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Sudan Religious Leaders Hold Talks Aimed at Ending Intercommunal Fighting

Daniel Friday Martin

   YEI, SOUTH SUDAN - With an eye toward ending intercommunal violence
   that killed dozens of people last month in Central Equatoria state,
   South Sudanese religious leaders and civil society activists have
   organized direct peace and reconciliation talks between various
   communities.

   Some meetings already have taken place in rural villages of Terekeka
   County and included chiefs, women, youth, farmers, and cattle camp
   leaders.

   Paul Ygugusuk, archbishop of the Central Equatoria province of the
   Episcopal Church of South Sudan, blames a lack of clear laws on the
   movement of cattle and justice for victims of cattle raids for the
   increased violence in certain areas, particularly in Terekeka and
   Lainya counties.

   "The problem of Terekeka is that all previous resolutions have not been
   implemented, stolen cattle have not been returned; as such people take
   the law into their own hands," Yugusuk told VOA's South Sudan in Focus.

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