Akuot Goor

The Governor of Western Equatoria State Alfred Futuyo Karaba on Tuesday issued an order for the deployment of the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) to quell ongoing deadly communal violence in Tambura County.

Greening South Sudan, an environment advocacy group intends to plant five million trees in the next ten years to ease the effects of climate change in the country.

Civil society activists have commended the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) for recently ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adding that it will end discrimination of persons living disabilities.

The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) has called on President Salva Kiir to take advantage of the appointment of Lawrence Korbandy, as the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) envoy to Sudan to push for dialogue among the warring parties.

In frantic pleas, South Sudan’s Catholic Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Diocese, Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, has appealed to the Western Equatoria state governor and the South Sudanese republican president to help find the missing priest and driver.

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Tuesday said it deployed additional peacekeepers and launched urgent patrols, following fresh outbreaks of intercommunal violence in Western Equatoria and Eastern Equatoria states.

The Ministry of Investment on Tuesday announced a partnership with Malaysian firm, Bsmart to build an investment tower with a conference hall with capacity to hold 1000 people.

Mirzan Mahathir, the son of Mahathir Mohamad, former Malaysian Prime Minister has unveiled plans to invest $100 million in a cement factory in South Sudan’s capital Juba.

The Minister of Health Yolanda Awel Deng on Tuesday called for revamping the vaccination system to address immunization gaps that leave many children vulnerable to vaccine-related diseases.

At least one person was killed and six children abducted in Monday’s ambush in Nyirol County of Jonglei State, according to local officials.