This archive report was first published on 6 December 2019.
Published on December 6, 2019, by XINHUA
South Sudan's ceasefire monitors have expressed concern over the lack of progress in unifying the country's security forces, a crucial step towards implementing a 2018 peace deal.
According to Desta Abiche Ageno, chairperson of the ceasefire and transitional security arrangements monitoring and verification mechanism, the unification of about 83,000 security personnel remains far from complete.
At a security stakeholders' meeting in Juba, Ageno urged the National Pre-transitional Committee to release sufficient resources for cantonment to progress, emphasizing that cantonment is the foundation for the security arrangements.
"Cantonment is the foundation for the security arrangements and without sufficient resources, the cantonment process will fail," Ageno said.
South Sudan descended into civil war in late 2013, creating one of the fastest-growing refugee crises in the world, displacing 4 million South Sudanese internally and externally.
