Category Feature Story

In South Sudan, a common misconception persists, and many believe that epilepsy is a contagious disease.
This misinformation leads to fear that the disease can be spread through touch, saliva, or simply being next to someone with epilepsy, which fuels unnecessary stigma, isolation, and discrimination.

The stakes for succeeding in business in South Sudan’s capital rest on resilience, an attribute that is seeing Mama Amal Bol through.

Battling ill health in South Sudan is like a game of chess with the devil. This is the situation with communities including in Yambio where I visited, and they are winning smartly too.

The days were dark as calamities fell upon the people of Eastern Equatoria, stalking them in their homes, farmlands, on the roads and cattle camps, and Magdalena Dudu Loren recalls vividly those days when the State was at conflict.

The chairperson of the Pan Raak Cooperative Business Group, Josephine Achuoth Malual, exemplifies resilience and forward-thinking leadership.

Providing on-skills training to learners is difficult when the education providers are themselves lacking skills. This is a situation South Sudan is working towards changing by engaging education practitioners from China to provide skills to teachers and education managers.

The use of locally produced detergents for cleanliness is quickly picking up in Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State by storm.

Malnutrition cases in Kapoeta North County of Esatern Equatoria State are expected to increase due to food insecurity caused by climatic shocks and birds that have destroyed farm crops in the area.

The school feeding program, implemented by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and supported by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Kapoeta North and South counties, has improved enrollment and attendance rates in schools.

Juba Physical Rehabilitation Reference Center (PRRC) has restored hope to thousands of persons with disability including refugees from neighboring Sudan.