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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South Sudan and Central African Republic 'CAR' agreed to establish diplomatic relations

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File: President Salva Kiir Mayardiit and CAR Foreign Affairs Minister Hon. Slyvie Valerie. 


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South Sudan and Central African Republic have agreed to establish bilateral ties and deepen diplomatic cooperation in areas of Trade and investment. 


Speaking to journalists, Cabinet Affairs Minister Dr. Martin Elia Martin said the two countries signed a joint Cooperation agreement on trade and investment to promote development between the two countries.


On her part, Central African Republic's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sylvie Valérie BAIPO TEMON said the two leaders have also signed a Memorandum of Understanding in areas of trade and  security matrix along the borders. 


They further signed another pact to waive visa requirements for the citizens of the two countries to allow free movement of people in the region.


This is President Faustin Archange Touadéra's first visit to South Sudan since his election as President in 2016. 


Officials say President Faustin’s visit to South Sudan is a positive step that will pave way for further collaboration between the two countries.


The Central African Republic 'CAR' is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Cameroon to the west.

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