19 Nov 2018
"Those days when you use to be able to win with the “vigana defence” are over...so don’t piss on me and tell me it is raining!"
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Letter From The Global Coalition Of Advocates For South Sudan

"The proposed deployment of Ugandan (UPDM) and Sudanese forces (SAF) in the South Sudan territory in key security sensitive locations and in training of the national armed and organised forces, compromises national sovereignty; this mandate should be specified and authorised by the UN SC..."
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South Sudan: The People’s Representative Assembly

"As long as there are constituencies with villages linked by footpaths, represented by absentee MPs with expensive cars – representation will remain theoretical..! In my upset mind, a good start is to require all MPs to have their official residence within their constituencies – orthey are..."
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Do I Hear South Sudan And Sudan Melting Into One?

"We dance to his tunes as if Abyei, Panthou and other areas in between have finally felt the breeze of peace blowing from the North".<br />
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To South Sudanese: From John Prendergast and Brian Adeba

"In sum, we are not supporting regime change, but rather we support system change to disincentivize the grand corruption and mass looting of the state."<br /><br />
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Trust Needs Truth To Build On In South Sudan

Denying existence of abductees who have been spotted in one of your ghost houses is another dreadful omen that you are not telling me the truth for me to trust you...celebrations and cocky hugs will not build trust to deliver peace to our people."<br />
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Lugala At Large: "Etchings On My Inner Wall"

"Loneliness imposes writing or reading on me. To others it imposes robbery on them or other forms of subversion...Football stadiums have been radicalised by the female gender. Football is no longer a male domain or the preserve of people with balls."
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Pragmatic Patriarchy Of The Sudan Over South Sudan

"They decided to empower the local population to stand united as unique Negroid African entity... Unfortunately, London-Cairo-Khartoum geopolitics betrayed the expectations of Southern Sudanese for self-rule. London preferred appeasing the traditional elites in Khartoum to strike a blow on Cairo."
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Betting Against Peace In South Sudan: A Part Of Regional Design?

"...there’s a program underway to push out leaders that don’t fit nicely into the democratic narrative, and to make way for a more malleable new generation of leaders that will accommodate, without pushback, the outside designs for the region."
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Agel Machar And I, Fooled By His Mother

"Obviously, she made us carry our own ‘cross for the crucifixion.’ We were real fools! Young and dumb, spoiled and illiterate? What a terrible combination!"
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"Flaws" In The Latest South Sudan's Agreement

"The peace deal signed today in Addis Ababa between the government of South Sudan and armed opposition groups has significant flaws, including failing to address the looting by leaders of state resources and revenues."
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South Sudan Peace Agreement Should Provide For Removal Of Post Holders

"No party should be allowed to roam around without any written document (reference) such as an internal Constitution and expects to share power in the transitional government."
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No Sufficient Reasons To Continue War Over Federalism In South Sudan

"It is, in fact, contradictory for Gen. Cirillo (NAS) to call for immediate implementation of Federalism during the transitional period through the ongoing Talks when in the first place he wanted “crafting and adopting, through a wide consultative process,a modern, democratic, ..."
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Lugala At Large: "When God Rained Anger" In Juba

"Some people in Juba have no idea who Albino was. The man was a wealthy contractor. In his youth he made adventures in the gold frontiers of Mobutu’s Zaire, before CNN discovered the Congo River."
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Sudd Institute Calls For Release of Peter Biar Ajak

"Mr. Peter’s approach represents what South Sudan most needs—a culture of challenging authorities/others using ideas, not violence...These rights are so fundamental to our existence as individuals and without them, we are simply slaves of a system we created."
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Fifth Anniversary Of SBS Dinka Service: An Assessment

"The real world is not black and white only; there are many other colours and their shades besides. And they matter, too....no tin god can wake up one cloudy morning and declare shutting down the programme"
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Release Peter Ajak Biar And Other Detainees Now

"By releasing Peter he will also restore confidence in the present peace talks and agreements being undertaken in Khartoum".
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The Haunting Memories of Martyrs

"...this haunting memory calls for rethinking the peace process for the parties to negotiate in good faith and sign an agreement that will bring a lasting peace to this great country of millions martyrs."
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Juba Booms With Pregnant Osofia Bags of Dollars

"But after painting Juba red last week, the once-pregnant osofia bag of dollars has become lighter, the contents having been released into the market."
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Lies About South Sudanese Gaining Ground (1)

"Fr Saturnino Lohure, told parliament that there was no force in the world that would prevent the people of Southern Sudan to liberate themselves from the oppression of the Northern ruling class, if they- the Southern Sudanese- decided to do so."
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Is The IGAD Peace Process Being Undermined By The Troika Countries?

"The regional effort to return peace to South Sudan suffer setbacks due to a web of conflicting interests."
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International Petition Concerning the Peace Talks

This is a petition developed by CASS which is intended to get the support of South Sudanese everywhere. We particularly want to get ethnic group leaders, academics and other leaders to sign on; but individuals may as well. Please distribute to your lists. We need responses by July 23rd. Thank you.
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Fiction: Spring Of Anger

"The man suffered from oral diarrhoea. When he opened his mouth hate speech escaped unedited. Walls fell. Bridges collapsed. Anarchy".
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Lugala At Large: Charcoal Burning Banned

“Sorry, sister. I don’t know about Japan. Everything here is made in China, including ice cream and the artificial hair on your head. Even your round face looks like made in China.”
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Home And Away: Lugala at Large.

"Hand Shake, Plastic Smiles, Music and Dance, Home Away From Home...If they get lost in the suburbs of their former days of grinding poverty they can easily find their way to the five-star hotel."<br />
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Lugala At Large: Victor Goes Riding Early In Juba

"Freedom Square is overgrown with grass. Some workers in dark-blue dungarees started mowing the tall grass a few days ago. The statue, which symbolises liberation, is peeling. Oh, dear!"
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South Sudan National Dialogue: Optional Framework For Conflict Resolution

"National dialogues have ever since proven to be one of the best frameworks for conflict resolution throughout the world and many examples of successful national dialogues are found in Africa and the Middle East."
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Lugala At Large: Words Which Spice Our Miserable Life

"Humour in the face of hardships as a result of war is socially engineered as a shock absorber, a coping mechanism for resilient people. Everything is now 'Booming' in Juba, even poverty!"<br />
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S. Sudan's Civil Society Statement On Peace Process

"We appeal to all South Sudanese citizens to own the Permanent Ceasefire and engage fully by closely following all stages of peace negotiation at any venue."
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South Sudan Peace Expedition: Why Sudan Can Be A Right Key Holder

"A lion once said to the victim who was wounded the previous night by a lion that it is us who break human bone in the night and fix the same in the morning" Unknown
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