However, it is not only us the domestic critics who see the negatives, nor is it really that we are blind to progress and the great strides that South Sudan has made. The issue is that South Sudan really has a serious crisis of leadership on its hands. A few years ago, I got into a fight with a 25-year-old Canadian “advisor” in South Sudan’s Ministry of Finance, over what he called “South Sudan’s development plan”. It is really mind-boggling, and there is hardly any excuse for the pathetic state in which South Sudan now finds itself. That South Sudan government could not even hold a public celebration of the ninth anniversary of independence on July 9 was unsurprising.

Source: Daily Nation July 15, 2020 10:41 UTC