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South Sudan: No shame in working with your hands — Bishop’s advice to seminarians
Vatican News
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June 11, 2025
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio Diocese in South Sudan emphasised the importance of formation, responsibility, and self-help initiatives for seminarians in training, thereby shaping the future priests. Sr. Mufaro Chakuinga, LCBL –...
UN Group of Experts on DRC Reports, June 2025
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
Willy Ngoma, military spokesperson for AFC/M23, posed next to the carcass of an armored vehicle after AFC/M23 and Rwandan Defense Forces seized control of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, on January 27, 2025. The UN Group of Experts on...
South Sudan proposes SSP 5.2 trillion fiscal budget to drive economic recovery
Sudans Post
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June 11, 2025
Benjamin Bol Mel, Vice President and Chair of the Economic Cluster. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – The Office of the Vice President and Chair of the Economic Cluster unveiled a proposed SSP 5.2 trillion budget for the 2025/2026 fiscal year on Wednesday,...
World Bank: Conflict, instability driving extreme poverty in Nigeria and 38 other economies
Nairametrics
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June 27, 2025
The World Bank has raised alarm over the growing impact of conflict and instability on 39 developing economies, including Nigeria, warning that these states are being left behind on key development indicators, with extreme poverty, hunger, and...
Kenya Dominates East Africa–Europe Trade Surge
Arabian Post
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June 27, 2025
Trade between the European Union and the East African Community reached €7.7 billion in 2024, marking a robust surge in economic engagement. Data from the EAC Secretariat and the European Commission reveal that Kenya led this growth, accounting...
Visa spat, travel ban add new uncertainty for Minnesota’s Sudanese community
Sahan Journal - Minnesota
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June 17, 2025
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EAC Finance Ministers unveil 2025/2026 budgets, South Sudan yet to present
Eye Radio
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June 15, 2025
Author: Koang Pal Chang | Published: 4 hours ago EAC-MAP JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) – Finance Ministers across the East African Community (EAC) have begun presenting their national budgets for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, South Sudan yet to...
Opinion| The manufactured cash crisis bleeding South Sudan
Radio Tamazuj
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June 16, 2025
This fact is clear: South Sudan is not at war with nature. There has been no natural disaster except flooding in some parts of the country. There have been no earthquakes shaking the soil and no locusts descending upon the fields. In spite of...
World Bank: 421 million living in extreme poverty globally as conflicts more than tripled since 2000
Malay Mail
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June 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, June 28 — Conflicts and related fatalities have more than tripled since the early 2000s, fuelling extreme poverty, the World Bank said yesterday. Economies in fragile and conflict-affected regions have become “the epicentre of global...
Kenya Dominates East Africaeurope Trade Surge
MENAFN
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June 27, 2025
(MENAFN- The Arabian Post) Trade between the European Union and the East African Community reached €7.7 billion in 2024, marking a robust surge in economic engagement. Data from the EAC Secretariat and the European Commission reveal that Kenya led...
Billion-dollar award against South Sudan surfaces in US
Global Arbitration Review
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(Credit: Shutterstock/osonmez2) An affiliate of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has asked a US court to enforce a billion-dollar ICSID award against South Sudan and its central bank, putting the full award into the public domain. Register for...
USAID transition stalls action: RUTF warehouses fill as nutrition clinics brace shutdown
Action Against Hunger - Washington D.C.
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July 8, 2025
With USAID nutrition funding on pause and no clear directives in sight, manufacturers and field teams say the system meant to prevent child deaths from severe malnutrition is grinding to a halt. Edesia, a company that produces therapeutic food for...
Trade Minister lifts suspension of Bureau of Standards Chief
Eye Radio
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June 20, 2025
Author: James Atem Kuir | Published: 8 hours ago Ms. Gloria Nyoka, South Sudan National Bureau of Standards (SSNBS) - Courtesy JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) – The Minister of Trade and Industry, Atong Kuol, has lifted the suspension of the head of...
UN commission warns of renewed South Sudan Civil War and urges international intervention
JURIST
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June 15, 2025
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights Council (UNHRC) warned on Friday that the current regional instability in South Sudan could result in a “collapse” of the 2018 Revitalized Peace Agreement, which ended the second South Sudan Civil War....
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History Today: When the Bombay Stock Exchange was established
Firstpost
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July 9, 2025
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is Asia’s oldest stock exchange, while being the tenth oldest in the world. Before its establishment on July 9, 1875, it operated under a banyan tree in front of Mumbai’s Town Hall for nearly 20 years. The Wimbledon...
A timely step: South Sudan aligns with East Africa on cybersecurity
Number One Citizen Daily
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June 16, 2025
In a long-overdue but welcome development, South Sudan has officially joined the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) under the East African Communications Organisation (EACO). This marks a pivotal milestone for our nation’s cybersecurity efforts and...
Financial inclusion and financial literacy for solving social inequality in an economic and social being in South Sudan
PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd
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June 10, 2025
By Daniel Athior’o Atem, Juba, South Sudan Tuesday, 10 June 2025 (PW) — Financial inclusion is a developmental concept that seeks to mean that all persons/individuals have basic access to formal and informal financial services. Once this happens...
At least five metric tonnes of South Sudan’s gold smuggled- report
The City Review
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June 16, 2025
By James Chatim South Sudan loses at least five metric tonnes of gold annually in a smuggling racket through Uganda en route to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a report has revealed. The report, published by the international Non-Governmental...
. Sudan among countries to contribute to East Africa’s fastest economic growth
Number One Citizen Daily
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June 27, 2025
By Lodu William Odiya African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has rated South Sudan among countries that would significantly contribute to the fastest growth of the East African economy in. Africa. Soth Sudan’s) 2025 economic growth has been...
Activist urges Global action to support South Sudan peace deal
Sudans Post
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June 16, 2025
Executive Director of the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) Ter Manyang Gatwech. [Photo courtesy]JUBA — The Executive Director for the Centre for Peace and Advocacy (CPA), Ter Manyang Gatwech, has urgently called on regional and international...