AWEIL – Dinka Malual and Rezigat pastoralists met in Aweil West County, Northern Bahr El Ghazal state, for a two-day peace conference to review their existing agreement.
The meeting aimed to resolve issues arising from the seasonal migration of Rezigat nomads to South Sudan for cattle grazing.
“We are reviewing the peace agreement that we have committed ourselves to implement,” said Majok Deng Akuachdit, Secretary-General of the Dinka Malual border peace committee.
“It is a meeting being sponsored by the UNDP and the state government in order to check some of the imbalances or wrongdoings that any community, be it Dinka or Rezigat, might have committed,” he added.
Deng emphasized the commitment to upholding the agreement for the sake of better relations between the communities.
Chief Deng Akot highlighted a key provision of the agreement. “The conflict resolutions include blood compensation which is paid instead of 31 cows when any member of the community, be it Dinka or Rezigat, murders a person,” he said.
“A special attention is being paid for both communities to correlate and work cordially to stay in peace along the border lines,” he added.