The Central Bank of South Sudan yesterday announced it will increase the amount of foreign currency (US Dollars) it injects into the economy weekly from USD 5 to 8 million in a bid to strengthen the South Sudanese Pound (SSP) and stabilize the economy.
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CEPO warns of looming ethnic cleansing in greater Jonglei
The advocacy outfit, Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), has warned of looming genocide in South Sudan’s Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) as inter-communal clashes escalate there.
Clashes have been ongoing in GPAA’s Likuangole and Gumuruk counties between Pibor youth and their Jonglei counterparts since Friday, May 7. The motive of the clashes which erupted after attacks by the Jonglei youth groups is unclear.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj Saturday, Edmund Yakani, CEPO’s Executive Director, condemned the ongoing clashes and warned of a looming genocide as communities fight without government intervention.
CEPO Executive Director Edmund Yakani
Edmund Yakani, the Executive Director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organisation CEPO has faulted parties to the 2018 revitalized agreement saying they all violated the 35% provision for women representation in the newly reconstituted legislature.
On Monday this week, President Salva Kiir Mayardit reconstituted the transitional national legislature to include 550 members of the various parties to the peace pact. These include 332 members from the former transitional government, 128 from SPLM-IO, 50 from SSOA, 30 from the Other Political Parties, OPP, and 10 members of the Former Detainees.
However, Yakani said the parties only appointed 159 women in contravention to the peace deal, requiring a 35% quota for women translating to about 192 women legislators to the national assembly.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dissolved parliament, paving the way for the appointment of Members of Parliament (MPs) from opposing sides in the country’s five-year civil war.
Activists and civil society groups say the move is long overdue.
A peace deal signed three years ago determined that almost a quarter of the MPs would come from the party of Mr Kiir’s former foe, Riek Machar.
The majority of the 550 legislators will be from the governing SPLM party.
South Sudan’s MPs will not be elected but will instead be nominated by different political parties.
“Let it not take weeks or months”, Edmund Yakani of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organisation – one of the civil society groups that signed the peace deal – told the BBC.