SOUTH SUDAN: Activists say not much has been done to implement peace agreement
Some civil society activists in Juba claim that nothing much has been done on the implementation of the peace agreement signed in August 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Executive Director of Humanity South Sudan Bongiri Peter Lado, says much time has been wasted and only little has been achieved in the deal. “After the formation of the Transitional Government of National Unity, some provisions in the agreement were not implemented fully,” he claims pointing out that to date fighting is ongoing in many parts of the country.
Lado observes that South Sudan’s political problems have been driven from outside the country since the signing of the peace agreement claiming that, Intergovernmental Authority on Development of IGAD countries are out to serve their own interest in the country.
He therefore calls on South Sudanese political leaders to learn a lesson, accept one another and resolve their differences amicably as brothers.
Meanwhile, National Women Coordinator in South Sudan Council of Churches Agnes Wasuk Sarafino, says for the past two years women experience more abuses including rape, sexual assault, displacement and hunger, a situation that has caused the South Sudan economy to deteriorate badly within the past two years.
Advocacy for Human Rights and Democracy officer Joseph Ongwaro also says the guarantors of the peace agreement did not do enough to pressurize the warring parties to fully implement the agreement in the last two years, blaming the international community for failure to enable peace prevail in South Sudan.
Ongwaro agrees with Lado that peace can only be realized if South Sudanese themselves identify their problems, decide to resolve them and live together as one people.
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Source: CRN
