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Breaking News: Two women and a child were forced to climb onto the roof of their makeshift iron-sheet home to escape rapidly rising floodwaters after heavy rainfall hit Juba this morning.

SPLM Secretary-General Says South Sudan Will Not Go Backward Despite Health Funding Cuts

Akol Paul Koordit, the Secretary-General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), has expressed confidence that South Sudan will remain resilient despite concerns over possible hospital closures due to reductions in international health funding.

Speaking during a recent meeting, Dr. Koordit said he had discussed with an international figure the possibility that hospitals in rural areas could shut down as donors withdraw support.

He recalled a personal experience from 1998 in Madubai village near Meridi, where he suffered a severe case of malaria at a time when there were no hospitals in the area.

According to Dr. Koordit, an elderly woman in the village advised him to chew the bitter roots of a small tree as traditional medicine, which he said helped him recover.

He said the story reflects the resilience of local communities even in difficult circumstances.

“The closure of hospitals should not discourage us. The fact that we even have hospitals today is already progress, because in the past we had none,” he said.

Dr. Koordit added that the country remains determined to move forward.

“We are going nowhere. We will remain here. This country will not disappear, and it will never go backward again,” he said.