Civil Society Leadership Meets AU High Representative To South Sudan South Sudan's Civil Society Organizations last Friday met the recently appointed African Union (AU) high representative to South Sudan, the former President of Mali H.E. Alpha Konera, to present their stance on the recently released new road map for peace by IGAD. 07 July 2015
By Peter Lokale Nakimangole *JUBA, 05 July 2015 [Gurtong] - * Mr. Edmund Yakani, the Executive Director of CEPO who led the team and moderated the meeting, called for an immediate Cessation of Hostilities (COH) between the ongoing warring parties including non-politicization of humanitarian operations to be among the first priority for H.E Konera to ensure it is achieved. The meeting concluded that there should be promotion of inclusive mediation (multi-literal process) that focuses on the root causes of the political crisis in South Sudan. The CSO leaders noted that the power sharing approach should be centered on the two warring parties. In a statement by the CSOs, it stipulates that having two armies under a separate commander during the first 17 months of the peace agreement is disturbing and worrying and should not be entertained or allowed. With the positive progress on execution of the Arusha Peace accord among the SPLM-groups, the group said there is need to carefully study whether the SPLM-FD is to be represented as a group or part of the government team. Under the IGAD proposal for establishment of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan to respond for the demand of Justice and Accountability, the IGAD has proposed the hybrid court to be established by two leaderships of African Union and UN Security Council, a move which the Civil Society has rejected. Further, the civil society has called on H.E Alpha to assist in persuading and influencing the AU Commission of Inquiry to consider releasing the South Sudan's inquiry report. early, because the political leaders are manipulating the information on the issues of human rights atrocities for justifying the cause for war. Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> -- 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/CAJb14op7cXwBVzauMSSMT%2BRD4MRB4L-fT8xufjhNFVuir8zM4w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
