This comes a day after the United States, Britain and Norway urged South Sudanese leaders to take urgent steps to ensure genuine and peaceful elections.
Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), said the leaders should walk the talk for the conduct of genuine elections in a timely manner.
“Otherwise, time is running out fast and threatening preparations for democratic and peaceful elections,” said Edmund Yakani, the Executive Director of CEPO.
The Governments of Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States also reaffirmed their earlier call for South Sudanese leaders to urgently take steps necessary to ensure genuine and peaceful elections.
It stated that the process should address the 10 questions posed by the United Nations, African Union (AU) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
“Not taking these critical steps and so not allowing elections would be a collective failure on the part of South Sudan’s leaders,” stressed the joint statement.
South Sudan is due to hold elections at the end of the country’s transitional period, necessitated by the September 2018 peace agreement that ended its civil war.
However, as South Sudan prepares for elections slated for December, there is anxiety about whether the country is prepared for such an important democratic milestone. The country has not conducted a census that is crucial to determining the constituencies and representation in its parliament and locally.
