IGAD meeting participants urge region to give more powers to JMEC

[Elisabeth Janaina]

IGAD meeting participants urge region to give more powers to JMEC

Participants of the IGAD High Level Independent Experts meeting on the
revitalization process in Ethiopia recently have urged the East
African regional bloc IGAD to invest the evaluation body with more
powers to monitor ceasefire violations in South Sudan.

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj yesterday, Executive Director of the
Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), Edmund Yakani
said the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) and CTSAM
should be given more powers to monitor ceasefire violations by South
Sudan’s warring parties.

Yakani revealed that both parties have been violating the signed
ceasefire but CTSAM cannot move freely without seeking permission from
the warring parties.

Separately, South Sudan’s Minister of Agriculture, Anyoti Adigo, said
the provision of ceasefire agreement has not been implemented fully by
both parties.

He added that the unilateral ceasefire declared by the president
recently has not been respected and the issue of the contentment site
has not been implemented.

Speaking during a symposium organized by Al-Wattan daily newspaper on
Saturday, Adigo explained that the formation of hybrid court will not
be possible in South Sudan.

“You cannot prosecute someone in the government and someone who is
having an army, so the issue of hybrid court will not be possible,” he
said.