UNISFA Team To Visit Raga County

Madam Babihuga announced while addressing demonstrators in Wau yesterday.

 

“Today [yesterday] is very special because the United Nations Interim Peacekeeping Forces for Abyei (UNISFA) which is the mission in Abyei is visiting Raga County to lay the administrative requirement for the joint verification missions that are trusted to resolve the issue between Sudan and South Sudan regarding the borders,” she said.

 

She said that the United Nations is very active working to make sure that the borders issue between Sudan and South Sudan reach a peaceful solution.

 

She said that UN work requires a partnership with the citizens of the state and the verification team will be sent to the areas to acquire clear information in order to compile a clear report to the UN Security Council.

 

“We need to go there and ensure that there is no stone left unturned,” she said.

 

Thousands of Western Bahr el Ghazal state residents yesterday held peaceful demonstrations in Wau to protest against the aerial bombardments by the Sudanese forces in Raga County.

 

The peaceful procession come two weeks after Sudanese Army forces (SAF) attacked South Sudanese army forces (SPLA) in Raga County killing 32 South Sudanese.

 

Addressing the gathering, state governor Rizik Zackaria Hassan described last year’s protests in Wau as a plan by the Khartoum regime to create chaos across South Sudan for the SPLA forces at the border areas to be sent back to the states so that Sudanese forces can occupy the border areas.

 

He urged the residents to stay away from politicians who incite people into violence.

 

Leaders said the attacks ware criminal and a serious violation of international law and human rights convention signed by Khartoum government as a state member of United Nation Organization.

 

They proposed an immediate investigation by the concerned bodies including the regional and international human rights commissions.

 

During the attacks, many people lost their properties and are displaced to other areas within Raga County without shelter, water, food medicine and security.

 

More than 30 women and children wounded during the attacks are on treatment at Wau Military Hospital.

 

Sudan and South Sudan accused each other of incursions into disputed border areas, in a new setback to plans to secure their volatile boundary and resume cross-border oil flows.

 

The neighbours agreed to end hostilities in September and to resume oil exports from South Sudan via Sudan after coming close to war in April 2012.

 

Sudan has repeatedly denied South Sudan’s claims of launching air strikes.

 

South Sudan had initially planned to resume exports by year-end after shutting down its output of 350,000 barrels a day in January 2012 after failing to agree on an export fee with Sudan.