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Luxurious Weddings, Parties, and Funeral Prayers: A Financial Economist’s Perspective on Their Impact on Livelihoods and Corruption in South Sudan.

South Sudan, a country battling hyperinflation, currency devaluation, and rising poverty, finds itself at a crossroads between cultural traditions and economic realities. Despite a high unemployment rate and significant food insecurity, a growing trend of luxurious weddings, extravagant birthdays, and grand funeral prayers has emerged. These events often come with enormous costs, financed through either personal savings, loans, or, in some cases, misappropriated public funds.

Justification for adopting Arabic as a second official language in the Republic of South Sudan

Today's leading languages in Africa, whether they are official or lingua franca, are recent imports from Europe as a result of colonial rule: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. The Afro-Asiatic group of languages is next in prominence, with Amharic dominant in Ethiopia and Eritrea and Arabic in North Africa (Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and to some extent in Morocco and Algeria, where Berber is a mother tongue to a large majority of the populations), as well as languages spoken in Sudan. Outlying regions in the west, east, and extreme north, where indigenous African languages are spoken.