South Sudan: United People’s Alliance (UPA) – Declaration (09.01.2025)

South Sudan: Hon. Eng. Mayen Deng Alier MP – Press Release (02.01.2025)

South Sudan: The People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCC) – The Tumaini Peace Initiative – Another Broken Promise (24.12.2024)

South Sudan: South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) – SSOA Leadership Council has Withdrawn its Confidence in H.E. Hussain Abdel Bagi Akol as Vice President Representing SSOA in the Presidency (18.12.2024)

Kenya: Ministry for Foreign & Diaspora Affairs – Status of the Tumaini Initiative (14.12.2024)

South Sudan: South Sudan People’s Movement/Army (SSPM/A) – Re-Update on the Tumaini Peace Process (14.12.2024)

South Sudan: Time to pay the Civil Servants! [11 months without pay and counting]

During Swearing-in ceremony of the newly appointed officials: President Salva Kiir asked ministry of finance together with central Bank of South Sudan to release and pay salaries to civil servants in the country, President didn’t specifically put how many months should be pay since the country civil servants demand 11 months payment” (Juba 24/7, 12.12.2024).

We are in advent and apparently the authorities, the state and the financial institutions of the state has failed its own employees. The ones in-charge haven’t been hesitant or caring about its own workforce.

President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his whole cabinet has been dismissal and unconcerned about the plights, the livelihoods and the damage non-payment of salaries has on the employees of the state. The civil servants are on the pay-roll of the state and they are working for a purpose for the state. That’s why they are there in various of functions and they are there to ensure the bureaucracy and state organizations works. These are the people that are educating the kids, ensuring people’s health in the hospitals and the ones who makes every nook-and-cranny work. Therefore, these people needs to be compensated for their hours and the work they put in.

It is just amazing me how easily some leaders can neglect and forget their value. Those people are on the front-lines of the government. These people are the reason why people are enjoying or getting the ability to get government services. If the state wants to implement or even do a policy. Those are the people who will work tirelessly and should be commended for their work.

However, instead these are the ones that is forgotten about. Those people are the ones that work day-in and day-out. These people should be out protesting. They should leave their tools and not show up to work. All of them should just boycott and not put up with it. This the sort of action that deserves a strike. The civil servants should unionize and be call out the incapitalization of the state. This is utterly embarrassing and humiliating. These people are relying on the salary and cannot even trust the state to do the righteous thing. They should be paid and with interests for every single month. As they have to beg others and do other gigs to get by.

Civil Servants of South Sudan should be crying out loud and get together. The state clearly doesn’t value them. President Kiir and everyone around him is oblivious to what they are going through. If not… they are so busy doing whatever and postponing things. That they think it is normal to pay people on time. Seriously, the leaders should be better and ensure this. It is disgraceful and the civil servants deserves better. Peace.

South Sudan: South Sudan Opposition Movement Alliance and Other Opposition Groups – Press Statement (06.12.2024)

South Sudan: Are the SPLM capable of a succession?

In Juba there been discussion and rumours, heck, you could call it speculations about who will takeover from President Salva Kiir Mayardit. However, the talks and the planned forum in Rumbek isn’t true. Regardless of that, the J-1 and the one(s) in office needs to address this properly.

The Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM), the liberation party and party of freedom fighters who fought for liberation from Khartoum and Sudan. That party has to resolve this matter and make coordinated efforts. Especially, if it is a sincere and honest party in 2024.

This party cannot be on ethnic lines or tribalistic affairs. No, this is a national party and it needs to prove its worth. It can’t be a one-man shop and one saviour to rule them all. That’s not how you build sustainable parties or organizations. The individualism and the nepotism will only defunct historical entities as the SPLM. An entity has longevity and the ability to be relevant for years come. However, that depends on what the leadership values or what it takes for granted.

The goodwill can easily dwindle. The relevance can go away and be misused. The ones in office are already overstepping and creating issues, which it is trying to forge new agreements and settlements over. Instead of building institutions and building a capable nation. The President himself is busy decreeing the laws and who he decides to appoint. Meanwhile he could have built state organizations and operational institutions that would linger for generations to come.

That is what the SPLM should work for. Not to be there on behalf of J-1 and whatever needs they have. To shield criticism and point the fingers at the public speculating. No, the state needs to listen to its citizens and abide by it. Eventually, the same people will be tired of the theatre and the continued negotiations abroad. The South Sudanese people deserve a governing party and a state that have its ears open and understands the pulse of the people.

That’s why the talk of succession is healthy. The need for talks of who comes after and how the SPLM deals with it. As it cannot only do that when people dies or leaves planet earth early. No, there is a need to know how it will work it out.

The SPLM needs to make a roadmap and show the public what it plans or when it is necessary. Unless they think people duped and stupid enough to accept one man to rule for life or without question. Because that is what they are serving them.

The SPLM is SKM and SKM is the SPLM. That’s the memo until it is revised. Peace.

South Sudan: Opening Remarks by the Head of the R-TGoNU Delegation to Tumaini Peace Initiative (04.12.2024)