• TERMS OF USE
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • ETHICS COMMITTEE
  • SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Sudans Post
  • HOME
  • NEWS
    • SOUTH SUDAN
    • SUDAN
    • REGION
  • EDUCATION
  • CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
  • PRESS RELEASES
  • OPINIONS & ANALYSES
  • ABOUT US
  • CONTACT US
  • عربي
No Result
View All Result
  • HOME
  • NEWS
    • SOUTH SUDAN
    • SUDAN
    • REGION
  • EDUCATION
  • CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
  • PRESS RELEASES
  • OPINIONS & ANALYSES
  • ABOUT US
  • CONTACT US
  • عربي
No Result
View All Result
Sudans Post
No Result
View All Result

CEPO’s civil-military dialogue ends with calls for conclusion of Rome peace process

A civil-military relations dialogue held in Morobo County of South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State has concluded with calls for speedy conclusion of the Rome peace talks between government and holdout opposition groups.

by Sudans Post
June 21, 2023

Participants at CEPO’s 6th Civil-Military Dialogue held in Morobo County of Central Equatoria State. [Photo courtesy]
Participants at CEPO’s 6th Civil-Military Dialogue held in Morobo County of Central Equatoria State. [Photo courtesy]
GULUMBI, JUNE 21, 2023 (SUDANS POST) – A civil-military relations dialogue held in Morobo County of South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State has concluded with calls for speedy conclusion of the Rome peace talks between government and holdout opposition groups.

The dialogue came on the wake of a soaring relationship between the civilians and the military characterized by looting of properties and harassment of civilians.

Over 70 community leaders, women, youth, local government officials, religious leaders, and the army attended the dialogue organized by Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) under the theme “Let us work together to promote peace, social cohesion and peaceful coexistence between the military and civilians in Gulumbi Payam as well as Morobo County.”

Speaking at the end of the three-day event, CEPO’s Project Officer for the Greater Yei, Malish John Scopas, said the dialogue aimed promoting sustainable security, peace, and development by creating peaceful and conducive environment for returnees and internally displaced persons to rebuild their lives.

“The civil-military dialogue aimed at creating a problem-solving mechanism to tackle civil-military issues in a peaceful, collegial and collateral manner,” he said.

Malish further cited calls for the urgent of the Rome peace talks between government and opposition groups, end to all forms violence, strengthening of education and health systems and compensation of civilians who lost properties during war as some of the resolutions that emerged at the end of the dialogue.

The Bishop of Panyana Diocese, Rt. Rev. Seme Nigo said he was optimistic of improvements in the relationship between civilians and the military in the county.

He called for an end to the Rome talks mediated by the Community of Sant’Egidio.

“Peace cannot come from outside the country, but from within. I call upon the non-signatories to the peace agreement to reach consensus with the government so that our people in neighboring countries can return to their homes,” said Nigo.

Ngor Apiet, the area commander who spoke on behalf of the military described as “cordial and peaceful” the relationship between the SSPDF and the civilians. He urged an end to all forms of sexual and gender-based violence in the county.

Last year alone, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said it documented 52 incidents of conflict-related sexual violence by government security forces, an unknown armed group as well as community-based militias.

The civil-military dialogue was organized by CEPO under the Reconciliation, Stabilization and Resilience in South Sudan project designed to help communities in Yei, Lainya, Morobo and Kajo-Keji reconcile and end violence, bring stability where they live and create new incentives to sustain peaceful coexistence.

The project is led by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) with support from UNMISS, CEPO, Support for Peace and Education Development Programme, Finn Church Aid and Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest

Comments 1

  1. Kulang Dut says:
    2 years ago

    rome peace talks should be put to an end because it has been fruitless since day one with false hope of bringing peace to south sudan and central equatoria state in particular who is paying big part of human suffering. let them the nas rebels of thomas chirillo come back to their sense and accept home peace talk and end the suffering of their own people and catch up with the development of their area who was once leading in peace and development in south sudan.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Sudans Post

Sudans Post is an independent, young, and grass roots news media organization aimed at providing readers with an alternate depiction of events that occur on Sudan, South Sudan and East Africa, and to establish an engaging social platform for readers to discover and discuss the various issues that impact the two countries and the region.

SUDANS POST

  • ABOUT US
  • Client Portal
  • Client Portal
  • CONTACT US
  • ETHICS COMMITTEE
  • LoginPress
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE
  • TERMS OF USE

RECENT NEWS

  • South Sudan peace monitors urge Kiir to resolve case of Machar
  • Mercy Corps launches $4.5 million project to aid civil society organizations

SUBSCRIBE TO SUDANS POST

Get the news delivered right into your inbox and subscribe!

Loading
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • TERMS OF USE
  • ETHICS COMMITTEE
  • SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE

Copyright © 2019–2025 Sudans Post - All rights reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • HOME
  • NEWS
    • SOUTH SUDAN
    • SUDAN
    • REGION
  • EDUCATION
  • CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
  • PRESS RELEASES
  • OPINIONS & ANALYSES
  • ABOUT US
  • CONTACT US
  • عربي

Copyright © 2019–2025 Sudans Post - All rights reserved.