(JUBA) – A new managing director has taken charge of South Sudan’s Media Authority, the body that issues broadcasting licences and enforces media rules, at a time when journalists continue to report pressure on their work. President Salva Kiir appointed senior journalist Ajou Luol Akuei to the post on Wednesday.Continue Reading
(JUBA) – Tax collectors across South Sudan have finished a three day training course aimed at helping them explain tax rules more clearly to the public, part of a wider push to bring more people and businesses into the tax net and boost domestic revenue. The workshop ran from 23Continue Reading
(JUBA) – The National Communication Authority (NCA) has finished a two day workshop to review and improve the National Table of Frequency Allocation, a key document that guides how radio frequencies are shared and used across South Sudan. Opening the workshop, the Director of Spectrum Management, Engineer Dut Col DeContinue Reading
(JUBA) – The National Communications Authority (NCA) Board of Directors held a special meeting to address problems in the telecommunications sector and find ways to keep mobile and internet services running, affordable and of good quality across South Sudan. The Board received a detailed report from the Director General. ThisContinue Reading
(JUBA) – South Sudan’s tax authority has begun training staff to improve how it communicates with taxpayers, a move aimed at lifting the country’s low levels of voluntary compliance and increasing the government’s own source revenue. The three day workshop, run by the South Sudan Revenue Authority in the capitalContinue Reading
(JUBA) – South Sudan’s health leaders have made a direct appeal for a sharp rise in government health spending, from less than two percent of the national budget to the 15 percent target set out in the Abuja Declaration. The call came during a high level annual review meeting inContinue Reading
(JUBA) – The South Sudan Humanitarian Fund continued to finance emergency relief operations across the country in 2025 despite a decline in donor contributions, according to a new annual report released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The report said South Sudan remained affected byContinue Reading
(JUBA, CENTRAL EQUATORIA) – The Association for Media Development in South Sudan Association for Media Development in South Sudan has taken part in a workgroup meeting in Juba focused on setting annual priorities for a media development initiative led by Journalists for Human Rights and hosted by the South SudanContinue Reading
(JUBA) – South Sudan is facing a worsening food security crisis, with an estimated 7.8 million people now experiencing Crisis level hunger or worse, according to the latest Integrated Phase Classification analysis. The report shows that households across large parts of the country are struggling to meet basic food needs,Continue Reading
(JUBA) – South Sudan’s Economic Cluster has endorsed a proposed national budget of SSP 11.335 trillion for the 2026 to 2027 fiscal year, equivalent to about US$1.95 billion at the current market exchange rate of SSP 5,800 per US dollar. The draft budget was approved during an ordinary meeting chairedContinue Reading
