Internetの威力をまざまざと見せつけられる瞬間があり、この記事もそのひとつ。York大学でクラスメイトだった、南スダーンから来たでっかい、優しい男Anthonyが、未だに紛争まっただ中の南スダーンで元気に笑っている（少なくとも今年の7月は！）
英国北部の寒さに震えながら、愛する祖国の平和のためと、その博識を武器に明るくクラスのみんなを勇気づけていた。
教室での発言ではいつも、どんな短い発言でも必ず「In my country South Sudan」と枕詞のように、しかも話題を変えるたびにこのフレーズを入れるので、クラスメイトは、「わかったよ、そンだけ南スダーンを愛してるんだね」と、みんな笑いながら受けいれ（我慢し?）たものだ。Anthonyには、皆にそれを受け入れさせるほどの根拠、情熱と祖国への愛があった。
SPLM nominates former minister Makana parliamentary speaker
July 27, 2016 (JUBA) – South Sudan ruling SPLM party has nominated former transport minister Anthony Lino Makana as speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA), breaking an impasse that has delayed reconstituting the oversight監視, 監督body of the government.
The meeting at SPLM House in Juba on Wednesday was chaired by President Salva Kiir who also chairs the ruling party, and comes a day after the replacement of the former First Vice President Riek Machar by Taban Deng Gai
President Kiir, who made the announcement, said today decision is a new page for the fractured party.
“You now voted and four candidates from Equatoria were brought to the SPLM leadership. The leadership of the SPLM has selected honorable Anthony Lino Makana,” said Kiir, referring to his SPLM faction.
The party split into three factions at the onset of December 2013 conflict: SPLM In Government led by Kiir, SPLM In Opposition of Riek Machar and SPLM former detainees led by former Secretary General Pagan Amum.
Kiir said the SPLM factions has no choice but to remain united.
“If you are not united in this (SPLM) house, you will not be united in the (parliament) bigger house,” he further said, warning that “measures will be taken against dissent members of parliament” who vote against SPLM policies.
Sources in the meeting said the First Vice President Taban Deng Gai has accepted to nominate deputy speaker.
Oliver Benjamin, the head of information in the national parliament, said a special session to formally select the speaker in parliament will be convened on Monday.
“All members of parliament have been recalled to Juba to be able to attend on Monday August 1, 2016,” he said by phone on Wednesday.
According to the August 2015 Agreement for Resolution of Conflict in the Republic, the current parliament with 332 MPs will be expanded to 400. The SPLM IO nominated new 50 legislators, 1 from former detainees and 17 from other political parties.
Disagreement over which party to nominate the speaker stalled expansion of the parliament and commencing始める the TNLA.
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AnthonyはKirr政府の議会議長だ。
10/14現在、マーケットも開いたらしい。
FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016
South Sudan markets in Juba reopen after abrupt closure
October 13, 2016 (JUBA) – Shop owners in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, have resumed work following an abrupt closure on Wednesday, following false reports of Salva Kiir’s death on the social media.
People walk through a market in the southern Sudanese city of Juba January 7, 2011 in Juba – (File photo AFP/Getty)
Interior Minister Michael Chienyjiek issued a statement dismissing the allegation, describing them as rumours circulated by “criminals to use it as the opportunity to loot.
“Stay calm, and carry on normally. There should no fear. The president had already come out yesterday and you saw him touring the whole town yesterday. This was to confirm to the public that he is alive. What happened was another social media hoax”, said Chienyjiek
He commended various markets in Juba which resumed activities on Wednesday evening after few hours of abrupt closure. Traders and hawkers who had run away from custom market have resumed since 5.00 PM local time yesterday and were selling their goods normally.
Several markets such as Konyokonyo, Jebel and Juba markets have also resumed operation according to sources. Many residents claimed the run from market on Wednesday after some running without asking the cause. Others attributed the cause to a crackdown on money exchangers by the police.
“I have resumed work normally today. Yesterday my shop was closed because there was confusion allover. Some people were running unnecessarily. If you ask, no one would give a definite answer, Deng Mawien, a trader in Malakia market told Sudan Tribune on Thursday.
But while others were running due to fear stemming from rumours about the death of the president, others were running away from police measures banning money changers on the street in fulfillment of municipality order.
Police force launched an operation to crack down on U.S. dollar hawkers, causing them to flee the market. No gun shot was fired by the police when the police carried out the operation.
Earlier this year, Mayor of Juba City banned selling of U.S. dollars on the street of Juba, and ordered the police to crackdown on those selling dollars. Armed robbers attacked Konyokonyo market
SPLA Spokesperson Brig. Gen Lul Ruai Koang told journalists that people in Konyokonyo market fled when armed robbers attacked and robbed at gun point leading to the closure of the market yesterday,
He said that 3 robbers entered the market and started terrorizing people using pistols. Two of the robbers were apprehended and 1 is still at large. The two robbers, he said were later found to be foreign nationals.
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