A veteran journalist, Peter Butili Farrajallah, is calling on authorities in South Sudan to permit press freedom especially for the radio, which is the main medium of mass communication in the country, saying it is an important tool in peacebuilding as the globe celebrates World Radio Day (WRD), today 13 February.
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What’s new? In February 2020, South Sudan’s two main belligerents began forming a unity government pursuant to a peace deal inked a year and a half earlier. But the pact is fragile, smaller conflicts are still ablaze and the threat of return to full-blown civil war remains.
Why does it matter? Forthcoming elections could test the peace deal severely. Looking further ahead, conflict will continue to plague South Sudan until its leaders forge a political system that distributes power more widely. The cost of cyclical fighting since 2013 has been steep: hundreds of thousands dead and millions uprooted from their homes.
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INTERVIEW: ‘We do not support Kiir, we support the people’s demands’-JCE
File photo: Joshua Dau (centre), a leading member of the Jieng Council of Elders during a meeting with Equatoria and Nuer elders in Juba in November 2016
The Jieng Council of Elders (JCE), a grouping of prominent Dinka politicians and elders from across South Sudan, last week released a statement that drew mixed reactions by inter alia disparaging the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) as being worse than the botched 2015 agreement, and demanding that the period of the peace agreement and subsequent implementation be cut short and elections called early.
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