By Bosco Bush<\/p>\n
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First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar met and discussed peace initiatives with a group of lawmakers representing Unity State and Ruweng Administrative Area in the National Legislative Assembly.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The Thursday\u2019s meeting focused on addressing a number of challenges affecting the neighboring communities including the recent devastating flood that has affected the local population.<\/p>\n Addressing the media after the meeting, lawmaker Farouk Gatkouth Kam expressed Dr. Machar\u2019s readiness to support the peace initiative \u2013 urging the sisterly communities to \u201cembrace peace and reconciliation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe First Vice President applauded the initiative and emphasized on the importance of engaging the two sisterly communities in embracing peace,\u201d Kam stated.<\/p>\n Kam disclosed that the group is looking forward to meet the presidency, some national ministers and the leaderships of Unity State and Ruweng Administrative Area to foster and strengthen the peace initiative.<\/p>\n Last June, UNMISS and Riak Manyiel Ayuel, a lawmaker representing Ruweng in the National Assembly made separate statements appealing to national government and local authorities to initiate a peace dialogue to mitigate the cross-border conflicts that has resulted in a number of deaths, destroyed properties, and displacement of civilians.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bosco Bush First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar met and discussed peace initiatives with a group of lawmakers representing Unity State and Ruweng Administrative Area in the National Legislative Assembly. The Thursday\u2019s meeting focused on addressing a number of challenges affecting the neighboring communities including the recent devastating[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27935","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\/08\/First-Vice-President-Dr.-Riek-Machar-Teny.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27935","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=27935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27937,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27935\/revisions\/27937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}