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Peace monitors report progress in security arrangements for S. Sudanese troops

Xinhua, November 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

The body overseeing implementation of the South Sudan's peace process said on Tuesday that it has revived a process for the demobilization and integration of South Sudanese troops critical for the implementation of a shaky peace deal signed last year.

Festus Mogae, Chairman of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), said the monitors have revived and re-constituted the Transitional Security Agreements aimed at ending violence in the conflict-hit African Country.

"Transitional Security Arrangement Mechanisms that I have previously described as disintegrated have now been revived and re-constituted and whilst they are not all fully representative or inclusive, they are balanced and capable of driving this critical element of the Agreement forward," Mogae told stakeholders during a meeting in the capital, Juba.

Mogae who is the former president of Botswana lauded the economic reforms initiated by the South Sudanese government to fix the crumbling economy.

He urged the transitional unity government to cut its work force by a significant proportion to reduce the budget deficit caused by nearly three years of conflict.

He, however, warned that cease-fire violations, human rights abuses and road ambushes by armed men almost continue daily in South Sudan, urging all parties to renounce violence and tell their supporters to exercise maximum restraint in order to create a favorable environment for inclusivity and dialogue.

South Sudan has been shattered by civil war which broke out in December 2013 after President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup. Machar denied the accusation but then mobilized a rebel force.

Tens of thousands have been killed, with over two million displaced and another 4.6 million left severely food insecure since then.

"The people of South Sudan look to us all to resolve the differences that will end this conflict and bring about a real prospect of peaceful and sustainable national development," Mogae said. Endit