Happy Electricity Day – Pres. Kiir wishes Juba residents

November 21 – Juba Electrification Day – has been declared National Electricity Day and will from the next 20 year be observed as such – the President of the world’s newest nation has spoken.

Pres. Kiir awarded honorary title ‘Martyr of South Sudan’

On Martyrs’ Day, parliamentarians at South Sudan’s National Legislative Assembly (SSNLA) have unanimously voted to grant the very alive president the honorary title of  ‘Martyr of South Sudan’ for continuing to shed blood (not necessarily his own) for the sake of the world’s newest nation even after ‘the other martyrs stopped doing so’.

“Pres. Kiir’s picture can be used in his absence,” Ateny clarifies national anthem ban.

The presidential spokesperson has come out to clarify the order banning the singing of the national anthem in Pres. Kiir’s physical absence, saying it can still be sung in some special events provided the president’s physical presence is substituted for (or represented by) a huge officially approved framed picture of him.

Ousted former South Sudan oil minister rejoins Riek Machar’s rebel group

After getting fired in a televised presidential decree in Juba a few days ago, South Sudan’s former minister of Petroleum Ambassador Ezekiel Lol Gatkouth has reportedly fled to Khartoum aboard a secretly chartered plane, and announced his return to the mother SPLM-IO of Dr. Riek Machar.

Leaders invoke ancestral gods to find peace in South Sudan

A leader of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance has travelled to Western Equatoria State to consult his ancestral gods on the slow implementation of the revitalized peace deal.

Pres. Kiir rushes back to Juba ahead of Dr. Machar’s rumoured return

Reports of rebel leader and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar’s unexpected and imminent return to Juba has caught many by surprise, including the President who is away touring Bahr El Ghazal. Saakam has learned that the tour is being cut short and arrangements are already in place to ensure Pres. Kiir is back in Juba before his nemesis arrives.