Peter Adwok Nyaba

Peter Adwok Nyaba trained as a geologist and lectured in Juba and Asmara Universities. He is a trade unionist, an activist, a former commander in the SPLA, a Noma Award (1998) winner and a former minister in the Government of the Republic of Sudan and the Government of the Republic of South Sudan. He is currently a member of the SPLM in Opposition.

Politics1 year ago

Sudan’s (Non-)Arab Spring: Lessons from the April 2019 and Other Uprisings

The political protests in the Sudan, which began last December in the working class city of Atbara, and the perennial power struggle that triggered political instability...
Politics2 years ago

THE TIES THAT MAY NEVER BIND: Chasing the mirage of SPLM reunification

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), a southern Sudan-based national liberation movement, sprouted in 1983 in the Sudanese and regional political theatre at the height of...
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FISHING FOR FRIENDS: Salva Kiir’s cynical flirtation with regional bodies

On 8 March 2018, the Arab League’s Council of Ministers rejected South Sudan’s application for membership in the League. South Sudan’s curious application for membership in...
Politics2 years ago

Duplicitous Duality: Policies That Have Hampered South Sudan’s Transition to Statehood

The current social and political engineering in South Sudan is an exact replay of the political processes that plunged the Sudan into the first civil war...
Politics3 years ago

The Trouble With South Sudan: A Revolution That Ate Its Own Children

The highly hyped youngest country in the world has aged so fast that it now lies on the region’s sick bed in the hope that the...

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Peter Adwok Nyaba

Sudan’s (Non-)Arab Spring: Lessons from the April 2019 and Other Uprisings

THE TIES THAT MAY NEVER BIND: Chasing the mirage of SPLM reunification

FISHING FOR FRIENDS: Salva Kiir’s cynical flirtation with regional bodies

Duplicitous Duality: Policies That Have Hampered South Sudan’s Transition to Statehood

The Trouble With South Sudan: A Revolution That Ate Its Own Children

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