South Sudan at Heart

South Sudanese have globally lost pride again By: Abraham Daljang Maker KAMPALA: for the last two decades, south Sudanese who took refuge in different countries in the world have been moving with their heads lowered in shame. They have physically been tortured, emotionally disturbed and psychologically attacked by some individuals in hosting countries. This was inevitable because there is saying that “even a prince in a foreign land becomes an ordinary person.” As for my case, I did not live in concentration camp but I came to Uganda in 2003 to seek for better education as our education system was a total dwarf due to lack of qualified teachers and better educational facilities. However, I was not different from those in the concentration camps. I was just like any of them, I experienced the same physical, psychological and emotional abuses; all we could do was to swallow the pride and move on with the hope that one day our country will be back to its feet. The words that ...

The role of social media in South Sudan political upheaval  By: Abraham Daljang Maker KAMPALA: The recent fighting among the presidential guards has resulted into what would be termed as massive killing in the country if massacre is an over exaggerated word.   Much as many people look at the two men; president Kiir and his Ex-VP Riek Machar as the two big elephants flexing their muscles, it should not be forgotten that the social media especially Facebook has also played a significant role in fueling all these violent. It started way back when the president took a decision of dissolving the entire cabinet most of whom had served in the liberation struggle. This sparked a lot of debate on Facebook status updates with many people predicting what would happen while others were using tribal sentiments to provoke the situation, you could clearly see what would happen in a few months after the sacking of the Vice President. A significant point to note is that most polit...

South Sudanese politicians use tribal differences as a ridding horse  By: Abraham Daljang Maker KAMPALA:   It took me a week to gather my thoughts about the unfolding events in Juba; I had to take time in sorting out my words so that I should not be labelled in anyway. Back to the point, I can now see south Sudan has become a boiling pot with serious bloodshed in the country where innocent civilians and foreigners lose their lives in this horrific fighting. Sunday incident which could be a mere fist fighting among the indiscipline presidential guards has turned into different dimension. It is hard to catch the gist of the matter in this scenario; president Kiir calls it a coup attempt blaming his former Vice President Dr. Riek Machar of masterminding it while his former VP Dr. Machar calls it a misunderstanding amongst the guards which he has nothing to know about. On the contrary, the independent observers see it as a tribal fighting between the Dinka and the N...