South Sudan's English Daily Newspaper
"We Dare where others fear"
By Awan Achiek
The representatives of the parties in the Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring Verification Mechanism (CTSAMVM), on Thursday called on the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to pressure the transitional unity government on the deployment of the remaining unified forces.
Maj. Gen Jany Kaway, representative of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), said the speedy deployment of the unified forces will restore peace and stability in the states.
“I believe that the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring Evaluation Commission and CTSAMVM, plus IGAD, could urge the principles to think about the deployment of the unified forces in the country,” Kaway said during the Technical Committee Meeting of CTSAMVM in Juba.
The development comes amid rising insecurity in the form of inter-communal violence, and cattle raiding.
Kaway said that no tangible progress has been made since the graduation of the first batch of unified forces in August 2022.
Maj. Gen Bior Leek Kuareng, representative for the Former Political Detainees disclosed that the parties have not made significant progress on the implementation of the 2018 revitalized peace agreement since extending the transitional period on September 13, 2024.
Leek said the conditions in both cantonment sites and training centers continues to deteriorate.
“There is no progress in the cantonment site, no food, no medicines, nothing. In the training center, there are no activities there. We have not seen any activities of phase two,” he said.
The transitional unity government is supposed to graduate and deploy a total of 83,000 000 comprising of police, army, intelligence services and prison services, to take charge of security during the transitional period.
In November 2023, 4,000 unified forces were deployed to the states of Upper Nile, Eastern Equatoria, Western Equatoria and Western Bahr El Ghazal.
More than 51,000 unified forces are yet to be deployed due to disagreement over the unified command structure for the prisons, wildlife, fire brigade and national security services.
These include about 3,700 high ranking officers and 2,000 Non- Commissioned Officers of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO).
