•Southern Sudan is made up of 10 states excluding Abiey

o CE- Central Equatorial capital state-juba
o Eastern Equatorial capital -Torit
o Western Equatorial=Yambio
o Western Bahal Gazal-Wau
o Northern Bahal Gazal- Aweil
o Unity State- Bentiu
o Warrab-Kwacjok
o Upper Nile-Malakal
o Lakes-Rumbek
o Jonglei State-Bor

•The county has a total of 79 counties.

Debate is on to relocate the Capital Juba into a new region that partly covers, Western Equatorial state, Central Equatorial n Lake state

•Each state is unique with different vehicle registration nos, state ministers n tax collection regime
•A state is ruled by H.E. Governor n H.E. Deputy Governor both elected by people, state is sub divided into counties ruled by H.E. Commissioner proposed by the community n appointed by the governor. County is divide into Payams n Payams into Bomas etc

•Each state has its own ministers and then the overall GOSS ministers responsible for the whole country this mean we have the GOSS minister says Finance and then each state has its own minister of the finance.

•Resources/Mali
oTimber-Mahogany n Teak in Equatorial
o Lots of Murram
o Oil in Abiey
o Aso rich agricultural equatorial belt

•Popular beer brands -Best Tusker, followed by Bell (Uganda Breweries -EABL subsidiary), followed by Nile (SAB Miller).

•Popular water brand-Ruwenzori-from SAB miller subsidiary.

•Popular Tea brand n to me of low quality- Golden from Uganda.

•Road between state are been worked on; some complete; Done with murram done by vey ok i.e. some such that u can do 100km/h

•Major Bank KCB -it has branches in all 10 states n in some areas has like two branches one for common Raia n other specifically in UN compounds for UN employees. Equity comes second-it doesn’t have branches in all states.

•Sending money home is a night mare-KCB charges 40 pounds per cros border transfer. U either go with the dollar or wait for the rate where u can sed pounds to Kenya..The rate from their central bank comes like once in two weeks. Some guys r using MPESA,,wher they wil charge 45 pounds for 1k kenya shs.

•HIV Rate is high coz people **** without CD's -they don’t C anything ‘ngumu’ since they have bin fighting in the bush all along. So be careful incase u come here


•Generally life expensive in the whole of South Sudan since they import everthing- like where i am Western Equatorial-Yambio
o plate of chips n chicken 30 pounds or ksh 900
o Rice beans is 15 pounds
o Black T is 1-3 pounds depending

•The worst nightmare in doing biashara hapa is each state tax u as u move goods across ; not forgetting if these guys realizes u r a foreigner (NO ARABIC or Arabic mafi),,u r in trouble ‘mafi muskira’ weeeee they wil ‘eat u’ like Kenyan police. Police as usual r very very very corupts ata hapa.

•95% of the foreigners are Ugandan followed by Kenyan, Eritreans etc. Job markets is destroyed mostly by Ugandan they charge less since to them 1 pounds is equivalent to UGS 800
•No mortuaries in South Sudan-so if u die here weee the earlier we can get u to city mortuary the better b4 u start stinking. Here if ones dies he will be buried latest the following day

•Hospitals n schools are also of poor quality-for once kudos to GOV. The high n the mighty educate their children mostly in UG n partly in Kenya

•1 pound is equivalent to Ksh 30 or roughly say ksh 28-So the beter option get the pounds n remit them home haraka haraka b4 u use them for their expensive foods n acomodation


•Best cigar brand is SUPERMATCH. 90% of South Sudanese r smokers. one packet is 1 Sudan Pound or ksh 28/29.

•Most South Sudanese take not more than 4 beers n then the go home,this means the survey that Kenya tops in beer drinking is TRUE.

•Not all Sudanese r that dark as most Kenyans think. The ZANDES of the western equatorial who hapens to b BANTUS n from congos r light sinked en like the rest of bantus eg the congolese, Bagandas, or u n I ‘kenyan’
•Corruption n wastage is rampant in GOSS n state ministries.
•90% of vehicles r Big Toyotas e.g VX, Landcruisers, n nissans; DINKAS like to show off,, the rich drive the like of the Hammers-u wont miss CE registration no of their cars in Nrb.
•Do u know that at the current exchange Sudan Pounds or SDG 500,000 is equivalents to Ksh 15m. Don’t ask me why the rich n the mighty here can afford a to buy a house in Lavington so easily

• Roughly

Tusker/Bell/Nile= SDG 5
GK = (SDG 10-15)
Gs =( SDG 5-7)
Tea Leave = 60 gm SDG 1
Water 1.5 L = (3-6 pounds/sdg)
Bag of Cement = SDG 70-75


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