January 1, 2020 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has urged citizens to embrace peace and reconciliation as they welcome the new year to strive for a strong foundation for Africa’s newest nation.


South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir shares a light moment with Archbishop Daniel Deng Bol, December 31, 2019 (PPU)

Kiir was speaking during an annual held in Juba on the eve of new year.

The event, graced by senior government officials, representatives of opposition parties that signed the 2018 peace deal, members of the diplomatic corps, among other dignitaries provided an opportunity for the South Sudanese leader to interact with invited guests.

Speaking during the occasion, President Kiir urges all stakeholders involved in Sudan’s peace initiative to dialogue in good faith and work hard to bring peace to the North African country.

He further applauded the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) for working to restore peace in the region.

The occasion, held in State House, also coincided with the burial of Justice Majok Mading, a former legal administrator in the office of the South Sudanese president.

In November last year, Kiir and the country’s main opposition leader Riek Machar agreed to delay key benchmarks in the revitalized peace agreement by 100 days.

The delay in forming a transitional national unity government on November 12, 2019 came after Machar’s group raised concerns that the country’s security arrangements were yet to be completed.

South Sudan, which separated from Sudan through a referendum in 2011, has been suffering from a civil war since late 2013, which has since taken a tribal dimension.

In September last year, the country’s rival factions signed a revitalized peace deal to end the civil war that killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.

(ST)

Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following rules. Contravention of these rules will lead to the user losing their Sudan Tribune account with immediate effect.

- No inciting violence
- No inappropriate or offensive language
- No racism, tribalism or sectarianism
- No inappropriate or derogatory remarks
- No deviation from the topic of the article
- No advertising, spamming or links
- No incomprehensible comments

Due to the unprecedented amount of racist and offensive language on the site, Sudan Tribune tries to vet all comments on the site.

There is now also a limit of 400 words per comment. If you want to express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your comment as an article to comment@sudantribune.com

Kind regards,

The Sudan Tribune editorial team.

2 January 2020 07:53, by Pakuai

"S. Sudan’s Kiir urges citizens on peace and reconciliation"
Not unless some lowly informed *politicians and bunch of foolish clergies stop pandering* to some evils in *Rome, London and Washington*. Daniel Deng Bul and not Daniel Deng Bol as some as posted by the usual SUDAN TRIBUNE propagandists’ criminals is considered to be pandering to *Anglicans of the devil infested island of England*>>

repondre message
- 2 January 2020 08:08, by Pakuai
  
  their fools here in South Sudan or the so-called *Episcopal church of Sudan and South Sudan*, Catholics going piece of fools here in South Sudan who also think; their foolish Salva Kiir who dabble in worshiping their *foolish popes and clergies* as their gods. What enrage well informed South Sudanese people about these losers is how our people have p[people and our country have bee set up at>>>
  
  repondre message
  - 2 January 2020 08:17, by Pakuai
    
    each others throats. Mr. Salva Kiir went to Jerusalem and declare that South Sudan embassy would be *would be established in Jerusalem*, Little does the fool know his evil juus (so-called israelis) who went and advised him in Washington in 2011 are the South Sudan and the South Sudanese people, *existential enemies*. He was even asked by pope Francis, another piece of human beings who is just>>>>
    
    repondre message
    - 2 January 2020 08:24, by Pakuai
      
      like everyone else, to Rome and went knelt down, on Mr. Salva Kiir and Mr. Riek Machar. Mr. Riek Machar, isn’t following Mr. Salva Kiir dictates, but his masters from *our cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan, his gulf arab states financiers, Abesh (so-called ethiopians), their evil juus (so-called israelis), their UN, their sleazy NGOs and some of their creeps project here in the IGAD and the AU
      
      repondre message
      - 2 January 2020 08:34, by Pakuai
        
        Fellows, be very very careful. This Deng Bul piece of crap a so-called Twic East piece of trash. The cowards who love to attach themselves to any devil on this planet earth. Dr. John Garang was the only smarter braver boy, the low lives ever produced on this world. And when the power slip out this losers hands. They sided with yet another bunch of losers, Mr. Riek Machar Nuers.>>>
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 09:08, by Pakuai
        
        and on the 15/12/2013, their *Mr. Pagan Amuom, Majak Agoot, Uyai Deng Ajak, Adwok Nyabe and some of their creeps is between staged a coup against the South Sudanese people and their government. *Went and repeat the same bullshit that was negotiated in Kenya, CPA in the hotels, bars and brothels of Abesh (so-called ethiopia) and called it a CPA II.:>>>
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 09:20, by Pakuai
        
        https://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article56093
        http://updm-rss.org/UPDM/The_Provocateur.pdf
        For those South Sudanese losers who just like do some low lives politicking, South Sudan was projected to be where the so-called NEW WORLD ORDER, ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT or THEIR SO-CALLED AFRICA UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGRATION of crap was to be started in.>>>>
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 09:25, by Pakuai
        
        Listen hard lowly informed South Sudanese peace of trashes; we are the ’ancient Egyptians’. And we are going to bomb some of our creeps out of map once and for all. South Sudan is not part of the so-called ANGLO-AMERICA, ’never has and will never will under the sun, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM’.>>>
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 09:30, by Pakuai
        
        Read these links once again:https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uys1QNq4t-AC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=one+country,+two+system+hong+kong+British+inrigues&source=bl&ots=DNw6C2XnC-&sig=ACfU3U2uxhz_IvSidVrmv3dKBdtHN_I31Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTzMHov-TmAhVG63MBHeojA_UQ6AEwFXoECAsQAQ
        http://theconversation.com/hong-kong-why-the-one-country-two-systems-model-is-on-its-last-legs-118960
        https://time.com/57137
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 09:40, by Pakuai
        
        There are some evils in the devil infested island merchants England, who went to Hong Kong. *And went and sell heroin* from their then *East India, Burma (Myanmar), Hong Kong and other countries, with *silver coins*. The Chinese people of Cantonese became addicted to heroin. And when the Chinese government asked the English merchants to get the hell out of their country with their *heroin drug*>>>
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 09:48, by Pakuai
        
        the Chinese were bombed to submission, but in 1997, the Chinese asked English merchants to get the hell out of their country. These days, *Brexi, the British leaving the European Union (the EU), was negotiated over Hong Kong and even here in South Sudan and other countries, by our enemies. But the vermin have step on the wrong feet us, the Dinkas/Muonyjiengs of the Sudan>>>>
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 09:58, by Pakuai
        
        *in 1999, the South Sudanese peace negotiations with our cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan were done in Machakos, Nairobi, Kampala; which later brought the then ’Comprehensive peace agreement in 2005 (CPA) between our arch enemy, the cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan and their masters’>>>>
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 10:07, by Pakuai
        
        We have informed our fools all along that we are way too well ahead of these cheap and dirty intrigues. You tell some lowly educated South Sudan fools that South Sudanese people don’t take babies or young people to go and study in devil infested island England on the so-called *Rhode scholarship*, never ever had and will never will under the sun or in million years, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 10:14, by Pakuai
        
        Mr. Salva Kiir and these bunch of fools have been asked to let us bomb anything that is connected evil *white Americans, white English people, their evil juus (so-called), cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan, Abeshas (so-called ethiopians), their Bantuses, the UN, their sleazy NGOs; the UNIMISS of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshi, Nepalese, Sri Lankans and some of their creeps here in between>>>
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 10:20, by Pakuai
        
        whom we are going to bomb to near *extinction/oblivion* out of our country and our people, once and for all. Who would want to leave with vermin, no one. So-called *Twic East* piece of trash has been challenged, no own considered the cowards anyone.>>>
        
        repondre message
        
        2 January 2020 21:06, by injuba
        
        Dear Pakuai/ Kush - I wish you a happy and peaceful New Year!! By the way - what kind of superior aircraft is the mighty South Sudanese Army going to use against the armies of the evil white americans, white UK, evil jews and so on and so forth? Like a scrawny tiny Chihuahua with hardly any teeth left barking up a pack of great danes. Looking forward to your literary excretions in 2020. Cheers!
        
        repondre message

Comment on this article

Latest Comments & Analysis

South Sudan elections must be held on time 2021-04-18 07:30:37 The Government is bent on postponing the elections: a response to the statement of the Ministry of Presidential Affairs dated 14 April 2021. By Lam Akol The Press Secretary of the President of (...)

Wonders never cease in South Sudan 2021-04-12 17:54:40 By Lul Gatkuoth Gatluak The firing and appointment of the chief of General staffs in South Sudan is another reckless procedure as far as military reshuffling is concerned. The service lifespan (...)

On the legitimacy of President Salva Kiir 2021-04-04 17:15:11 by Dr Akec Khoc On March 24th 2021, Nhial Deng Nhial, Minister of Presidential affairs stated that President Salva Kiir is not imposing himself on the citizens. In response to this statement, I (...)

MORE

Latest Press Releases

S. Korea supports UN communities building resilience project in Sudan’s Blue Nile 2019-09-09 09:26:41 UNDP Sudan September 5, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - An agreement was signed on 5th of September between the Korean Ambassador, His Excellency. Lee Ki-Seong and Dr. Selva Ramachandran, Resident (...)

Sudanese lawyers and Human rights defenders back calls for civil rule 2019-04-26 10:22:06 Press statement by 55 Sudanese lawyers and Human rights defenders on Sudan Sit-in and Peaceful Protest Khartoum -24/04/2019 We, the undersigned (55) Sudanese lawyers and human rights defenders, (...)

South Sudan’s Lafon youth condemn killings of civilians by Pari community 2019-04-03 21:54:29 Press Statement on the Fighting between Pari/ Pacidi and Lotuko/Lokiri on 24/3/2019 Release by The Lafon County Youth Union: We, the Lafon County Youth Union hereby condemn the atrocities and (...)

MORE

S. Sudan’s Kiir urges citizens on peace and reconciliation

Latest Comments & Analysis

Latest Press Releases