The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) has urged the Presidency to aid the genuine implementation of the pending tasks of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS).
CEPO Executive Director Edmund Yakani said in a statement to Radio Tamazuj that the Presidency should ensure adequate and timely funding of the R-ARCSS mechanisms for the delivery of its mandate during the two-year extension of the transitional government.
Yakani said that if the Presidency performed as it did in the past six years, then the chances of credible, free, fair and peaceful elections in December 2026 would remain low.
“The Presidency needs to seriously undertake its primary responsibility and duty of holding regular meetings for aiding the genuine implementation of the pending tasks of R-ARCSS in the extended transitional period,” Yakani said.
He, however, expressed fears that some individuals with personal interests had hijacked the Presidency, hence the derailment of the outstanding R-ARCSS chapters.
CEPO, Yakani said, will be monitoring the performance of the Presidency in the extended two years of the transitional government, especially to name the leaders in government not intent on the implementation of the entire R-ARCSS.
South Sudan was expected to hold its first General Election next December, but that has since been postponed to December 2026, for reasons of inadequate preparedness.
International observers have become increasingly exasperated with South Sudan’s political leadership, with President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar’s long-running feud repeatedly stymieing progress on general elections.