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The Central Bank of South Sudan yesterday announced it will increase the amount of foreign currency (US Dollars) it injects into the economy weekly from USD 5 to 8 million in a bid to strengthen the South Sudanese Pound (SSP) and stabilize the economy.

CEPO warns of looming ethnic cleansing in greater Jonglei The advocacy outfit, Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), has warned of looming genocide in South Sudan’s Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) as inter-communal clashes escalate there. Clashes have been ongoing in GPAA’s Likuangole and Gumuruk counties between Pibor youth and their Jonglei counterparts since Friday, May 7. The motive of the clashes which erupted after attacks by the Jonglei youth groups is uncl...

CEPO Executive Director Edmund Yakani Edmund Yakani, the Executive Director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organisation CEPO has faulted parties to the 2018 revitalized agreement saying they all violated the 35% provision for women representation in the newly reconstituted legislature.  On Monday this week, President Salva Kiir Mayardit reconstituted the transitional national legislature to include 550 members of the various parties to the peace pact. These include 332 members from ...

Bringing Them Home: Reconciling Communities Through the Return of Abducted Children and Women in Jonglei State Format In this Blog Robina Baseka – Save the Children’s Advocacy & Campaigns Coordinator in South Sudan - gives an insight on her experience during the reunification process. The first of April 2021 marked a key milestone in the history of Greater Jonglei, and in particular the counties of Pibor and Uror –Pieri, in South Sudan. It was the month when an agreement was finally broke...

A group of youth, the Monyiemiji Forum in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State has petitioned the government against what they described as unjust employment policy by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the state.

Juba, South Sudan – When the pandemic struck, many feared South Sudan could be one of the hardest hit countries in Africa – years of conflict had hollowed out its healthcare system and the threat of famine was on the horizon. Heeding the warnings, the European Union, the United States and the World Bank chipped in more than $100m for the COVID-19 response, while the International Monetary Fund has given some $200m in loans. Worrying death toll projections have yet to materialise – fewer t...

The trial of suspects accused of killing civilians during last year’s Sherikat incident was adjourned on Wednesday after the suspects failed to show up.

File photo (CMAID) Primary eight candidates in Akobo area which lies in an SPLM-IO-held territory say they are angry and upset for missing the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) that began across the country on Monday. Akobo area, which is located in Jonglei State, is a remote and hard-to-reach area in the north-east of South Sudan, close to the border with Ethiopia. Last week, the National Minister of General Education, Awut Deng Achuil announced that candidates in the SPLM-IO-controlled areas...

Extend the mandate of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan Format AI Index Number: AFR 65/3638/2021 5 February 2021 Excellencies, We, the undersigned non-governmental organisations, write to urge your delegation to support the extension in full of the mandate of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (“Commission” or “CHRSS”) at the upcoming UN Human Rights Council’s (“HRC” or “Council”) 46th session (22 February-23 March 2021). As the only mechanism curr...

January 21, 2021 (JUBA) – A South Sudanese civil society says it intends to conduct a survey on citizens' perception regarding the performance of (...)