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Under the auspices of Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative - ARLPI, the clerics want IGAD and the international community to pile more pressure on parties in the conflict to peacefully negotiate their differences.
Religious leaders in Northern Uganda say restoring peace in South Sudan largely depends on the actions of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development - IGAD.
Under the auspices of Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative - ARLPI, the clerics want IGAD and the international community to pile more pressure on parties in the conflict to peacefully negotiate their differences.
Gulu Archbishop John Baptist Odama, who is the chairperson of interfaith organization, says the international community and government of Uganda should continue rescuing foreigners trapped outside Juba.
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The clerics hailed the current ceasefire in South Sudan and said they are deeply saddened by the bloodshed in the world's youngest nation.
Retired Anglican Bishop of Gulu, Onono Onweng says the situation in South Sudan is affecting neighbouring countries in similar manners and it is incumbent upon affected countries to rise up and stop the war from escalating.
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Bishop Onono Onweng challenged the Inter-religious Council of Uganda and the inter-religious council in the Great Lakes region to lead the way in initiating mediation aimed at implementing the South Sudan peace accord agreed in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
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Retired Bishop of Kitgum Diocese Macleod Baker Ochola says the leaders of South Sudan should work towards demilitarizing South Sudan for true democracy to find its footing.
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The clerics say they are well placed to persuade both former Vice President Riek Machar and President Salva Kiir to talk after working with both leaders during Uganda's Juba peace talks in 2006.
The interfaith peace building and development organization founded in 1997 is largely credited for initiating peace talks between the government of Uganda and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in South Sudan's capital Juba. Ironically, Riek Machar was chairperson of the talks.
Although Kony refused to sign the agreement, government of Uganda went ahead to implement the contents of the agreement.
Under the auspices of Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative - ARLPI, the clerics want IGAD and the international community to pile more pressure on parties in the conflict to peacefully negotiate their differences.
Gulu Archbishop John Baptist Odama, who is the chairperson of interfaith organization, says the international community and government of Uganda should continue rescuing foreigners trapped outside Juba.
Cue in: "As we yearn for.....
Cue out: "......other than Juba."//
The clerics hailed the current ceasefire in South Sudan and said they are deeply saddened by the bloodshed in the world's youngest nation.
Retired Anglican Bishop of Gulu, Onono Onweng says the situation in South Sudan is affecting neighbouring countries in similar manners and it is incumbent upon affected countries to rise up and stop the war from escalating.
//Cue in" "We are saying that.....
Cue out:......serious on them."//
Bishop Onono Onweng challenged the Inter-religious Council of Uganda and the inter-religious council in the Great Lakes region to lead the way in initiating mediation aimed at implementing the South Sudan peace accord agreed in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
//Cue in: "The neighbouring inter ............
Cue out:......stronger than going alone."//
Retired Bishop of Kitgum Diocese Macleod Baker Ochola says the leaders of South Sudan should work towards demilitarizing South Sudan for true democracy to find its footing.
//Cue in: "The people of....
Cue out:....along tribal lines."//
The clerics say they are well placed to persuade both former Vice President Riek Machar and President Salva Kiir to talk after working with both leaders during Uganda's Juba peace talks in 2006.
The interfaith peace building and development organization founded in 1997 is largely credited for initiating peace talks between the government of Uganda and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in South Sudan's capital Juba. Ironically, Riek Machar was chairperson of the talks.
Although Kony refused to sign the agreement, government of Uganda went ahead to implement the contents of the agreement.
