By Christopher Sebit sebitomini@gmail.com Failure to foresee the intricacy and the volatility of post-referendum, politics turned out disastrous. Capitalizing on the disaster, is the persistent lack of a nationally shared vision for good cultural, political and economic governance based on a transparent and accountable administration which is key to building...

By Morris Dogga Women leaders have called for a collective responsibility from both the government and other stakeholders in a bid to help reduce the gender gap between men and women. Funmi Balogun, the country Representative of the UN Women in South Sudan, said the responsibility to reduce gender gap...

By Sasuk Taban The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has revealed that animal disease rabies caused about 99.5% fatalities. But it said rabies is a preventable disease. Rabies is a viral, zoonotic disease that can affect most warm-blooded species. It is mostly transmitted to humans through...

By Moses Gum Degur The Minister of Gender, Child and Social Welfare in the Transitional Government of National Unity has said that those who violate women and children’s rights will be punished. The Minister gave this stern warning while officiating over the launch of the legal provisions relating to gender...

By Rose Keji Benjamin Business communities in Terekeka have resorted to river transport due to poor condition of roads between Juba and their state. In a statement to Juba Monitor, Terekeka State’s Minister of Information, Philip Ladu, said the roads were now impassable as a result of heavy rains that...

By Mandela Nelson Denis The Busoga University in Uganda has cancelled the graduation of 400 students from South Sudan who have completed their studies from Star International University College in Juba. Start International University (SIU) is affiliated to Busoga University. The graduation was scheduled to  take place tomorrow Friday 29th...

By Sasuk Taban I was having my lunch at around one O’clock when I heard a loud sound outside the office. Bang! My colleagues and I ran as fast as our legs could carry us to see what had happened. What we saw was not a pleasant sight. A Toyota...

By Jale Richard President Salva Kiir Mayardit has blamed some members of the organised forces for involvement in committing crimes against civilians. He also blamed them for failure to protect civilians especially in the national capital Juba. Addressing a number of officers from the National Police Services, Prison Services, and...

Fingers are again pointing at the harassment of motorists by the white uniformed police officers. The motorists who are complaining have taken some of these reports to some of the civil society organizations to address the same with the Government organs. It is common to see traffic police officers stopping...

JMEC PRESS RELEASE Due to mass displacement, severe food insecurity and total lack of institutional and constitutional infrastructure, credible elections will not be feasible in South Sudan at the end of the current transitional period, the Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), has said. Addressing the United...