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  Add caption More than 160 women and girls have successfully concluded a two-week training to produce stoves and other cooking tools to help local communities access their needs at local based materials. Beneficiaries in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state’s areas of Gokmachar, Nyamlel, Marial Baai, and Mayen Ulem had acquired new technological skills to enable their families step out from the ongoing economic burdens in the country.    South Sudan is importing essential cooking materials from foreign states which cost huge of money for common citizen to purchase.    What makes the training important? The program is part of elevating poverty and hunger among marginalized groups, especially women and young girls in South Sudan and Northern Bahr el Ghazal state Voice News Agency’s correspondent Michael Lual reached comments from the beneficiaries on Thursday, saying the skills will help their families and even can extend to entire local communities.     Amiir Deng a women abou

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Northern Bahr el Ghazal state government has announced one suspected case of COVID-19 in Aweil North County, a tasked t ask force sensitizes communities to precaution    measures. Speaking to Voice News Agency on Wednesday, the Northern Bahr el Ghazal task force against COVID-19 Ater Garang said a foreigner who is working with the World Vision has felt unwell and so he approached the team about on the matter when sample was taken to Juba for verificati on.   “What I heard is one of the case in Gokmachar because one person felt sick and thought that may be the issue is about COVID-19 and the sample was taken to Juba for verification,” said Ater. The foreign humanitarian worker has been working for long time in Gokmachar, but doubts may be contacted with people who visited South Sudan recently amidst the outbreak, concludes the chairperson. On his part, Dr. Reec Mathok Diing director for Aweil civil hospital and the member of task force confirmed that the suspect is imposed to