[5][6][7] Authority over the archives was transferred from the Central Equatoria State to the Government of South Sudan after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

[3] Emergency work on the restoration of the Archive began in 2005, during the period of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, with support from the US Ambassadors’ Cultural Fund.

"[12][13] The project has received support from the Government of Norway for the construction of a permanent South Sudan National Archive Building.

[18] The contents of the archive range from the early 1900s to the 1980-1990s and are often the only detailed records of previous local South Sudanese administrations in existence.

The program was supported by the South Sudan Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, the Rift Valley Institute, and UNESCO, with funding from Norway.

[23] The final episode focused on a document titled The functions of the leopard-skin chief, a selection from a draft manual of Nuer customary law commissioned by the colonial authorities in 1944.