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Covid-19 challenges have not stopped cross border trade at Nimule, Elegu Monday January 11 2021 Advertisement Even with elaborate internal and external support, South Sudan continues to be a fragile state almost a decade after attaining independence. Much as multiple nation building programmes continue to be implemented, most of them have been put on a test as a result of the havoc created by Covid-19. Imposition of curfews and lockdowns at border points has been most problematic. Whereas forma...

South Sudan: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Quarter 3 Report 2020 Format Accomplishments Between July and September 2020, IOM continued to be the largest WASH service provider in the Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites in South Sudan, ensuring that 153,359 internally displaced persons (IDPs) received daily WASH services, including solid and liquid waste management. At the same time, IOM maintained WASH services and gender-based violence (GBV) prevention interventions in urban and rural ar...

Ugandan driver arrested after knocking man dead on Juba-Nimule highway A 37-year-old Ugandan driver identified as Richard Wuzunza knocked and killed a man, Olony John Okech, along the Juba-Nimule highway on Wednesday last week. Authorities say the FUSO truck was travelling from Nimule to Juba but met with an accident between Oboma and Nyolo villages in the territory of Eastern Equatoria state. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, Captain George, the director of traffic in Nimule said:” “This incident...

SIX decades down the line, the abiding memory of Christmas at our home in Stirling was of half a dozen middle-aged uncles asleep and snoring in front of the dining room’s coal fire. The thick curtains were drawn. In this post-prandial phase, which lasted about two hours, the air was thick with cigarette and pipe smoke plus methane gas. There had been only brief conversation prior to their collective coma while the table was cleared, the women retreating upstairs to the sitting room and kids l...

  This blog is part of a series that showcases the rich diversity of information held in the South Sudan National Archives (SSNA). RVI works in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, Museums and National Heritage on the preservation and digitization of the archives. Under the current project, funded by the Government of Norway, through UNESCO, various activities are underway to showcase the information available in the archives to a wider audience. Zoe Cormack is an anthropologist and a his...

COVID-19: South Sudan privatizes testing, travelers livid The government of South Sudan’s National Taskforce on Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic last week directed that all travelers leaving the country will now have to go to a private medical laboratory, Med-Blue Laboratory, and pay for the test, to the chagrin of potential travelers. Officiating during the launch of Med-Blue Laboratories on 3rd December, Vice President and Chairman National Taskforce on Coronavirus, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, s...