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Beyond the bang-bang: Reporting from the front lines of peace. This article is part of our peacebuilding coverage, reporting on how atrocities can be prevented, how societies can be made more resilient, and how peace can be sustainably built. JUBA/PIBOR/YEI, South Sudan On the streets of South Sudan’s capital city, billboards honour the country’s politicians for ending five years of conflict that cost almost 400,000 lives and displaced millions. “Peacemakers” and “Children of God” d...

WBG revenue director whereabouts unknown after assuming office, family says The newly appointed Western Bahr el Ghazal state revenue director has been missing since Wednesday in Wau town, the family has announced. According to the family, Cicinato Zachariah Abdullah was appointed on 31st December 2020 by the governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal Sarah Cleto as the State Director of Revenue Authority before his disappearance. Nelson Cicinato, Zacharias son told Radio Tamazuj on Saturday that his fa...

English By Daniel Friday Martin Share on Facebook Print this page YEI, SOUTH SUDAN - With an eye toward ending intercommunal violence that killed dozens of people last month in Central Equatoria state, South Sudanese religious leaders and civil society activists have organized direct peace and reconciliation talks between various communities.  Some meetings already have taken place in rural villages of Terekeka County and included chiefs, wom...

File photo: Presidential adviser on security affairs Tut Gatluak Nine hotels in Juba have given the South Sudanese government five days to clear accumulated accommodation arrears amounting to a staggering 10 million United States dollars.   There are more than 300 peace delegates, comprising Ministers, Members of Parliaments and Military Generals and other officials from various parties to the revitalized peace agreement, who are being accommodated in different hotels in Juba city. In a lette...

Kiir directs security apparatus to end armed conflicts, road ambushes South Sudan’s National Security Committee held a meeting in Juba yesterday, Tuesday, and discussed the rampant road ambushes, attacks, and inter-communal fighting in different parts of the country. Speaking to the press after the meeting, the presidential adviser for national security affairs, Tut Gatluak Manime, said the security sector has been directed by the president to immediately put a halt to road ambushes, cattle r...

Kiir appoints deputy governors for six states South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Wednesday night appointed deputy governors for six states, after wider consultations with parties.  He, however, did not appoint deputy governors for three states – Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap and Central Equatoria states. Today afternoon, Presidential Adviser for National Security Affair Tut Gatluak, an ally of President Kiir, said the Other Political Parties (OPP) – a party to the peace dea...

South Sudan: Transition and Recovery Quarter 3 Report 2020 Format Livelihood Support In Abyei Administrative Area (AAA), the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Transition and Recovery Unit (TRU), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, supported a farming group consisting of 25 beneficiaries (10 women and 15 men) with the ploughing of eight acres and distribution of farm inputs. IOM also provided assorted saloon start-up kits to the Abyei Boys Unisex Saloon group. Ano...

File photo: Presidential Affairs Minister Nhial Deng Nhial Nhial Deng Nhial, the minister for presidential affairs, earlier this afternoon, in a press release, said that consultations are underway regarding the reconstitution of the Transitional Legislative Assembly and the formation of state governments and urged the public for patience.  “In light of stories trending on social media and reported by some media houses across the country regarding the delay in the reconstitution of the Transi...

‘Likely famine’ blamed on massive flooding, violence Dec 12, 2020 JUBA, South Sudan — One county in South Sudan is likely in famine and tens of thousands of people in five other counties are on the brink of starvation, according to a new report by international food security experts. Nowhere in the world has been in famine since one was declared nearly four years ago in South Sudan’s Unity state as civil war raged. Now western Pibor county is feared to have reached that crisis le...

New report says part of South Sudan is in likely famine by Sam Mednick And Maura Ajak, The Associated Press Posted Dec 11, 2020 3:27 am EDT Last Updated Dec 11, 2020 at 3:42 am EDT JUBA, South Sudan — One county in South Sudan is likely in famine and tens of thousands of people in five other counties are on the brink of starvation, according to a new report by international food security experts. Nowhere in the world has been in famine since one was declared nearly four years ago in South Sud...