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.

Oprah Winfrey: Special Advisor to South Sudan (SASS)

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

Pres. Kiir secures $8 million grant to train UAE-ready housemaids

South Sudan’s Minister of Gender, Child-Marriage and Child-Soldiers has communicated that President Salva Kiir has secured a $8 million grant from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to train, prepare and supply South Sudanese housemaids.

Deposed Former President of Sudan Omar el-Bashir Secretly Flown to Juba

Reliable reports reaching Saakam suggest that the deposed former President of Sudan, who is an indicted war criminal and pursued by the International Court, has been secretly flown to Juba, South Sudan.