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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” declares one poster, quoting the Bible alongside a photo of the president. But nearly a year after Pr...

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, Zacharia's son told Radio Tamazuj on Saturday that his father has not returned home since he assumed office on 6th of January 2021.  “Since my father wen...

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, women, youth, farmers, and cattle camp leaders.  Paul Ygugusuk, archbishop of the Central Equatoria pr...

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 letter written and addressed to Tut Gatluak Manime, the chairperson of the National Transitional Committe...

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 raids, and intercommunal clashes in the country. “We met with the minister of interior and directed...