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Bank and Public Holidays for South Sudan

South Sudan bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use.

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04 Apr 2012 (Government of South Sudan Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development-Juba) The Governor of South Sudan's State of Central Equatoria (CES), Clement Wani Konga, has extended the weekend in his state to include Friday afternoons "to enable the people to get involved in agriculture and livestock activities in order to promote food security". • 23 Dec 2011 (Government of South Sudan Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development-Juba) The Government of South Sudan has announced extended nationwide non-working public holidays for the upcoming Christmas Day public holiday. • 29 Nov 2011 (Government of South Sudan-Juba) South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir, has declared Thursday, December 1st, 2011, as a non-working public holiday throughout South Sudan on the occasion of the upcoming World AIDS Day. • 29 Jul 2011 (Government of South Sudan-Juba) The Ministry of Labour and Public Service of the Republic of South Sudan, through its undersecretary, Rebecca Joshua Okwaci, announced that Saturday, July 30, 2011, had been declared as a non-working public holiday marking Heroes' Day. • 04 Jul 2011 (Government of South Sudan-Juba) The Government of South Sudan has declared a 3-day period of public holidays, from Saturday, July 9, until Monday, July 11, 2011, inclusively. • 25 Nov 2010 (The Sudan Tribune-Juba) The Information Minister of the Lakes State of Sudan, Marik Nanga Marik, has announced that the council of ministers had decided to declare the period from November 25 until December 1, 2010, as public sector holidays to give enough time for officials working in the state government to join their respective community to get registered for the upcoming referendum. • 29 Jul 2010 (The Sudan Tribune-Juba) The minister of Labor and Public Service for the Government of South Sudan (GoSS), Awut Deng Acuil, has declared Friday, July 30, 2010, as a national public holiday on the occasion of this year's Martyrs Day. • 23 Nov 2009 (United Nations Environment Programme-UNEP) Earlier this morning, the President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS), Salva Kiir Mayardit, has launched a clean-up operation of the GoSS capital, Juba, and declared the day a public holiday. • 11 Nov 2009 (The Sudan Tribune-Juba) Last night, Sudan's minister for cabinet affairs in the Government of Southern Sudan, Dr. Luka Tombekana Monoja, announced that the 7-day voter registration public holidays applies only to constitutional post holders (ie. elected officials), and apologized for the error in the text of the President’s order, which by mistake included civil servants. • 08 Nov 2009 (The Sudan Tribune-Juba) The President of Sudan's semi-autonomous Southern Sudan (GoSS), Salva Kiir Mayardit, has issued a presidential order declaring seven days of public holiday, from November 11 to 17, 2009, in order to enable government officials to mobilize for voter registration. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the South Sudan public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

South Sudan became a fully independent country on July 9, 2011. • For South Sudan public holidays from before July 9, 2011, see the GoSS regional public holidays listed in the list of official public holidays in the Sudan. • The South Sudan public holidays currently listed have been obtained on March 1st, 2011, from the current semi-autonomous Government of South Sudan (GoSS). It is possible that some Muslim public holidays will eventually be added to the list of official public holidays in South Sudan. • The ISO-3166 code for South Sudan has not being finalized, yet, but the SS code seems likely, despite its extremely negative historical connotation. • Martyrs' Day: This public holiday was initiated, beginning in 2008, by the Jonglei government of Southern Sudan, to commemorate the anniversary of the death, in a 2005 airplane crash, of Dr. John Garang de Mabior, who was at the time First Vice President of Sudan and President of the semi-autonomous Southern Sudan. • South Sudan International Codes SS and SSD (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .ss (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of South Sudan information and news: ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (South Sudan maps, demographics and economic statistics), and Wikipedia (includes South Sudan commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in South Sudan, may belong to a religious group that is not common in South Sudan, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to South Sudan. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for South Sudan, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of South Sudan, before planning any trip to South Sudan. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.