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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 unclear. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj Saturday, Edmund Yakani, CEPO’s Executive Director, condemned t...
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 the former transitional government, 128 from SPLM-IO, 50 from SSOA, 30 from the Other Political Part...
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 brokered between these counties to facilitate the return of 58 abducted children and women to their famil...
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.