Abel Alier News Today

Civil society activists and residents of the Jonglei State capital, Bor, have expressed dismay over the decision of the mayor to rename key roads in the town after the governor of the Bank of South Sudan and the state governor.

"You did not fight, you did not liberate this country, we liberated you, you were not in the bush, etc." These are some of the common phrases often used to label certain groups of South Sudanese by those who consider themselves the "liberators" of South Sudan. As a result of such categorization, there is a tendency to prioritize the contributions of specific ethnicities and regions while dismissing those of others. This privileging of military contributions and the use of suc...

A veteran journalist, Peter Butili Farrajallah, is calling on authorities in South Sudan to permit press freedom especially for the radio, which is the main medium of mass communication in the country, saying it is an important tool in peacebuilding as the globe celebrates World Radio Day (WRD), today 13 February.

What’s new? In February 2020, South Sudan’s two main belligerents began forming a unity government pursuant to a peace deal inked a year and a half earlier. But the pact is fragile, smaller conflicts are still ablaze and the threat of return to full-blown civil war remains.  Why does it matter? Forthcoming elections could test the peace deal severely. Looking further ahead, conflict will continue to plague South Sudan until its leaders forge a political system that distributes power mo...

INTERVIEW: ‘We do not support Kiir, we support the people’s demands’-JCE File photo: Joshua Dau (centre), a leading member of the Jieng Council of Elders during a meeting with Equatoria and Nuer elders in Juba in November 2016 The Jieng Council of Elders (JCE), a grouping of prominent Dinka politicians and elders from across South Sudan, last week released a statement that drew mixed reactions by inter alia disparaging the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in th...