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The South Sudan Business Union says shortage of dollars in the market could lead to increase in prices of fuel and other goods in the country.

Dollars are important for importing goods.

The Chairman of South Sudan Business Union, Ayii Duang Ayii, says they will meet with authorities at the Central Bank and the National Chamber of Commerce to find a solution to the issue of lack of dollars.

“What I know is that diesel and petrol are available. The owners of petrol stations want to raise the price of the fuel due to shortages of dollars in the markets or something like that,” he said.

“If there are fuel shortages in Juba, perhaps it would affect all the ten states.”

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The Commissioner of Lainya County is urging the Central Equatoria state and national governments to repair the Juba-Lainya and Juba-Kaya roads.

Kaya is located on the border with Uganda. It is an entry point for goods from East Africa.

Huda Mika says traders and passengers have been facing difficulties in transporting their goods using these roads.

“I am calling upon the two governments that they should look and have a special consideration for the Juba-Kaya roads, because Yei and Lainya are in the middle,” she told Eye Radio.

Ms Mika said farmers in Lainya have cultivated crops, but they cannot get the produce to the markets in the main towns due to bad roads.

Laniya is one of the agricultural areas and it produces crops such as beans, rice, cassava and other crops.

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The scouts of Warrap state have donated items for Kuajok prisoners of Manyang Kuel.

They say they want to show they care for the inmates.

They say they bought with their own money clothes, bars of soap, cigarettes, tobacco and shoes for over one hundred and fifty prisoners.

The manager of Manyang Kuel prison, Col Juma Doka Legge, thanked the scouts.

Doka says that they are always welcome to visit to the prison to find out about the conditions of the inmates.

“People are brought to prison to reform to be better persons, if somebody goes back home, he/she becomes a good person in the community,” he said.

“We have religious programs every Sunday. Pastors do come for prayers here. They are isolated from people outside but they still have contact with people outside.”

The commissioner of Warrap State scouts, Makat Deng Achuil, encouraged the prisoners to have hope during their time in jail.

He also called for the cooperation of prison officers at the state central prison.

“You will be free like the people out there one day. I am telling you to be patient. You are kept for security reasons by the prison officers,” Mr Achuil told the inmates.

One of the prisoners said that the scouts had made him and the other prisoners feel better.

“I appreciate your kindness and I am very happy for your visit to see us in the prison here. Seeing visitors like this, you feel like you are not hated by people, you feel like you are somebody” said the unnamed prisoner.

“We are in a bad place called a prison in our country. By visiting us, you have boosted our moral.”

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The IDPs living in Site 2 in Mingkaman, Awerial, say they have run short of drinking water since the solar panels failed to generate water from the borehole.

Residents blame UNICEF for setting up a solar system to generate water instead of a hand pump.

One of the residents’ representatives, Mayen Kuol, told Mingkaman 100 FM that they have run short of water because of lack of sunshine to heat the solar panels that allow the movement of water to the water tap.

In response, the UNICEF WASH Officer, Samuel Madul Anyieth, says they will provide generators to pump water in two days’ time.

Hundreds of IDPs and members of the host community have already settled in New site.

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Authorities in Awerial County, Lakes, have issued an order against the random firing of arms in the area and declared a curfew.

The move comes after an unidentified man fired a gun in the air near the port this morning.

Three bullet sounds were heard around the same time.

A witness said he saw police officers heading toward where the gunshots were heard.

The director of the Criminal Investigation Department, James Mayen Majur, says they are working to identify those involved and the cause of the incident.

“We have no compromise with those people. We heard that they had fired guns in the air. We sent a team to trace them and they will be brought to our office for investigation,” he said.

James added that the commissioner’s office has issued an order restricting people’s movements at night.

He said a curfew will be in place from 7pm to 7am as of this evening.

Earlier this month, a girl was wounded by gun shot during a traditional celebration.

And last month, the Awerial county authorities confiscated illegal fire arms.

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Defense Minister Kuol Manyang Juuk says Sudan is supporting the SPLM in Opposition forces.

The accusation comes after the visit of Riek Machar to Khartoum last week.

The rebels received some guns and ammunitions in Unity and Upper Nile states, Mr Kuol told Eye Radio.

However, the Sudanese Armed Forces spokesman, Colonel Al-Sawarmi Khaled Saad denied that Sudan supports the SPLM in Opposition forces.

He said the recent visit of Dr. Riek Machar to Sudan came as part of Sudan’s mediation between the conflicting parties.

Saad said that Sudan has received similar visits by President Salva Kiir and the defense minister, but that it does not support any of the parties.

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Warrap state legislators have reconvened after three months’ leave to debate peace, stability and good governance.

Three quarters of Warrap state legislators attended the official opening of the second session of the state Assembly.

The acting governor, Hon. Akec Tong Aleu, told the state legislators in parliament that insecurity and poor rainfall in the country have contributed to a meager harvest and food production in the state.

Aleu said an acute shortage of food would hit the host community and Internally Displaced Persons from neighboring Unity state and Abyei area.

He called on the legislators to mobilize their constituents to start growing vegetables so they have sustainable living conditions in the area.

He urged the local farmers to get seeds of sorghum from the state ministry of agriculture to continue with cultivation before the rainy season stops.

“We have to educate our people to consider vegetable cultivation in addition to normal dura and ‘gidem amam’ varieties which are their staple foods,” said Mr Aleu.

“The Ministry of agriculture is currently distributing ‘gidem amam’ seeds in the counties. We must encourage our people to continue production through twelve months of the year.

The deputy speaker of the state legislative Assembly, Hon. Kerbino Kiir Madut, appealed to the state government to reinstate the civil servants commission in the state.

Kiir said irregular appointments and promotions are rampant in the civil servants offices which, he said, require reforms through a systematic set up in the state.

“Civil servants, who are the backbone of the country, are in a mess because there is too much abuse of power through the seniority system,” he told the assembly.

“Irregular appointments and ethnic promotions are common. An equitable and defensible clear structure can’t be achieved unless structures and systematic progress are used to assess jobs value.”

The legislature’s representative, Hon David Deng Mayom, says the issue of health in Warrap state is alarming.

He said poor road have reflected on the prices of goods and commodities in the market.

Legislators had been on leave since May.

Hundreds of people gathered today at Dr John Garang Mausoleum in Juba to mark the 59th anniversary of the War Veterans Day.

This year’s theme is: Veterans, the founders’ of our freedom. More details to follow.

The event is to commemorate the Torit Mutiny in 1955. The mutiny began on August 18, 1955, triggering the First Sudanese Civil War.

The Torit mutiny led to the formation of the Anyanya movement, which fought the Khartoum government until the signing of the Addis Ababa Peace Agreement in 1972.

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