S. Sudan former detainees call for 5-year interim administration
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January 9, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudanese former political detainees are
lobbying global support for an interim government to be managed by
experts for five years.
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South Sudan’s former Deputy Defence Minister Majak D’Agoot poses for a
photograph at his office in Juba, October 16, 2012. (Photo
Reuters/Adriane Ohanesian)
The group, led by Pagan Amum, Secretary General of the ruling Sudan
People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) which has now split into three
separate groups, said the new administration, if formed, would prepare
the country to go into the general elections after all the governance
matters have been addressed through national dialogue and other
processes, including the drafting of an all-encompassing constitution
and establishing vibrant and independent judicial system in the
country.
In an interview with the BBC on Sunday, the South Sudan’s former
deputy defence minister, Majak D’ Agoot, said their proposal would the
only way to return the country on the trajectory of peace and
stability as well as averting fragmentation.
“The solution from our perspectives rest squarely with the proposal
that we have put across recently, where we have called for a
round-table conference of all South Sudanese stakeholders and all the
affected constituencies so that we are able to have a clean break from
the status quo that has created this kind of stagnation”, he said.
Majak said their group was looking for a way to move the country away
from the status quo and interim administrations whose performances
have not delivered than escalating the conflicts.
“And what we are putting on the table is what we call a caretaker
administration of technocrats to run the country for five years
leading to general elections at the end of interim period and move
away completely from the kinds of transitions that have now failed the
country and are escalating the conflicts and are exposing our people
to very bad future and consequences like genocide and that you have”,
he stressed.
The former South Sudanese deputy defense minister argued that the
dialogue launched by President Salva Kiir was "meant to consolidate
his hold on power and not necessarily intending it to reconcile and
unite the country", citing the resumption of the conflict in 2016,
which he claimed resulted from president Kiir’s refusal to implement
the agreement which temporarily halted a civil war.
War-torn South Sudan will experience extreme levels of food insecurity
across the country during the first half of 2017, a recent food
security analysis indicated.
The conflict between South Sudan’s rival factions, has led to deaths
of thousands since it broke out in mid-December 2013. Aid agencies say
over 2.5 million people have been displaced by the conflict in South
Sudan, with an estimated over a million said to have fled into its
neighbouring nations.
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