Juba, 13 May, 2021 / 2:30 pm (ACI Africa).
The Archbishop of South Sudan’s Juba Archdiocese has commended the country’s leadership upon the announcement of the newly appointed members of the Transitional National parliament from the sides that clashed in the nation’s protracted civil war.
On Monday, May 10, President Salva Kiir Mayardit issued the decree for the appointment of the National Legislative Assembly members in accordance with the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS).
In his address to the local media on Wednesday, May 12, Archbishop Stephen Ameyu also passed a goodwill message to all those who had been appointed in government.
“I would like to congratulate the government of Salva Kiir for having reconstituted and expanded the parliament, congratulation to each Member of Parliament,” the Local Ordinary of South Sudan’s only Metropolitan Catholic Archdiocese said.
The peace agreement signed in September 2018 in Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa, stipulated that about a quarter of lawmakers would come from the main opposition, the Sudan’s People’s Liberation in Opposition (SPLM-IO).
