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The uncertain future of a hopeless country

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By Mading Abraham Majur, Kampala, Uganda

Waiting for peace from Addis Ababa
Waiting for peace from Addis Ababa

October 22, 2015 (SSB)  —  Is it possible to have an atmosphere where most of the populations of a country are totally unsatisfied with their government and have hopeless future in their country of origin.

More voice, more democracy is the only slogan to be used by people of this 4 and half years old nation, today South Sudan is very different to what it was in 2012-2013 before the rebellion of Dr. devil desperate by destroying our economy want from being in the biggest crisis for the country history since in 2014 with support from his in-law or elites, the unceremonious name for sanctions measures aimed at preventing South Sudan local proxy exchange banks run and where 50 pounds to one dollar convertibility law to a constant increasing economy as the explicit shows until this year and now the inflation of dollarization is a daily words.

The situation nowadays cannot be better explained, we are all concerned about South Sudan future because the recovered well from the economic crisis with conventional trial, but actually things will never normalized to the previous time, and that’s a political problem to our country plus they have outstanding issues to be considered as those predator funds.

But people do not want to hear numbers and statistics anymore, South Sudanese people I want to tell you, how do we feels to live in a country where uncertain looks are everywhere, where basic values have been lost, whose people favor to get more subsidies rather than effective where we cannot believe the information given by the government all the time and every day, the pounds are still devalues even more by US dollarization, and where corruption and poor education system were the most recurrent response when we asked the biggest problem in this country. And the answer that captures general ideas of what happening in our country.

  • The social and economic class determine most of it powerful groups and opportunities received, so the system does not provide equal opportunities to the middle class is the one that in the end, and ends up holding the social plans. This cause deterioration in the class and begin to spread a feelings of hatred toward the classes that received those plans.
  • The personalization of power is another problem in our country, social plans and help should be delivered on behalf of the state or entire community, and instead they are delivered on behalf of the government individual official pockets. Government should work more on education system which is the first link in the circle of the problems in our country, the creation of an economy that is not merely exporting agriculture is also necessary and government also must ensure that the social and economic class does not determine the fate of anyone.
  • The biggest verdict I had was the question” bring to light those individuality or capabilities that you deem that South Sudan has acquire expecting the worst, thinking that for me I would only see desperate phrase I found myself analysis this of South Sudan.

It seems that after all South Sudanese are able to see many bad and good things in their lifetime that had happened in the past years and the current moment, maybe we are still able or not able to project our country future and believe that a progress can come. We are young nation; hunger for equality, government transparency, change and values but with potential and resources that we have.

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