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World Rivers Day-Protecting the World tributaries

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Juba, August 31 2020: Celebrated every fourth Sunday of September, this year’s International World Rivers Day highlights the many values of our rivers, strives to increase public awareness, and encourages the improved stewardship of all rivers around the world. Rivers in virtually every country face an array of threats, and only through our active involvement can we ensure their health in the years ahead.

In South Sudan, climate change has affected people negatively with massive flooding of the River Nile affecting hundreds of people in areas of Jonglei and Upper Nile states. Of these, women, children and the elderly are the most affected.

Man’s activities especially poor plastic disposals and oil pollution have largely contributed to contamination of the River Nile in the country. Like the South Sudan NGO Forum puts it in their social media accounts “Just do the simple math. You drop the plastic bottle on the ground, it rains, it all flows into the Nile, some fish eats it, and then that fish is taken from the Nile, we come eat it – we are the end product of what happened in the first place. We are just hurting ourselves.”

Our activities not only affects us, but also marine life which in turns affects the planet. As the day draws near, it is our immense responsibility to protect our water tributaries for the coming generation.

In 2005, the United Nations launched the Water for Life Decade to help create a greater awareness of the need to better care for our water resources. Following this, the establishment of World Rivers Day was in response to a proposal initiated by internationally renowned river advocate, Mark Angelo.

The proposal for a global event to celebrate rivers was based on the success of BC Rivers Day, which Mark Angelo had founded and led in western Canada since 1980. A World Rivers Day event was seen by agencies of the UN as a good fit for the aims of the Water for Life Decade and the proposal was approved. River enthusiasts from around the world came together to organize the inaugural WRD event. That first event in 2005 was a great success and Rivers Day was celebrated across dozens of countries. Since then, the event has continued to grow.

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South Sudan Commemorates belated World Aids Day 2019

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Dr. Esterina  in black suit watch the candle lighting during the function                                                                             JUBA-South Sudan has today, the 03 December 2019 commemorated the International World Aids Day  under the Global theme: “Communities make the difference”.

The World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. The function also saw the official launching of the Condomize Campaign that tries to break sex taboos.

Speaking during the event at Nyakuron Cultural Center, Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Country Director Dr. Sophia Mukasa Monico Said “Where people and communities living with and affected by HIV are engaged in decision-making and HIV service delivery, new infections decline and more people living with HIV gain access to treatment”.  Dr. Sophia further echoed UNAIDS call for all countries to fully support and enable their community-led organizations, ensure that they have a seat at all decision-making tables concerning the health and well-being of their community members and remove any barriers to their active engagement in the response to HIV.

For her part, the South Sudan Aids Commission (SSAC) Chairperson Dr. Esterina Novello Nyilok Said, “We must courageously face up to the challenge of HIV and AIDS and embrace wholeheartedly the opportunities to break the trajectory of the epidemic, guided by our vision, HIV/AIDS free generation in South Sudan”.

Dr. Esterina  reaffirms SSAC’s commitment to continue mobilizing internal and external resources for HIV/AIDS and advocate for commitment at various levels of leadership and address the legal barriers including stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV that impede the provision and utilization of HIV services.

UNIADS report indicates that there were approximately 37.9 million people across the globe with HIV/AIDS in 2018. Of these, 36.2 million were adults and 1.7 million were children. While in South Sudan in 2018, 190 000 people were living with HIV. HIV incidence per 1000 uninfected—the number of new HIV infections among the uninfected population over one year—among all people of all ages was 1.56.

 

 

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Aid workers in South Sudan released after days in detention.

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SPLA-IO Forces 

South Sudan Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA IO) forces have handed over 10 aid workers to the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) after briefly detaining them.

The 10 aid workers, all staff of the United Nations Office for the Coordination Humanitarian Affairs were detained after the SPLA IO accused them of entering their territory without prior clearance.

A press release signed by the deputy spokesperson of the SPLA IO, Lt Col Paul Lam Gabriel read that all the 10 aid workers are safe and were handed over to the ICRC.

“It’s been confirmed this afternoon the 30/04/2018 at about 2:50PM that, the ICRC in coordination with Lt Gen Wesley Welebe and the Division 2B Commander Maj Gen John Mabieh Gaar picked up the 10 aid workers and are safely on their way to Juba,” he said in the statement.

The handover marked the second time aid workers have been detained and released from Yei River state due to the same problem this month. The rebels say they have no issues with aid workers, but will continue to deal with government spies who pose as aid workers to locate the positions of the rebel forces.

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Mo Salah named PFA player of the year

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Mo Salah poses with his player of the year trophy at the 2018 PFA award ceremony

Mohamed Salah was the big winner at the Professional Footballers’ Association awards last night, scooping the Player of the Year award.

The Liverpool winger saw off competition from Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne to pick up the accolade, having scored 41 goals in his first year at Anfield.

The Egyptian is leading the race to win the Premier League Golden Boot and is also in the running to land the Football Writers’ Association Player of the Year.

Elsewhere, Chelsea forward Fran Kirby won the Female Player of the Year while Leroy Sane and Lauren Hemp won the respective Young Player of the Year accolades.

A number of Football League stars were spotted with their partners on the red carpet including Fulham trio Ryan Sessegnon, Tom Cairney and Ryan Fredericks.

Salah became the second African to win the award in a period of three years after Leicester and Algerian winger Riyad Mahrez won it in 2016.

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Man City dumped out of FA

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Wigan celebrates after dumping Man City out of FA

Wigan: Pep Guardiola’s quest to win an unprecedented quadruple with Manchester City came to a stunning and controversial end when they fell to a 1-0 defeat at third-tier Wigan in the fifth round of the FA Cup on Monday.

In an uncanny repeat of the 2013 FA Cup final, in which City had a player sent off before losing to a late Wigan winner, Guardiola’s side had Fabian Delph dismissed amid stormy scenes before Will Grigg’s 79th-minute goal decided the game.

 A famous night was marred, however, by a post-match pitch invasion by Wigan supporters which saw a number of them confront City players, with striker Sergio Aguero required to defend himself.

Earlier the drama had been provided by Northern Ireland international Grigg who capitalised on an error by Kyle Walker — who allowed a pass to run through to the Wigan man — and kept ahead of John Stones before finishing clinically from just inside the area.

It was only City’s second defeat to English opposition since losing an FA Cup semi-final to Arsenal last April while their opponents can now look forward to a quarter-final home tie with Southampton.

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