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- Wednesday 5 September 2012
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
September 4, 2012 (BENTIU) - Authorities in Unity State have confirmed that in July this year they arrested a South Sudanese man for selling counterfeit foreign currency. The police say they are also looking (...)
- Wednesday 25 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
July 24, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s annual inflation increased by 74%
from June 2011 to June this year, while the country witnessed an
upsurge in its consumer price index by 1.7% from May 2012 to June, the
National (...)
- Tuesday 14 August 2012
August 13, 2012 (BENTIU/BOR/RUMBEK) - Hundreds of South Sudanese United Nations staff across the young nation went on strike Monday demanding that they are paid in US Dollars rather than South Sudanese Pounds, which have decreased in (...)
- Friday 7 September 2012
September 6, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s Central Bank on Thursday said it is conducting studies into the possibility of introducing small denominations featuring face of the country’s late leader, John Garang. A picture shows notes of (...)
- Saturday 9 June 2012
June 8, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan said Friday it was increasing taxes and customs duties, apparently in an attempt to fill the gap in the country’s budget deficit after the closure of the oil production earlier this year.
Landlocked (...)
- Tuesday 11 September 2012
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
September 10, 2012 (BENTIU) - Teachers in South Sudan’s Unity State say that their low salaries are forcing them to look for work at the United Nations or Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), leaving schools (...)
- Friday 11 May 2012
May 10, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The government of South Sudan has managed to secure a total of $600 million in loans amid growing fears about how long the new nation’s economy can survive following its decision to halt its entire oil (...)
- Tuesday 14 August 2012
August 13, 2012 (JUBA) - At least two hundred national staff working for the United Nations on Monday protested in Juba, the South Sudan capital over what they claimed was their employer’s alleged failure to address their concerns (...)
- Tuesday 11 September 2012
By Julius N. Uma
September 10, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan last month recorded a drop in inflation of just 43.3 per cent, compared to the 60.9% registered in July, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has announced.
The country’s (...)
- Monday 9 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
July 8, 2012 (JUBA) - A year after it attained independence, the new Republic of South Sudan is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the end of the war in 2005, under the weight of severe economic meltdown and (...)
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