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

President Kiir, jets back to Juba after a three days official State visit to Moscow, Russia.

File: President Salva Kiir Mayardiit in Moscow, Russia. 


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President Kiir and his accompanying delegation returned to Juba on Saturday, after a three days official visit to Moscow the capital city of Russia.


Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, National Minister of Presidential Affairs said that, the two heads of state agreed to expand the relations between South Sudan and Russia in areas of, trade, energy and other prospective areas. 


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The Russian president, promised to work hand in hand with South Sudan in order to develop the mining sector in Juba, Dr. James Pitia Morgan said. 


In terms of trade, South Sudan's chief export is crude petroleum. Other exports include gum arabic. Because of food insecurity and the limited manufacturing sector, the country must import most items, including many foodstuffs, motor vehicles and machinery, and manufactured goods.


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Due to the current food insecurity and limited manufacturing sector, South Sudan imports most of items, which includes foodstuffs, motor vehicles, machinery and the manufactured goods.


Energy sector, South Sudan has the lowest electrification rates in the world, meaning the country relies on local generators to generate electricity. 


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For those connected to the electric network often experienced power blackouts making citizens rely on standby by electric generators. 


The country is trying to build a biogas electric generating system that depends on electricity from cattles dung. 


 


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