Catholic bishops in South Sudan call for reexamination of ‘flawed’ peace pact

[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnNAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Catholic bishops in South Sudan are calling for reexamination of the peace deal the country has implemented with international support for five years, warning that the pact is based on a flawed model that may never bring peace to the world’s newest nation.The bishops claim the pact, which ended the 2013-2018 civil war in newly independent South Sudan by requiring the two sides to share power, failed to resolve the primary causes of the conflict and instead has allowed political leaders to extend their power at the expense of ordinary people.
“It is a flawed process and there will never be peace in South Sudan as long as the international community insists on this type of model,” the bishops, led by Archbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla of Juba, the country’s capital city, said in a statement Friday (June 30). “We call upon all parties, as well as regional and international mediators, to examine anew, the method which truly benefits the people.”
The South Sudanese government and the rebel opposition signed the peace deal, known as the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, on Sept. 12, 2018, seven years after the largely Christ …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]