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Igad lifts Riek Machar's travel sanctions following the end of the war
Monday, December 21, 2020
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First Vice President of South Sudan Riek Machar,

By Rialgong Chuol Duok
Uror tv senior Writer

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The regional bloc, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), has formally lifted travel sanctions imposed on South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar during the war.

The decision, which follows several verbal confirmations by Igad envoys, means that Dr. Machar is free to travel to any of the members of the regional bloc and that his house arrest was no longer valid.

“[The Assembly Heads of State and Government] underscored that currently there are no travel restrictions of any kind imposed by Igad on the First Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan, Dr. Riek Machar Teny,” Igad said after the 38th Extraordinary Summit of heads of state and government in Djibouti on Sunday.

The meeting had been called to discuss regional security as well as the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which had, by Sunday, infected more than 290,000 people and killed 5,400 others in the Igad region.

The bloc comprises Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia, and Djibouti. Eritrea suspended itself more than a decade ago but is generally regarded as a member of the bloc.

The bloc also said that South Sudan’s leaders have made “commendable progress” after forming a government of national unity last February, following the signing of a revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) in Ethiopia in September 2018.

“[The Assembly] recognized and applauded the progress made in the formation of state and local government structures, in particular the appointment of nine out of the 10 state governors, as well as the agreement on the allocation of positions at the state and local levels; and called for the expeditious conclusion of the remaining appointment.”

The R-ARCSS was signed by President Salva Kiir, Dr. Machar, and various other opposition groups. In February, they formed a unity government.

But Machar, who had fled South Sudan in June 2016 after an earlier version of the peace deal broke, had been barred from traveling to Igad member states. He is usually required to have special permission from the bloc to travel for negotiations in Sudan and Ethiopia.

Machar had been under house arrest in South Africa, and later in the Sudan capital Khartoum. After the signing of the peace deal, Igad officials said the restrictions had been lifted but had not made formal documentation of it.

In February, Ismail Wais, the Special Envoy for Igad, said that Dr. Machar was no longer under any restrictions of house arrest and would not require special permission to travel in the region.

“He is now the First Vice president of the Republic of South Sudan, no matter what existed before. Dr. Riek Machar is now the leader of this country and therefore he doesn’t need any more permission…He can now fully enjoy his rights and freedoms,” the Djiboutian diplomat told journalists in Juba in February, a week after the unity government was formed.

“This confirmation is welcome and it assures everybody that Dr. Machar can travel. People were always in doubt, and we depended on rumors,” James Oryema, an aide of Machar told The EastAfrican on Monday.

“There had been no official communication from Igad to lift those restrictions. They have been giving verbal statements.”

At the Igad Summit, South Sudan was represented by Rebecca Nyandeng, one of the five vice presidents of the country.

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JUBA - 26 OCT 2020
INTERVIEW: ‘Riek Machar is a prisoner in Juba’-SPLA-IO military chief
SPLA-IO chief of staff General Simon Gatwech Dual in Juba on April 25, 2016. [Photo: Radio Tamazuj]
SPLA-IO chief of staff General Simon Gatwech Dual in Juba on April 25, 2016. [Photo: Radio Tamazuj]
SPLA-IO Chief of Staff, 1st Lieutenant General Simon Gatwech Dual, has in an exclusive with Radio Tamazuj said that his boss, First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, is a prisoner in Juba and cannot even visit his troops and areas under his control. He also claims the implementation of the peace deal is wanting, behind schedule, and fragile.

Gen. Gatwech Dual has in the past month written twice to the regional body IGAD to allow Dr. Riek Machar to visit SPLA-IO troops in their bases to brief them on the progress of the peace deal.

Radio Tamazuj sounded him out and below are edited excerpts from the conversation:

Q: A couple of weeks ago you wrote requesting that your Chairman, Dr. Riek Machar, be allowed to visit and brief you and your forces about the status of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS). What has happened in this regard?

A: Yes, this is true. I remember I wrote to the Troika, African Union, and IGAD to allow Riek Machar to come visit us in the places where we are currently based. He went to implement the agreements which were signed in Addis Ababa and Khartoum in 2018. Riek Macher left for Juba in February this year to implement the R-ARCSS and has now spent nine months in Juba without success. I say this because our forces have been put in training centers for 13-14 months without being passed out and they have no food supplies. So I requested that he be released so that he can come to visit these places of ours but the government there in Juba does not want. So that is why I wrote to IGAD.

We want Machar to come and give us, his forces, a briefing on whether this is genuine peace or not. Is Dr. Riek Machar in jail or not in jail? I can say authoritatively that Dr. Riek Machar is still in prison because he cannot go and visit his forces, his people, and areas under his control and the government has not yet been fully established. Officials have not been appointed and the army and police have not been passed out.

Q: Has anybody replied to your letter requesting Riek Machar’s visit?

A: I have not received a reply up to now and I even wrote another request because there is a problem. On the 21st of September 2020, our forces were attacked in Moroto training camp, and on the 28th Forua training center was also attacked. On the 29th another training center was attacked. Then on the 4th of this month, a recce squad of ours was attacked. Yesterday at 5 pm our second headquarters base in Jekou was shelled using artillery pieces. Is this peace?

Q: You said you wrote another letter. Was there a response?

A: No. There is no response up to now. This now means I have to defend myself because Dr. Riek Machar is in jail.

Q: Now that you have written twice with no response, what is your next course of action as SPLA-IO Chief of Staff?

A: I will engage in self-defense forthwith.

Q: What does that imply?

A: This means that if we are attacked again like it happened yesterday evening, it means we will fight.

Q: Are you announcing the commencement of war?

A: On the 21st, 28th, 29th of September, and the 4th of this month we have been continuously attacked and nothing has been done. Months after months the salient points in the peace agreement are not being implemented. Dr. Machar went to implement the peace agreement in Juba 9 months ago and there is still no success in implementation. There is nothing so what can I do apart from self-defense.

Q: How are you going to defend yourself and fight when you have people in Juba, including your boss? What does this mean?

A: I cannot sit like a woman.

Q: So if you are attacked, will you counterattack?

A: I will fight immediately if I am attacked again because I have evidence of the attacks on us. On the21st, 28th, 29th of last month, and on the 4th of this month, I defended myself. All this time we did not react and only defended ourselves. How can there be peace when these attacks continue?

Q: Are you saying the peace agreement has collapsed?

A: Some people have been compromised with little money to scuttle the agreement. Our forces are here without food and medicine and have not been passed out. These issues can negatively affect and fail this peace agreement and this is what the government in Juba desires. This is politics. Even Dr. Riek Machar stays in one place and cannot move about in Juba and is worried about his security. He does not even have his bodyguard and is guarded by Salva Kiir’s guards. How can the person you fought with guard you?

Q: What is your opinion on the suggestion by some people that the unified forces have not been passed out because there are no rifles to arm them?

A: Fi****ms are available. Salva Kiir has weapons but does not want to arm these forces because he wants them to desert. Salva Kiir said with his mouth that there are no weapons while he is at the same time bought weapons. He recently procured weapons. He even recently bought more than 200 vehicles. And these are vehicles of war, Toyota Landcruiser pick-up trucks.

Q: So what do you think is the intention of the government in Juba regarding the issue of fi****ms?

A: I see that what we have is not genuine peace. Salva said with his mouth that Riek Machar has no place to pass this time. Dr. Riek momentarily is a prisoner. That is why all these attacks on our positions continue. Riek is in Juba doing nothing.

Q: So now that president Kiir is saying there are no arms for the unified forces, what do you want to tell your forces who are in training centers?

A: If president Kiir is saying there are no arms this means our forces have to go back to their respective SPLA-IO bases where they came from. There is no problem!

Q: Is this a directive or your reply to president Kiir?

A: I am still for peace but when I am attacked there is a problem. The problem is that this situation has found Dr. Riek Machar in Juba. There is no other way. Machar did not plan well during the peace negotiations in Addis Ababa and Khartoum and has now found himself in prison. Some people say he is not in prison but I say he is in prison. Why has he not visited areas under his control?

Q: Are you in communication with your boss Dr. Riek Machar?

A: I am in communication with him. I tell him we have been attacked here and there but he keeps quiet and only replies that it will be resolved? I ask, resolved when?

Q: If Dr. Riek keeps saying the problems will be sorted, while the attacks keep happening, what is your stand?

A: My stand now is that of self-defense. Well, Riek Machar is in peace but he is supposed to come and give us a briefing on the status and implementation process of the peace agreement. A lot of time has passed and nothing is being implemented successfully. If it is a comprehensive and genuine peace let him come and visit our locations and tell us this is peace.

Q: Since you are in communication with Dr. Machar, why don’t you ask him if the peace agreement is dead or alive?

A: That is exactly why I want him to visit areas under my control, these are areas where his soldiers are. This is what I want. But the government is not listening. If they listen, let them allow him to visit these places. Then we will know that there is peace.

Q: What message do you want to convey to the people of South Sudan as the Chief of Staff of the SPLA-IO?

A: I want to tell all the people of South Sudan, those in the SPLM-IO and those in the government in Juba, that the revitalized peace agreement should be genuinely implemented by everybody across the divide so that the people of South Sudan are happy. The government in Juba has not implemented the peace agreement fully.



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Lou Nuer great spirituals gifted of our time Babuony Kear Nyak did a lot in entire Lou, the old man you’re seeing here participated in Sudan civil war of 1955-1972 then from 1983-2005 although his contributions was not recorded in the history of our country struggle we can still keep this marvelous achievement one day in Bieh state archives. Late Veteran Babuony Kear Nyak one of the best honored historical event was when he was jailed in Pibor post by the then British administration, the detention was due to communal protests against the killing of Bilieth Dual Hoth, brother to current SPLM/A IO General chief of staff Simon Gatwech dual Hoth, the protest led to conflict between Murle and Cia Jaak Dak most especially a sub clan of Cia Maikir called Cia Tayang they were the first people to revenge the killing of Late Bilieth Dual, Late Babuony was among the group and he had to saved some years in jail for protecting the community from British merciless raid of r**e, burning of huts and taking cattle’s, I believe history will judge us one day if we can’t appreciate what we have than remembering unrecorded source, one philosopher and historian said” Those in power have no ideas and those with ideas have no power, Babuony Kear contributed most of his wealth to the soldiers in form of cows, Millets, grains and raw milk and ready food I wish we could have a loving generous man like Babuony in territory of Lou Nuer land, your demise was a sorrow to us but your legacy will live forever dedication to all our great men in Lou Nuer land.

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JUBA - 18 OCT 2020
Government says all transactions to be made in local currency
Information Minister, Michael Makuei, speaking to reporters after an extraordinary cabinet meeting in Juba on October 14, 2020. (Radio Tamazuj)
Information Minister, Michael Makuei, speaking to reporters after an extraordinary cabinet meeting in Juba on October 14, 2020. (Radio Tamazuj)
The South Sudan Council of Ministers on Friday adopted a resolution that all payments in the country should be made in the local currency, according to Information Minister Michael Makuei.

The move is part of efforts to overcome a crippling economic crisis. The local currency, the South Sudanese pound, has tumbled rapidly, driving prices of commodities higher.

The South Sudan economy, which relies almost exclusively on oil revenues, has been shattered by several years of civil war and this coupled with the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a drastic drop in oil prices.

“The ministry of finance is to make all payment obligations in local currency because this is one of the major problems,” Michael Makuei said. “All the contracts that are made, even rental houses, rental cars, rental what, everything here in South Sudan is in hard currency. Why should we use the hard currency at a time when we have our national currency?” He asked.

Makuei reiterated that all contracts are supposed to be in national currency, not in dollars, “houses are rented, when you go to the landlord he will tell you I want dollars. You want to hire a car, he will say I want dollars. Even the water from the river will soon be sold to us in dollars. If you go to any hotel, you must pay in dollars.”

“All these are problems that are created and this is why this committee has recommended that all the transactions inside South Sudan should be by local currency except for exceptional circumstances like embassies, those going abroad, and so forth,” Makuei added.

He said that all transactions should be done through the banks because this will help in controlling the economic crisis.

Makuei, who is also the government spokesman, said the cabinet listened to the report of the ad hoc committee which was chaired by Cabinet Affairs Minister, Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro. The committee was set up to look into the potential ways by which South Sudan can tackle the main drivers of currency depreciation and inflation in the country.

“The first part talked about measures to reform and strengthen the ministry of finance and planning. Part two deals with measures to reform and capacitate the Bank of South Sudan to combat the main drivers of South Sudan currency depreciation and inflation,” Makuei said.

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