Archive for March 20, 2016


Have South Sudan’s central bank governor and minister for finance and economic planning become the Supreme Authority over the legislature in the Republic of South Sudan?

Marial Mabor Turic, Juba, South Sudan

Police in Juba

new joke doing rounds in Juba: when attacked by burglars, call the police at your own risk.

March 20, 2016 (SBB)  —-  Ladies and gentlemen, I am startled and surprised by the way things are moving in this country! It was barely three days ago, when the national assembly summoned the heads of two principal institutions responsible for failure and crisis in our economy, but unfortunately, they failed to appear before the august house, which I believed to be the supreme body any government civil servant/ institution should be answerable to.

This brings me to the question of, who have become the superior body to the other! Did they turn down the invitation/summon in their capacity as sole managers of these institutions or as mere/common citizen of this country? However, my dear readers, let me bring to light what the parliament wanted to inquire from the two sitting officers in our offices.

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PRESS STATEMENT ON VP jAMES WANI’S VISIT TO NEW DELHI, MARCH 14-15


By Mok Dei Gual, Kampala, Uganda

March 20, 2016 (SSB)  —-  It has been said that the surest way to live your life happy is to never think about what other people think of you so that their opinions might not create your reality. Jealousy is extremely dangerous that destroyed this world. In others word jealousy can kill and it happened and I have right to advise you when dealing with your jealousy friends because their aims are to see you unhappy provided that their values do not stop them.

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What will I tell him?

Posted: March 20, 2016 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Poems.

By Joe Mabor, Malaysia

He left his farm and camp,

Imperiling his life to lighten

The gloom that loom over Negros

He fed and lived with lions,

Eating all wild organisms to survive in wildness.

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By Abraham Majur Mading, Kampala, Uganda

girl rights

say no to early child marriage

March 20, 2016 (SSB)  —  In some societies child marriages are an acceptable practice. And since straying from tradition could mean exclusion from the community, the practice is passed on from generation to another; traditions are made by people and can therefore be changed by people. In these communities of ours where child marriage is practiced, girls are not valued as much as boys are.

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