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Akwai Agada Akwai Cham become
24th King of the Anyuak Kingdom
By Anyuak Media
April 31, 2012 (POCHALLA) – On
April 25, 2012 the Anyuak Kingdom crowned
Akwai Agada Akwai Cham and become 24th
King of the Anyuak Kingdom. The ceremony
took place at Royal compound in Otalo
village in Pochalla County of South Sudan’s
Jonglei State.
King Akwai Agada Akwai Cham
replaces his brother, King Adongo Agada
Akwai Cham, who died in November 2011 in
Nairobi. The entire Anyuak Kingdom was
eagerly waiting for this ceremony to take
place since November 2011.
The ceremony was witnessed by
hosts of dignitaries including two
representatives of US Embassy in South
Sudan, some high ranking South Sudan
government officials and Anyuak who came
all the way from Canada, USA, UK and
Kenya. <<full
story>>
OPEN LETTER TO
THE JONGLEI LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
BY
THE AKOBO ANYUAK COMMUNITY,
JONGLEI STATE, BOR
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN
Date:
February 28, 2012
To:
Rgt Hon. Speaker of Assembly,
Jonglei State, Bor, Republic of South
Sudan [RSS]
Sub: Akobo Anyuak Plea for
Justice
Rgt
Hon. Speaker,
This
is the first time the Anyuak of Akobo
appear in your office as a Community. This
is a serious interruption during your
tight work schedule. Thank you so much for
allowing us to present ourselves to you.
The
Land Act, 2009, Section 9, classifies land
as ‘‘public, community or private land’’.
As such the Akobo Anyuak have the
community land as any other ethnic group
in South Sudan.
The
Land Act 2009, Section 84 (2), states
that ----‘’any person who settles or
occupies a land without customary or
legal title...... or without the express
consent of the owner or person legally
in charge of the said land before the
commencement of this Act, shall be
considered an unlawful occupant’’.
In
light of the above we have a problem with
the Lou Nuer, the clan or section known as
the MOR. They occupied our land as a
result of the long civil war, politics and
force. With arrival of peace the MOR
refused to vacate saying they took the
land by force. Akobo Anyuak are not
independent yet. The Arabs have gone but
the Morr are still sitting on us. We want
independence and justice peacefully
through the Assembly’s intervention.
Read the full
plea here>>>>
The
above image is 1956 map of Sudan showing
the real Akobo county map and boundaries
with Lou Nuer Counties. Click
here to see the whole Map.
Minutes of H.E Dr. Riek
Machar Speech at Minnesota State
University on Saturday March 3, 2012
By
Lul Gatkuoth Gatluak, March
5, 2012
Following
the end of the South Sudanese youth event
at the Minnesota State University in
Mankato, which Dr. Riek himself attended,
South Sudanese event goers, channel their
attention and reallocate themselves to the
Hall the vice president of the Republic of
South Sudan government Dr. Riek Machar has
scheduled to address the audience, in
order to highlight some of the disturbing
issues currently facing the new nation.
About 4:35 PM, Dr. Riek accompanied by his
wife Becky Marchar and the delegates who
came with him from South Sudan entered the
meeting hall. As soon as they entered, the
audience raise and Dr. Riek asks them to
be seated. After sitting down, Lero Odolo,
the chairperson of the SPLM chapter in
Minnesota raised and calls upon Daniel
Gatluak to come and bless the gathering <<continues here>>
Lero Odola Olok
Chairperson of
SPLM Chapter Minnesota USA
Lero Odola, raises his hand
during a criminal justice class at
Minnesota State University. He arrived in
the United States in 2000 after fleeing
war in his native Sudan. Despite — or
perhaps because of — those experiences,
he’d adapted well to American life,
finding meaning in work, family and the
hope of peace for Sudan.
Pochalla Acting
Commissioner must urgently act on
current crisis said the Youth
By Peter
Owar Okello, May
6, 2012
May 6, 2012 (Pochalla)
- This situation must come to an end
by today said the Pochalla youth
Association chairman. Speaking at
the meeting held today at 9:00 am,
in Youth centre Mr. Peter Ongeli
said the acting commissioner must
take a serious action by today
before dawn. Since the arrival of
newly allocated police men to
Pochalla, nothing good happened, he
said, only massive beating of the
civilians, curfew and unnecessary
movement of police men with their
guns within the community <<Continues>>
Not here to
relax: Activists Mabor Chadhuol (left),
Nyanchieu Lul and Friday Awow Okuch have
been working for the referendum on
independence. Photo: Justin McManus
February 4,
2012 (JUBA) - The Anyuak and Murle peace
consultative meeting was held at Episcopal church
of South Sudan on 3rd to 4th-Feb-2012.The two days
peace consultative meeting was mediated by
Resource Centre for Civil leadership. The only
selected leaders who attended the meeting were 46
in total from both communities. Continue
here>>>
The Anuak are a river
people whose villages are scattered along the
banks and rivers of southeastern Sudan and western
Ethiopia. The Anuak of Sudan live in a grassy
region that is flat and virtually treeless. During
the rainy season, this area floods, so that much
of it becomes swampland with various channels of
deep water running through it
This
is a message to both warlords and peaceful people.
War does not pay. The Anyuak have said many times
even in front of the GoSS President that they do
not want their voice heard through violence. How
much more can this position be made clearer to the
Lou Nuer warlords? In recent article published by
the Independent on line: “The crisis in the Horn
of Africa: Nomads with no future,” (08 September
2006) herdsmen from 60 tribes including two Nuer
clans, the Lou and Jikany Nuer who have fought a
savage for decades gathered in Ethiopia, united by
the battle to preserve their way of life.
According to the article, for the nomadic herdsmen
of east Africa, this was an opportunity for their
voice - so often ignored by their own governments
- to finally be heard. Is not the peaceful way the
Anyuak want to get their land back from nomadic
tribe?
Lero Odola Olok
Did you know
that South Sudanese living in Australia
were the first to Vote in South Sudan's
Referendum in January 9, 2011
