Oprah Winfrey: Special Advisor to South Sudan (SASS)

Oprah Winfrey has been named the new Special Advisor to South Sudan or SASS for short…

Church, government find single mother’s choice of baby’s name weird

A single mother in Juba has been the talk of the town, the subject of talk-show and headline news after a priest in a baptism ceremony refused point blank to christen her baby boy the name she had chosen.

US Amb. Haley to offer Pres. Kiir Texan-Retirement-Deal in exchange for peace

In his inaugural speech to the United Nations General Assembly in September, United States President Donald J Trump decried the suffering of the people of South Sudan because of the war and pledged to send his UN Ambassador Haley to the country in October to do some diplomacy magic and end the conflict for good.

Female MPs call for neutering of the exposed secretive male-only ‘2nd wife’ allowance

A few women MPs at the National Legislative Council (NLC) have expressed their outrage upon discovery of a semi-secretive financial scheme known as the ‘second wife allowance’ that grants financial benefits to their bigamous and polygamous male colleagues and are calling for the immediate castration of this male-only allowance – Saakam has learned.

School awards First Lady Ayendit honorary primary school leaving certificate

A primary school in Kwajok, Gogrial State in South Sudan has awarded the recently reappointed First Lady Ayendit Mayardit an honorary Primary School Leaving Certificate – one of her first and only academic certificates – as appreciation for her generous contributions to the school.

Mayardit reappoints wife Ayendit as first lady

In what many see as a surprise move, the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit has issued a presidential decree reappointing his wife and mother of their multi-millionaire 7 year-old child to the position first lady of the republic and ‘Mother of the Nation’.