Border communities between South Sudan’s Upper Nile and White Nile, Blue Nile, and Sennar in Sudan will soon hold joint peace committee meetings.
Upper Nile’s chairman of the Pastoralists’ Union El Omda Beibor Aguer told Rado Tamazuj that the expected joint committees will involve communities living in Upper Nile, Jebelain, El Tadamoun, Dali, and Mazmum.
Beibor, himself a member of the peace committee, said they just concluded one such peace-building meeting in Renk town.
The meeting was attended by traditional leaders and the Renk security committee. It aimed to promote peace along the border, Beibor said.
He said the recent meeting seconded resolutions passed in the previous meetings regarding movement of pastoralists along borders.
“The past meeting resolved that corridors and crossing points should be opened on the borders in order to facilitate border trade,” he said.
Aguer said they to allocate a percentage of transit fees collected by Animal Resource Department in the area to the Pastoralists’ Union, and they discussedprovision of veterinary medicine and border security.
He said there will be another meeting to form a conflict-resolution committee.
Photo: A cattle camp in South Sudan (Cédric Gerbehaye/Pulitzer Center)
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