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IGAD meeting calls for concerted efforts to restore peace in S. Sudan
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
July 24, 2017 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Inter-Governmental Authority on
Development (IGAD) council of ministers on Monday began reviewing the
progress achieved and to consult on ways of revitalizing the peace
process in war-torn South Sudan.
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President Salva Kiir attends a session during the 25th Extraordinary
Summit of the (IGAD) on South Sudan in Addis Ababa March 13, 2014
(Reuters Photo)
The meeting, being held in South Sudan, renewed calls for all the
warring parties to support the revitalization process of the August
2015 peace deal.
While opening the 58th extraordinary session of the regional bloc
meeting, the chairperson of the IGAD council of ministers, also
Ethiopia’s foreign minister, Workneh Gebeyehu, stressed the need for
an accommodating, inclusive and viable process.
The council of ministers vowed to deliberate the peace process in
South Sudan and the planned high-level revitalization forum, with
various stakeholders, including representatives of the international
community, faith-based organizations, eminent persons, youth, women,
the civil society and private sector prior to its deliberations.
Members of the council are also expected to pay a courtesy call on the
President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir before finalizing
its business.
The chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission
(JMEC), Festus Mogae, South Sudan’s foreign affairs minister, Deng
Alor Kuol, and IGAD’s special envoy to South Sudan, Ismail Wais are
expected to brief the IGAD council of ministers on the current
situation in the war-torn nation.
Last month, East African leaders at a summit meeting held in Addis
Ababa called for the revitalization of the 2015 South Sudan peace
accord, saying the peace agreement is the only political solution for
the country.
The extraordinary IGAD summit was chaired by the Ethiopian Prime
Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn and attended by the presidents of Sudan
and Uganda, first vice president of South Sudan, prime minister of
Somalia as well as the foreign affairs ministers of Kenya and
Djibouti.
The IGAD leaders welcomed the unilateral ceasefire declaration in
South Sudan and called upon president Kiir to follow up the strict
implementation of the ceasefire.
The summit further urged Kiir to ensure that his field commanders
respect the ceasefire, and that he takes swift measure against those
who violate his decision.
The leaders also welcomed the launching of the national dialogue by
President Kiir on 22 May and urged the unity government to make the
process all inclusive, genuine and transparent as well as complement
the peace agreement.
IGAD is an eight-member economic bloc that brings together Ethiopia,
Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda.
Over a million people have fled South Sudan since conflict erupted in
December 2013 when Kiir sacked Riek Machar from the vice-presidency.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and nearly two million
displaced in South Sudan’s worst ever violence since it seceded from
Sudan in 2011.
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25 July 12:33, by Tilo
IGAD you have chaired more, so called EXTRA Ordinary meetings,
there is nothing else other than the meetings of yours, We need
implementation and action.
South Sudanese need more than Extra Ordinary meeting
If you can not Manage South Sudan crisis please allow other bodies
to take over.
Now that the meeting is done WHAT NEXT?
IGAD must be a joke - IGAD is a Disgrace to the region and Africa
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