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August 11, 2015 (BOR) - Authorities in Twic East county of South Sudan's Jonglei state have passed a local order directing the two clans of Dacuek and Ayuel, which have been in conflict since 2010, to compensate the 29 lives lost to end conflict in Nyuak payam.

Chief gathered at Wanglei in Twic East county 1, August, 2015 (ST).

The county leadership, supported by the state government, has urged the chiefs from the two sub-clans to speed up the process.

No attack or counter offensives have occurred between the two communities since they signed an agreement in August last year. The accord was to end conflict by compensating lives lost in fighting.

“After the signing of the deal in August 2014, the communities started to again live together, go to the same churches and had shown progress in different aspect of life,” said the Twic East county commissioner, Dau Akoi, adding, “Life seemed back to normalcy”.

However, not all the chiefs in the county seem to respect provisions of the agreement. For instance, Ayuel, one of the largest clans in Twic East has 19 chiefs representing all its sub-clans, yet only 13 of them are reportedly committed to peace. The 13 chiefs of Dacuek pledged commitments to the accord, calling for its implementation.

COMPENSATION FUNDS COLLECTED

Last year, it was agreed that Dacuek contributes SSP 800,000 to compensate 16 lives lost to Ayuel. In return, Ayuel was to contribute a total of SSP650, 000 to compensate for the 13 lives lost in Dacuek.

Ayuel chiefs who are loyal to the agreement have contributed SSP151,200 while Dacuek contributed SSP724,900, totaling to 876,100.

Traditionally, paying 50 heads of cattle would compensate each life lost. But in this particular agreement, the two communities agreed to settle the matter monetarily, earmarking SSP50,000 for each life lost.

Some of the chiefs have, however, expressed concerns over the refusal by their six counterparts to adhere to agreement framework. They argued that compensation not be effected and money returned to their owners, if the chiefs continue to dishonour the deal.

According to Akoi, the conflict in Twic East has affected lives and disrupted studies of youth in South Sudan and neighbouring countries.

“If all is implemented, then we will wait to see who will break it again. We have amnesty to those who killed. The killings were to be handled by the communities, not as individuals, that is why we did not arrest anybody. After this one, if you kill anybody, you will be held accountable for killing as individual”, he told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday.

Deng Ajak, an intellectual from the Ayuel community, said peace was essential for youngsters to enjoy in schools as well as institutions.

“I have my son who is learning outside South Sudan. He is one of the young men who lived in fear because of this war. Why should we create problems to our own sons when we are not targeting ourselves as elders? Stop this and let the youth enjoy peace”, he said.

(ST)

August 11, 2015 (WAU) - 14 suspects have been arrested in connection with the death of a payam administrator in South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal state, an official said.

The commissioner of Wau county, Elia Kamilio Dimo said security personnel made arrests following last week's murder of Natale John and Yona Francis, a policeman.

Also wounded in the attack was Wau county paramount chief, William Kamillio Gwage.

“We have arrested 14 [suspects] and they are being detained pending investigations. We are still tracking anyone we suspect to be behind this killing,” Dimo said on Tuesday.

He further disclosed that all the 14 suspects were arrested from within Bagari county.

(ST)

August 11, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan announced that inflation rate dropped to 14.1% in July from 18.3% a month earlier making it likely that the east African nation would meet or even beat projections of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

FILE - Men wait to buy meat at the market in Khartoum, Sudan (REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

The 2015 budget has a target inflation rate of 25% while the IMF projected 12.4% by year end. The inflation rate stood at 19.8% in May.

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBoS) said that prices of commodities and services rose at varying rates in July with clothing and footwear recording the biggest increase by 3.4% followed by recreation at 3.3% then transport at 1.7% , education at 1.3% and lastly restaurants and hotels at 1.1%

The food and beverages index moved upwards to 519.6 points compared to 515.6 in June.

CBoS said that food and beverages contributed to the rise in the general price level by 2.1 points out of 5.6.

Sudan has been struggling with double-digit inflation since secession of the oil-rich south in 2011 but it has succeeded in bringing it down from a high of 46.8% in July 2014 to 25.6% in November of the same year.

(ST)

August 11, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan's ministry of justice has instructed district attorneys to represent the prosecution in all cases pertaining to national security, human trafficking, illegal drugs and state funds.

The state minister of justice, Ahmed Abu Zaid, said the district attorneys should also follow up on the sentences handed down particularly in cases of narcotics, warning against criminalizing people simply on the basis of suspicions.

He emphasized the government intentions to reform the laws and qualify the legal staff in order to impose the rule of law, calling for utilizing the latest technology to help carrying out judicial work.

The minister, who inspected the district attorney's offices in southern Um Bada in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, saying his visit aims to address the shortcomings as well as activating the role of the public attorneys in achieving justices and implementing the government reform program.

Abu Zaid was briefed on the workflow in the attorney's offices and problems they are facing.

He promised to overcome the obstacles facing those offices, instructing the district attorneys to pass down their expertise to their colleagues.

Meanwhile, the Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir has issued a decree promoting 294 judges in accordance with the recommendation made by the Chief Justice, Haydar Ahmed Dafa'Allah.

According to the decree, 29 judges from the Court of Appeals have been promoted to the Supreme Court, 6 first grade judges were promoted to the general court, 13 second grade judges have been promoted to first grade judges and 189 third grade judges have become second grade judges.

In the same context, the Chief Justices announced opening of two offices for the national Supreme Court in the River Nile and North Darfur states in order to facilitate the litigation procedures.

(ST)

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August 11, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Tuesday summoned the Libyan military attaché in Khartoum to protest against what it claimed is his government's harboring of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement/ Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM).

Sudanese former rebel leader Minni Minawi (AFP)

SAF spokesperson, Colonel al-Sawarmi Khalid Sa'ad, told the official news agency (SUNA) on Tuesday that the participation of SLM-MM fighters in the Libyan conflict alongside the forces of the retired General Khalifa Haftar poses real threat to Sudan's national security particularly in Darfur.

He added that it also undermines regional security on the joint Sudanese-Libyan borders.

“The participation [of the SLM-MM in the Libyan conflict] encourages rebel groups to destabilize security of the citizens through forced recruitment and looting”, he added.

Sa'ad pointed that SAF summoned the Libyan military attaché to protest against his government's move because SLM-MM is considered an armed rebel group that carries out hostile actions inside Sudan's territory.

He underscored that harboring and supporting rebel groups by the Libyan government in Tobruk represents a blatant intervention in Sudan's internal affairs.

Earlier this month SAF announced that Libya has withdrawn its troops from the joint border patrol forces between the two countries which led to deterioration of the security situation along the borders.

Since August 2014, Libya has two governments and parliaments since Tripoli was seized in a coalition of Islamist groups while the internationally recognized government is based in Tobruk. Qatar, Sudan and Turkey are accused of supporting this alliance.

(ST)

August 11, 2015 (NAIROBI) - A group of South Sudanese high ranking rebel commanders who were relieved from their positions in a reshuffle by former vice president and the leader of armed opposition faction, Riek Machar, issued a statement on Tuesday, claiming to have denounced and disowned the latter from the leadership of the rebel movement.

Rebel General Peter Gatdet Yaka gestures as he speaks to South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar (not seen) in a rebel controlled territory in Jonglei February 1, 2014. (Photo Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

“We denounce and disown Dr. Riek Machar as SPLM/A-IO (Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition) chairman and commander in chief,” partly reads the statement signed by Major General Peter Gatdet Yaka and extended to Sudan Tribune on Tuesday shortly after allegedly holding a press conference in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

The generals, led by Peter Gatdet Yaka and Gathoth Gatkuoth, claimed that their cause of indifference with Machar was intolerance to blames and different views on number of leadership issues.

Other reasons for disowning the armed opposition leader, according to the statement, was to revive the regional led IGAD peace talks to exclude president Salva Kiir and Machar from participating in any transitional government of national unity, allegedly for having divided the nation.

“We reject any peace agreement that includes President Kiir and Dr. Riek Machar in the leadership of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGONU). The two leaders have become symbols of hate and conflict and are obstacles to peace as both leaders wrangle over who should lead”, the commanders said in a statement obtained by Sudan Tribune.

They claimed war has taken long because rivalry over leadership between Kiir and Machar has polarized the country to the extent that it made it difficult from either of the two major communities, Dinka and Nuer, to accept the top leadership of the country held by either side to the conflict.

“Similarly the two communities of Nuer and Dinka have become so polarized and divided to the extent that one community will reject the leadership of the other. Other sons and daughters of South Sudan should be allowed to lead during the transitional period and both President Kiir and Dr. Riek should wait for the next coming elections and contest for the presidency if they so desire,” it added.

The statement from the disgruntled rebel commanders further suggested that if their first suggestion was not acceptable, then a military-led transitional government comprising officers from both parties be formed until next elections are conducted.

They also reject reunification of ruling SPLM party, claiming it confirmed a return to status quo that plunged the country into the current civil war and took the country back to the dictatorial rule of SPLM.

“This means that there will be no political space for other political actors in South Sudan. The SPLM/SPLA-IO is a multi-party resistance movement comprising of political and military forces that are opposed to Juba regime which has turned its guns against innocent citizens,” it said.

The reunification of the SPLM, they said, may compromise democratic transformation, reforms and federal system and would encourage one party dictatorship.

The two senior generals, Gatdet and Gathoth, including their ring leader, Gabriel Changson Chang, have been relieved from their positions in the rebel movement. Observers said their relief might have triggered their public discontent against their former boss.

The defecting generals have not however declared their new organization, nor named their leader to lead their group.

REBELS DOWNPLAY STATEMENT

The opposition faction led by Machar however downplayed the statement of the generals and their claim to have removed Machar.

“We have read their statement which they issued in Khartoum today, Tuesday. I believe they are angry because they have been relieved from their positions. But they should have been patient and wait for redeployment to other capacities. Reshuffles are normal in political or military leaderships,” Machar's spokesman, James Gatdet Dak, told Sudan Tribune when contacted for reaction on Tuesday.

He however said the opposition leadership was intact and the situation was calm and normal, adding that the leadership would make a statement in response to the allegations raised by the “angry” commanders.

Dak also blamed the defecting commanders for not showing up in the recent Pagak leadership meeting last week during which such complaints they raised would have been discussed internally.

He added that the movement was committed to the peace process to end the 20-month long civil war, adding that the leadership would be open for reconciliation with the disgruntled commanders should they accept to dialogue and present their complaints to the leadership of the movement.

DEFECTED GENERAL ACCUSES MACHAR OF BRIBES

In an earlier briefing to members of his community of Jikany-Nuer in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Monday, Major General Gathoth Gatkuoth, who later on declared his defection on Tuesday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, said he had five reasons for abandoning the movement under the leadership of Machar.

One of the reasons he alleged during a meeting with the youth leadership of the Jikany-Nuer community claimed that the Chinese government gave a hundred million US dollars to the rebel leader, Machar, as a bribe so as to prevent his troops from capturing the oilfields operated by company of the Chinese government.

Gat-hoth continued to say that the son of former vice president was also previously given a sum of 7 million [South Sudanese pounds] by Salva Kiir's government, blaming Machar for allegedly running the party as a family property.

“Machar's defection in 1991 has never benefited Nuer,” he said, adding that opposing ideas of military generals by the rebel leader was another reason for his defection.

Gathoth further revealed that the defectors were in the process of forming an independent movement that will work to unearth both president Salva Kiir and his former deputy, Riek Machar, from power, accusing them of fighting each other for 20 months since 15 December 2013.

He claimed they were soon going to receive military support from unnamed group or country that will oppose reinstatement of Kiir and Machar in IGAD peace proposal.

JIKANY-NUER COMMUNITY DISOWNS GATHOTH

Simon Bachuch, chairman of the Jikany-Nuer community in Kenya told Sudan Tribune that the whole community disagreed with Gatkuoth's position, adding it was creating a “red-line” in an attempt to exclude Machar in the coming transitional government of national unity.

He accused Gathoth of prioritizing his own personal interests instead of the welfare of the community and the South Sudanese in general.

Bangoang Tongyik Lual, a member of Jikany-Nuer community who also attended the meeting with the defected commander, accused him of foiling a fake bribery allegation against Machar, describing Gathoth's claims as “adultery politics.”

“Is there a tangible evident on this document presenting the said transactions, in references of his claims that Chinese and the others bribed Dr. Machar to cease war, suspend combatants to capture Paloich oilfield?” he asked.

They said the community distanced itself from their defected sons, whom they said were “were playing with fire and digging their own graves.”

The community leaders in Kenya said they were in support of the IGAD-Plus peace process to end the war in the country.

(ST)

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