The Citizen management has announced that it is closing the newspaper’s publication on Saturday due to lack of hard currency to import printing materials and spare parts.
Editor-in-chief Nhial Bol wrote on Tuesday’s Straight Talk column that the newspaper needs 30,000 US dollars to import paper, ink, printing plates and spare parts.
He said the Central Bank of South Sudan is not allowing a commercial bank to withdraw the money for The Citizen to import the critical materials from Uganda.
Mr Bol said stocks of paper, ink, printing plates and spare parts for the printing press finished.
He revealed that the management decided to dismiss 78 full time employees plus 23 contributors next week.
He said 400 vendors will also be affected by The Citizen shutdown.
The Citizen is the only daily published in English in South Sudan.
It started publication in 2005 with offices in Juba and Khartoum and printing in Khartoum.
After the independence the paper moved to Juba where it set the only industrial printing press in the country.