Women Call For Peaceful Coexistence In South Sudan Northern Bahr el Ghazal state's Women Association calls on leaders and every tribe within South Sudan to embrace peaceful coexistence amongst all tribes. 09 February 2014 Women in church. [File]
By Abraham Agoth *AWEIL, 9 February 2014 (Gurtong) -*The call came from the Annual General Meeting of the Women Association in the state over the weekend. The women were concerned of the current political unrest in the country. Raising the concern on behalf of the women, Monica Mawien, the Association's General Secretary confirmed their support to the recent ceasefire agreement. She said they as mothers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state have fully welcomed the decision to amicably solve the disputes between rebels and government. "We are deeply concerned about the losses which occurred within us. We are not fans of war but of peace," she said. "We are tired of 21 years of civil war between Sudan and South Sudan nine years ago. This time should be for peaceful coexistence among southerners." She blamed a few individuals within rebel groups of having misled fellow citizens into a 'senseless war'. "If we feel like ourselves on tribal or political interest, then we are dragging our children and youth into baseless war and internal conflict of nonsense. We should put aside our differences and stick together as people of one nation with one tribe-South Sudan," she appealed. "If we say we are peaceful here in Aweil and we ignore other people's problem within the same country, then that sounds meaningless. This must be preached and imitated." Posted in: Home<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> , Governance<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/6/Governance.aspx> , Featured Stories<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/137/Featured-Stories.aspx> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14op2eWr%3DnAfZtkRzTDwsGPiyFy9XauKT-%3D0cO1b%3DG6k74w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
