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Salva Kiir, 71, was standing for South Sudan’s national anthem at a ceremony to open a road when a puddle began accumulating at his feet.

Critics say President Salva Kiir is unfit to lead long-suffering nation while others decry mocking of ‘an elder’

Juba High Court adjourned the second hearing in the case of former Northern Bahr el Ghazal governor Kuel Aguer Kuel, to Wednesday next week.

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On October 3, South Sudan’s government started its trial against Kuel Aguer Kuel and five activists associated with the People’s Coalition for Civic Action, a pro-reform pressure group, which calls for political change in South Sudan through peaceful protest.

Some members of the People’s Coalition for Civil Action, accused of plotting to over throw the government will be tried in absentia, says Juba court.

Opposers fault the move, say process was not transparent and was done unconstitutionaly.

A United Nations rights commission in South Sudan says the government is harassing activists, journalists and their families, limiting their activities, and targeting their work and finances. In a statement of "concern" issued this week, the United Nations Commission of Human Rights in South Sudan said the pattern of harassment is impeding the already slow…

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan has ordered the freezing of bank accounts of five members of a coalition of activists calling for political change. The People’s Coalition for Civil Action, formed in July, has called for President Salva Kiir and his rival deputy Riek Machar to step down, accusing them of failing the people of South Sudan for a decade of war and fragile peace.

An advocate of the South Sudan High Court has condemned the recent order by the South Sudan Central Bank to freeze the bank accounts of individuals and organizations linked to the People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA) – a coalition of activists calling for political change, saying it is illegal.