Opinion: Articles 54 and 55 of the NSS Act: A Threat to Everyone in South Sudan

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  Deng Bol Aruai.  Top News: Breaking News: President Salva Kiir has dismissed the Commissioner General of National Revenue Authority, Hon. Africana Mande, and appointed Hon. Simon Akuei Deng as his replacement President Kiir Strengthens Ties: Receives Credentials from Six New Ambassadors Top Five (5) Best Performing Ministries In South Sudan SPLA-IO Faction Rejects New Western Bahr el Ghazal Governor Amid Leadership Dispute By Deng Bol Aruai Bol, South Sudan is in a strange and troubling place. It often feels like a theater where rumors, propaganda, and misinformation are produced, consumed, and then sometimes turned into law.  What starts as whispers on the street often becomes policy, leaving citizens questioning how such decisions come to pass. Articles 54 and 55 of the National Security Service (NSS) Act are the latest chapters in this unsettling narrative.  These provisions, which give the NSS sweeping powers to arrest, detain, monitor communications, and conduct searches without

GREATER EQUATORIA REGION SETS TO ENDORSE PRESIDENT KIIR'S CANDIDACY IN NEXT YEAR'S ELECTIONS

 



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Greater Equatoria Region is preparing to hold a mega rally in Juba to endorse the nomination of President Salva Kiir Mayardiit as SPLM Presidential flag bearer in the 2024 general elections.


SPLM Chairperson in Eastern Equatoria Louis Lobong Lojore, Kennedy Ganiko of Western Equatoria and Central Equatoria SPLM Deputy Chairperson Clement Kulang Gai met President Kiir on Friday to brief him on the ongoing preparations for the upcoming event.


Speaking to reporters, Eastern Equatoria Governor Louis Lobong Lojore appealed to Equatorians to come out in a big way to endorse the candidacy of the President ahead of the polls.


"We are informing SPLM members and the people of Equatoria to turn up in big numbers for the historical rally due to take place in Juba in the coming days", Lobong said. 


It is worth noting that SPLM had nominated President Kiir as its sole flag bearer in the 2024 polls.


The greater Equatoria is a region of southern South Sudan, along the upper reaches of the White Nile. 


Greater Equatoria Region was originally a province of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, it also contained most of northern parts of present-day Uganda, including Lake Albert and West Nile.


Greater Equatoria Region was an idealistic effort to create a model state in the interior of Africa that never consisted of more than a handful of adventurers and soldiers in isolated outposts.


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