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Letter| We owe our children a different South Sudan
Letter one of seven letters to South Sudanese Dear fellow South Sudanese, A child’s life must be worth more than anyone’s ambition to lead. In a later oral history of the 1999 Wunlit peace conference, Deborah Yier Jany, a Nuer woman living among Dinka in Yirol, recalled challenging the men to account for the children killed in the conflict. She rejected the loss of children’s lives to advance someone’s claim to leadership.
Op-Ed| Coup d’État has taken place in South Sudan
A constitution does not have to be suspended by soldiers to be overthrown. It can also be displaced from within, through legislation and presidential assent used to remove the procedural legitimacy and restraints that make government constitutional and the powers of a government lawful and legitimate. That is what has now happened in South Sudan. On 21 September 2026, President Salva Kiir assented to amendments to the National Elections Act.
Op-Ed| Equal citizenship: South Sudan’s next liberation
Independence gave us a state. Equal citizenship must now give us a shared homeland. On 9 July 2011, South Sudanese watched a flag rise over a country purchased by generations of sacrifice. In the referendum, 98.83 per cent had voted for independence. The Transitional Constitution came into force, and South Sudan joined the United Nations. We had won a country. Fifteen years later, the harder question confronts us: have we built a nation?
Opinion| Joining too soon: South Sudan, the East African Community, and the cost of premature accession
On March 7, 2026, the EAC made an unusual decision. At its summit in Arusha, it skipped South Sudan for the post of secretary-general and chose a Tanzanian diplomat instead. South Sudan’s own lawmakers said the reason was non-payment. The country owed about $21.8 million in unpaid dues. The opening could add: “South Sudan’s own lawmakers confirmed the reason: unpaid dues estimated at $21 million.
Opinion| Congress’s invitation to SPLM-IO is a big deal
For years, Juba enjoyed a diplomatic monopoly. It spoke for the state. It spoke over the opposition. It sold itself to the region and to international partners as the last barrier between stability and state collapse. That argument was always self-serving. It was also politically effective. It allowed the government to weaponize recognition, isolate rivals, and make the opposition look like a threat even when the state itself was the main source of disorder.
Op-Ed| Why international law still matters
International law is often sold as protection: a shield, a brake on brute force, a courtroom above the battlefield. But for many poorer, smaller, and developing countries, it offered something even more precious than protection. It offered dignity. Dignity is the difference between being addressed and being erased, between being negotiated with and being notified, between being treated as a state and being treated as a nuisance.
Opinion| South Sudan does not need another Charter; it needs peace
Kenya deserves thanks, first. In a region where too many actors have prolonged South Sudan’s war by feeding it with weapons, financing, political cover, and sometimes force, Kenya has largely invested in the opposite direction: convening, hosting, persuading. The fact that the Security Council has had to impose an arms embargo and repeatedly task expert monitoring of arms flows tells you something sobering about the wider ecosystem around South Sudan’s violence.
Op-Ed | From cash machine to political powerhouse: Can South Sudan’s diaspora lead real change?
Scattered from Kakuma to Kansas, the South Sudanese diaspora forms one of the world’s most far-flung diaspora communities, and one of the most crucial to their homeland’s survival. Years of civil war and displacement drove millions of South Sudan’s people abroad, creating a diverse global diaspora that is, in many ways, more educated and connected than the population back home.
Op-Ed| Decrees and Decline: A Presidency Reduced to a Book of Decrees?
In the fourteen years since secession, Salva Kiir has wielded the power to appoint and dismiss with such zeal that one wonders whether the stool itself still has legs. From firing an entire cabinet in 2013, to rotating through eight finance ministers since 2020, to purging a vice president widely seen as his preferred successor in November 2025, Kiir presides over a government that looks less like a state and more like a revolving door. This is not random chaos. It is a method, and a dangerous one.
Opinion| What will happen to South Sudan if Gen. Kiir dies in power?
Beyond the daily struggles for survival, a deeper existential fear looms over South Sudan, a fear shared by regional powers whose stability is inextricably linked to its own: the carnage his sudden departure could trigger. The question is not if Kiir will depart the scene, through death, infirmity, or forced exit, becauseage and mortality are democracies that spare no one, but what nightmare his departure will unleash. Let us be clear: this is not the anxiety of grief, but the dread of the abyss.
Ruto’s foreign policies on Odinga’s candidacy for AU chairperson
The African Union seeks nominations for the position of AUC Chairperson from East Africa. Kenya, Djibouti, Somalia, and Seychelles will nominate candidates, with Kenya nominating Raila Odinga. Odinga’s extensive AU leadership credentials make him a relevant chairperson candidate. As AU Champion for Infrastructure, he advanced projects like the Trans-African Highway and LAPSSET Corridor, promoting AfCFTA and regional integration. Odinga’s domestic democratic credentials are equally strong.
Op-Ed | Nairobi peace talks: Is South Sudan serious on negotiations?
A high-level mediation for South Sudan kicked off in Nairobi on May 3. This is a fresh round of peace negotiations between the South Sudanese government and the non-signatory opposition group (NSOG). This followed a request by President Kiir and the NSOG’s acceptance of Kenya’s role as mediator. Before the May 3 meeting, President Ruto on March 22 shared with the NSOG a proposed roadmap and a draft mediation framework agreement that creates structures to manage the mediation process.
Nairobi peace deal: Is South Sudan serious on negotiations?
‘‘Why is the government of South Sudan interested in forum shopping and playing each mediator against another? Also, the request to Mr Ruto is intriguing because the NSOG consist mainly of two or three briefcase political parties A high-level mediation for South Sudan kicked off in Nairobi on May 3. This is a fresh round of peace negotiations between the South Sudanese government and the non-signatory opposition group (NSOG).
Blame South Sudanese leadership, not George Clooney
The crisis in South Sudan is a result of its current leadership – the country wasn’t doomed to fail – and its people welcome celebrities like George Clooney who point this out. Dear Dr. Rita Abrahamsen, We wish to respond to your letter to George Clooney of 15 September 2016. We write not to defend Mr. Clooney but to correct some assumptions used to critique his work on behalf of South Sudan.
How human rights scholars conceal social wrongs
Using cross-national data in human rights research helps perpetuate social wrongs. Elections in the US are just around the corner, and it looks as if, once again, the results will ultimately hinge on outcomes in a few swing states. Perhaps foremost among these is Florida, where almost 25% of its African American citizens are disenfranchised because they are either felons or ex-felons. Florida, however, is not an outlier.
Decolonization-not western liberals-established human rights on the global agenda
Human rights scholarship and advocacy claim to be grounded in universality, yet both are anything but in their privileging the Western role in building an international human rights system. A paradox sits at the heart of the human rights movement. For decades it has made strong claims about the universality of human rights but then proceeded to present a discounted version of the universality story.
Quick thoughts on latest proposal from Khartoum on South Sudan
I must start by saying, from a power-sharing paradigm, the Khartoum mediators’ latest proposal on power sharing is a decent attempt by a mediation, so far, to try and be in the middle. However, even from a power-sharing paradigm, a closer look at the rationale, the percentages and the distribution of power points reveals serious structural defects that might very likely instigate the demise of the proposed governance arrangements. I proceed to substantiate these claims.
Implications of Khartoum peace ‘kidnapping’
The regime in Juba and other armed and political parties to the conflict in South Sudan signed a framework document which appears to be a mixture of declaration of principles, declaration of intent and agreement on some substantial issues. For the purpose of this very brief analysis, I will divide the document into three: issues on which there is an agreement, items with partial agreement and those issues that the parties have agreed to discuss and agree to in the future. 1.
Uganda: AU Must Salvage What Remains of My Country South Sudan
opinion By Dr Remember MiamingiMy country is the youngest sibling of the established nations of East Africa. Its birth, like all births, was a joyous time. Yet South Sudan has been brought up so far in a broken home, with our leaders constantly battling for control. Our neighbours ask intermittently to keep the noise down but in reality, constantly sneak in the back door to pilfer what they can for themselves.
AU must salvage what remains of my country South Sudan
My country is the youngest sibling of the established nations of East Africa. Its birth, like all births, was a joyous time. Yet South Sudan has been brought up so far in a broken home, with our leaders constantly battling for control. Our neighbours ask intermittently to keep the noise down but in reality, constantly sneak in the back door to pilfer what they can for themselves.
Africa: AU Summit Chance to Salvage South Sudan
opinion By Remember MiamingiMy country is the youngest. Its birth was a joyous time. Yet South Sudan has been brought up in a broken home, with our leaders constantly battling for control. Our East African neighbours always ask us to keep the noise down but, in reality, constantly sneak in through the back door to pilfer what they can for themselves. Every day of fighting takes us closer to the point of no return.
MIAMINGI: AU Summit chance to salvage South Sudan
We must have a discussion about the need for African leadership beyond the region to live up to its responsibilities. We must be listened to when we say no more impunity for atrocities. Every conversation on South Sudan needs to involve the broader population, not just the ‘big men’. My country is the youngest. Its birth was a joyous time. Yet South Sudan has been brought up in a broken home, with our leaders constantly battling for control.
South Sudan war: What needs to be done
In a surprise move, the Trump administration has slammed sanctions on two South Sudanese government officials, a former army chief and three companies linked to one of them. This move is an indication that the Trump administration is prepared to break away from Barack Obama’s policy of tolerating the abuses of President Salva Kiir’s henchmen who have enjoyed total impunity since war broke out in the country in December 2013.
Why a Kenyan should not be the next chair of AU
However, these achievements are likely to be jeopardised if Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed becomes the next Chair of the African Union Commission. This is not because of who Ms Mohamed is — by all accounts she is a capable and respected diplomat. It’s because of the country Amina represents.
Time is running out in South Sudan
Since renewed fighting broke out in South Sudan in July, the country has raced down the road to self-destruction. The collapse of the permanent ceasefire agreement means that civilians in the country have been exposed to the most intense forms of conflicts seen in South Sudan since 2013. This is because the renewed conflicts have become more brutal, barbaric, intensely tribal and increasingly localised and faceless.
D’AGOÔT AND MIAMINGI: Terminate political dominance in S. Sudan
They have organised pogroms against their own people on the grounds of ethnicity, political affiliation, and social geography. These ethno-regional, sectarian warlords have benefited from the conflict through organised violence and plunder. They have organised pogroms against their own people on the grounds of ethnicity, political affiliation, and social geography.
Dominance of South Sudan's ruling elite is a threat to peace and stability
There is no end in sight to South Sudan’s man-made apocalypse so long as its ruling “gunclass” runs the show. These ethno-regional, sectarian warlords have benefited from the conflict through organised violence and plunder. On a number of occasions, they have organised pogroms against their own people on the grounds of ethnicity, political affiliation and social geography.
Letter to George Clooney
I’m writing to say that I think you are a great actor! And, of course, handsome beyond belief!! I loved you in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? I laughed my socks off watching you in Burn After Reading. I even felt sad for your hardened, self-possessed character in Up in the Air. I’m sure you get many letters from your admirers, especially women like me. So at this point you are probably tempted to stop reading. Please don’t; I have something very important to tell you.
The political dominance of South Sudan’s Gunclass: A python in the mud for peace and stability | PaanLuel Wël: South Sudanese Bloggers. on WordPress.com
September 28, 2016 (SSB) —- There is no end in sight to South Sudan’s man-made apocalypse so long as its ruling “Gunclass” runs the show. These, ethno-regional, sectarian warlords have benefited from the conflict through organized violence and plunder. On a number of occasions, they have organized pogroms against their own people on the grounds of ethnicity, political affiliation and social geography.
Blame South Sudanese leadership, not George Clooney
The crisis in South Sudan is a result of its current leadership – the country wasn’t doomed to fail – and its people welcome celebrities like George Clooney who point this out. We wish to respond to your letter to George Clooney of 15 September 2016. We write not to defend Mr. Clooney but to correct some assumptions used to critique his work on behalf of South Sudan.
East Africa: To Salva Kiir and Riek Machar - Don't Promote Amnesty for Killers
Photo: J. Patinkin/VOA Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar (file photo). opinion By Remember MiamingiWhat has most destabilised South Sudan is not fear of justice, but perpetual impunity and the rewarding of war crimes with power and wealth. In December 2013, South Sudanese soldiers of Dinka ethnicity, under the command of President Salva Kiir, went on a house-to-house rampage shooting, hacking and decapitating defenceless men, women and children of Nuer ethnicity.
Analysis: Ethiopia and Eritrea deploy weapons of mass distraction
Reports of skirmishes this weekend on the Eritrean-Ethiopia border raised fears of a repeat of the bloody war between the two nations. It came at a good time for both governments, however, who will be grateful for the distraction from other, more embarrassing stories. By SIMON ALLISON. On Sunday, reports hit social media of fighting between Ethiopian and Eritrean troops on the heavily-militarised border between the two countries.
To Salva Kiir and Riek Machar: Don’t promote amnesty for killers
In December 2013, South Sudanese soldiers of Dinka ethnicity, under the command of President Salva Kiir, went on a house-to-house rampage shooting, hacking and decapitating defenceless men, women and children of Nuer ethnicity. Many who tried to escape were herded together into grass-thatched-houses, which were doused with kerosene and set alight. Others were handcuffed and thrown into the River Nile.
Somalia: Yet another setback for the AU’s flagship peacekeeping mission
The African Union Mission in Somalia was supposed to be the ultimate African solution to the ultimate African problem. Despite a promising start, it hasn’t quite turned out like that. Thursday’s al-Shabaab attack on the mission’s Ethiopian contingent is another major setback. By SIMON ALLISON. Early on Thursday morning, militants from al-Shabaab attacked a peacekeeping base in the town of Halgan, around 300km north of Mogadishu.
Op-Ed: Reckoning nears for Mugabe’s Heirs
Dr Stuart Doran is a historian and the author of a forthcoming book, Kingdom, Power, Glory: Mugabe, Zanu and the quest for supremacy, 1960–87. To the casual observer, nothing much seems to have happened in Zimbabwe of recent times. Robert Mugabe, the world’s oldest head of state, remains president. And Zanu-PF is still the ruling party, more than 35 years after it took power. But there have, in fact, been tectonic shifts in the nation’s politics.
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