By Jurugo Emmanuel Ogasto<\/p>\n
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A young South Sudanese refugee living in Adjumani Town, Uganda, has urged the youth to be ambassadors of peace as their country gears in for the first-ever election in December.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He made the remark during a youth revival prayer organised by the Church of Uganda in Adjumani District on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The prayer attracted more than 200 young South Sudanese across West Nile refugee camps.<\/p>\n Tombe Isaac Manya encouraged youths to be self-reliant and work towards the development of South Sudan.<\/p>\n He asked them to eschew violence and embrace peace, saying it is only a peaceful atmosphere that can guarantee meaningful development and economic prosperity for all.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank God for our beautiful country, South Sudan; we are youths, and we can make our country like others by showing love to each other,\u2019\u2019 Tombe said.<\/p>\n “Youth should embrace peace and inclusion and shun violence as future leaders of the nation,” said Tombe.<\/p>\n He cautioned young people not to allow themselves to be used by selfish politicians to instigate violence and cause trouble in South Sudan.<\/p>\n “As young people of South Sudan, although we are living in another country, we should embrace peace, be productive, and be responsible to society,” he said.<\/p>\n Amacha Jerome, the senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church, appealed to South Sudanese leaders to embrace peace among themselves.<\/p>\n “Peace and harmonious coexistence remain indispensable catalysts for meaningful development. Lack of peace retards socioeconomic advancement,” Amacha said.<\/p>\n He urged the government to redouble its efforts to counter insecurity and incorporate youth in peace-building initiatives, saying there is a need to end the hatred that undermines development in the region.<\/p>\n Amacha stressed that the youth should be taught to use their energy for productive activities.<\/p>\n He said youth should be allowed to play a bigger role in the process of achieving reconciliation and social cohesion and should be allowed to express their concerns.<\/p>\n Lindrio Gloria Meko, a woman leader in the Agojo refugee settlement, urged women to support the youths of South Sudan to achieve peace in the country.<\/p>\n \u201cThis responsibility is not only for men, dear fellow women; we need to support them positively, \u2019she said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Jurugo Emmanuel Ogasto A young South Sudanese refugee living in Adjumani Town, Uganda, has urged the youth to be ambassadors of peace as their country gears in for the first-ever election in December. He made the remark during a youth revival prayer organised by the Church of Uganda[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Prayers-being-held-in-Pagirinya-two-refugee-settlement-in-Adjumani-district.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23085,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23083\/revisions\/23085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}