Abyei, Western Bahr el Ghazal State Sign Cooperation Agreement Abyei Administration Area and Western Bahr el Ghazal state today signed a Memorandum of Understanding cooperation agreement. 08 June 2015
By James Deng Dimo *WAU, June 08, 2015 [Gurtong] *– The documents were signed on behalf of Western Bahr el Ghazal state Governor by Mr. Tom Ismail Jinei who is the Secretary General of the state council of ministers while Mr. Arop Deng, the Coordinator of Abyei signed on behalf of Abyei Administrative Area. The cooperation Agreement is for Western Bahr el Ghazal state to share its government clusters of governance, services and Economic cluster with the Abyei region. Western Bahr el Ghazal state government, Ministry of Information agreed to support Abyei Area in capacity building in different media, radio, TV and training on journalism reporting. The cluster service has also agreed on the level of health policy, tentative work plan and job description including training opportunities, clinical officers’ registration of mid wives among others. The Ministry of Education in Western Bahr el Ghazal state also agreed with Abyei in providing the Administration Area with a ministry structure at the level of Counties and Payam levels as well as establishing national technical secondary schools and boarding schools in the region. The commission of Art in Western Bahr el Ghazal state has also agreed to give training to the talented young people in Abyei in the area of drama, music, folklore culture collection, fine arts, organizing festival and planning and preserving culture artifacts, historical and burial sites. “Wau Centre for music and culture will be ready to admit candidates from Abyei Administration Area for music training of six months in the areas of guitar, key board, drama, music and other arts technical needs,” reads part of the signed agreement. Western Bahr el Ghazal state Ministry of Finance will also help to train ministry’s staff in Abyei Area in Financial administration including revenue collection and revenue authority act, Tax and non-Tax operating schedule. The two state governments have been engaged in direct consultation efforts since last week which led to the agreement signed on Monday today in Wau. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- 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/CAJb14ooeZmyV54J2bMO2NdFH0Vo56-Q4KfCWeW9FW6wV2DPJAA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
