Four RSS ambassadors bid farewell to President Kiir JUBA, 20 July 2012 - At least four Republic of South Sudan’s ambassadors who are assigned for diplomatic mission abroad on Tuesday 18th, July 2012 bid farewell to the President of the Republic H.E Gen. Salva Kiir Mayrdit.
The Ambassadors are: 1.Amb. Dr. Akec Khoc – USA 2.Amb. Sebit Alley – UK 3.Amb. Dr. John Gai Yoah – Turkey 4.Amb. Mayen Dut Wol – Sudan H.E Kiir in a photo with the ambassadors. [Photo: Thomas Kenneth] President of the Republic directed the ambassadors to reflect a good image of their country to the world through diplomatic methods. Speaking to the press after bidding farewell to the President, Ambassador Akec Koch said the four ambassadors are going to establish diplomatic relations with the West and they will work hard to bring technical, economic support as well as political cooperation to the young nation. Reported by Thomas Kenneth “Stop violence on citizens”, Hon Magaya warns police JUBA, 20 July 2012 (NASS) – The minister for Interior in the government of South Sudan, Alison Manani Magaya has warned police to stop violence against citizens and work for the peace of the country. Hon Magaya said this on Tuesday when he visited Rejaf to prepare police batch 16 for graduation. He told batch 16 that beating citizens senselessly is not the professional way of practicing police globally. The minister revealed that the government vision is professional police not the type of police that beat and rob people during night hours. He advised batch 16 police to not to follow the past mistakes committed by police saying the culture they had is different due to past civil war. “The type of police we have right now is not normal police; they are political police because most of them were previous militias without police background; some even don’t salute when seeing an officer passing-by so don’t follow them but change them”, the minister advised. He as well disclosed that the government had come out with new policy of transfer stating that no police will stay in one place for more than two years; just two years then transfer. Hon Magaya further revealed that the students dismissed from Khartoum’s Al-Ribat College for police will graduate with certificates of the college particularly batch 63. He said that batch 64 will have their certificate from Rejaf College for police. Hon Magaya emphasizing a point. [Photo: Ajang Monychol] In the same occasion, the minister of Information and Broadcasting, Dr Barnaba Marial Benjamin urged the police to show respect, love and care for the people of South Sudan stressing that without professional work people will not realise peace. Dr Benjamin also warned them against tribalism saying South Sudanese are all equal before law and South Sudan’s transitional constitution. “In a place where there is no police there is death, because police is life and security, so please try to use the knowledge you are getting from this college to create peace within your communities”, he said. Batch 16th is the first batch which will be graduating from Rejaf College of police. It consists of cadets dismissed from Khartoum as a result of clashes over Heglig earlier this year, and the other group are the students who finished from Uganda waiting for commissioning from the President of Republic, Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit. The students dismissed from Khartoum’s Al-Ribat College were 71 men and 14 ladies while the ones from Uganda were 38 men and 11 ladies totaling 134 students. The Interior minister also said that the government is planning to build a secondary school for police and possibly postgraduate studies in the nearest future. Martin Jada Gabriel, NASS “We have made good strides in the digitization journey”, Information minister JUBA, 20 July 2012 - South Sudan is hopeful of achieving full migration to the new digital system of broadcast from the traditional analogue system by 2014 before the June 2015 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) deadline. This was revealed by Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, minister for Information while speaking at a one-day digital evolution workshop organized by ZTE Corporation and held at Juba Grand Hotel mid this week. The minister underscored the importance of the migration saying South Suda,n as the world’s newest nation, cannot lag behind when the rest of the world is moving forward. “South Sudan Television and broadcasting started shifting towards digitalization as early as 2009 though we have been moving side by side with the analogue”, said Dr. Marial. He said the ministry had set the year 2012 to complete the shift. He however said he is optimistic that the ITU deadline would get South Sudan across the board. A 2006 regional communications conference organised by the International Telecommunication Union-ITU in Geneva set June 2015 as deadline for migration to all countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa of which South Sudan as a new nation is not an exception. Dr. Marial (centre) listens to the DG of Information Mr. Mustafa Biong Majak (left) while Mr. Jing (right) looks on. [Photo: Matata Safi] “As an independent country and party to the ITU, South Sudan will have to comply with the policies and decisions taken by ITU. This is also good in that we will avoid the risk of being a dumping site for people who may think the market for analogue products is in South Sudan”, Dr. Marial said. He further explained that since the world has gone digital, embracing it would mean being part of the world family of nations, equipment being less expensive as they would available and harmonized using the digital system for the benefit of the citizens. Meanwhile the director of SSTV, Mr. Moyiga Korokoto Nduru, expressed the need to speed up the shift if South Sudan is to move together with the rest of the region. He noted that the East African Community that South Sudan is much expected to join has set the end of 2012 deadline which he said may affect South Sudan. Mr. Jianj Jin Jing, ZTE’s CTO underscored the importance of strengthening the media in passing the right information to the people in the young nation of South Sudan. He recalled that the task of nation building is a difficult one which says will need a collective responsibility of every one. “You are more than 9 million in this country, if all of us can contribute something in our own ways, we can develop this country”, said Mr. Jing. Reported by Matata Safi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
