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JUBA – South Sudan’s defense minister and senior member of the main armed opposition group, SPLM-IO, Angelina Teny, is in the Kenyan capital Nairobi for a peace-building workshop, according to her media aide.
Colonel Lam Paul Gabriel, the SPLA-IO deputy spokesman said in a statement that the senior government official witnessed the opening of the leadership and peace workshop in Nairobi on Monday.
“The Minister of Defence and Veterans’ Affairs, Hon. Angelina Jany Teny on 7/12/2020, witnessed the official opening of the Leadership Peace Building and Reconstruction Course at International Peace Support Training Centre in Nairobi, Kenya,” he said.
The course is jointly organized by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC), and is the “beginning process of unifying the Command meant to command the Necessary Unified Forces of the Republic of South Sudan who are in the Unified Training Centres.”
Speaking at the opening of the training, Teny applauded the UN agency and the RJMEC for organizing the training aimed at empowering senior officers to become peace ambassadors.
