''The Juba Post'' (also: ''The Juba Post Newspaper'') is an independent English-language newspaper in

South Sudan South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the ...

. It currently has offices in both

Juba Juba is the capital and largest city of South Sudan. The city is situated on the White Nile and also serves as the capital of the Central Equatoria, Central Equatoria State. It is the most recently declared national capital and had a populatio ...

and

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum is the capital city of Sudan as well as Khartoum State. With an estimated population of 7.1 million people, Greater Khartoum is the largest urban area in Sudan. Khartoum is located at the confluence of the White Nile – flo ...

. It is the first independent newspaper of South Sudan based in Juba, the capital of the Republic of South Sudan. The newspaper is owned by the Juba Media Company. The chairman of the board of directors is Charles Rehan Surur. In 2011 the newspaper had a circulation of 2500 biweekly issues. It is financially supported by advertising and subscription. The newspaper was established in 2004 by a group of displaced Southern Sudanese and students from Juba University in Khartoum, who were brought together by Hildebrand Bijleveld. It appeared initially in Khartoum as an unlicensed bi-lingual (Arabic/English) weekly before the

Comprehensive Peace Agreement The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA, ), also known as the Naivasha Agreement, was an accord signed on 9 January 2005, by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the Government of Sudan. The CPA was meant to end the Second Sudane ...

was signed between the Khartoum government and the

Sudan People's Liberation Army The South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF), formerly the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), is the military force of South Sudan. The SPLA was founded as a guerrilla movement against the government of Sudan in 1983 and was a key parti ...

on 9 July 2005, leading to the Independence of South Sudan on 9 July 2011. The National Press Council in Khartoum issued in October 2004 an official letter to all the printing and publishing companies in Sudan not to print the newspaper. Despite this warning, the paper continued to appear and was even openly sold at newsstands in Khartoum. The paper was issued a license by the National Press Council on 23 March 2005, but almost immediately ran into difficulty. Following reports by the newspaper on the expulsion of

internally displaced person An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee. I ...

s from a camp in

and closing of the daily newspaper '' The Khartoum Monitor'', ''The Juba Post'' was shut down by the government and three of its reporters were jailed on the charge of being "illegal journalists." ''The Juba Post'' returned to operations shortly thereafter. ''The Juba Post'' was for several years the only newspaper based in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. Over the years, a number of its editors and managers have been arrested by authorities after publishing articles concerning ethnic tension, lack of rule of law and corruption. The newspaper's most current online issue is dated 12 March 2012.Welcome to the Frontpage
''The Juba Post'', 12 March 2012.

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