Voice News Agency

About twenty staff members from police service, protection unit, prison service and judiciary are taking part in a two-day workshop on empowerment of rule of law and good governance in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The multi-partners training had started on Thursday in Aweil Town’s Niavasha residential area and expected to be concluded on Friday. Speaking to Voice News Agency regional correspondent, Bol Makuach, program officer for the Hope Africa South Sudan (HASS), a national based humanitarian and advocacy organization, said the concept is to create awareness and bring people together to understand real meaning for the rule of law. “We wanted to create awareness, bring people to understand the meaning of rule of law in Greater Northern Bahr el Ghazal,” Makuach said. “The number of the participants we are targeting today (Thursday) is supposed to be 20 from four departs as following: protection unit, police service, prison service and judiciary,” he added. The

The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) in collaboration with UNESCO and UNWOMEN organizations has on Tuesday started a three-day capacity building training for journalists in Aweil Town, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The Training’s topics are reporting on constitutional-making process, gender, human rights, ethics, accuracy safety and protection among others. The Secretary General for the Union of Journalists of South Sudan, Majak Daniel Kuany, said twenty-five journalists are now undergoing the training for the next three days.   He added that similar trainings were carried out in eight State Namely Eastern Equatoria, Jonglei, Western Equatoria, Western Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile, Unity and Central Equatoria. “They are twenty-five journalists in Northern Bahr el Ghazal and it is likewise other States we have been visiting. We started the training in Eastern Equatoria, Jonglei, Western Equatoria, Western Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile, Unity and Central Equatoria States.”