As South Sudan today celebrates the peace deal signed in Khartoum last month, the US-based advocacy group, Enough Project calls for reforms that would make the peace deal sustainable.

In a statement extended to Radio Tamazuj, the Deputy Director of Policy at the Enough Project, Brian Adeba welcomed the celebrations saying it is “a critical first step to building the confidence measures required for a realistic peace in South Sudan’’. He also said the continuing violence in parts of the country casts doubts on the peace deal.

“For a holistic peace, the parties must respect the ceasefire in its entirety. The government must release all political prisoners, open up the political space, and allow investigators unfettered access to determine the fate of civil society activists abducted during the war,” Adeba said.

Enough Project’s Founding Director John Prendergast said the celebration should focus on governance reforms to curb rampant corruption and state looting.

“The government must move immediately to ensure that institutions that are critical for accountability, such as the anti-corruption commission, are reformed and strengthened to arrest the deadly scourge of grand corruption in the world's newest, most damaged state,” he urged.