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Tuesday, 31st January 2023, Pope Francis arrived in the DRC on his "peace tour" to East Africa particularly, DRC and South Sudan. A huge crowds of well-wishers gathered at Kinshasa's Ndjili airport, about 25 kilometres (15 miles) from the centre to greet the Holy father, Pope Francis and his accompanying delegation.

Opinion: What is happening in Tonj North is tragic

By Prof. Jok Madut Jok

Chief of MI for Division 11, dead; Chief of Operations, dead, 8 other officers, dead, all in what is being described as a confrontation between armed civilians and the national army of South Sudan.

-A people desperate for law and order took their anger on the national army.

-A national army made up of true liberators who survived the onslaught of the liberation war were extinguished by untrained civilians and the civilians are now holding the bodies of the dead soldiers hostage and not a single soldier has been buried since they were cut down yesterday. The armed civilians shoot anyone approaching the area to inquire about their loved ones, whose bodies will now start to rot.

-You have a country where an armed civilian can kill the state's security agent and the country can only stand watch as its security forces get decimated and left to rot without the said state responding with full force to end what is essentially a civilian insurgency

-You have an army division (Division 11) haphazardly set up at Majak Tiit in 2020 on the border between Tonj North and Gogrial East Counties, all of it made up of new recruits from the area, all of them given weapons without training them to be true soldiers, with a large number of generals put in charge of this haphazard military unit.

-Two things were true about this division from the get go and some of us got in trouble early on for speaking up against its set up: the whole division was oriented toward fighting the Nuer of Unity State, just as there were military units set up and trained in Unity State with orientation towards Jieng of Warrap state.

-The government of Salva Kiir Mayar and its state governors had long decided that the best way to govern us is to pit our people (Nuer and Jieng) against one another, as if to say "if they fight each other, they will have no time to fight out government."

-This is now what is being described as communal violence in Tonj North, when in fact, the glaring reality is that there is an insurgency from both community and ill-trained, unpaid soldiers, soldiers who were given guns, no training, no salaries, no adherence to the law; and civilians who see this army as an army of individuals (of Akol Kor, Lual Wek Guem, Akoi Yak, Anyuon Chan and others), not a national army. The civilians who are now fighting Division 11 and killings its senior officers don't see their war as being against the national army of a country but as a war against these generals, seeing their assault as legitimate because these generals are all lodged within their ethnic communities, not as generals of a national army tasked with respecting the national constitution. The civilians and their army comrades who have joined them only see generals who are eating and not commanding an army, generals who are busy giving the fake parade in exchange for salaries that are unaccounted for, food that supposedly gets delivered to the soldiers but gets sold on the open market instead, all to the benefit of the generals and their minions who do the selling on their behalf. What a joke of an army this is, what a joke of a country Salva Kiir and his aides have turned this South Sudan into!

-If you think you have a national army at Majak Tiit, or anywhere else in this country, think again. What you have is that the truly well-trained army with roots in the proper SPLA of the yester-years has been reduced to the senior officer corps, while the real foot soldier has long given up and gone home.

-This has left the new haphazardly trained recruits in charge, with no salaries, with a few old generals whose mission is to collect the salaries of their departed soldiers (dead or alive in the villages), the food rations of their absent head count, and to sell the guns and ammunition of the nation to the civilians, all the while giving the wrong parade to the sleeping Commander-in- Chief.

-The civilians who have now come back to kill the country's army with impunity are the same civilians we thought were being armed against the ethnic groups that were declared enemies of the state, a true realization of the adage, "the chickens have come home to roost."

JUBA BASED KU STUDENTS IN COURT

South Sudanese students who were rejected to graduate at Kampala University have opened the case against the VC in Kampala.

Prophet James Kuan Anyar is among the students supposed to graduate.

He says they sued the VC of KU Juba base branch in court in Kampala.

"We attended the court session today at the Ugandan High Court commission here in Kampala. The court propose that we should attend the graduation on the 23rd June 2022 but the VC is insisting that we should first pay $1200 per student instead of 750 USD which we know,"James said.

The students accuse the University of increasing the amount without their consent.

Via: Your Voice News

BREAKING: The Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Manawa Peter Gatkuoth has died in Egypt.

He was flown to Egypt on Friday for medical attention but died this morning at a hospital in Cairo.

"He was flowed to Egypt on Friday at 3:00pm after he experience chest pain that started on Thursday morning," close family member said.

Source: Hot in Juba

'I don't know you,' Kampala University VC turns away Juba-based Kampala University students

Over 300 South Sudanese students from Juba-based Kampala University have been turned away by Kampala University in Uganda's Vice-Chancellor.

"We are about 300 students from Kampala University, Juba branch. We came here for clearance for the 19th graduation on 23rd June at Ggabba.

We have been denied clearance by the VC saying he doesn't know us and can't graduate us," Sarah Akuot, a graduate-to-be told HIJ.

They are from various faculties, including Public Health, Logistics and Procurement, Accounting, and Political Science.

A student who spoke to HIJ alleges that the VC demanded money from the students to allow them to graduate.

"The VC is saying if each of us pays 4 million Ugandan shillings, then he can graduate us," Akuot said.

Kampala University which is operating in South Sudan is an extension of the main campus based in Kampala, Uganda.

The University was established in South Sudan capital Juba in 2015.

In September 2021, The Ministry of Higher Education threatened to close Juba-based Kampala University over its credibility.
Source: HiJ