLM highest wing.

Last week, the SPLM Political Bureau called a meeting chaired by President Salva Kiir and resolves to remove Machar as first deputy chair of the SPLM party on the notion that Dr. Riek has formed his own political party.

In the same meeting, SPLM party removed Pagan Amum, the former secretary-general of the party and invalidated his membership claiming the similar reason to that of Dr. Riek, which the political bureau says it contradicts the party constitution.

According to the statement obtained from Sudans post by Juba TV, Dr. Riek fully rejected the decision of the SPLM political bureau meeting, saying the SPLM-IG is a faction just like the SPLM-IO and the Real SPLM and therefore has no powers to remove other leaders from the other factions.

“We want to categorically state that none of these factions can claim being the SPLM, as such no faction can dismiss any member of the other factions from SPLM,” Dr. Riek said.

On Thursday of last week, the SPLM Political Bureau, the party's highest organization consisting of 25 senior members dismissed Dr. Riek and Comrade Pagan Amuom from the SPLM party and its Bureau.

Dr. Riek was the deputy chairman of the SPLM and Cde. Pagan was a Secretary General, before the civil war broke out in 2013. After, the Civil War, Dr. Riek formed the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement in Opposition, SPLM-IO and became the chairman.

While, Pagan, got arrested and became a political detainee with some of the members of SPLM Liberation council, later release and sent to exile. Pagan is currently the chairman of Real Sudan People's Liberation Movement, R-SPLM which is now in coalition with SSUF and NAS under SSOMA.

SSOMA is now in pending negotiations with Government of South Sudan in Rome.

19/10/2022

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16/10/2022

Good move.

U.S. Embassy Announces Three-Year USAID Initiative to Support Independent Media in
South Sudan
Juba, South Sudan—The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has signed a
three-year, $12 million agreement with Pact Inc. to continue the U.S. Government’s long-
standing support for independent media in South Sudan and the disputed Abyei Area on the
South Sudan-Sudan border, as an essential element of democracy.
The USAID-funded 2021 South Sudan National Audience Survey confirmed that radio remains
the most used and accessible source of information in South Sudan, although some areas,
including Unity and Upper Nile States, have lower rates of access to radio than other areas.
The new Sustainable Independent Media Activity will improve access to credible, accurate, and
reliable information for South Sudanese citizens by promoting the sustainability of high quality,
independent radio operations.
This initiative, to be implemented in South Sudan by PACT and sub-awardee IREX and other
partners, will provide citizens with a platform to encourage a more responsive government for
South Sudanese citizens by improving access to credible, accurate, and reliable information;
promoting financial, institutional, and social sustainability; and investing in high-quality,
credible journalism.
The Sustainable Independent Media Activity will build on the accomplishments of USAID’s
2013-22 i-STREAM activity implemented by Internews, which built sustainable independent
radio in South Sudan, and improved media content and professionalism of community radio
stations.
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