Messirya Delegation Lobby For Communal Peace Conference In Aweil A Sudanese tribe from the Messirya community set off for an official visit to Northern Bahr el Ghazal last Saturday to request for a joint border communal peace conference from the State government. 08 July 2015
By Agoth Abraham *AWEIL, July 5, 2015 [Gurtong] *A twelve-man delegation headed by Alfadul Muhammed visited Northern Bahr el Ghazal State capital, Aweil on Saturday to deliver an official request for a peace conference for their Sudanese Messeriya tribesmen and the South Sudanese counterpart tribes of Dinka Ngok of Abyei, Dinka Twic of Warrap State and Dinka Malual of NBG State. The delegation presented an official letter to the Caretaker Governor of the State, Salva Chol Ayat requesting his government to facilitate and coordinate the conference among the bordering communities. While addressing the press in Aweil upon arrival, the Head of the Messirya delegation, Alfadul Muhammed emphasized on the importance of a peaceful coexistence between the communities. He said the meeting will help boost peace among the local communities and youth as well as promote free movements of citizens. “We are the delegation from the Messirya tribe from Awalad-Kamil, we have arrived Aweil to meet the Governor. We are coming to request for a peace conference which we prefer to commence right away from Ramadhan fasting between us [Messirya], Dinka Ngok, Dinka Twic. As from here, we are sending a message to our brothers from these communities to participate in this conference so that there will be peaceful relations among chiefs and border peace committees.” He said. The Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Peace Commission Coordinator, William Kolong Pioth says the request is well taken and shall be worked out accordingly so that the peace conference happens as per the communal interest to promote unity among. “There request is well taken by the peace committees and by our governor as well as peace coordination office that they wanted us to facilitate their conference with Dinka Ngok and Dinka Twic. They have learned that living in peace is very important, we are going to work on it to make sure that the three communities are brought together and we are going to explain to them the importance of peace and facilitate their conference” He assured. The Caretaker Governor Chol, welcomed the request and said the preparations and necessary arrangements needed for the conference will be followed by the concerned institutions so that the conference happens immediately after Ramadhan fasting. He says his government will take the lead in arranging for the invitations to the national government, International Peace and Humanitarian organizations to witness the event. “We can respond as per their request, we are going to bring the Dinka Twic and Dinka Ngok and bring them here for the central conference. For this conference, we are going to let the national government and international peace organizations attend so that they witness this conference. And when we succeed arranging for such conferences, our borders from Eastern to western part of the country will always remain peaceful.” He said. There have been outstanding peace conferences being organized by selected peace committees every year from both Messeriya from Sudan and Dinak Malual from South Sudan to monitor peaceful relations. These conferences are community-based initiatives which include request for migration of Sudanese nomadic tribes to graze their cattle in Dinka land. These local committees have their resolutions and court committees that help in overseeing crime and theft cases along bordering tribes of Messirya from Sudan and Dinka Malual from NBG; but for this conference, it is meant to cover all the four bordering communal tribes. ------------------------------ [image: Bookmark and Share] <https://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=xa-4a8952f0662ccc6f> 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/CAJb14opNi8EBO4jy1qimueZTiUNepZJ096RVRQdMWs1O082JTA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
