| A Call for a Marshall plan for South Sudan (2-2) Sudan Tribune This is the second and final part of the article which I published recently under the same title. The central theme of the first part of the article was proposing a South Sudan Marshall Plan to be funded by US, Britain, and Norway in partnership with … |
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| Sudan lauds AU for handling Sudan-South Sudan dispute Afrique en Ligue Khartoum, Sudan – Sudan has expressed its satisfaction at the African Union Peace and Security Council’s (AUPSC’s) decision to ensure that the dispute between Juba and Khartoum is handled at the continental level, rather than allow foreign intervention…
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Archive for January, 2013
South Sudan, Kenya Plan $1 Billion Upgrade of International Road
Posted: January 30, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Junub SudanFor How Long Will President Kiir Fly on Ethiopian and Kenyan Airliners?
Posted: January 28, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Commentary, Featured ArticlesBy Holy Crook
Wait a minute. I have a confession to make: I’m a fool, the greatest fool of all times. I have been a fool. Due to this folly, I’ve been relying on my President for protection. I have always counted on him to protect my life and of my children, relatives and South Sudanese in general.
Alas! I was wrong. If the President of the Republic, Salva Kiir, is insecure, who am I to complain about the growing insecurity situation in South Sudan? Who am I to rely on him? If my President sweats and panics every time he exits and returns to the country, who the hell am I to question why civilians are killed on a daily basis in Juba, in Wau and in the whole country? If the President does not care about his own personal security, life, why do I expect him to protect me? I’m a big fool. Don’t you agree with me? Is he safe? How safe is he?
Relax. The President is safe and there is no potential danger at all.
Do you ask yourself why insecurity is deteriorating in the country? Do you wonder why women and even 14-year old girls are unarguably systematically raped in Juba and beyond? Do you know why many citizens spend sleepless nights due to constant attacks and burglaries staged by armed and uniformed men? This is simply because the president himself is insecure; (I know I just assured you that he is safe). So, how do you expect somebody who does not value security to protect you? It is like asking a pauper for a piece of bread.
World nations maintain one or more special plane to transport to fly their heads of states and other senior government officials. There are so many reasons why they do this. One of them is security concern which happens to be the most important one. Another one is prestige. For South Sudan’s case, trash prestige.
My point is: why does Mister President depend on hired commercial planes? Why does he fly on a chartered jet? Come on. It has been seven and half years now. For how long will our beloved President continue to use Ethiopian and Kenyan airliners? Is it lack of money? Is it that he is too humble to have a presidential private jet? What exactly is gagging the old man?
South Sudan just emerged out of a bloody civil war which killed millions and displaced over four million others. Besides, the same people we have been at war with are still as violent as Islamic Radicals. Practically, we are still at war with Sudan. Ask the people of Mile 14, Renk and Raja. And our borders are as porous and dangerous as ever. The world economy is at the verge of collapse. No, it has already collapsed. This is sending all types of people- the bad, the good and the ugly – to South Sudan which they believe is the new business hub. The influx of these questionable foreign nationals bespeaks a serious concern. Most of these people are running away from their countries for a reason, just one reason – poverty. They are very desperate. That means they can do anything for money.
South Sudan charters a plane every time the Cowboy has to travel outside, to and fro. The common planes are the Kenya’s KQ and the Ethiopian Airways. He has flown on these jets a million times. How safe is this type of transport? How much do we have to trust our cousins?
I am not saying the two airliners can do us any premeditated harm but I would like you to look beyond the horizon. Think.
I know that many world leaders chose to travel on commercial flights, like the rest of the great unwashed. Australian Prime Minister John Howard, for instance, has his own plane but sits in an ordinary aircraft seat, rather than a reclining sofa. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clarke flies Air New Zealand. That’s fine. And Malawian President Joyce Banda is an extraordinary woman. She travels by scheduled commercial liners. However, the beauty of this is that the said heads of states fly on their respective nations’ commercial planes, say, Air New Zealand or Air Australia.
Look around. All of our neighboring countries, including broke ones, have presidential jets. President Kibaki trudges in and out of his fifty-million-dollar Fokker 70. Museveni swaggers in a forty-point-two-million-dollar Gulfstream G550 private plane. This is very convenient for them. This special jet, say, Museveni’s, is serviced in Uganda by Ugandans. It’s kept in a hangar managed by Ugandans. It’s watched by Ugandan security agents.
Can South Sudan afford to buy a cheaper jet for the head of the state? Yes it can. I know the government is broke but there is an alternative – just squeeze hundreds of millions of dollars out of the seventy-five thieves.
I acknowledge the destructive monetary effects that come with a presidential jet but what difference would it make? The government has had its hand on billions of oil money all these years but it could not use it appropriately.
In actual sense, if we sum up all the money the state has spent on President Kiir’s chartered flights since 2005, the amount could buy a jet more expensive than Kibaki’s. Even if it would mean buying a second-hand plane, the parliament should do something. South Sudanese would be more comfortable and relaxed to see the plane their President flies piloted by the sons and daughters of the soil. Need I remind you of the past fishy events involving influential people in Eastern Africa, even our own? No, I don’t think so.
Former Rebel Commander, James Kuberin, Defects from the SPLA in Pibor
Posted: January 28, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Junub SudanThe latest fighting took place on Sunday in the small town of Pibor in the eastern state of Jonglei, between soldiers and bodyguards of former rebel commander James Kuberin, witnesses said. Kuberin used to be a commander of a group led by David Yau Yau, one of several militias fighting the government of the new African republic, but he defected to the army in December. Witnesses said Kuberin went to Pibor’s market to get a haircut and was told by an army patrol not to walk around with armed guards.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/28/us-southsudan-violence-idUSBRE90R0LB20130128
| Two thousand flee as battle engulfs South Sudan town Reuters JUBA (Reuters) – Two thousand people were forced to flee to a U.N. base after a battle betweenSouth Sudanese soldiers and the guards of a former rebel commander laid waste to a small town, the United Nations and witnesses said on Monday. |
| Visiting South Sudan chiefs call on Volta Region House of Chiefs Vibe Ghana A delegation of chiefs and government officials from South Sudan on a visit to Ghana on Monday, interacted with members of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs (VRHC) in Ho. The import of the interaction was to enable the visiting team to learn about the … |
| Fighting in South Sudan town kills four, thousands flee Reuters JUBA (Reuters) – A gunfight between South Sudanese soldiers and a former rebel commander’s guards killed four people in a small eastern town, destroyed buildings there and forced thousands to flee, witnesses and officials said on Monday. Symptomatic of … |
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| 4 civilians in S. Sudan die after rebel-army clash MiamiHerald.com JUBA, South Sudan — A tension-filled showdown in the middle of a market town between rebels andSouth Sudan’s military led to the deaths of four civilians and some 2,000 people seeking refuge with the U.N., officials said Monday. The fighting took … |
Democracy, Transparency and Integrity will Prevail in South Sudan
Posted: January 28, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Junub SudanI have been an observer of events in Sudan and South Sudan for some
twelve years. I believe some recent events in South Sudan are
deserving of activism. I am asking for your participation in a
letter/email campaign.
Reading the article “South Sudan: Letter to Central Equatoria” by
Steven Wöndu, (Sudan Tribune and AllAFRICA.COM) 15 January 2013.
I do not choose to bring undesired attention to Mr Wondu, Auditor
General of Central Equitorial State, nor is it my intention to degrade
Auditor Generals in other states. (Perhaps my sketchy research has
overlooked honesty and professionalism of other Auditor Generals). But
there are several actions in which Mr. Wondu has shown exemplary
professionalism.
Mr. Wondu published a complaint “nearly a year ago” that the
government of Central Equatoria… neglect[ed]… the important roads
linking Lasu, Yondoru, Isebi, Tore and Wuji to the trunk Juba-Kaya
artery.
Mr. Wondu now offers congratulations to government of Central
Equatoria (Governor Clement Wani Konga and his cabinet) for its “plans
to construct roads and distribute seeds and fertilizers” which
“breathed fresh air into my [Mr. Wondu’s] ears.”
Additionally, Mr. Wondu brought attention [Sudan Tribune: South Sudan:
Auditor General Implicates Govt, Parliament in Financial Losses, Sudan
Tribune, 16 July 2012] to possible financial mismanagement
(misappropriated funds) in 2007 by six government
ministries and the Southern Sudan legislative Assembly (SSLA).
Millions of dollars of oil revenue were reportedly undisclosed in
several accounts.
Also, bringing attention to fake contracts and inflated payrolls [see
“S. Sudan: Billions lost in fake contracts, inflated payrolls” Sudan
Tribune, 18 July 2012], the Auditor General reported “Unspecified
billions of taxpayers’ money went unaccounted for in 2008, either
through dubious award of contracts to unregistered companies or
inflated payrolls in South Sudan government ministries and agencies,
an audit report of its financial statements reveal.”
I am one that holds the belief that democracy, transparency and
integrity will prevail in South Sudan. That freedom and justice and
equal opportunity will find their way through the glare heineous
travesties (Lakes state: Revenge clashes leave 25 dead and 30 wounded
Saturday 19 January 2013; killing of unarmed protestors and civilians
in Wau, the Western Bahr el Ghazal state capital, the death of Isaiah
Diing Abraham Chan Awuol, the tragic retaliatory attacks and murders
between Nuer, Dinka and Murle in Jonglei. The list seems infinite).
It is only through efforts like those of Mr. Wondu that South Sudan is
going to find the justice promised in the South Sudan Constitution.
Is it fair to ask administrators throughout South Sudan to imitate the
honesty that Mr. Wondu emits?
Dare we ask that Steve Wondu distribute his efficiency and integrity
to other states of South Sudan?
AS A COROLLARY, I would like to reiterate the progress Beny Gideon Mab
describes [“Media Legislation: A Litmus Test for Democracy In South
Sudan” Sudan Tribune, 20 January 2013] regarding the passage of media
legislation (Media Authority Media Authority Bill 2012, Right of
Access to Information Bill, 2012 and Broadcasting Corporation Bill,
2012). The bills are now before the Honorable August House for
deliberation. The public hearing organized by the Specialised
Committee of Information in the National Legislative Assembly was
significant in developing the progressive legislation.
It is beyond me why overwhelming support from the people and the media
significants – letters, phone calls, emails – is not being presented
to the National Legislative Assembly.
I ask for participation on three issues.
I ask – in my most humble demeanor – that South Sudanese – in South
Sudan and in diaspora – support the media legislation in any way
possible AND provide support – letters, email, phone calls – for
administrative efforts of the Auditor General’s office toward
redeeming financial integrity and transparency within the Sudanese
government.
Lastly, please offer thanks to Mr. Steven Wondu, for his commitment
and exemplary performance in offering the South Sudanese people a
government which they well deserved.
Addendum, Please read “The Dura Saga Fat Cats” by Holy Crook (SSNA)
January 7, 2012
Respectfully,
Dennis E. Paul
Des Moines, Iowa USA
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South Sudan my Country
Posted: January 28, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Commentary, Featured ArticlesBy Daniel Machar Dhieu
I am proud to be a South Sudanese as we really live in a beautiful land; we have many natural resources; we have a long description struggle history in the World; we are a truly multicultural and capitalistic nation; we have made major contributions to the advancement of society; and we are, all in all, great people in the region.
South Sudan is the largest land lock country on the earth and what a beautiful country it is! Surrounded by notable countries such Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, DRC, Central African Republic and Sudan, it has an incredible variety of landscape. From the eastern equatorial and central Equatoria as the Rocky Mountains through the bottom of South Sudan, and the fertile farmlands of southern Juba, Jonglei state, the northern part of the country and the two Great of Equatoria and Bahr-el-Ghazal South Sudan is amazing Country. Each region has its own beauty. Our cities such as Juba, Wau and Malakal are filled with exciting things to do; our small towns are welcoming and rich with history; our farmlands are abundant and peaceful. In my northeast of Jonglei homeland, I can enjoy five beautiful seasons and, within little more than an hour, I can be experiencing the country’s largest city, resting along the shores of the Great upper-Nile. I cannot imagine anywhere else on earth with such beauty and diversity.
Our amazing landscape also provides us with many natural resources, which we have learned to harvest. Hydro power from Fulla dam in Nimule that will be connected soon, abundant forests and fish stocks, fertile farmland, and rich oil fields the list is long. We have more than enough to help ourselves and, along the way; we have opportunities to help the rest of the world. Our wealth gives us so many advantages and, I think, special responsibility in the region of Africa.
One of the things about South Sudan which makes me most proud is our long history of struggle. Indeed, we have been involved in wars and our gland soldiers made a major difference. But the South Sudan mentality is oriented towards peace although we lost control this year. Our troops are citizen protectors compared to the rest of other countries. We resolve our problems through negotiations, not bloodshed although we are mistaken by other countries. Both in our relationships with other countries and in our internal problems, we tend to avoid violence. Even in our most difficult divisions –around the treatment of native people’s questions –base violence is rare. It does happen; there are always people who will be extreme. But we have never had any all-out wars, and I doubt that we ever will.
Our attitude towards peace also contributes to our relative safety. Of course, there are incidents of violence in South Sudan. However, both our laws and our collective sensibility make us less likely to experience violence. We don’t have to worry about being shot when we walk outside our doors. In an increasingly violent world, we can still feel safe and secure in our homes.
I am particularly grateful for South Sudan’s cultural diversity. South Sudan truly is a multicultural nation. In my country, people of different cultures and religions live together. We don’t have neighborhoods which are defined as different. We learn from one another and, in my opinion, our lives are richer for the opportunity to share in such varied experiences.
The world is also greatly enriched by the contributions of South Sudan especially the neighboring countries of East Africa enjoy many of us.
South Sudan is my home, and I want it to remain in the way that I like, and progress for better expectation. I love this country and, at this difficult time, I am counting on those in powers in this country the politicians and the adults who elect them to believe that South Sudan need to be enrolled to fulfil it domain arena and work to save it.
From Daniel Machar Dhieu
Email: machardanieldhieu@yahoo.com
The citizen also has a great role to play in the nation
Posted: January 27, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Commentary, Featured ArticlesBy Daniel Machar Dhieu
I have been quite enough and wait for a change but no-way through, although a lot incidence has happened in my presence. Therefore, today I join the world of activist as my home of interest. Indeed, I decided to add my voice in this nation of South Sudan through writing as this is altruistic of Human being. I may not change the whole nation under the system that already exists but simply I requested my sense of nationalism to be trying to challenge this fence of corruption in South Sudan. We all knew that, our backgrounds are not all uniform to be exams hereby under one man rule to change South Sudan at one, but we need to start in this process of establishing the nation.
We have a formula that has turned us under one man rule especially through the SPLM as a party that has led us to a free nation at last. Therefore, South Sudan as a nation must to be ruled by one person as we fought for one nation, and this should be from any party, in this nation we don’t judge any party but we judge people in the party. This time, our nation south Sudan needs the people who will lead us on the right way and work for the good of this nation and bring a better change to South Sudan as we were crying for the independence of this nation.
I would like to base my point of view on the different-logy of the government and harvested citizens in the nation to differentiate their works in the nation; one should not blame the other administration and work as act of these two wings. We are in the family of South Sudan under the government of South Sudan. The two may not work fairly if they are not directed to agree upon their work. Even in the family of producing father and mother with their biological children may face the same difference, if they failed to identify their compound and labor division.
There are some identical works defined for mother, the same way to father while the children on their capacity according to their sex design. The same ideology, the nation has the same labor division, and this is clear that, the agencies of the government are Army, police, prison and fire brigade and they have one thing in common their works is to defense the nation both internal and external conflicts. On the other hand, the civil ministries also work to serve the civil population and promote international relationship with other countries. Therefore, the mentioned above led by H.E President of the Republic.
The citizen also has a great role in the nation, is the right of the citizens shelter themselves before any organ of the government for example, is not the government or Mr. President to build the houses for any citizen in the nation. A free citizen, have right to cultivate to earn enough food, citizen have the opportunity to send her/his child to school for studies, citizens also are to maintained peace within and outside the country and the most important thing for the citizens they are to maintain the laws of the country properly.
However, this has not been the kind of the government and the citizens the South Sudan has. Instead of maintaining the laws and orders, citizens are fond of supporting the criminology across the country, there is already a shortage of food because of laziness. I learned that, the nation is under threat because both two has already messed-up. The citizens failed their side and found themselves on the street of poverty ending fighting each other. Now, the government has to come with all the security agencies to protect its citizens leaving-out the external enemy to attach the nation, also in the process of protecting the citizens more people will lose their lives and properties.
We have really failed to understand our position as South Sudanese at large in socially, politically and economically to stage ourselves and free this nation by any mean. There are some people who trying to provoke the situation and put the blame on the government alone. Therefore, we need to understand ourselves on our responsibility in the nation and work hard to earn ourselves more food to settle the next problem connected to hunger, and the most important thing to do is to reconcile our differences with other communities within South Sudan to develop this nation with a free heart. We can’t focus on development, if we continue with abduction of children from other tribes, no development when we involve on cattle wrestling all these will not take us anywhere atoll.
Am emphasizing on correction of the characteristic of human being for us to build this nation of South Sudan, More we need to understand ourselves as the people of this nation have peace and cooperation and work for it, we can’t expect things from nowhere but we have to work for our own things. We have to differentiate our positions from the government as possible. In other word, we should take over our responsibility and do whatever belongs to our side especially working on the garden and improves on the basic establishment in the nation leaving the security point of the government.
What I have learned so far concerning the clashes within the country as seen in Wau last year and Rumbek this year , has already inform my heart on tribal conflicts as the order of the day in our county. Killing people have been just like taking morning tea. We are depopulating our number for no clear reason; let asking ourselves why we are killing our brothers and sisters because of the animals that we used to buy with pounds only? Why don’t us joint SPLA troops at the border places like Raja, Heglid and Abyiei to fight back the enemies that are trying to enter our territory of South Sudan.
Surely, all these problems are basically on laziness we focus on government failure forgetting our part. I failed to understand the vision of our local people on leadership, if we become all ministers whom are we ministering? For this, there must be a minister of Agriculture to take care on agricultural activities in the nation the same to other ministries.
Finally, let take our-side as citizens of this nation and off-lift ourselves out of the government side, and free our hands with superior weapons as these instruments belong to the government level.
From Daniel Machar Dhieu
Email: machardanieldhieu@yahoo.com
KIIR’S RESHUFFLING: JUST ANOTHER GAME.
Posted: January 26, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Commentary, Featured ArticlesBy Azariah Maduk
At the beginning of this week the public was caught by surprise with the swift move made by H.E Gen. Salva Kiir (Dr.) the president, by embarking on reshuffling the army. Warming many on the bench and putting smiles on others faces, terminating elected Governor Eng. Chol Tong (does he have those powers, jungle laws!!!) and relieving Gen. Achuil Tito. This move have been received with mixed reaction where others are not feeling good under their skins with what happened, where civilians wanted to stage a demonstration in Rumbek for their darling governor removed and others are contended with the shot.
Before I go to the main point to why I wrote this article, I would like to appreciate Mr. President for the reshuffling not because he has done good reshuffling but because it will bring new faces into the system with new thinking which might change the trend or our army.
If we look at this move critically from the slant of our starving citizens, first of all we want to see the priorities to south Sudanese at moment; what do we need? Is it the organization in the army? Or is it the restructuring of the really government but not the military? Do the reshuffling in military and police have direct impact on civilians?
From my point of view, that reshuffling was just but wretched actions that doesn’t mean anything at all; here is my argument I don’t know what you might think about it but I have this to say, our main problem in south Sudan is the corruption in government that is directly related to civil population, so if Mr. President thinks he need change he should start it from within his own office, by changing his advices both in office and those that advice him at night (by distancing himself away from their influence), reshuffling the cabinet by removing ministers like Minister of interior, Minister of roads, Minister of Petroleum and Mining, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Finance and so forth, he should remove the governor of Central Bank of South Sudan. All these moves will entail the really change to the face of the government but NOTE Mr. President should not make the same mistake like usual by just rotating the ministers, this time round he should bring in new faces with fresh ideas because these old chaps are not the only people who fought or who have brains then any of other guys neglected unless Mr. President is looking for people of his same sleeve.
Mr. President have got it wrong from my point of view because the problem is his inner circle boys (and girls if any) who have squander $ 4 billion and nothing viable have happened, Mr. President may blame his opponent in the government for plotting against him but it is from his own failure to manage the affairs that arouse the feeling, as a leader you are the only player who coordinate between both ends/sides (example is Obama managing both the Republican and Democratic in his government), Mr. President should take advices from people who have succeed in management not from some cheap failed fellows that just want to put him in the same league with them (Mr. President should watch out for those leaders that have failed their nations by dictatorship not to associated with them).
Coming back on the issue of those removed/retired/reserved whatever you want to call it, is nothing but just another way of putting them to another positions where they will continue with the corruption they did in the army (because if not done so their tendency to cause chaos is there, the mental syndrome of 2010) and we have witness it already from two guys reinstated as the Inspector General for Police and the acting Governor. For Christ sake! Lt. Gen. Pieng Deng Majok was the least person I expect to be brought back into the system, this guy have disable the system in SPLA by delaying the salaries of soldiers, he slept on the salary increase for soldiers last year until he got pressure and have made a good fortune out of his former position. Why were they changed in the first place if they were worthy of something? And that shows that Mr. President is just playing with our brains taking us for fools.
Mr. President is fond of this tricks but will never change anything and that is why we are still having corruption sky rocketing year after year, because of his actions of taking corrupted officials from one office to another (the like of Mathok), can’t Mr. President learned from his mistakes he did in the first, I had love Mr. Kiir when he was in the bush but this Kiir now is totally different one.
Thus this reshuffling is just but another game like the previous one, the only change will come when the entire government is changed and new guys come in including the presidency ……….. #let’s wait maybe for 2015#.
Author can be reached at: azariahm@ymail.com
By Atok Dan
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With an ivory in her mouth
spaced by a gap that glitters like fresh asphalt on unused highway
her elegant giraffe like-neck that hardly undifferentiated,
her from flamingos tapping fishes along the Nile,
and a body molded with shiny clay from the river,
her spongy hip remains an imaginative mattress
I feel no more to narrate her beauty,
never has she ever gone for world beauty contest,
she suffers a great silence,
envied by many for a beauty that never earns her a coin
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A crush on her earned me unstoppable hallucinations,
hardly can these day and nightmares give me a break,
neither do I break a brake from picturing none existing image,
of a village mirror,
a crush on a village that gives birth to world most perfected body,
like what I saw in a village that remains indelible in my mental recorder
when I glance, I still wonder of,
ingredients nature had assembled into her,
I found her nowhere but in the village that nursed her
into a jeweler on world stock exchange
her beauty never fluctuates like rate of American dollar,
determinable only by raise and fall of oil
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A fix glance on her waist loosen tears from a trachoma free eyes,
and a swagger of an arm voluntarily rests an eye into its orbit,
she is from that village that nursed her
a crush or hatred, but dotted love
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All I could remember is I admired her
whether fed on fertilizer or an organic,
she still smiles milk in her mouth,
she hails from a cattle camp,
product of a white liquid,
of a cow milk
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My crush on stream of a village skeleton,
sets inextinguishable fire of love,
if I try to bow off seeing her image,
she still towers in the valley,
when I raise my eyes to measure differential depth,
already had she glows the camp with radiation of beauty
with shiny black African melanin
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When I again back off completely from her image,
I’m tired of admiration
yet she still in her hide dress,
is no more but an additional to what had slipped off my eyes,
I met her first in the great valley of Atuet-nyiel,
three miles down to Da’Chuek village of Piom–ahol,
barefooted not far away from Panyagor
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She again whirlwinds down in the cattle camp of Murle
that is never further from Kong-kong river in Pibor,
and again raising my eyes,
I saw her adorned in a house ornaments,
down in flat basin of Pakudhuom heading to Akot of Unity state,
she is already a resident of my birth village
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Had nature bungled an ideas,
only will you realize seeing her dressed in skin hide,
yet magnificently admirable in the eyes of seers,
she only travels in mountains,
my crush on a village beauty explores no idea,
and my brain remains in a jail of love
I had a crush on a village girl
Petition from the Jo Luo Community Leaders on the issues 0n 1st September 2012:
Posted: January 26, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Press Release| Petition from the Jo Luo Community Leaders on the issues 0n 1st September 2012:
Who owns Wau Town, the Fertit or the Jo Luo? By Daniel Machar Dhieu This is what they have to say, we would like to bring the attention of Your Excellency and every citizen in this nation that at last, the so-called Fertit Community leaders have succeeded in their plan to occupy Wau town and Wau County under the claim made by six tribal groups, namely: the Golo, Balanda, Ngodo, Bongo, Bai and Sere, that Wau area belongs to them. Unfortunately, Governor Rizik Zacharia Hassan has been very instrumental in the implementation of this dangerous initiative, which is likely to lead to tribal frictions in the short run between the Jo Luo and the Fertit over the ownership of Wau town, which the Jo Luo now consider an area of occupation. When the Jo Luo voted overwhelmingly for Governor Rizik Zacharia Hassan in the 2010 general elections, as opposed to the Jo Luo candidate Hon. Paul Akok Severino, they had thought, on the mistaken belief that the Fertit political leaders had finally reached a state of maturity that has qualified them to abandon tribal squabbles and ethnic groupings, and have thus resorted to healthy party politics. It was not to be so. The Jo Luo Community was proven wrong soon after Governor Rizik Zacharia Hassan took over the reins of power in Western Bahr el Ghazal State (WBGS). The fist shock felt by the Jo Luo and all the South Sudan people was when WBGS took the lead in the referendum by over seven thousand votes in favor of unity with Sudan, and these voters were specifically from the Fertit Constituencies. The purpose of this petition is a response to the letter dated 14th September, 2011 addressed to Hon. John Peter Miskin, Chairman of the Committee for Relocation of Wau County Hqs, and the then State Minster of Local Government WBGS, signed by 31 Fertit Community leaders, intellectuals, youth and women, under the subject entitled “Conversion of Wau Town to Municipality”. The signatories demanded that the Mayor for Wau Municipality, as well as Commissioner of Wau County, be continually appointed from among members of the six ethnic groups mentioned above. Sadly enough, this demand has been implemented by the Governor of WBGS following his last appointment dated 1.1.2012 whereby in the cabinet of 25 constitutional post holders, 15 are Fertit, 7 Jo Luo and 3 Dinka. In addition to that, all the Director Generals of the Ministries are Fertit, with the exception of TWO, one Jo Luo and one Dinka. It is noteworthy to mention the fact that under Governor Mark Nyipuoc Unong, the appointments in his government by then were in favor of the Fertit. When the Jo Luo Community leaders learnt of the above mentioned Fertit petition, they ignored it once more on the mistaken belief that this futile claim that Wau belongs to the Fertit Community would be criticized and rejected by the Fertit political leaders. We expected these Fertit leaders to be well acquainted with the historical facts surrounding the origins of Wau, and to be also well aware of the dangers which could ensue following revival of tribal conflicts in the State as a result of such irresponsible provocative statements. Those individuals who persist in claiming that Wau belongs to the six Fertit tribes, should ask their elders who are still alive to give them some oral history lesions. They can also search for supporting documents inorder to learn more from historical books, top among which is the one written by Fr. Stefano Santandrea under the title “A popular History of Wau” from its foundation to about 1940. Moreover, in articles written by late Lewis Umudo, the writer unequivocally states that Wau belongs to the Jo Luo people. The naming of Jur River is also an additional fact that speaks for itself. In spite for these glaring evidences, the Fertit with the support of the Arabs in the previous Sudan took control of the land that does not belong to them. However this time the Jo Luo communities will NOT this claim of the Fertit lightly any longer. The so-called Fertit community has decided to scratch the old wounds which they had inflicted on the Jo Luo over the last two decades, and which were on the way to healing. Unfortunately, this is happening at the time when the Republic of South Sudan is engaged in negotiations with the Republic of Sudan over border demarcations that includes claim by Sudan of Kafka Kenji and Hofrat el Nahas. It is paradoxical that instead of concentrating our efforts to secure our land which is in the hands of the enemy, we are engaging ourselves in a senseless tug of war over a straight forward case. Everybody is aware that Wau town with its surroundings in the South, East and north belongs to the Jo Luo. Our distant neighbors to the West are the Golo and the Sere. The Ndogo and Bai are in the far West of Wau town. As for the Balanda, they refugees who had run away from the Azande invasion of their area at Nagero, and were welcomed and protected by the Jo Luo and the Dinka at large. They eventually settled in Bagari, which is a Jo Luo village called Arit, and which they have been occupying since then. Others were settled in Deim Zubeir, which is also the land of the Luo Chatt. Incidentally, the name “Golo” is known among the Jo Luo as synonymous to the name “Fertit”, even in history books, as guests who have come to settle in areas which are not their original ones. The Bongos, who do not form part of the Fertit tribes, are the immediate neighbors of the Jo Luo, and are found around Bussere and South West of Tonj (see the tribal map attached). Wau has been an undisputed town of the Jo Luo people. In fact, it was the Jo Luo Paramount Chief Kuol Ukel who showed the French Commandant Marchand the hill on which Wau was built (1896-98). The Fertit tribes thereby simply took advantage of the way life of the Jo Luo people who, as agriculturists by nature, prefer to settle in villages outside Wau town. The Fertit instead, who are easily adoptive to changes, settled in Wau town, and that is why they have named sections of the town as: Hila Kereish, Hila Fahal, Hila Balanda, etc… They are considered as town dwellers who should not claim the ownership of the area they are occupying. What is happening now is not new, and that is why we are saying that the Fertit are opening old wounds. During the civil war, that is between 1983 to 2005, the Fertit Malitia known as Kwat el Salam under the command of Tom el Nur Deldum and Osman el Said a northern Sudanese, and with the support of Sudan armed forces under the command of Gen. Abu Gurun, attempted to eliminate all the Jo Luo and the Dinka inside Wau town because these are two tribes were accused of being either SPLA/M inside or 5th columnists. At that time, several attempts by the Fertit to take over Wau town through the use of arms were fiercely resisted by the Jo Luo and the Dinka with the resultant great loss of lives. After failure to achieve his objective, Gen. Abu Gurun had to divide Wau town into two parts: the Western part was for the Fertit and the Jalaba, while the Eastern part was for the Jo Luo and the Dinka ethnic groups. Consequently, many Jo Luo and Dinka citizens who had risked crossing to the Fertit side, have never been seen again until today, including children and women who were abducted and sold to the northerners. In Raga town, the Jo Luo and the Dinka were all eliminated. This status quo prevailed until the signing of the Comprehensive peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005. In Mapel reconciliation under the theme “Cross-line Peace Recovery and reconciliation Conference” between the three ethnic communities of Western Bahr el Ghazal State, was held under the auspices of Vice president, Dr. Riek Machar Teny from 14.3.2005 to 23.3.2005. All issues related to security, administration and social relations between the three ethnic tribes were addressed, and the conference was concluded with a Covenant initialed by the leaders of the three ethnic groups: The Jo Luo, the Dinka and the Fertit, in which they pledged themselves “to observe and implement the Covenant scrupulously and conscientiously in keeping with the solemn vows of Peace, Reconciliation and Familial Co-existence”. The Covenant opened the way for the former Fertit Militias and National Congress party (NCP) supporters to join the SPLA/M en masses, and these are the people who are now given the political power to victimize the Jo Luo people who stood firmly with the SPLA/M of yesterday. These are the same people claiming the land of the Jo Luo. In a nutshell, what is taking place in WBGS is a clear oppression of the majority ethnic group by a minority. In conclusion, this petition is intended to remind those so-called Fertit leaders who have taking the Jo Luo people for a ride that the patience of the Jo Luo is running out, and unless they change their attitude and behavior towards their neighbors, then WBGS will sooner or later cease from being considered a peaceful State since the claim of land is involved. Serious tribal confrontations are thus imminent in WBGS. Hence the need for a prompt intervention from the highest authorities, led by Your Excellency, in order to address the following root causes over the issues of land, power sharing and the management of resources in the State. 1. To tell the Fertit community to desist from their claim of Wau town which historically belongs to the Jo Luo ethnic group? However be it clear that the Jo Luo are prepared to accept Wau town as the State capital of WBGS in conformity with the government’ policy. 2. We call upon the Fertit community to adhere to the Mapel Covenant of 2005 which was conducted under the auspices of the Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan, Dr. Riek Machar Teny. 3. Governor Rizik Zacharia Hassan must be directed to review his unfair allocation of constitutional posts and the control of the civil service posts and the financial resources by the Fertit. As of present, WBGS has three Counties which are inherited from the NCP regime, whereby the Fertit were given two: Wau and Raga, while the Jo Luo majority and the Dinka were combined in one: Jur River. The Mapel conference had resolved that WBGS be upgraded to six counties and one Municipality, namely: 1. Wau East County……………………….Hqs Kuajiena 2. Marial Wau County…………………….” Marial Bai 3. Wau North County…………………….” Udici 4. Wau West County……………………..” Namatina 5. Kuru County……………………………….” Deim Zubier 6. Raga County……………………………….” Raga 7. Wau Town Municipality…………” Wau Finally we believe that Your Excellency will prevail in resolving this issue in the interest of the citizens of Western Bahr el Ghazal State with justice and fairness. |
President Kiir Speech at the AU Peace and Security Council
Posted: January 26, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in History, Press Release, SpeechesStatement to the African Union Peace and Security Council Heads of State and Government Meeting on Sudan and South Sudan
H.E. Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit, President, Republic of South Sudan
January 25, 2012
(as delivered)
Your Excellency President Mwai Kibaki, Chairman of the African Union Peace and Security Council
Your Excellency, Chairperson of the AU Commission, Madam Dr. Dlamini Zuma
Your Excellencies Heads of State and Governments and
Members of the African Union Peace and Security Council
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
Allow me to congratulate all member states for fifty years of existence as the Organization of the African Union. I also congratulate and welcome our Chairperson, Dr. Zuma for assuming her responsibilities in October 2012.
I would like to thank the African Union Peace and Security Council for convening this forum to discuss the situation between South Sudan and Sudan. While South Sudan continues to take concerted steps on the path of state and nation building, the differences with our neighbor Sudan continue to create instability in our country. This also hinders the realization of the vast potential of both nations.
I remain optimistic and confident that our vision of two viable states living side by side in peace and mutual security is indeed attainable. But it must also be reiterated that this is only attainable if both states are committed to honoring and implementing agreements that they sign. Furthermore, the continuous support of the African Union will be critical to our success.
Your Excellencies:
The cause of peace and stability for both South Sudan and Sudan has always been on the forefront of the African Union Agenda. This proclaims to the world that Africa is indeed investing in its own future by solving African problems.
This great institution must take pride in what it has accomplished on the continent and seize the opportunity to continue to make major decisions, particularly in matters of Sudan and South Sudan. This will help the two countries to build on their success and develop cooperation and mutual viability. We need you as wise leaders of our continent to help our two countries to avoid a return to the conflict.
Your Excellencies:
I would like to take this opportunity to update you on the issues that continue to hinder peace, stability and cooperation between South Sudan and Sudan.
On April 24, 2012, the Peace and Security Council established a roadmap in their Communiqué, which both states accepted. The Roadmap was also adopted by the United Nations in Resolution 2046 on May 2, 2012.
South Sudan immediately implemented the roadmap unconditionally. We took major steps to ensure full compliance with the Communiqué and Resolution 2046. We were prepared to resolve all outstanding issues including:
- oil and related payments
- the border demarcation, including the status of disputed and claimed areas
- the status of nationals of the other state and
- the final status of Abyei
Regrettably, Sudan refused to comply with the roadmap and UN Resolution 2046. Instead, the Republic of Sudan continued with aerial bombardments along our northern border. And this provocation continued into 2013. The Republic of South Sudan has chosen not to respond in kind. However, we are obligated to defend our territorial integrity and the lives of our citizens.
Your Excellencies:
After months of fruitless negotiations, the deadline for reaching agreements passed without any conclusion and President Mbeki was forced by this situation to request additional time for the states to come to an agreement.
Following the extension, President Bashir and I convened three time in September 2012, January 2013 and today. These meetings resulted in the signing of the Cooperation Agreement. I wish to make a few points regarding these agreements:
- In September 2012, the AUHIP presented us with a proposal on the final status of Abyei. The Government of South Sudan accepted the proposal unconditionally. But it was rejected by the Government of Sudan.
Consequently, in October, President Mbeki presented the proposal to the AU Peace and Security Council for adoption, which the council accepted.
In December, the AU Peace and Security Council then determined that the issue of Abyei must be resolved at the level of the Heads of State of this Council. We have exhausted the issue of Abyei for seven years. This issue does not require further negotiation but rather swift adoption and implementation of the AUHIP proposal for the final status of Abyei.
- After we signed the cooperation agreement, both national assemblies ratified them, and arrangements to begin oil production started. However, progress was halted because Khartoum placed new conditions on the agreement; refusing to allow oil to flow through their territory unless new security arrangements were implemented. With this position, Sudan has clearly obstructed the resumption of South Sudan oil exportation.
- The Roadmap and the UN Resolution 2046 clearly stipulate that there must be a resolution to the disputed and claimed areas. In our January Summit, I urged my bother President Bashir that we needed to resolve the disputed and claimed border areas. Sudan insisted that the AU Panel of experts should only deal with disputed areas and define the border. After the definition of the disputed areas, then claimed areas could be addressed. Clearly this is a tactic to include the claimed areas as part of their territory. I urge the council to mandate the panel of experts to give opinion on both disputed and claimed areas. If any areas remain claimed or disputed, they should be referred for international arbitration.
Your Excellencies:
Since the independence of South Sudan, South Sudan has been honored to be a member of the African Union.
We are deeply grateful for the generous and tireless efforts of this body and its distinguished leadership to help us resolve peacefully and through dialogue outstanding issues with the Republic of Sudan.
But if this body is to be effective in accomplishing its mission of supporting the peace and development of this great continent and if this body is to bring peace and stability to member states now and in future endeavors, the agreements it brokers and oversees must all be respected.
Your Excellencies:
I call on this august House to uphold your Communiqué and UN Resolution 2046 and urge Sudan to comply without any conditions and without any further delay. I call on this august House to adopt the AUHIP proposal regarding Abyei without further delay.
Your Excellencies:
We have upheld our side of these agreements. Sudan has not. Sudan continues to dishonor the agreements that they signed in the presence of the African Union. In many ways we are back to where we started from. If there is to be progress, the cycle of negotiation cannot continue indefinitely. We must shift from rhetoric to action. This is critical in order for us to deliver prosperity to the citizens of our two countries.
The Republic of South Sudan has already made our choice very clear. It is the choice of peace for Africa and the choice of two viable states, respecting each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and engaging in the common pursuit of sustainable development and in accordance with the international law. With your support, we can achieve all these things your Excellencies.
Thank you.
Sudan to use British colonial maps in border dispute with South Sudan
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South Sudan may resort to trucking oil if talks fail
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South Sudan plans link to fibre-optic Internet in 2013
Posted: January 24, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Junub Sudan| South Sudan plans link to fibre-optic Internet in 2013 Zawya (registration) JUBA, Jan 22 (Reuters) – South Sudan, one of the world’s least developed countries, aims to lay a fibre-optic network this year to link the capital Juba with submarine cables in east Africa to cut the high cost of using the Internet, a senior official … |
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A Country Betrayed by Her Children
Posted: January 23, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Blogs, Commentary, Featured ArticlesSouth Sudan Denies Coup Rumors’ Connection to the Dismissal of over 34 Senior Army Officers
Posted: January 23, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in History, Junub Sudan
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Lakes State Governor Sacked: Does President Kiir Have the Powers to Fire Popularly Elected Officials?
Posted: January 22, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Commentary, Featured ArticlesTags: Chol Tong Mayay fired, lakes state governor sacked
January 21, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudanese president Salva Kiir unexpectedly removed Lakes State governor Chol Tong Mayay of his post, putting his deputy Mabor Achol Kuer in charge until further arrangements are made, according to a decree broadcast on state-owned South Sudan Television (SSTV) on Monday. The decree did not cite any reason which necessitated the removal of the elected governor and no official statement from either the office of the president or office of the minister of information, who doubles as official government spokesperson, were able to offer comment. The president also issued other decrees removing more than 10 top military officers from active military service and onto a reserve list until further notice.
Names of the Retired SPLA Top Generals: Mixed Reactions from Juba
Posted: January 22, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Featured Articles, HistoryTags: retired spla generals, sacked spla generals
Senior Army Officers Dismissed from Active Duty
- Lt. Gen. Obuto Mamur,
- Lt. Gen. Biar Atem Ajang,
- Lt. Gen. Pieng Deng Kuol,
- Lt. Gen. Ayuen Alier Jongror,
- Lt. Gen. Wilson Deng Kuoirot
- Lt. Gen. Kuol Deim Kuol.
Senior Army Officers Promoted from the rank of Major General to the rank of Lieutenant General
- Lt. Gen. Thomas Cirino Swaka, deputy Chief of General Staff for Training,
- Lt. Gen. James Ajongo Mawut, deputy for Operations,
- Lt. Gen. Malek Ruben Riak, deputy for Logistics,
- Lt. Gen. Malual Ayom Dor, deputy for Administration,
- Lt. Gen. Mangar Buong Aluel, deputy for Inspection and
- Lt. Gen. Chol Thon Balok, deputy Chief of General Staff for Moral and Orientation.
Senior Army Officers Put On Reserve in charge of the army sectors in the three greater regions of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile and Equatoria.
- Lt. Gen. Gabriel Jok Riak in charge of Sector One (Wau),
- Lt. Gen. Johnson Gony Biliu for Sector Two (Malakal)
- Lt. Gen. Charles Lam Chol in charge of Sector Three (Torit)
Senior Army Officers Put On Reserve List
- Maj. Gen. Faustino Jada,
- Maj. Gen. Elia Waya Nyipuoch,
- Maj. Gen. Louis Aliandro Paul,
- Maj. Gen. Dr. Henry Makeng,
- Maj. Gen. Dr. Akol Ding Duot,
- Maj. Gen. Peter Bol Kong,
- Maj. Gen. Peter Yich Biet,
- Maj. Gen. James Gatduel Gatluak,
- Maj. Gen. Salva Chol Ayak,
- Maj. Gen. Matur Chol Juot,
- Maj. Gen. John Mayik Jou,
- Maj. Gen. Andrea Dominic,
- Maj. Gen. Peter Parnyang,
- Maj. Gen. Dau Atur Jongnyuon,
- Maj. Gen. Kout Akot Bol,
- Maj. Gen. Kichener Mota,
- Maj. Gen. Gatwech Dual,
- Maj. Gen. Samuel Mayik Machar,
- Maj. Gen. James Othou Adong,
- Maj. Gen. Peter Dor Majur,
- Maj. Gen. John Bol Then,
- Maj. Gen. Saddam Chayout Manyang,
- Maj. Gen. John Macham Atem,
- Maj. Gen. Thomas Tot Bangoang,
- Maj. Gen. Elia Ladu Soro,
- Maj. Gen. Abraham Jok Aring,
- Maj. Gen. Garang Akok Adut,
- Maj. Gen. Garang Bol Panger and
- Maj. Gen. Michael Nhialkot Deng.
Dear South Sudanese,
I think every South Sudanese is delighted with the changes the President of South Sudan is introducing. The SPLA army is better off with young and educated officers who will respect human rights. Most of the failures of South Sudan do not come from Salva Kiir himself but people who are in the army and the government. The reshuffle he just did in the SPLA army is the best decision President Kiir has ever taken since 1983. Most of the generals retired are old and the SPLA army needs to be rebuilt with young people.
We all hope that the President will do the same in the government and make it a smaller one. People like Riek Machar, Wani Igga, etc need to be retired and should be replaced by young people who will change things in South Sudan. We therefore urge President Kiir to shake up the government as well and bring yooung people. I would recommend somebody like Prof. John Akec Apuruot as the minister of Roads and Transport. He will do a lot of things that will benefit our country as a minister. Somebody like Prof. Jok Madut Jok should also become a full minister. Jok Madut is capable to run any ministry in Juba. He demonstrated that he is competent to run most ministries.
The youth of South Sudan are with President Salva Kiir and we will support him in bringing change in South Sudan.
Let God bless President Kiir in introducing the changes we need in South Sudan!!!
By Gordon Buay
Report: Israel to Buy Oil from South Sudan
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Are Aid Agencies Cheating Donors in the Name of South Sudan? A Response to Holy Crook and Jenny
Posted: January 21, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Commentary, Featured Articles, LettersTags: aid agencies cheating south sudanese
Dear Jenny and Holy Crook,
By Dickens
I think you are both starting an important dialogue. Not all aid agencies are mismanaging funds in South Sudan, but some are, and not all South Sudanese have the same attitudes towards regular working hours that you’ve seen in Rumbek. Both yours and Holy Crook’s observations are based on real problems.
Everywhere there are articles about “millions of dollars contributed to X” or “thousands of dollars promised for Y”, but there are still many problems with roads and services, and especially unemployment in South Sudan, mainly because there are few businesses.
What businesses exist, and where all the money is, is mostly in (a) government positions; (b) foreign run hotels, restaraunts, repair shops, car services, etc., or (c) aid/NGO jobs. Those are fairly exclusive sectors, in that you have to already have connections or a good education or money, if you’re going to get in. They don’t help the rural communities, the farmers or the herders, and they don’t help the thousands who come to the larger cities in search of employment.
Although there is progress, it doesn’t seem to be happening fast enough, and part of that is because of overly high expectations, but a lot of it is because the money isn’t being used as well as it could be. Some of that is innocent mismanagement, some of that is the difficulty of starting a new country, but some of that is plain old corruption. It happens in the USA, and it happens in South Sudan.
Those are realities. It doesn’t diminish the sacrifices you and others make as aid workers, working on the ground. But you know yours was largely a thankless job when you took it on. And you know that the aid business, like any business, has people who take advantage of an environment where lots of money moves around. Maybe someone gets overpaid for a contract. Maybe money goes somewhere it wasn’t supposed to. That doesn’t change the fact that you’re personally doing good work for good reasons, but it doesn’t mean others aren’t less scrupulous than you.
But still, you have to keep in mind that this is their country. The South Sudanese fought for more than 50 years for the chance to be independent, and now they feel like they are still fighting foreigners for the right to control their own lives.
Now the big talk is about oil and minerals. The word from the US State Department to Juba was, more or less, “Just sign the agreement with Khartoum, start the oil wells, and then you’ll have money again.” But Jenny, if you are a Westerner, you know as well as I do that oil and mineral money doesn’t build communities, it doesn’t start small businesses, and it doesn’t create free markets or develop a strong civil society. Just look at Angola and Nigeria. Heck, just look to the North at Khartoum.
I think one of Holy Crook’s biggest complaints is that the biggest activity in South Sudan right now is aid work. It’s not wrong to deliver emergency food and medical aid. It’s not wrong for Kenyans and Ugandans to come to South Sudan to make a living – that’s wonderful, as long as they play fair, and South Sudanese don’t feel excluded from their own country.
The problem is that no one wants to be a victim and be dependent on aid.
The problem is that South Sudanese would rather be working and running businesses for themselves, developing their own industries, growing and selling their own food. And often it is hard to see how all the millions of dollars spent in South Sudan are helping people do that.
That’s the challenge for both South Sudanese, and South Sudan’s friends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere in the world: finding ways to bring investment, to help South Sudanese set up their own sustainable businesses, so that they can fully take charge of their own lives and their own country.
That’s what I want to see happen, and I’m going to try and help make happen, any way that I can.
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https://paanluelwel2011.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/how-aid-agencies-cheat-donors-in-the-name-of-south-sudan/#comments
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Unanimous Undercover Group sources: The Jonglei State, South Sudan’s affairs being leaked to public
Posted: January 31, 2013 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Commentary, Featured Articles, Press ReleaseBy “Unanimous Undercover Group sources”
The other ten Counties: Akobo County, Nyirol County, Uror County, Pibor County, Pochalla County, Ayod County, Pigi County, Twic East County, Duk County and Fangak County
Peoples from above mentioned ten Counties are often being mistreated in Jonglei State headquarters of BorTown, and Gov. Kuol Manyang Juuk had been silent, not doing anything about what his people had been doing toward other Counties’ people in BorTown since he took office in 2008. People are being killed through blood-cold murdering style, one incident even though it did happen before he took office of governorship. Prior was this incident “In 2006 people (murle sick people) were killed in Bor Hospital. Among those killed was Nyacho-Payam Administrator.” Up to now these kinds of cold-blooded murders are going on in BorTown. Peoples are dying miserable ways according to undercover groups on the ground.
Worst of all, the Dinka Bor (Bor County) people are even become more discriminable to their own sub-tribes of: Dinka Hol, Dinka Nyarweng, Dinka Twic, Dinka Paweny, Dinka Atar, etc. This discrimination by Dinka Bor (Bor County) towards other Dinka sub-tribes of Dinka Twi (Twic East County), Dinka Nyarweng and Dinka Hol (Duk County), Dinka Paweny, Dinka Atar,etc (Pigi County). The undercover group says it is being fueled by these two disputes: Identities within (Dinka Hol, Dinka Nyarweng, Dinka Twic and Dinka Bor), and of course, the death of a person whom many people considered as their hero, George Athor Deng.
Since Gov. Kuol took office in 2008, there had been many incidents whereby cows from Dinka Twi (Twic East County) are being identified in Dinka Bor (Bor County) area. Yet, Gov. Kuol Manyang had been silence about the issue. Also, before Gov. Kuol took office in 2008 from former Gov. Philip Thon Leek. There was a murder of people from Dinka Hol and Dinka Nyarweng (Duk County) in BorTown. Some people among these communities consider the incident as it was a set-up by Bor County leaders to bring in Gov. Kuol Manyang so that their ideal of marginalization or indirect colonization of other tribes would be able to work freely without them being fear from other opponents whom they are trying marginalized. They believe Gov. Kuol Manyang, who is their own son will chase away other sub-tribes’ from standing against their cover-up mission or discriminations against in Jonglei State works.
According to some sources from undercover group as good citizen for their people, the Gov. Kuol Manyang is being suspected as he might have knowledge about all these indirect mistreatments of other Counties’ people in BorTown. However, there was a time Gov. Kuol did intervene when some people from his Bor County trying to fire people from State job as their way to discriminate others according unanimous undercover group reports.
The South Sudan unanimous intelligent source do claim that, the last year looting of cows from Mading Adiang of Ajuong Payam, Twic East County in which the cattle were returned later was the attack made by group of people from Bor County. The message also stated that, the Bor County group did invite Pibor County people to join them in looting of cows from Twic East County. Unfortunately, the Pibor County group did refuse to go for looting plan, so the Bor County group goes alone to Ajuong Payam.
Based on the same group of undercover, Twi Dinka people had been complained to Gov. Kuol about their cows being taken by some citizens from Bor County. They usually go and identified and when they go and tell Gov. Kuol Manyang, there often be no response from Gov. Kuol Manyang. Also, last year the Youth office of Twic East County was attacked and everything was taken away from the office, yet there had been no charges been made to the attackers in BorTown.
Unanimous intelligent source has confirmed that, the highway of Jonglei State name was being used as “Pibor” to sound like Bor name as everything has to be named Bor as their dominant symbol of their pride over others.
The demolition of Marol Market in BorTown which was occupied mostly by other Counties businessmen, there are some citizens from Jonglei State view it as it was an intentional act for former Bor County commissioner. One incident, there was no compensations to businessmen after all.
Many people from BorTown are complaining that, there is discrimination in recruits in Dr. John Garang Institute of Science and Technology towards other Counties’ students.
Unanimous intelligent source saying that, the Dinka Bor (Bor County) peoples have dominated the intelligent branch of South Sudan due to manipulated that was made by Mach Paul during the recruiting time of intelligent formation when South Sudan was still under united Sudan. As being claimed, it is the reason why many people from intelligent Department of South Sudan mainly from Bor County, the undercover group as the work of Mach Paul to not having many people from other communities or tribes to join Intelligence Department Services.
Vice President Dr. Riek Machar apology in Juba in 2011 when Awulian Clan of Dinka Twi have ceremony, is right now being considered as it being created by Bor County leaders to demote what these Counties of Twic East County and Duk County people claim as their differences from Bor County people.
The agenda being forwarded right now in South Sudan’s government to divide Jonglei State into two States of: North Jonglei State and South Jonglei State according to this message, “The state is too large and is yet to be divided into North Jonglei State (NJS) and South Jonglei State (SJS) pending approval of the South Sudanese Parliament (Wikipedia).” This idea is not being liked by these Counties’ citizens who are having many chances to share South Jonglei State when that idea becomes really thing: Pibor County, Duk County, Twic East County, etc. According to undercover analogy, this is really really bad idea towards the above mentioned Counties. Because these Counties people are already incurred many abuses in BorTown from Bor County citizens. Pibor County people problem with Bor County people is based on long history of conflicts between the two. Dinka Twi, Dinka Nyarweng and Dinka Hol are now become enemies to one another due to their issues of identities messes. These sub-tribes of Dinka are already suffering in BorTown. They are being mistreated by Bor County citizens.
For instance, many of them are being discriminated at State level jobs and Dr. John Garang Institute of Science and Technology. Especially, the discrimination is being applied to anybody who is against Dinka Bor name plus whoever doesn’t speak Bor Dialect. Furthermore, the idea behind division of Jonglei State is also being caused by the idea to demoting Gadiang from being built as next new capital of Jonglei State. Behind it too, it is being association as another way to destroy interests that might brought forth the sub-tribes of Dinka Twic, Dinka Nyarweng and Dinka Hol and others to be beneficial in new capital of Gadiang. The only advantage here for Pibor County, Twic East County, Duk County and whoever might be joining South Jonglei State if it is happen is still to consider the agenda of Gadiang as being the future capital of South Jonglei State. For instance, many people from other ten Counties had already avoided going to BorTown due to insecurity of their lives and other abuses there. As warning from Unanimous Undercover Group to President Salva Kiir, it is better to scrape this idea of Jonglei State divisions because it would even cause more problems than already known problems.
Also, according to unanimous sources of intelligent; during the time of former Governor Thon Leek. The mess that did take his Duk County people lives at the time he was still at office of governorship, the incident was a made up to give chance to their own son, who is currently; Gov. Kuol Manyang Juuk. The idea behind this was to allow Bor County people to promote their agenda of dominance without fear because Gov. Kuol Manyang will protect them or he will not prevent them from doing anything they want.
Another ideal that been discovered by undercover group within Jonglei State and South Sudan as whole, Gov. Kuol Manyang have appointed every deputy of every Counties of Jonglei State from his own County of Bor. So the undercover group do questioning this, is it a law or something else being created in Jonglei State only?
Some sources of undercover group have recognized that; there are possibilities whereby most of the problems in Jonglei State are being created intentionally by some people from Bor County so that the state of Jonglei has to be divided into two or more in their favor of BorTown to continue as a State capital. In addition too, the reason is to allow Jonglei State people resources go to the building of their own homeland of Bor area. Plus it will also be their security advantage too.
Many citizens of Jonglei State had been questioning why more security forces had been kept in BorTown area and not being deployed over the vast areas of the State being affected the most within whole Jonglei State?
According to undercover group, every looting happen in Jonglei State has been spotted it is not Murle tribe alone, there are certain group people from Bor County who are also being considered as being part of the cattle raiding game in State, and Gov. Kuol Manyang wouldn’t able to condemn the group wrong doing against others. Even there are rumors from citizens in BorTown been saying that, people are being blood-cold murdered every now and then in BorTown and yet Gov. Gov. Kuol doesn’t say anything.
Recently, according to unconfirmed yet intelligent sources, the Dr. Majak Agoot has joined the game as well in project to divide Jonglei State into two States. Also it is being said, Dr. Majak is trying to destroy Twic East County by taking part of it and join it with Bor County to make One County from the mixes of two sub-tribes of Dinka tribe. According to majority of Dinka Twi people, they don’t like these ideas at all, either they are just allegations or true claim; again the Dinka Twi people don’t like these ideas to come to existence.
Also, the undercover group has discovered something wrong with people who are responsible for South Sudan’s map that was released on June of 2012 (SPLMTODAY website). There are many complains had been raised by citizens that there are some Towns’ names, villages’ names, and Payams’ headquarters names that are missing, and also there are some areas where map is not accurate based on analogy of the 1956 South Sudan’s map. So the undercover group is calling South Sudan’s government to makes some investigate about this case, and let those people be accountable for their wrong misrepresenting of the nation map.
Undercover group had learned that too; the Marol Market in BorTown was target intentionally by former Commissioner of Bor County because it was being occupied by many other Counties Shopkeepers. These Shopkeepers were told that they will not compensate.
Unanimous undercover group have learned that too, many citizens from Bor County don’t like somebody saying, “The Gov. Kuol Manyang should have been fired already like former Gov. of Lake State, Eng. Chol Tong Mayay”. Their replied often, “The firing of Gov. Kuol Manyang would be a disaster to President Kiir Mayardit leadership”.
The undercover group has learned that as well, the ideology from Bor County peoples are trying to do anything to spread their dominant agenda might have already penetrated into President Kiir Administration, as the warning to President Kiir from undercover group, the President has to be attentive enough in his leadership in regard to any destruction.
Somehow as suspicious information from undercover group account reports, the death of Rev. Isaiah Diing Chan might have been done by Bor County intelligent personnel who are working in South Sudan’s government. These intelligent groups are having linking agenda with their sub-tribe of Dinka Bor who eager to spread their dominant of others. Furthermore, the undercover groups are also saying that, this suspicious of theirs have to be proved relevant or non-relevant if President Kiir released the actually name (s) and the tribe of the suspect (s) to public.
South Sudan Ambassador to US has been spot lighted by undercover group. And this is the case against the Ambassador; the Ambassador has tried in 2012 to give away one employee job that was given to that person in South Sudan before even that person arrived to United States to come and start his job. The undercover group complains of Ambassador posting of that person position to many South Sudanese in United States who had completed their higher education degrees for interview. After the Ambassador has posted the position; many South Sudanese who are dwelling in United States went for interviews. Among these candidates, they were using their own money to flying from long distances, plus others who did driving their cars in long distances for the job in which the employee is already there. Not that only, all these people did loss lot of money at the time each and every one of them rushing to Washington D.C. As recommendation from unanimous undercover group, the government of South Sudan needs to investigate the matter in case there might have been ethical violations been made here by the Ambassador in United States.
On this issue of identities crises among these sub-tribes of Dinka tribe, the Kongor Clan of Dinka Twi (Twic East County) has been caught up on this issue. Based on unanimous undercover group intelligent sources of cover-up investigations, most of the denying of the Dinka Twic from Kongor Clan are usually being associated with Pan-Bior section of Kongor Clan (the former Chief Ajang Duot section) and few from the other two divisions of Kongor Clan. Some of these people are still holding-on to their old leader (Ajang Duot) who has part in identity problem. Ajang Duot and others from Kongor Clan did place the name Kongor as District name above Twi name on the map during his time of leadership as being Paramount chief of Dinka Twi (Twic East County). In addition too, based on some sources of intelligence from Dinka Bor (Bor County) side, there are people who are not even happy with Ajang Duot. They claim that, “Ajang Duot in those days of his leadership did try to impose the name “Kongor” to Bor Dinka (Bor County) people as well, but it didn’t work because his idea was identified by Dinka Bor (Bor County) intellects and leaders.
And that might be the reason why some scholars from Bor County did reverse the attempt by imposing their name Bor too to other sub-tribes of Dinka through one way or another.” Furthermore, there are people from Kongor Clan who are still not happy in Twic Dinka name acceptance even though they know they know history very well. So they are rejecting Twi name due to Twic people refusing them to let their name “Kongor” becomes the Diocese name of Twic East. To confirm the claims, the Kongor Payam Church’s representative didn’t vote in 2009 when Twic East name was blessed as Twic East Diocese. The name Twic East was approved by four Payams of Twic East County plus other areas outside Twic East County representatives.
Some of Kongor Clan leaders in South Sudan’s government and other areas have been accused of intentionally changing of Kongor Payam name headquarters which is originally known as “Pawel” to just “Kongor” which is their Clan name. Unanimous intelligent sources noticed that and ask some questions from citizens why the “Pawel name” was changed to “Kongor name”. Some citizens from Kongor Payam and other parts of the Dinka Twi are having some suspicious questions on that matter. Furthermore, according to unanimous sources too, there have been a suspicious attempt from Kongor leaders to even try to changes the headquarters of Twic East County name which is “Panyagor” to just “Kongor”. However, right now that agenda might have been converted to “Pawel” name.
Undercover group have identified that; there are some scholars from Kongor Clan of Dinka Twic (particularly Pan-Bior) who have involved themselves in this scheme as well. Part of their missions is being associated with their rejection of Dinka Twi name because they think the whole Dinka Twic has to be called by their Clan name of Kongor.
Thank you all.
Signed by: The Unanimous Undercover Group of South Sudan
This article was a collected effort by Unanimous Undercover Group of South Sudanese who had been volunteered in monitoring of Jonglei State affairs for quite sometimes now. They are around the globe, Jonglei State, South Sudan, Africa.
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