JUBA, South Sudan
South Sudan’s President Salva
Kiir on Thursday met leaders from Abyei and Twic communities to discuss
communal conflicts between the two groups.
The meeting, attended by
representatives and Members of Parliament from Abyei and Twic, discussed at
length the issue of communal conflicts between the two communities.
Speaking to reporters in Juba,
the Presidential Affairs minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin urged the
representatives from the two communities to cease hostilities.
He said the meeting, chaired
by the president, ended with both parties embracing peace.
South Sudan’s East African
Community Affairs minister, Deng Alor Kuol said the two communities should
desist from the culture of violence and embrace peace.
For his part, Majok Yak, a
member of the national assembly observed that relations between both
communities could worsen, if conflict continued.
Twic county and the Abyei
Special Region have been embroiled in land disputes for years. The recent
conflict was sparked on account of a survey conducted by the Abyei Special
Administrative authorities related to the ownership of the profitable trade hub
known as Aneet Market, which, subsequently, led to an escalation of hostilities
between the two communities.
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