Quote of the Week

SON:  Daddy, I have a history assignment on the death of the founding fathers of the SPLM/A. How did they die?

DAD:  Son, they died a horrible death. For example, Salva Kiir, the longest serving deputy of John Garang and the first president of RSS was lynched to death on May 16th 2017 in Juba by an angry, hungry mob, commanded by wounded heroes and widows of the martyrs, accusing him of corruption and self-enrichment at their expenses.

SON: Really? Were the perpetrators apprehended?

DAD: No son, the deceased left impunity behind; There was no law in the country to persecute them. It was every South Sudanese for himself and God for us all!

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Special Report: A Radio Jock (Mading Ng’or) Tests Freedom’s Limits in New Nation

In a country where most people get their news not from the Internet, newspapers or television but from the radio, Mading Ngor is about as big as journalists get. The 29-year-old radioman is decidedly not impartial. But his brash, crusading reports and interviews on Bakhita Radio are required listening for politicians and the public alike. In the fourth installment of a series about the world’s newest nation, Reuters offers a profile of one of South Sudan’s best knows journalists. South Sudan is a lot freer for the press than Sudan. But even edgy journalists like Ngor are still figuring out how far the media can go.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/us-south-sudan-radio-idUSBRE86B08Y20120712