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
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President Kiir, signed the amended National Elections Act 2023 into law

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President Kiir, signing the National Elections Act into law. 


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President Salva Kiir Mayardit today on Tuesday signed the National Elections Act, 2012 (Amendment) Act, 2023 bill into law


TNLA Speaker Hon. Jemma Nunu Kumba said that, the elections bill is important in the 'RPA' Revitalized Peace Agreement and when elections will be conducted. 


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She further said that, the country is now ready to start the elections preparations by placing mechanism in place for parties to do elections. 


South Sudan general elections was scheduled to be conducted on 9th July 2015, the first ever general elections since South Sudan gained it's independence. 


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However, an alleged coup d'etat was attempted and conflict erupted in the country, this conflicts threw the national elections to be conducted into doubts because no constitution had been formulated. 


April 2015, the lawmakers voted to amend the 2011 constitution to extend the terms of the president and parliamentarians until 9th July 2018. 


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Following the 2018 Peace Agreement that ended the civil war, national elections had to be postponed again to 2021, a period of '3' three years was agreed upon, which will be followed by the elections on 2023. 


In the year 2022, again the transitional government and the opposition parties agreed to move the elections to late 2024.

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