- South Sudan’s peace process is facing fresh challenges as an agreement on the electoral programme is getting delayed.
- The agreement is crucial to usher in a democratically elected administration and end the current Unity government.
South Sudan’s peace process is facing fresh challenges as an agreement on the electoral programme is getting delayed. The agreement is crucial to usher in a democratically elected administration and end the current Unity government.
The officials from the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (R-JMEC), a body created by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) to monitor the peace deal implementation, has said that the delays in fulfilling some of the pledges in the 2018 agreement could push see the transition timelines. It is feared that any further delay could lead to renewed conflict.
Speaking in Juba at the Fifth Governor’s Forum, a conference of key regional administration chiefs working under the government of national unity, Maj-Gen (Rtd) Charles Tai Gituai, the interim chairman of the R-JMEC, said that some critical tasks still remained though some progress was achieved in a few thematic areas.
Planning an election with maximum public participation, finalising a new constitution, merging security forces, and reforms in the Judiciary are only some of the issues. Challenges persist as they are coming closer to the timeline of 15 months to end of the Transitional Period and yet some critical tasks remain incomplete. Already, the Pre-Transitional Period has been extended twice before the extension of the election deadline to 2023.
