AU welcomes the IGAD Ministerial Mission to South Sudan
*ADDIS ABABA 20 December 2013 *- The Chairperson of the Commission of the
African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, says the African Union
continues to closely follow the evolution of the situation in South Sudan.
The Chairperson of the Commission in a media advisory issued yesterday,
commended the Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia, in his
capacity as Chair of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
and Chair of the Union, for his timely initiative to dispatch a ministerial
delegation to Juba, comprising Ministers and high level officials from
Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Somali, Sudan and Uganda, as well as the AU
Commissioner for Peace and Security.
Dr Dlamini recalled the position of the Peace and Security Council of the
AU in its 409th meeting held, Wednesday, 18 December 2013, where it
encouraged regional and international efforts to help diffuse the current
tension and to support the South Sudanese parties to find a peaceful
political settlement to the crisis.
Tribal tendencies must end, President Kiir urges
*JUBA, 19 December 2013 *- President Salva Kiir Mayardit of the Republic of
South Sudan is calling on the public to discard tribal tendencies that
‘some people’ are linking the failed coup attempt to. “These tribal
tendencies are what we must stop once and for all. We believe in diversity,
we are so many, if we turn to tribalism, we can’t move forward”, President
Kiir told a news conference at his Office on Wednesday.
The President said what happened on Sunday night must not be labeled as an
ethnical fight between the Dinka and the Nuer tribesmen. "The Dinka are the
majority of those arrested, if it was the Dinka against the Nuer or visa
versa, why are the Dinkas arrested, why the Bari, why the Muru, Chollo
Shuluk, and why the Lotukawi,? Kiir Pondered.
Let us embrace ourselves as South Sudanese, President Kiir stressed while
addressing the nation. South Sudan, he said is a country for all South
Sudanese. He warned those who may want to take the law into their hands
that the long arm of the government will get them. "Those who might have
killed a person or persons will be taken to court and face the law.
President Kiir said some arrests have been made. The president said its the
right of every South Sudanese to be pretected.
Two years after gaining it’s hard earned independence, South Sudan on
Sunday came under attack in what would later be a foiled coup attempt. The
Government is accusing the fugitive former VP of being behind failed coup.
However President Kiir said he has not ruled out possibility of dialogue
with his former vice.
*Reported by our staff writer*
IGAD to dispatch a high level ministerial delegation to South Sudan*JUBA,
19 December 2013* – Please click
here<http://www.goss-online.org/magnoliaPublic/en/news/mainColumnParagraphs/01111111111/content_files/file/auc-psc-south-sudan-press-statement-18-12-2013.pdf>to
read the Statement of the 409th African Union Peace and Security
meeting
on the situation on South Sudan.
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