South Sudan Leaders Urged To Unite Communities

This article was last updated on May 25, 2022

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Professor Machar was speaking while addressing government officials in Western Bahr el Ghazal state alongside Wau Dioceses Bishop Rudolf Deng Majak and members of South Sudan peace committee.

“If we the leaders leading this Country are united, our people living in the community will follow our footage to peace,” said Machar.

He said that during the referendum, citizens agreed to unilaterally vote for independence in and there is nothing preventing the nation from building on peace and unity principles.

“We must have peace, unity and reconcile in our hearts so that we become united people in promotion togetherness for a nation building,” Machar.

Machar acknowledged that the committee will establish secretariat offices in each state to collect database on the level peace in each state.

The reconciliation committee needs all the people of South Sudan to unite and face nation building in peace and co-existence, he said.

“If the rest of African member states are united, why do we want to be the enemies of unity in Africa,” said Wau Bishop Rudolf Deng Majak.

We have to unite and contribute to the development of Africa continent, said Majak.

In April, South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit formed a peace and reconciliation committee comprising 19 members’ mostly religious leaders and headed by South Sudan Episcopal Church Bishop Daniel Deng Bul.

The committee was tasked with advocating peace and reconciliation in the country.

The members of the committee include His Lordship Bishop Paride Taban as Deputy Chairperson, His Lordship Bishop Rudolf Deng Majak member, His Lordship Bishop Enock Tombe member, Moderator Peter Lual Gai member, and representative from the Muslim community, one from each of the ten States of South Sudan, one representative from the Youth and one representative from the civil society.

The terms for the committee include developing objectives of national peace and reconciliation, to determine short term and medium-term activities, to reach modern and traditional conflict resolutions.

The team is to liaise with the government to provide security, financial support and mobility, to solicit funding from the local and international bodies and to seek their expertise and to for consultative body comprising of South Sudanese elders as advisory body.

The committee may where it deems necessary co-opt any relevant member and any from the sub-committee at the state level.

The committee is an independent body which shall not be subject to control and direction from anybody or any institution, the role if the government shall be facilitative and provide support, where necessary and when called upon.

During the formation in April, all bodies previously formed and established by the government of the Republic of and tasked with national reconciliation were ordered to immediately hand over all the documents, assets, finances at their disposal to the new committee.