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

VICE PRESIDENT ABDELBAGI DELIVERS THE MESSAGE OF CHOLLO KING TO THE PRESIDENT

 

Vice President Hon. Abdelbagi And President Kiir. 


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President Kiir  has received a message of peace from the King of Chollo, calling on the sons and daughters of Chollo who are the holdout groups to return home and support to embrace peace.


Speaking to reporters Vice President for Service Cluster, Hussein Abdelbagi said the King of Chollo Kingdom has called on the holdout groups to return home and join the government to restore a durable peace to the people of South Sudan.


Last week, His Majesty Kwongo Dak Padiet called on the holdout groups, particularly the “sons and daughters of Fashoda,” to support President Kiir’s administration’s quest for peace and stability.


The Chollo Kingdom is mostly dominated by the Shilluk people, was located along the left bank of the White Nile river in what is now South Sudan and southern Sudan. Its capital and royal residence was in the town of Fashoda. 


The current Chollo Kingdom's King is His Majesty Reth Kwongo Dak Padiet who ascended to the throne in 1993. The monarchy (the Reth) has been political and religious in nature.


According to The Human Rights Watch,  researchers visited Malakal, the capital of one oil producing states, between January 29 and February 14, 2014.


The Human Rights Watch Researchers found that armed forces from both sides have extensively looted and destroyed civilian property, including desperately needed aid facilities, targeted civilians, and carried out extrajudicial executions, often based on ethnicity.



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