The South Sudan State House at Juba has just announced the resumption of the country’s once stalled, National Assembly Sessions.
The South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has directed the reopening of the country’s Parliament in the first week of June after an extremely lengthy recess.
The decision to resume parliamentary sessions in Juba came to light during a special meeting between the President and the Speaker of the National Assembly, Jemma Nunu Kumba, where the two officials agreed that the house should start debates from the first day of June 2025.
Apparently the main reason for President Salva Kiir’s decision to organize parliamentary sessions is essentially for his legislators to start discussing their General Budget estimates for the fiscal year 2025/2026, which according to an official statement from the state house, should be the top priority.
The new parliamentary session debates in South Sudan are expected to focus on enhancing economic stability and implementing development projects in a step aimed at supporting institutional reform efforts in the rather troubled East African country.
Almost all member states of the East African Community (EAC), will be tabling their national budget estimates in June 2025, with parliamentary sessions to that effect already going on in their respective National Assemblies.
Countries like Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda are all expected to release their fiscal year budget plans for 2025-2026 in June. It was all left for the other two EAC members, Somalia and South Sudan to announce their future financial plans.
South Sudan, for instance, is on the verge of investing USD 130 million for building a high-tension power transmission line, through which the country intends to start importing electricity from Uganda.