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.