Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹

| #SouthSudan Presidential Photographer | Broadcast Journalist | Comedian | Loves Life & Friendly | Simple Guy | Tweets mine, retweets not endorsements |

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

Effective leaders uphold their integrity and character, even in the face of intense political pressure.

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

A true leader or manager prioritizes employee welfare and does not sacrifice workers’ well-being due to political pressure.

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

A man’s true wealth is not measured by the money in his wallet, but by the strength of his character.

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

Your peace is your responsibility. No one else can create it for you. Trust God in every season, guard your heart and never cease to pray. The more you trust Him, the more peace you will find.

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

The beginning sparkles with possibility; the end wears the marks of reality.

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

Sometimes you need to sit still and enjoy the earth beneath your feet, the health in your body and the life you’re living.

Take a moment to reflect, appreciate, and simply be present. 🤔👍

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

And South Sudan received nothing. https://t.co/sFDWLJ79l8

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

You may not owe everyone your resources, attention, or approval, but you do owe people a basic level of respect and humanity.

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

Some of us help not because we have plenty, but because we know what it means to struggle. Even in the midst of our own pain, we extend a helping hand. And when others help us, we receive it with gratitude. We help from the heart.

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

Behind every lady in high heels, there’s a pair of slippers quietly waiting for their turn inside the handbag. 😏

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

If it makes you happy, take the risk.
Worst case, you learn.
Best case, you change your whole life.

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

Protect your dignity. Guard your peace of mind.
Most victories mean little if they cost you both.🙏

[AES/ Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 Africa news updates @UBA39285039]

Highways that just don't connect cities....They connect ambition to progress 🇧🇫

[Kirya Ug 🇺🇬 @kirya_ug]

President Kagame sits along with his people and enjoy the game in crowd, wow🙌

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

People who flaunt their money on social media are often the ones unintentionally inviting thieves to target them.

[Sheila Ponnie @PonnieSheila]

South Sudan’s Nilepet says it has cleared $172 million in arrears and exited default status across its joint operating companies months after PETRONAS exited the country’s oil sector.#SouthSudan #Oil
#Energy

[Kennedy Wandera @KennedyWandera_]

When #Senegal’s government uncovered $13 billion in hidden, unrecorded debt left behind by former President Macky Sall’s regime, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko led debt audit revealed part of the national debt had been concealed, prompting the International Monetary Fund, IMF to immediately freeze and suspend its $1.8 billion lending programme.

Then disagreements emerged regarding the handling of this issue.

President Faye insisted on a pragmatic, compromise-driven path. He was willing to accept IMF-mandated austerity measures, including politically sensitive cuts to energy and fuel subsidies, to steady the economy and unlock the frozen funds to get more funding from IMF.

Prime Minister Sonko declined this approach and instead advocated for a sovereignist approach. Sonko fiercely opposed bowing to foreign lenders. He resisted cutting subsidies, imposing taxes and demanded a renegotiation of oil, gas and mining contracts with multinational companies.

Then a complete deadlock in the government.

Their disagreements also extend to the handling of legal cases.

Several former officials who served under President Macky Sall are accused of mismanagement and involvement in the political violence that claimed dozens of lives between 2021 and 2024.

President Faye favored a more cautious, reconciled approach. Fearing that aggressive prosecutions of the former regime would destabilize the state, fracture the security apparatus and alienate key institutional actors, Faye resisted hardline judicial purges.

As Prime Minister, Sonko pushed heavily for accountability, retributive justice, demanding that the amnesty law (passed by Sall's regime to shield his officials upon exit) be repealed so that Sall's former ministers, police chiefs and judicial officials could be tried for corruption, financial mismanagement and the deaths of youth protesters.

Ultimately, the government became entirely dysfunctional.

Faye used his executive power to reclaim sole control of the state, firing Sonko to build a government in his own image.

By securing the second-highest political office in the country, Sonko has effectively flipped the power dynamic. He went from a subordinate role inside the executive branch to leading an independent branch of government.

Faye will find his executive powers severely limited by a hostile legislature, and a ruling party that is not his own, leaving him with no choice but to wait until November 2026 to legally dissolve parliament.

Source: Local sources, @France24 (Debt crisis).

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

Wishing all my Muslim brothers and sisters a joyful and blessed Eid al-Adha Mubarak.

May this sacred occasion bring peace, happiness, good health and countless blessings to you and your loved ones.

[Akech Andrew @akech_andrew]

East African Community nations will spend a combined total of $7.54 billion on infrastructure particularly on construction of roads and railways in 2026/27 FY. Uganda and Kenya lead with allocations of $2.3 billion and $1.77 billion respectively.

Burundi, South Sudan and Somalia rock the bottom in the allocation.

[Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 @maalmaker]

How do you feel as a man after exposing a woman’s nakedness? Is there any pride in that?

A real man protects a woman’s dignity instead of humiliating her for public attention or validation.